I too once had a dump truck for personal use..until I figured out that the cost of insurance alone could get me 20ton of stone every year. I'm glad I dont have a dump any more.Pay someone to drop gravel. Save the 15-20 grand
I too once had a dump truck for personal use..until I figured out that the cost of insurance alone could get me 20ton of stone every year. I'm glad I dont have a dump any more.Pay someone to drop gravel. Save the 15-20 grand
I don't believe that the "3 point thing" (adjustment) will do what you need. It doesn't matter if a 3 point is at the bottom or somewhere in the middle. It is designed to not go lower than what you set it at, but it can go up. Therefore bottoming out has no benefit.I'll try the 3 point thing.
My neighbor has an actual road grader that's been sitting forever. He finally got it going and after about 30 minutes of use, he blew out alot of hydraulics for the belly blade. He had someone quote him $1200 for repairs. I should go in halves if I can use it.
Our road parallels a power line. That a frame breaking trail there. We've had off-roaders try and take the power lines and realize they can't or don't want to go back down them. They just rip down our gates and use the road anyway.We have a 1 1/4 mile common trail. The first 1/4 mile is not bad as a more recent full time owner has a small dozer and a small/mid sized UT with a box blade and that section is level and flat. But past their place the trail climbs steeply with many turns. Again, this is a common (private) trail crossing private land, a half mile passing through BIA set aside land and you know that owner does nothing to their part of the trail. In addition there is no grading to be done on the mile to our place or the various sub trails. There are very large stones to literal boulders imbedded in the trails that hold it intact. Mess with that and you break up the base and it becomes a bog that severely and quickly erodes. So the only repairs are adding material and not cutting except for maintaining some drainage laterals. Lastly, many ditwads refuse to lock front hubs or engage their 4wd which should be done all year around when climbing so they spin tires and throw rock/fill off the road. Some people try to come up the road to other places in their little front wheel drive city cars leaving pieces of plastic along the way. It's hilarious.
We consider the road condition a blessing. It seriously discourages snoopers, cruisers and kids exploring. I only post this to say that sometimes a nasty road can be a blessing in disguise.
I took 3 pieces of railroad track about 8’ long and spaced them parallel about 2’ apart on a lever surface and then welded two pieces of 4x4x1/2” angle iron across the top of the rails about 6” in from each end. Torched a couple holes through the ends of the angle for a couple chains And pull this home made plane up and down my 900’ driveway a couple times a year.Bolt some tires together and drag them. That will smooth things.
Seems like you already have it. That would be heavy enough to do it. Are the rails on any type of angle? Or do you adjust that on your chain, if I'm understanding correctly.I took 3 pieces of railroad track about 8’ long and spaced them parallel about 2’ apart on a lever surface and then welded two pieces of 4x4x1/2” angle iron across the top of the rails about 6” in from each end. Torched a couple holes through the ends of the angle for a couple chains And pull this home made plane up and down my 900’ driveway a couple times a year.
by changing the length of the pull chains the angle of the plane will accumulate the gravel to the center creating a crown or vice versa
this simple tool has worked for nearly 50 years, needs no shed space, and is heavier than my late mother in law.
B. John