Hey I just started running grader a week ago, plowing snow for a county in MN. I will also be doing summer maintenance on gravels. With no experience in a grader, I watched a ton of your videos and jumped in it for the first time with some confidence. Im running the 772gp also and really enjoying it. Questions for plowing gravels. I put my moldboard into float and then roll it back so there is maybe an inch or so of clearance to keep the gravel on the road. Is this kinda what you do or is there a better way?
For snow plowing I leave my moldboard about 2 inches above the road only place I scrape down to gravel is on hills and intersections I generally try to use my moldboard as little as possible use my one way plow or v plow to take majority of snow off the road because using moldboard can cause you to start bouncing and that’s the last thing you want.
I generally wait a week for all the snow to melt and let the frost come out before I start normal maintenance blading in the spring thanks for the question and thanks for watching.
You guys about like us down here in MO. Last 4 weeks every Thursday we've had snow first week flooded next week sleeted 3rd week flooded last week then gonna get snow again end of this week man we can't catch a break! Hope springs little better we've had to blade washes in the snow crazy but that's Mo good blading to you!
Yep the sleet we got was about 3in man it pushed hard had to put alota aown pressure to get it to peel I burned 78 gal of fuel in 8 hours and the guy I work with burnt 82 in same time!
@@chuckboone7845 yep it’s been a very weird winter for suer happy spring is here now got lots of work ahead of me so looking forward to that thanks for watching and good blading to you also
Very rarely do I have to cut ice but sometimes I will have to go out and cut ice once we get snow I prefer it get packed down then we leave it till it starts warming up then go cut it off last 2 winters have been open haven’t put wings on and have bladed gravel majority of the winter
It work’s awesome I pretty much use it all the time unless we get a big storm and have roads completely blocked where I need the v plow if we get some snow this year will definitely get a couple videos of me using it thanks for the question.
Hey grader man hope all is well haven't seen any new vids for a bit. When you get back could you do a video on putting a crown back in a roadway. Thanks!!
Hey Luis Garcia sorry been slow last couple week frost just went out and got some good moisture here last couple days hopefully be out blading tomorrow will get a video on how to do that for you thanks for checking in hopefully have a new video out next week for everyone thanks for watching!
Yes I can use the steering wheel or I can use the lever steer on my sliding moldboard control to steer with I generally use the steering wheel majority of the time.
No we didn’t snow was 2 hours north of my area we have been cold and windy last month here haven’t been able to do much started discing shoulders today will have video up this weekend
Love the video's greater man just got a brand new 672GP. I am from Wisconsin. Pulled shoulders and 2 weeks ago fixed a bunch of pot holes. Then it started snowing again. And rain and wind heavy on the wind. Frost for the most part is out now. Waiting for it to quit raining So I can do some grading.
Years of experience if you have you skids set right on your plow and have your moldboard set right you won’t lose much gravel at all in my opinion if your plowing gravel roads and going under 15 mph is to slow.
@Graderman 140M Hey , thanks for the videos . I'm from up here Saskatchewan and lots of Gravel to deal with . Problem we have is the Machine , GP 870 , starts bouncing on us . We have tried faster which can get very interesting in a hurray or slowing down and that just makes a big job bigger . We have worked with tire pressures and Blade angles still no better . Tires are the Michelin Snoplus . What do u run for tire pressures? Thanks for any info u can provide or other suggestions .
Great vid, is it cheaper to use a grader over the long run than a plow truck, or are some of the drifts just too big for a truck to handle?
We get extremely heavy wind blown hard drifts so we stick to graders with one ways or v plows to keep our roads open
Hey I just started running grader a week ago, plowing snow for a county in MN. I will also be doing summer maintenance on gravels. With no experience in a grader, I watched a ton of your videos and jumped in it for the first time with some confidence. Im running the 772gp also and really enjoying it. Questions for plowing gravels. I put my moldboard into float and then roll it back so there is maybe an inch or so of clearance to keep the gravel on the road. Is this kinda what you do or is there a better way?
For snow plowing I leave my moldboard about 2 inches above the road only place I scrape down to gravel is on hills and intersections I generally try to use my moldboard as little as possible use my one way plow or v plow to take majority of snow off the road because using moldboard can cause you to start bouncing and that’s the last thing you want.
@@graderman140m makes sense. I appreciate you getting back to me!
Do you have the tall wing post or the short one on your deer
When the snow starts melting what would you and the grader be doing in that time of season?
I generally wait a week for all the snow to melt and let the frost come out before I start normal maintenance blading in the spring thanks for the question and thanks for watching.
You guys about like us down here in MO. Last 4 weeks every Thursday we've had snow first week flooded next week sleeted 3rd week flooded last week then gonna get snow again end of this week man we can't catch a break! Hope springs little better we've had to blade washes in the snow crazy but that's Mo good blading to you!
Yep the sleet we got was about 3in man it pushed hard had to put alota aown pressure to get it to peel I burned 78 gal of fuel in 8 hours and the guy I work with burnt 82 in same time!
@@chuckboone7845 yep it’s been a very weird winter for suer happy spring is here now got lots of work ahead of me so looking forward to that thanks for watching and good blading to you also
Do you get to cut ice of the roads there? That's the bigger part of my winter work here in eastern Canada
Very rarely do I have to cut ice but sometimes I will have to go out and cut ice once we get snow I prefer it get packed down then we leave it till it starts warming up then go cut it off last 2 winters have been open haven’t put wings on and have bladed gravel majority of the winter
Do you keep your one way plow at ground level or use skids to keep an inch or so above surface?
I have it on skid shoes and keep it an inch up off the gravel really works good definitely speeds up plowing
Here in Atlantic Canada we use shoes on our one ways but keep them up 1/2 an inch of the ground
👍 looks like you have a bit of snow to plow.
Was just enough to have to go clean up only had one township out of 5 go will be back blading next week going to be in the 50s and 60s again
How does your one way plow work? I would love to see it in action when plowing the snow with it
It work’s awesome I pretty much use it all the time unless we get a big storm and have roads completely blocked where I need the v plow if we get some snow this year will definitely get a couple videos of me using it thanks for the question.
@@graderman140m Ok, thanks for the reply to my question
Hey grader man hope all is well haven't seen any new vids for a bit. When you get back could you do a video on putting a crown back in a roadway. Thanks!!
Hey Luis Garcia sorry been slow last couple week frost just went out and got some good moisture here last couple days hopefully be out blading tomorrow will get a video on how to do that for you thanks for checking in hopefully have a new video out next week for everyone thanks for watching!
Do you have two forms of steering?
Yes I can use the steering wheel or I can use the lever steer on my sliding moldboard control to steer with I generally use the steering wheel majority of the time.
Did you get any snow last week
No we didn’t snow was 2 hours north of my area we have been cold and windy last month here haven’t been able to do much started discing shoulders today will have video up this weekend
Love the video's greater man just got a brand new 672GP. I am from Wisconsin. Pulled shoulders and 2 weeks ago fixed a bunch of pot holes. Then it started snowing again. And rain and wind heavy on the wind. Frost for the most part is out now. Waiting for it to quit raining So I can do some grading.
I made a hitch to put a 12' reversible plow on front of migrator this Winter absolutely love it. Best thing I ever did.
I'm going to guess your in ND maybe south eastern part of the sate
I’m actually in SE South Dakota
@@graderman140m not to far off I'll take it...lol the RDO equipment sticker and the general look of the area were my Clue's
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I notice and alot of my plowing buddy do not like the way Deer's bounce !
I’m not a fan either there definitely not as stable of a machine is what the cat is
I’m sure it has directly to do with te tire specification.
How do you plow snow that fast and don't throw all your rock in the ditch?
Years of experience if you have you skids set right on your plow and have your moldboard set right you won’t lose much gravel at all in my opinion if your plowing gravel roads and going under 15 mph is to slow.
@Graderman 140M Hey , thanks for the videos . I'm from up here Saskatchewan and lots of Gravel to deal with . Problem we have is the Machine , GP 870 , starts bouncing on us . We have tried faster which can get very interesting in a hurray or slowing down and that just makes a big job bigger . We have worked with tire pressures and Blade angles still no better . Tires are the Michelin Snoplus . What do u run for tire pressures? Thanks for any info u can provide or other suggestions .
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