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Grading gravel what is the best implement

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Midwest redneck

11-26-2006 07:52:55

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A few years back a neighbor of mine had a york rake on a rear 3 pt and it worked good for churning up the gravel drives and getting ruts and low spots out. But what is the best implement for this purpose, a small chisel plow apparatus, york rake, heavy blade or something else. What is your opinion? Rifle off the comments here.

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ken walsh

11-27-2006 08:49:10

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Re: Grading gravel what is the best implement in reply to Midwest redneck, 11-26-2006 07:52:55

I purchased one of these graders that I operate from my B414. I have one mile of road that I maintain. It does an excellent job of redepositing the gravel back on top of the roadway. It also does a very good job of levelling the high spots and filling the low ones. The only problems are if you happen to cut some turf when maintaining as it does not want to tumble out and you have to manually pick it out of the area between the blades. I am using the 7 foot model and despite the steep hill that is my road the little B414 does a good job tugging this thing on the uphill pass.

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Larry NE IL

11-26-2006 19:29:17

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Re: Grading gravel what is the best implement in reply to Midwest redneck, 11-26-2006 07:52:55

For just maintaining your drive, weather it's 150' long or 1500' long is a drag box behind your tractor. You need one with teeth that you lower either hydrolically or manually. They work great and aren't expensive. You can crown your drive or center drain it by adjustment on your 3 point.

Also great for moving snow.

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Mn Dave

11-26-2006 16:29:47

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Re: Grading gravel what is the best implement in reply to Midwest redneck, 11-26-2006 07:52:55

I do the township contract road grading and I get called upon occasionally to re-shape a neighbors driveway, off course a motor grader is the best thing to use. But what ever you do is keep the shoulders cut down and the middle of the road built up so the water can run off. The next best thing to use is a 4 wheel pull behind grader, but if you have a heavy enough rear blade w/hyd. angle works great to. I have used on my own yard is a piece of 8 in. channel iron about 6-7 ft. long and then pile some spare iron inside and then weld two hooks on each side close to the ends and then use a light log chain hooked to the drawbar, you can then re-position the chains to get your angle each way if you desire. Good luck.

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Billy NY

11-26-2006 10:35:22

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Re: Grading gravel what is the best implement in reply to Midwest redneck, 11-26-2006 07:52:55

I'd agree on something like an old grader, or something with a moldboard in the middle, say with a scarifier to loosen things up if needed.

You still see some old tow behind units for sale, and old graders for sale, something that can be used and as a hobby if you go to shows.

On a 3 pt type implement, I've used this heavy duty one called an all in one, lot's of the horse crowd use them for grooming the riding area, but boy is that one heavy duty implement, has a mold board, rippers, and what I'll call a rake or a comb on the back. I used it on our driveway and it did well. A box blade with rippers and a back blade to finish does work nicely, but any kind of road grader with an experienced operator can be very effective. Seems you have to loosen, re-grade and compact to do a decent job.

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old

11-26-2006 08:33:21

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Re: Grading gravel what is the best implement in reply to Midwest redneck, 11-26-2006 07:52:55

The very best thing is either a TRUE road grader or a belly mount blade which will do almost the same thing as a road grader. The reason a belly type blade works best is even when the tires go up or down the belly blade will still say in about the same place. Over the years I have used a back blade but now days I will only use my 1947 Allis speed patrol to do the job. You can see it in the web page. Also think about if, when they build a road they ALWAYS use a road grader to level out the gravel. Yep I used to work as part of the crew building roads. In my area theres a good number of roads that I helped build

Hobby farm

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Midwest redneck

11-26-2006 09:05:14

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Re: Grading gravel what is the best implement in reply to old, 11-26-2006 08:33:21

That Allis road grader is nice, how do you lift and lower the blade? is there a mechanical lift on the blade or do you have a hydraulic cylinder to lift it? In my township a guy comes buy with a large Champion road grader about every 6-8 weeks or so, or when ever the road commision has him do it. That road grader will easily make a 12" pile of gravel all the way down the center of the road. (I would love to flip him $30 to go down my gravel drive) I am sure that somebody would turn me in and I would have to pay the road comm. a hefty fee.

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Midwest redneck

11-26-2006 09:05:03

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Re: Grading gravel what is the best implement in reply to old, 11-26-2006 08:33:21

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old

11-26-2006 09:14:21

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Re: Grading gravel what is the best implement in reply to Midwest redneck, 11-26-2006 09:05:03

The 2 big hand wheels raise and lower the blade. At times I wish it was hyds but it isn't so I get by with it. I had a Galion 303 grader at one time but it was to big and cost a lot to run. I'm sure if you look around you could find one like I have. In my area theres a god number of them but you have to know where to look to find them. Another thing that works well is a pull type grader but then you have to have 2 people one on the tractor and one on the grader

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