Regrading gravel driveway...tips, tools and techiques explained
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- Regrading gravel driveway...tips, tools and techiques explained Today I'll go through the details of how we maintain and repair our gravel driveway. You'll get details on the tools and techniques to get the job done right!
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I have no farm, I have no tractors, I have nothing. But I highly enjoy watching your videos!
I appreciate that!
Great job, Josh. One thing I learned VERY quickly when using my landscape rake behind my tractor, while driving forward: Don't drive too fast! Those tines will engage some stuck rocks, and the tines act just like a slingshot. When they engage a stone that "cocks the trigger," and then lets go, you get pelted with gravel, and if the rock it big enough, it'll bean you in the head, and damage the lights and paint on the tractor! Those rocks really launch. I found that if the rocks in the driveway are not loose enough, that is, loosened up by the tines of my box blade first, then it's better to use the landscape rake spun around 180 degrees and drive backwards. That shoot's the rocks the other way. It's also easier to slow way down.
For those who may not know: Titan Attachments are made in China. Titan IMPLEMENTS are made in Tennessee. Huge difference in quality.
I also believe Titan is now A company called Ironcraft.
Josh you should try a land plain. You will fall in love with it for driveway maintenance. Only one attachment rather than two. God bless
Good to find you. I am up the road from you in Glade valley. I am a disabled Vet that has limitations due to medical reasons. Bought my tractor back in Oct last year. Love watching how others fix things up and allow me to learn and due things that I had thought lost to me.
Josh, Glad this video came up! I live a rural sub-division of 14 of 1 to 20 acre lots with a looong gravel road. I'm sharing this video with my neighbors who give me heck every time I do maintenance on the road... City Folks living on the outskirts of a Farming town! The first third of the road just get hammered and I've dropped the rippers to breakup the pot holes and bout gave 3 neighbors a heart attack :) But when I got finished the road was Sweet! But never a Thanks??
Great video. A contractor told me I couldn't reuse gravel piled up on the sides of my driveway because it had dirt and grass. He wanted to remove what was there and bring in clean gravel. That didn't seem logical so I searched youtube and found you doing exactly what I asked him to do.
yep...sounds like you're contractor may have been misinformed
This was a really good video. You are friendly and explain things really well. It felt like you were just talking to us like we were there. Nice. I learned a lot! I like that you don't yell into the mike (unless you have to because of the tractor). The whole thing was well done, lovely to watch, SO informative! Thank you.
Have to do this on mine as well. Too much rain and mud right now but Spring will be a better time. Thanks for the video!
Back in the 1960's my maternal grandparents had a summer lake home in northern Minnesota. The driveway, all dirt and 150 yards long, was flat and did not drain well. It seemed like every spring it would rain hard and then the frost would come up. The driveway turned to mush. Getting a dump truck in was impossible due to the overhead power line going down the middle of the driveway. We hand shoveled that driveway endlessly every spring. Drainage was the key. The current owners of that property had the power line buried and are there full time, so the driveway stays firmly packed. I wish we had your knowledge and equipment back then.
Hay Josh, For over 30 yrs I used a horse drawn grader adapted for a tractor to pull and it did an excellent job of grading over 2 miles of roadway's and lanes, because you did not get the ups and downs like you do with pulling a blade on the back of a tractor.
Dave from Canada
About to grade and build gravel road on our property in east Texas. Great info! Pretty sure you just saved me from doing it wrong! Thank you! Subscribed!
Great video and advice. We do the exact same with our driveway ones or twice every year.
I have 50 acre farm and i use a ventrac that thing is a beast thanks for advice mr Stoney ridge
Heck yeah....it's been my go to for mowing and maintenance here for the past year!. Put nearly 300 hours on it last season!
I had the same problem on my 300 yard long road. I removed the gravel, crowned up the road, cut two ditches on either side, and put the gravel back... No more washouts..Is saving me a ton of work and lots of $...
You are such a great teacher. I love watching your videos.
Your driveway looks great. I did mine last week before it started to rain AGAIN.
Great information Josh! You may want to get a small 4' tow behind roller. You would be surprised at how well they pack the stone (they usually weigh about 900lbs when filled), and how much longer the stone will stay in place. WHOOO!
Using that TR3 made life easier didnt it! Lol Definitely changed my life with projects around the house
Woah ....that is how to reach the hidden rock under the deep soil....the attachment is great Josh....learnt so much.
Thanks, liked the show & tell. Learned a lot.
Good information. Love the long driveway as long as I don't have to shovel it.
Great video. Would like to see that grand national up close
In Texas we call it a box blade and we call his rippers scarfires. Another great way to level the road smooth as silk is a piece of 6' x 8' long 6 ga. chain link. Worked great for me.
The equipment you have did a great job on that road and have your gravel where it should be. I have a box blade which came with my first tractor when I purchased it as part of a package deal and I love it. I have used it around my place, but it has been sitting for over a year now and is ready to be put back to work. I also have a landscaping rake which is on my second tractor for use in my yard. I currently have my bush hog on my first tractor and use the other implements attached to my second tractor as they isn't that large and I use the bush hog most to work my lawn or land back off the road away from my house for mowing.
Sweet looking Grand National - I had an 86, awesome cars
Josh, have you considered doing some grading work? To keep the water from running down your driveway. You seem to regrade often. Maybe putting in some swales in to direct the flow would help.
Nice job on your drive Looks good
Subbed. Positivity is infectious.
Pretty cool!
Grand national? Nice.
Nice video Josh, thanks for the upload 🚜
Awe your vid is cool, and very informative. Thank you! I have a home that has a long driveway and went with gravel. It’s lovely and I love it! Have an awesome day. 🌞
Hi I just got back from West Virginia ( my name is Spencer ) and it was good
Very interesting video Josh. Lots of work to maintain your own road !!!
Around here it is best to wait until spring to do that because if we worked all our stone loose and then got a snow when we scrapped the driveway we would take all the stone with the snow.
if you are using a blade put a piece of pvc pipe over the bottom edge.
Do a video of on all your attachments and implements
Hey Josh thanks for the video I enjoyed it your driveway looks nice there now you did a good job and now I did learn a little bit from your video to
Great explanation! Your video was very helpful.
Guess You prefer the box scrap over the ventrac power rake ? Still got the job done. Looks great 👍🏻
Good video Josh, it my favorite kind, and was the same type of my first one of the channels I viewed, jon dear blade fixin the water control ruts on side of drive , you have came a long way from 20 k or so subs, yea, i like watching tractors work , enjoy the rain today, heck, what ever the weather is try to enjoy it. @ 200 $ for 25 ton delivered, its worth using tractors to get more bang for yer buck for sure. stay safe.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Rule #1 When adjusting the box blade always, and i cant emphasize this enough, make sure your fly is up on your overalls. this is very important......
thanks for the video.
Great video again Josh. Eddie from Scotland
That’s that fancy Polish yard gravel!
Love the Arms Family Homestead shirt!!
Love your channel sir. Thanks for what you do
Live the videos I have a 1984 ford 2810 and need to do some work on it. I like the advice as to which attachments to buy first. Looking for my box blade now. 👍
I use a atv snow plow with weights added for downpressure it gets the job done but it takes a while.
Looks great... how often or have you added fresh gravel to the driveway?
Have a great day ⛄⛄⛄
So this driveway is only 4 years old...typically I'll add rock as needed or have a thin layer of #57 dumped covering the entire drive once per year. Once you've got a good base you shouldn't have to add more rock after about 5 years. I've kinda gone to the extreme on how much rock we have here on our drive since I want to establish one heck of a base
👍👍👍great job Josh ✊✊✊
Thanks for the informative video. One question I've always had... What do you do with all the gravel that's accumulated in the box scraper at the end of your run? Do you just lift the box scraper and let it leak out?
Thank you Josh.
Very informative.
Happy New Year
just wondering if you only had the small tractor how you would go about doing your drive
Cool video. 👍👍👍❤️
Josh you get busy good Info
You make it look easy, want to stop over and do mine :-)
i love your channel mate best videos ever
Grand National Baby!!! Turbo 6!!!!!
ever thought of a land plane to move the gravel in and smooth it out?
not a fan of a land plane...it's designed to flatten earth...the driveway needs an appropriate crown so it sheds water off the drive instead of down the middle
Nice video, but those ventrac landscape rakes were doing next to nothing. A tip....adjust the sideways angle linkage on your 3 pt, so that your box blade is low on one side, and it will drag all that gravel to the middle of the driveway.
Good video
Hey Josh check out "Outdoors with the Morgans" Mike show the Land Plane looks great for what your doing on the driveway, I have never used one but they look great
You know the East Coast is the only place where they call it number 57 first time I ever heard that I didn't know what the hell they were talking about. A member 1st time I went to Chicago for a construction company up there I went in for my interview and guide those a set of plans upon the table and is what gauge our those holes I told him, "I didn't have any idea" and he just got started to turn around and walk off and I said, "but if you are talking about the diameter they are three-quarters of an inch". He kinda grinned at me and said we going to have to learn our terminology, aren't we?
yep.....interesting how some folks can treat ya when they don't think you know what you're talking about huh
Good
Looks great.
You have a flat tire on the front rake..
You need a hydraulic top link for the Box blade.
Absolutely brilliant! Now the math... LOL 20:55 Leap year?
my father in law always used a grader blade on his tractor. using that allows for drainage, at least i think so. lol
I've got a couple vids out on using the blade too...soon we'll do another...and we have another implement called the TR3 which kicks butt!
I have a Ventrac @Hina Heritage Preserve and just put in a driveway to the new house that is about as long as yours. Looking for the best way to keep it in good shape.
Hi, I've got a driveway that is on a hill, I've seen where some have used guardrail strategically placed to help with water runoff, what are your thoughts?
crown your driveway appropriately and water should roll off it nicely......not sure about using guardrail....if the driveway is very steep ya may have to put in water bars (humps of dirt or rock)
Man, i need you to come out and do my driveway, just bought a rural property with a long gravel driveway that has potholes. i don't have any of this equipment :(
Does any one make a water filled roller to fit in back of your tractor? Yes, say a 3' diameter steel drum 6' wide filled with water would probably not be liftable (3.000 lbs) but you could fill it where to start smashing those larger rocks into the driveway, thereby making the gravel road last a lot longer. After doing the drive way, it would be necessary to drain the drum to transport it, or you could just roll it to a designated spot with gravel and leave it filled, ready to go next time.
well....ya don't need to invest in a roller when ya have a pickup truck that weighs 4000lbs my brotha...just roll over it appropriately after ya crown the drive
Are you planning in the future to put in a permanent hard surface driveway?
I have a lot shorter driveway and was quoted $7,000 to asphalt it. Hate to see what Stoney Ridge Farmer would end up paying. A load of gravel every 5 years is a lot cheaper as I have a good packed base.
Where is the video doing this with a scrape blade?
Nice job, grading a driveway isn't easy. Question did you pick out the last two cows that was just delivered???
Yep....I have an uncle that I trust beyond the shadow of any doubt...he brought them to me at $600 a head ....pretty good deal and great large bodied large framed heifer calves about 8 months old
Not sure if called the same in the states but how do you control bindi or three corner jacks? On the farm i have been constantly spraying / removing by hand with no luck
Josh, thanks for a great instructional video. Would the Ventrac effectively pull a 5 foot Box blade as well as handle the rake portion of gravel driveway maintenance?
I would wish my cousins ranch take a hint from this as they have a dirt driveway and some of it is Colicchie some of it is concrete and boy when It gets wet it is slicker than snot. They need to throw down some gravel like you have but they don’t and they told me the county maintained that road but they haven’t for years because of budget. What are you going to do. Thanks for the information.
Where is your TR3 rake? Isn't this one of the actual things it is designed for? Scarifiers, blade to spread into low spots, comb teeth in the rear to give it the final touch.
Hello Josh, love the channel. Quick question. What is the purpose of placing the chain around the 3 point arms on the boxblade? I am getting ready to do my driveway for the very first time. Should be a blast!
Love the video, thank you! We have a driveway that has quite a grade to it. When we bought it, the driveway was quite rutted up. A neighbor leveled it for us. A few weeks later a heavy rain made those ruts again. We put taconite tailings on the driveway (it's in northern MN). They lock in place and worked well for a couple of years. We just had to put more tailings on it last year. I now have a tractor and am wondering if I can do this myself. Wondering how the box blade would work with the tailings. If I use the rippers, would that bring too much soil up into the mix?
If you can get recycled asphalt it compacts so much better best to do in the summer
Thanks for the info, doing my driveway tomorrow and will be doing what you did only with a JD 3032E with a rake and boxblade... but quick question, did you have the box blade angled slightly to a side to help with getting your crown laid?
Nice arms family homestead shirt
Do you have the power rake for the Ventrac?
No...but we were able to use it to help out a neighbor in need about a month ago
Do you run your 3 point in float or a fixed position when using the box blade?
Have you gotten the Cub to run?
Sold it a year and a half ago...the guy never came to get it...I'll get back on it soon I'm sure...Hate to see it sitting!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Yeah I hope so! It would look good next to earl in the garage lol!! Thanks for the awesome informational video!
Nice vid! #57 limestone is a good base in the mountains of Tennessee, but one cannot climb hills hardly at all until packed down. You'll just spinout and have to get a tow up the hill. Important to note that this should be a fine cover, not 2" thick. Add crusher run limestone/dust after. Nearly turns into concrete after a few rains causing less #57 gravel to slide out to the sides over time. Just a different method for mountain folk.
yeppers....#57 is what I use to "top dress" the driveway once compacted...most of the time I'm using a crush run rock because of exactly what ur saying..great comment thanks!
Nice music ,HOWEVER needs to be less annoying
putting folks down seem right to you?
2nd video you said You would share coupon codes for titan, what are they please?
Josh! Thanks for the video. I was wondering about the 3pt landscape rake on the Ventrac!
I tried to order but the link and coupon code didn’t work. Any suggestions?
How big is #57 rock ? We have 21/2 crusher run on our drive way
pretty property
Flat tire on front rack
yepper...I saw that ....gotta order some solid tires for that implement
What is the model far all tractor?
Dod you het a new johndeer tractor looks like it
Josh is that a Grand National sitting there?
it is,
not tellin - that’s one heck of a toy.