Implement recommendations

I have a 2 bottom plow, back blade, and a trip bucket front loader (glorified wheel barrow!). What other implements are recommended? I'd like to keep my eye out for some local bargains so I can be prepared when the time comes.

Thanks,

Paul.

To answer your question:
I had to grade 2 acres about 3 years ago.
First I used my cultivator to go through and break up the (dry) soil even more. Then I hit it with my 3pt blade with a wood header tied to the back of it length-wise with as many bricks as I could fit in it. It worked like butta.
Surely a box blade would be the cat's meow, but I was on a budget and had to use what I had on hand.

If you have any trees in the area, make sure to mark around the drip line so the excavator doesn't enter that area and do a ton of damage to them.

However, I did that and it didn't really matter to the guy I hired to do my leech fields. He was a butcher- roots, branches, whatever it took to get in and out in the easiest and quickest way. In 3 years I've had to cut down 8 trees in that area- 3 100 yr old oaks, and many more are on the way out.

Oh yeah, not sure how it is in your area, but if you classify one of your bedrooms as a study or a library, in my part of OH, you reduce the required linear footage of your leech field.
Wish someone had told me that ;)

Sorry for the rant!

Good luck and enjoy the work.
-Chad OH

P.S. Don't forget to take lots of pictures and video. You won't regret it.

Keep your eyes open for a box blade. This will be much more useful for leveling the ground around your worksite in preparation for landscaping than your straight blade. It is also great for maintaining a gravel driveway if you will have one.

Your Jubilee should handle a 5' box blade or maybe even a 6' one if you do not load it too heavily.

Dean

The excavator will be rough grading the site with his bulldozer and his excavator. Roots should not be an issue so the landscaping rake is also a possibility.

Thanks for the recommendations.

Anything else?

Paul.

We'd spread topsoil with the track loader, back-drag it with the loader bucket, then I'd grade everything with the box and finish grade and prep for seed with the rake.

Could probably rent the rake for lawn prep, but I'd buy a box scaper if I still had a gravel driveway. Used to drop the teeth and dig up the stones after the spring thaw, then re-grade everything with either the scraper or the York rake.

If you do it right before the spring rains, the stones get washed off and everything looks new again.

Dean

Dean