cuttin edge
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Looks really good
Looks really good
Thought you may have been towing a roller, looks really good, a roller makes a big difference with the layout of your road and how well it holds up, there was talk of us getting a roller for our machines, 20 grand for one, you must have lots of room to turn around, does the rollers lift up when your traveling any distance? thanks for sharing the pics
It’s a mixture of topsoil some clay and gravel it will go to crap when it rains but after it drys and I can rework it it sets up like concrete I plan on putting new gravel on it anyway so not concerned out dirt it’s getting covered up anyway.
With a project like that how much gravel do you add?
Is this an every year rebuild or how often?
Do you decide which roads get this rebuild by their condition?
That’s definitely not for gravel road maintenance would flatten your roads out and from what I see no way to put crown in the road that would be useless for me I’d say that designed for a haul road on a big earth moving project I even have my doubts it would work there.Anyone ever used a pull grader like this before for road maintenance?
https://metalcraftscrapers.com/equipment/#grader
Seems pretty slick!
When I do a project like this we put down 3 inches of 3/4 surfacing gravel that around 2100 ton a mile and we pick 4 miles a year to pull shoulders on and put new gravel on ideally once we have shoulders puled in and new gravel on we won’t have to redo that road for 6 years so we just work our way through the township with 4 miles a year.
It's like a snowmobile drag. The peatmoss plants here use them, but still have to hire me with the grader once or twice a year to recrown the road.Anyone ever used a pull grader like this before for road maintenance?
https://metalcraftscrapers.com/equipment/#grader
Seems pretty slick!
That would definitely make a good road!!! Using our normal maintenance application it would take me 32 years to put on 2100 ton per mile. If you are doing this every 6 years you are applying 350 ton per year. It would take me 5 years to put on 350 ton per mile.
I'm always amazed at the amount of gravel used in some areas. I'm also amazed at what the budget must be.
My Annual budget is $1,145 per mile to cover everything. In addition I'm given 65 ton of gravel per mile by the State and County.
I can only "dream" of having your budget.
Yep, huge difference. My heaviest traveled road might get 100 a day. My average road is closer to 25 a day.I’m pretty spoiled we have a budget of 450,000 to work with but we also have a lot of people living in the township and with that comes lots of traffic I average 300 to 400 vehicles a day so that’s why we put the gravel on we do and the maintenance plan we have.
It claims it can tilt to crown, and I'm sure you could maintain a crown on a gravel road if you have the time to do it exactly when needed. It's not going to cut like a grader or have the flexibility. I see six way pulled grader blades here and there, mostly for third world conditions, or townships with a few paved roads and mostly native dirt roads. It's just going to take too many passes with a pull type like that on hard packed gravel roads.Anyone ever used a pull grader like this before for road maintenance?
https://metalcraftscrapers.com/equipment/#grader
Seems pretty slick!
They use them at the peatmoss plants. I was at one today and crowned up the road. Now for the rest of the summer, they will use the drag. By the time I go back in the fall or next spring, they will need to be crowned up again.It claims it can tilt to crown, and I'm sure you could maintain a crown on a gravel road if you have the time to do it exactly when needed. It's not going to cut like a grader or have the flexibility. I see six way pulled grader blades here and there, mostly for third world conditions, or townships with a few paved roads and mostly native dirt roads. It's just going to take too many passes with a pull type like that on hard packed gravel roads.
I'm not saying they are not useful, it probably depends on your skill, and what you plan to do with it. I've seen guys that can do a lot with a box blade on a tractor.They use them at the peatmoss plants. I was at one today and crowned up the road. Now for the rest of the summer, they will use the drag. By the time I go back in the fall or next spring, they will need to be crowned up again.