box scraper vs. grader blade

It kind of depends what exactly you want to do to the drive. Just for smoothing ruts and wash boards I think that a good grader blade set to an angle is easier to control. Not quite as prone to dig in and cause the low spots to get lower and the high spots to get higher as the back wheels go over humps. Grader blades are also nice for working on ditches. Most of them can be reversed and used like a light duty dozer blade. If your drive is on a hill and prone to wash down the hill a box blade is a great tool to drag material back where it belongs. Or if you have piles of gravel or dirt that you want to smooth out the box blade will be a better choice in my opinion. With the scarifying teeth a box blade will dig into hard packed material and break it up enabling you to move it around were a grader blade would be more apt to skip across the top. I think if I had to choose between the two I would go for the box blade first. Then I would start looking around for a used grader blade as they seem to be more readily available on the used market. Which ever way you go don't get a unit that is too light duty for your machine or you will just end up tearing it up. And yet if you get one too large it will be very frustrating to keep moving without stalling out or spinning the wheels.