Yeah, it's another road grader!

[TraderMark]

Weekend before last, I finally got around to spraying some paint on the road grader I built.
It wound up looking pretty good actually.
It's funny how the camera angle changes the color in the last picture though.

Mark

 

[Gordon Gould]

Can't decide which one I like better. The yellow one or the brown one. They both look good to me :thumbsup:

 

[aczlan]

It's funny how the camera angle changes the color in the last picture though.

Looks like you activated some preset (for florescent lighting perhaps) on the camera... If you look everything changed color.

Aaron Z

 

[TraderMark]

Thanks Gordon!

Aaron, I took those with my smartphone so maybe it thougt it was smart to change the settings on its own? All I did was take a few steps to the left. :laughing:

 

[aczlan]

Aaron, I took those with my smartphone so maybe it thougt it was smart to change the settings on its own? All I did was take a few steps to the left. :laughing:

Could bee that it was too smart for its own good .
Nice job on the grader either way.

Aaron Z

 

[texasjohn]

looks great, wish I had one

 

[FreshRouteFarm]

Looks great:thumbsup:

 

[sandman2234]

Interesting... hadn't seen one with a single blade and a backstop. Since the majority of work gets done by my front blade, I can understand why you went with one. Now that it is done, get out there and mess up that pretty yellow/brown paint job and let us know how it does!
David from jax

 

[TraderMark]

Thanks David.
The design is a combination of designs I saw and heard about and partly from trial and error.

The front blade is angled and tilted back because I wanted to make sure I got all the washboard out of the roads. The rear blade at one time was angled to match the front and was tilted at the same angle, but I found that since I have no gravel or rock on any of my roads, the front blade needed to do the cutting and I needed the back blade straight across and almost straight up and down to smooth and level the dirt that spills over the front blade.

Mark

 

[Scooby074]

Looks good in either colour.:laughing:

Like the adjustment options.

 

[Loudo]

Gudday Mark, Nice job:thumbsup: How about posting some plans for building one? Cheers loudo

 

[jenkinsph]

Looks good Mark and interesting design.:thumbsup:

My only concern is with a grader blade edge turned up as you have on the rear it will wear very quickly. Normally when it is set at 45 degrees the flat running parallel to the surface tends to help keep it sharp. I use my plane for lawn and landscape leveling with it set straight across the plane but still mounted at a 45 degree angle and get a smooth finish.

Let us know how it works out and keep up the good work.

 

[tkappeler]

Great job Mark!

This will be one of the first build-it-myself projects after I get the house done. Would love to know the rejected designs you went through to help learn from them. Don't forget to send in pictures of before and after when you put it to use.

Tom

 

[chad22]

That looks fantastic.

Chad

 

[TraderMark]

Thanks Tom,
The only real design changes I made were moving the rear blade perpendicular to the sides instead of leaving it angled like the front one and turning the rear blade straight up and down instead of laying it back at a 45.

Those two changes were made because all my roads are dirt...dirt... and more dirt. There's no gravel anywhere. The one time I used it on a graveled parking lot, it performed very well the both blades angled and tilted. But since the majority of its life will be spent grading my dirt roads, those changes were necessary.

The dirt we have around my place is called "sugar sand" around here. So the front blade with it's 45* angle cuts 1/2 below the surface and the dirts spills over. The rear blade comes along and acts almost like a box blade to smooth out the now loose sandy dirt and distribute it evenly.

Hope this helps.

Mark