Grass and growth along gravel roads seem to be a universal problem.
You don't have to wait many days from the snow has gone to the grass just poops up along the roads all over.
When it becomes to much i do a pass where i grade inn the grass from the shoulder, sometimes i take a good cut down into the ditch.
Thats to get the gravel up onto the shoulder.
Next pass i grade this windrow with grass and all into the middle of the road.
How far into the middle, depends on the width of the road.
At this second pass i use my windrow blade at the back.
It is fitted with serrated blades, and reach outside the windrow on the left side.
On the right side it goes all the way out to the ditch.
When i use the windrow spreader i have it adjusted so it lays out the windrow apr half of the road to get a proper crown.(according to road width)
The nice thing is that objects bigger than the serrated "slots" is rolled along the blade, and ends down the ditch again.
Thats all the grassrots, stones, sticks and other nasty stuff that gets up from the ditch at first pass.
If the grass has been growing to long, for years, some of the roots get real big and i need to do more passes to get the gravel out of them.
For the normal maintenance i normaly do one pass.
Cut from the outside and in, and the gravelspreader takes care of the crown/windrow and lays it nice out from the middle and out.
Takes some time to adjust the spreader correctly, but when its ok i just watch it in the mirrors and on the tv screen.
If there are bigger potholes i go on and add more pressure/a bigger cut with the joysticks.
I normaly grade by the constantpressure system, where i have adjusted the pressure to get a cut good/big enough for the "average" pothole depths.
