New to the tractor world, we bought a Ford 3000 last month to mow the 10 acres we purchased a couple of years ago. We're now going to build our house this summer and need a driveway/road of a few hundred feet cut (upwards of 600 feet) and need to cut out the topsoil so we can lay gravel.
We'd really like to do as much of this ourselves, and the idea of renting a small dozer to cut the road seems like a no-brainer if we are doing this ourselves, but I wondered if a rear blade on the tractor would have anywhere enough utility to try to handle the job without the dozer. Unfortunately, the tractor does not have a bucket loader so that isn't an option; since I have yet to really see a good video on YouTube of someone doing this my guess is the answer is no without hours and hours of struggle, but I thought it was worth putting this out to the experts. We plan on buying a box blade for grading and a rear blade for snow removal anyway, but if there is an attachment I'm not thinking of that would work (other than a bucket loader) that would be great info to have as well!
We'd really like to do as much of this ourselves, and the idea of renting a small dozer to cut the road seems like a no-brainer if we are doing this ourselves, but I wondered if a rear blade on the tractor would have anywhere enough utility to try to handle the job without the dozer. Unfortunately, the tractor does not have a bucket loader so that isn't an option; since I have yet to really see a good video on YouTube of someone doing this my guess is the answer is no without hours and hours of struggle, but I thought it was worth putting this out to the experts. We plan on buying a box blade for grading and a rear blade for snow removal anyway, but if there is an attachment I'm not thinking of that would work (other than a bucket loader) that would be great info to have as well!