Might get 2B limestone for 800'private driveway. Tried spreading 1-22ton load on mine & neighbors driveway(200'long) with backblade on my mf65. Because of power lines overhead, tri axle could only tailgate spread a little bit. Ended up being a little wavy. Would it work better to use my front bucket & use the bucket flipped down on its front edge to spread 2B?
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ditchwitch
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For me a Box blade works best. It also works best full
gtractorfan
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This won't help you but here's what I have- an old walk behind tractor with a homemade drawbar, blade and dual wheels. I had a 4' blade on it when the picture was taken, just made a 6' that I haven't tried yet. In loose stones it can drag a small heap til the stones run over the blade and it's easy to control. I use it most on the garden to level the ground before planting.
Rollie NE PA
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2B is a generic term for aashto number 57 aggregate.
I laid my 800+ ft crushed concrete driveway with my backhoe. The semi dropped 25 yd piles and I dug into the piles and pulled it backward with the loader bucket (cutting edge vertical). Once I had it roughly spread, I drove to the end of the material, laid the loader bucket down and drove backward to level it out. I did it a number of times on each section, flattening the bucket out more each time. Timing was perfect, semi would drop a load, go back for more. By the time he came back, I had the previous section leveled. Came out perfect.
Front bucket as in front end loader?to start lay the bucket flat then tilt or curl up slightly and back drag.if material to be spread is only a few inches thick;float the bucket.the rear or back edge is what "cuts" into the material .to finish lay the bucket flat and float the bucket until you get the results you want.i spread A LOT of rock on the track and all you need to do really is rotate your bucket to get what you want
showcrop
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I take it that aashto is the spec authority. Are they national? and what is number 57?
The guy that I drive for now and then will tell me to get _ _ _._ _, and no one at the quarry knows what it is. They go by type and size. One time we hauled the same sand product for maybe a year and a half two trucks off and on, after he sent me for some. The scale attendant said they had two like that, so he told me the prices and I went and checked both grades. I liked the higher priced one better for what we were doing, and that's what we hauled for a year and a half.
SweetFeet
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My husband used his blade turned backward as other have mentioned... but he fabricated two pieces for depth control and C-clamped them to the blade. That way he could slowly drive around the driveway/yard and get it spread equal depth.
For the final "finish", he used some kind of drag with a heavy chain across the back side to "rub out" the hatchmark/lines left by the C-clamps. It all worked well.
For the final "finish", he used some kind of drag with a heavy chain across the back side to "rub out" the hatchmark/lines left by the C-clamps. It all worked well.
Geo-TH,In
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When I was a kid, my dad took two railroad rails and welded them at right angles. He would pull the V shaped RR irons with a chain using his old JI case. It did a fantastic job of self leveling driveway.
I made a V shaped leveler using 10 inch Mobile home frame and made it to use on 3 pt. It's about 7 ft wide. I got rid of my box blade and use this to level and angle gravel roads. If you think about gravel roads have two ruts, a crown in the middle and crowns at the edge of the road. My V shaped leveler pulls gravel from the crowns and puts it in the ruts. When you try leveling with a front bucket, back blade or box blade when one wheel of tractor goes into a pot hole that either raises or lowers the bucket or blade.
The V shaped leveler stays level, it floats over pot holes and fills them in.
I also use leveler to fill in ruts in the yard using lose dirt.
If you have piles of rock, you will need to spread them out with front bucket before you try to level them.
I made a V shaped leveler using 10 inch Mobile home frame and made it to use on 3 pt. It's about 7 ft wide. I got rid of my box blade and use this to level and angle gravel roads. If you think about gravel roads have two ruts, a crown in the middle and crowns at the edge of the road. My V shaped leveler pulls gravel from the crowns and puts it in the ruts. When you try leveling with a front bucket, back blade or box blade when one wheel of tractor goes into a pot hole that either raises or lowers the bucket or blade.
The V shaped leveler stays level, it floats over pot holes and fills them in.
I also use leveler to fill in ruts in the yard using lose dirt.
If you have piles of rock, you will need to spread them out with front bucket before you try to level them.
Rollie NE PA
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