Grading Road repair is a Land Planer the right tool

[oosik]

/pine - so true, so true. The first layer on my driveway is basaltic lava railroad ballast. About the size and shape of a good sized coffee cup. So for years(driveway constructed in 1982) I kept jumping/bumping over this one rock in the driveway. Finally I put a shovel and large pry bar in the bucket - gonna remove it and fill with crushed gravel. I must have worked on that rock for ten minuets before I realized it was the bedrock - not any loose rock.

My mile long gravel driveway was expensive enough. Fortunately the contractor choose to leave that bedrock there and not use dynamite or jack hammer.

 

[airbiscuit]

How long is your road?

 

[martialplumber]

My road is 1/2 mile long

 

[JRobyn]

/pine - so true, so true. The first layer on my driveway is basaltic lava railroad ballast. About the size and shape of a good sized coffee cup. So for years(driveway constructed in 1982) I kept jumping/bumping over this one rock in the driveway. Finally I put a shovel and large pry bar in the bucket - gonna remove it and fill with crushed gravel. I must have worked on that rock for ten minuets before I realized it was the bedrock - not any loose rock.

My mile long gravel driveway was expensive enough. Fortunately the contractor choose to leave that bedrock there and not use dynamite or jack hammer.

I have a few spots like that! Our bedrock is actually (usually) ledge rock, so in some places I have been successful just bashing off the top inch or two with a 10# sledge.

 

[joeu235]

You can crown a road, at least with mine, if you raise the lift arm on the side that has the scraper blade reward and keep that side on the middle of the road

 

[joeu235]

Is this a weekend road where your always in your truck or does your wife need to drive a BMW on it?

 

[fried1765]

Thanks for the reply's- My road is 10' wide so I would purchase a 5' Land plane to maintain a crown

You will have a difficult, if not impossible time maintaining a MEANINGFUL crown with a land plane.
You can use a land plane to maintain a flat, or slightly crowned driveway, if that is what you prefer.
With a rear blade, you can create a MEANINGFUL crown, and be puddle free.
Land planes are simple to use, and require no user experience.
Rear blades DO require grading technique.

 

[airbiscuit]

This going to be tough duty for any implement. Those baseball - muskmelon size rocks are going to make any 3pt implement hop skip and jump. Whoever did that road before did a nice job, and must have done some rock picking. Here is how I see it.

Add 3" of road gravel right down the middle. Gives you a crown and nice gravel to work with later $$$$$
Rear Blade - Can make and maintain a crown. Takes some fussing to do a nice job. Won't like those embedded rocks.
Landscape Rake. Might be able to maintain the road okay. Can use to windrow rocks to the side. Kind if light weight.
Scraper/Grader - should be the best for a 1/2 mile road but won't like those embedded rocks. Better at removing crowns than creating them.
Disc - will loosen the base and make it easier to use the above options.
Of everything I have, my old Pony Grader works the best.

 

[/pine]

Again based on the pictures...it is going to take some fines to prevent continued rutting etc...
Once the largest rocks are removed the till/river rock base can be made fairly smooth but to keep it smooth is going to require enough additional fines to fill in between the till...
Not knowing exactly what is available regionally I can only suggest something like (granite) crusher run...from say 1.5" minus to sand...

The crusher run I am familiar with will pack down like concrete and make a surface that rain water will run off of rather than erode as it hits exposed till...

The biggest issue after the fact will be that every time the road is reworked (with whatever attachment)...it is going to stir up some of the larger base that will again require additional fines...
At least this is my experience of working a 3/4 mile road with a till/river rock base that originally looked exactly like the pics in the OP...

Over the years I have worked and added enough crusher run on top of the till/river rock base that I am finally able to work many sections without disturbing the base when it requires general smoothing that a landscape rake does a good job on......

 

[martialplumber]

joeu235; My wife and I both have 4 wheel drive vehicles but this road leads to our place on a lake we use year round.Last week the propane delivery truck went off the road and had to be towed out and we have guest in all different types of vehicles.So I try and keep the road in pretty good shape.