Tire track graveling plate

[HawkinsHollow]

I want to put some gravel on a few of the trails in my woods but I consider it a waste to lay gravel down on the entire thing when I only drive on a very small part of it. I was thinking about making a plate that after taking a scoop of gravel I could place on my bucket to make the gravel come out either side of the bucket in the approx. location for 2 tire tracks. Has anyone done this? Do you have pictures?

 

[civilian]

If your loader bucket has a bolt on cutting edge, could you build an angled plate and bolt it to the edge bolts? And maybe load the bucket with another tractor bucket? Or make up a wedge piece on the top of the bucket that you could flip down after filling your bucket? Maybe this wedge would mount into a hich receiver to lock it into plave on the bottom? Just a couple of thoughts. Jon

 

[HawkinsHollow]

If your loader bucket has a bolt on cutting edge, could you build an angled plate and bolt it to the edge bolts? And maybe load the bucket with another tractor bucket? Or make up a wedge piece on the top of the bucket that you could flip down after filling your bucket? Maybe this wedge would mount into a hich receiver to lock it into plave on the bottom? Just a couple of thoughts. Jon

Yeah, that is kind of what I was thinking. The plate could be wedge shape into the gravel so all of it slides off. Excellent idea!

There is already a hole in the bottom edge of the bucket and I could weld a couple 2" long pieces of pipe to the top edge to bolt either side of the plate to. Take a nice scoop and bolt on plate

 

[civilian]

Depending on how many scoops you need to load, bolting and unbolting could be tie consumming. That's why I was thinking something from the top that would flip down like a welder's helmet. If from the bottom, maybe use some quick pins instead of bolts? Jon

 

[HawkinsHollow]

It would be a little time consuming but I think one scoop would go quite a ways and the monetary savings from using considerably less gravel per foot of road is worth it. Gravel AIN'T CHEAP!

 

[MossRoad]

Or you could make it one sided and drive up the trail doing one tire track, then down in the opposite direction doing the other side tire track.

Granted, two evenly spaced holes would assure alignment the entire track.

 

[Smokeydog]

Early Bobcat had a GP bucket that had a hydraulic chute that would allow you load a bucket normally from a pile then swing down to funnel the contents as needed. Always thought It would be handy way to load a concrete mixer.
A version of that could have a lid for one or two tracks.

Once attached an angle iron on the bottom a dump truck tailgate to dispense in the tracks.

 

[toolslinger]

That sounds like an awful lot of trips... How big is your loader bucket? Here's what gave me that thought...
Little quick math...
2 tire tracks, say 2' wide each. 100' long. 3" of gravel. Unless my math is wrong, that's 100 cubic feet of gravel, or a little under 4 yards to go 100'.
I've got a 5/8 yard bucket on my JD300. It would be 6.5 trips back and forth to cover that 100'. I've got right around a mile of roads/trails, so 343 trips would do it for me along with a few yards shy of 200...

Ok, so perhaps 3" is more than you're thinking (3" of gravel would melt in to my woods in no time). I went there as the math was easier, but you can run your own numbers.

That's not to be negative... I kinda like the idea. I'd want to look at a trailer setup though with a couple chutes, though that would be far harder to control.

 

[Smokeydog]

With a dump truck or trailer the delivery of crushed stone is gauged by the check chains on the tailgate opening and speed. I used an 5-6” angle iron on the tailgate to block with about 3” opening.

Before that used about a 3’ piece of 6x6” timber centered by the tailgate before loading stone. It slides down and blocks gravel at the gate when dumping about 80% of the time.

If there are tire ruts just spread thin with truck or bucket and grade off the middle stone to fill ruts.

200 yards is a bunch of gravel. I put 200 tons on my 1/2mile driveway every 10-12 years by triaxle.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

With a dump truck or trailer the delivery of crushed stone is gauged by the check chains on the tailgate opening and speed. I used an 5-6” angle iron on the tailgate to block with about 3” opening.

Before that used about a 3’ piece of 6x6” timber centered by the tailgate before loading stone. It slides down and blocks gravel at the gate when dumping about 80% of the time.

If there are tire ruts just spread thin with truck or bucket and grade off the middle stone to fill ruts.

200 yards is a bunch of gravel. I put 200 tons on my 1/2mile driveway every 10-12 years by triaxle.

Yeah, that seems a lot easier but I have neither a dump truck or dump trailer and this trail/"road" would be hard to get either down.