Re: Looking for advice on attachments

Posted by JD Seller on July 07, 2018 at 14:42:28 from (173.215.45.26):

In Reply to: Looking for advice on attachments posted by oblivious on July 07, 2018 at 11:41:51:

A good heavy box blade with the scarifier teeth will work to help get ride of the pot holes. You say you already have a rear blade. So you can loosen up the road bed with the box blade teeth and then cut the crown with the rear blade. Angle it towards the center with the outer corner lowered just a little. This will bring the gravel back towards the middle. On the pot holes you need to set the teeth down on the box blade. Then make multiple passes loosening up the gravel down to the depth of the bottom of the pot hole. Then level your gravel. This is the only way to totally get ride of pot holes just filling them with loose gravel does not work. It just bounces out or is flushed out with traffic when they fill with water.

An eight foot heavy duty box blade would be about all you going to be able to pull loaded with gravel. When using the box blade they work better if you keep the box at least half full. This weight helps them work better. When looking at box blades try and find one that has replaceable scarifier teeth. The better one will have them. The teeth are held on with a roll pin so you can replace them easily. You will find that grading the drive works best a day or so after some rain. The rain will soften the road bed up enough that you can work the gravel better.

I have about a mile of drive ways to maintain it is easier with a box blade over a rear blade. You can grade the road bed without rolling the gravel off the edge of the drive. A rear blade has it place, such as pulling the rock back towards the middle, but to level a box blade works better. Also most box blades have two cutting edges facing back to back on the rear of the box. When you want to finish grade you can rock the box back with your top link. You can get it adjusted to where it rides the back cutting edge while the front just cuts a little bit. This "sweet" spot will take so adjustment to find but when you get it you can drop the box blade down and let it float independent of the tractor. You can then level easier/faster. When leveling with a rear mounted or even front mounted blade or bucket you can get long waves in the drive. Letting the box blade float when finishing your grade will help keep that to a minimum.

Now I will tell you a rear blade and box blade are a 1/2 inch at a time machine. Your not going to go out and cut the drive back to flat in a single pass. It takes time and skill to get good results but you can learn the skills pretty quickly. Time you have when compared to how long it takes to get equipment in.

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