Weird Grader Applications

[Dwan Hall]

I had a ball with her 2 the last few days. Practiced with the blade turned backwards. Man what a difference been able to watch the cutting edge work. Still working on the coordination thing though. Lets see now the left still lifts the left and the circle still turns the right way but the side shift is backwards. now do I pull this lever to turn the rear wheels left or right, no I push it, oops that was the scar fire.
Just going to take time.
It does flat ground great and I can put a crown on a road but not sure about compound curves.
She made enough in the past 2 days to pay for her self. excluding the work I put into her. 2 more job before I put the ice blades back on her.

How do you train a property manager to accept the fact you can't grade 3" material to within 1"? And he won't let me bring in a compactor to finish the job. He just wants the park graded once a month and that is suppose to hold up. I guess I shouldn't complain it is 4 to 5 hours a month grading. I know I could cap the road with RAP and compact it but then only grade it once a year.

[Hopuser]

I would mount it on the ripper we run a 14H and no scarfire on that one we also have a push block on the front to push trucks when they spin out on hills,

[Grader4me]

Originally Posted by Dwan Hall

I had a ball with her 2 the last few days. Practiced with the blade turned backwards. Man what a difference been able to watch the cutting edge work.
It does flat ground great and I can put a crown on a road but not sure about compound curves.
She made enough in the past 2 days to pay for her self. excluding the work I put into her. 2 more job before I put the ice blades back on her
How do you train a property manager to accept the fact you can't grade 3" material to within 1"? And he won't let me bring in a compactor to finish the job. He just wants the park graded once a month and that is suppose to hold up. I guess I shouldn't complain it is 4 to 5 hours a month grading. I know I could cap the road with RAP and compact it but then only grade it once a year.

Well, if you can crown a road already then you're doing very well! So..if you've swung your blade around, you must have done the high lift thingy..how did that work for you? On your AW wouldn't that have to be done mechanically (no hydraulics)? We discussed that procedure a few years back when I first joined here I think.

What are you running for ice blades..maybe if I did a search you already answered this question...bare with me as I am older than dirt ya know (memory loss)

Finally..don't raise to much of a fuss about that guy wanting his park graded once a month...instead of making it less by what you described...let sleeping dogs lay...that adds up to more practice and more $$

[Super Roel]

Originally Posted by willemdegrader

side board i use when grading with laser/gps

Hello Willem ,

In Europe are two grader factories that made that side boards , O&K , and HBM .
The side boards from O&K are a little thikker than sigaret paper , but the one from HBM are very good , see the pictures , when u not used them u can store these blades on the backside of the front blade .

[Super Roel]

Is it a grader a loader of a dozer , it is it all .

[RANDY ROME]

a john deere grader 100% american god pictures

[joeh1966]

great pictures & info

[MKTEF]

Looks to be made after a military spec.
Nobody else would want so many not good systems, in one machine...
Not a good dozer, not a good grader, not a good excavator but a .......ehh.

[Grader4me]

This machine would fit into the category of "jack of all trades, master of nothing" lol
It is definitely weird though...lol

[JDOFMEMI]

Originally Posted by Super Roel

Is it a grader a loader of a dozer , it is it all .

You just have to love the operator visibility on this thing.

As said, it's not going to be good at much but taking up space in the yard.

[Hopuser]

Just found a Ice buster in the John Deere Attachments Catalog will have to call on Monday. Anyone else find anything else I sure could use one riight now as the ice is building up.
Kris
My boss told me to find one I found a couple of used one but he doesn' want to buy one to modify. Wants to buy one ready to go. any one intrested in the used one let me know I will send you a link.

[Hopuser]

Well I talked to the sales rep for the wester US and works for CWS that owns IMAC that built the ice busters I guess that they won't be making any more! So the only option is to find used ones and any parts???
I have a line on a few used ones so will see what happens sure could use one now.

[Hopuser]

Just a quick thought!
I wonder how many of them they would have to sell to start building them??? ( Ice busters) I wonder how much intrest there is.
If we could get a head count we could let them know there people that wanted them.

[Motor Grader]

If you can sell them then Champion can build them!

[Hopuser]

Originally Posted by Motor Grader

If you can sell them then Champion can build them!

Well ok how much? hard to sell something if you don't have a price! more information, weight, application, compatibility. If you are serious?

Kris