Nice grader, I only ever had tandem drive Champion and then later Volvo 740’s and I’d be spreading behind end dump truck and pups so the material was not as nicely laid out as the belly dumps leave. Our roads were all 7 pass and I’d windrow what the trucks left towards one side and then split the windrow and spread 1/2 of it out in two passes basically one just to each side of the crown. Then I’d go back and get the rest of the windrow and in three passes lay it out across the entire road width overtop of the first two passes I had already laid down. Usually you’d get a pretty nice basic shape that way with the majority of the material where you wanted it, but at that stage of the job the priority was just to get as much gravel laid down as possible while the trucks were there as money for new gravel was always tight. After the trucks had gone to their next project we’d have time go back over the road and do a finish blading to shape it right up and then calcium chloride would be applied for dust control. I run a newer John Deere 772GP 6WD occasionally now amongst the other equipment but don’t have any gravel roads to blade with it, I sure would have liked to have had it for spreading on dirt roads. I enjoy your videos, any day running grader is a good day to me.
I get the idea of a maintenance windrow, but it creates a secondary gutter and doesn’t allow water to shed off the road. With that said I’m gonna assume this is a fall blading and you aren’t expecting much more rain for the season
I leave a maintenance windrow from early spring till about the end of September and in all honesty the maintenance windrow never holds back much water there generally light enough water will wash right through not causing any problems.
I don't carry my aggregate that far to side you will have a tendency to loose it. I been building roads and rig sites for forty years . Everyone does it differently. We don't leave windows it catches water and runs down the sides. I always straddle it and then I can keep it in check.
@@MarlaCox-d9q it can hold back a little bit of water but generally it’s all lose not compacted material and water will go right through it in my opinion there’s more benefits to having a maintenance windrow then not having one thanks for the question and thanks for watching!
When putting down new gravel, do you use gravel with a lot of fines so it compacts or pure rock. It’s about half and half for the country road where I live. Some just have a 4 inch lift of pea gravel that doesn’t have any fines mixed in with it, and some roads hardened up like concrete with the fines being mixed in with it. Do you have a preference? What is the benefit of using one vs the other? Ive just started running a blade and haven’t maintained a county road yet.
When I lay down new gravel I use 3/4 inch gravel with a plasticity ratting of 7 or 8 and that’s the fines what bind the gravel together it should be a 50/50 blend to much fines and not enough rock you have sloppy material if you have to much rock it stays lose and will washboard and be rough so very important to have the right mixture thanks for the question and thanks for watching!
Good day sir - question about your packer. A lot of guys running them up here in Saskatchewan always want to run them off a float circuit? It looks like you run yours of the ripper circuit which has not float. Can you think of why an operator would want the packer to float? Seems like having pressure on it would help with compaction no? I’d appreciate your thoughts, thanks!
Good day to you also and yes a lot of guys do have there packers set up with float I don’t have float on this grader because it wasn’t set up when it was made I have float on my other 140M3 with the packer I like the float for when I get in my hilly area just kick it in float that way your tandems always have weight on them now with this setup I have to manually adjust it not a huge deal just something you have to be mindful of hopefully that explains why lot of guys want float.
How do you know what angle of the blade you have compared to horizontal to get the 4%? I see that there is an angle indicator for the machine on the window but that does not tell you the blade. Very interesting video!
2989hr in a 2021 Cat 160m3 AWD 14’ board , shes named Judy and oh boy can she work , I like your control on the sticks as much as I don’t agree with some method … yer a smooth operator smooth operator 🎵🎤
No it does not because my maintenance windrow is all lose material it might hold back a little water but it generally goes right through the windrow and doesn’t cause any problems.
I don’t have access to a water truck I’d love to have one but not in the township budget unfortunately so I pretty much work with what the conditions Mother Nature gives me not ideal but I make do with what I got thanks for the question and thanks for watching
The reason I roll my moldboard ahead when I finish is because I want the smooth finish plus I like being able to see whole cutting edge I explain it like trying to butter a slice of bread you don’t lay your knife straight up and down you put it ahead to smooth it on hope that explains why I do that thanks for watching
No I don’t my maintenance windrow is light and loose material and it generally doesn’t hold back water and if it does hold back a little water the benefits of having it out weighs the negatives.
Man i wish we had nice material to work with like that all I get to work with is shale. I had a little freak out at work the other day I was off for a week and they up a guy on one of my roads and he leave enough material on the road and was left with a large wind row so instead of bringing it back across the road again he decided to push it in to the ditch and brush the supervisor asked me if there is anything I could do told him to get me a excavator and a few trucks and reditch the roads he didn't like to hear that.
Yes I am very lucky to have the good material and plenty of it to work with i know a lot of areas don’t have that luxury just have to do the best job you can with the material you have thanks for watching!
@@RonBlanchard-b1m I do have a little gap but nothing that I can’t fill when I equalize all the material and lay it down this last year my contractor started using side dumps I prefer them over the belly dumps get more consistent windrow with them thanks for watching!
Hello sir, I watched your video. Very good work sir. I am a grader operator. I have experience. I am from India. I am currently working in Oman. Sir, I would like to work in your company. Can I get a job in your company? Please, sir, reply to my messages. Please, sir. 🙏🏻
@graderman140m Thank you sir for your reply sir your company is not hiring grader operators sir it was my dream to work in your country sir i can't get work in any other company sir i have a request please let me know if possible 🙏🏻
We have all natural pit run gravel here in my area they run it through a crusher and this is all 3/4 inch gravel here very good material we have limestone on the western half of your state but in my general area this is the material we have thanks for watching
@@graderman140m it looks like it lays down nicely. I live in a small town in Oklahoma and although there’s several limestone quarries around the little quarry where I live has the highest quality of limestone in the area so we’re fortunate there. Thanks for the video. I haven’t got to spend any real time on a motor grader despite logging countless hours grading on dozers and excavators so it’s nice to see some grader action. Hopefully one day I’ll get some seat time in one because I really prefer the more technical finish stuff over the balls to the walls excavating, etc.
Parabéns pelo vídeo top top muito bom mesmo o trabalho meu sonho de 1 dia trabalhar na área de terra plananagen nos 🇺🇸🤝parabéns mesmo 140m muito boa muito produtiva e as manobras são perfeitas mais ágeis para o operador obrigado pelo vídeo top top. Wesley patroleiro Uberaba mg brasil 🇧🇷👍🤝🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏👍
Please PLEASE come to Bremer Co. In Iowa and show the grader operator how to do his job as he hasn't a clue how to grade a road. Or the county engineer doesn't have any common sense if he's telling him how to do it..
decent blade work but having the cam mounted on the hard had makes this video un bearable to watch. if i didnt know better it looks like alot of duckwalking. try a stationary cam
thanks and thanks for the suggestion I was trying to give everyone a video of what i am seeing from my perspective i honestly have not found a better way to video inside the cab thanks for watching!
I will hopefully be getting a brand new 150 in the next year or so be putting an order in for one this coming March thanks for the comment and thanks for watching
@@graderman140m Ya I got a few thousand more hours to put on mine before I get a new one but it's still tight except the articulation. Be headed out at 3 to start rolling snow. We got hit hard yesterday. Looks great keep up the good work.
@@graderman140m and not sure if you've ever taken a certified cat class for blades but i highly recommend it. Our county let us go and it was surprisingly informative. Got some cat contacts if you or anyone you know is interested. Think it was like $1500 for 5 days and they came to us. One guy from here in idaho and another from Arizona. 10 out of 10 instructors and information.
Great video! Very educational and you clearly explain what you are trying to achieve with each pass. Thanks for the tips from AUS 🇦🇺
Thanks and glad you found it helpful thanks for watching.
Thanks for the video. Always good to see other operators in action using different materials.
Your welcome I appreciate you watching!
Nice grader, I only ever had tandem drive Champion and then later Volvo 740’s and I’d be spreading behind end dump truck and pups so the material was not as nicely laid out as the belly dumps leave. Our roads were all 7 pass and I’d windrow what the trucks left towards one side and then split the windrow and spread 1/2 of it out in two passes basically one just to each side of the crown. Then I’d go back and get the rest of the windrow and in three passes lay it out across the entire road width overtop of the first two passes I had already laid down. Usually you’d get a pretty nice basic shape that way with the majority of the material where you wanted it, but at that stage of the job the priority was just to get as much gravel laid down as possible while the trucks were there as money for new gravel was always tight. After the trucks had gone to their next project we’d have time go back over the road and do a finish blading to shape it right up and then calcium chloride would be applied for dust control. I run a newer John Deere 772GP 6WD occasionally now amongst the other equipment but don’t have any gravel roads to blade with it, I sure would have liked to have had it for spreading on dirt roads. I enjoy your videos, any day running grader is a good day to me.
How does the water run off the road where you left the maintenance windrow?
Thanks for helping me learn how to run blade! Thanks buddy
You did a great job how hard is it to get on to that grader.👍👍
Thank you for making and sharing your video, it was very informative content. Well done. 👍🇦🇺
A good blade operator is a must for any successful construction company. Thanks for the video, it make me miss my job!
That is very true and your welcome thanks for watching!
That's a good job well done ...wouldn't mind seeing how u deal with junctions or approaches thks ...
Nice work Mr.GraderMan !!
I get the idea of a maintenance windrow, but it creates a secondary gutter and doesn’t allow water to shed off the road. With that said I’m gonna assume this is a fall blading and you aren’t expecting much more rain for the season
I leave a maintenance windrow from early spring till about the end of September and in all honesty the maintenance windrow never holds back much water there generally light enough water will wash right through not causing any problems.
Use 18M at the mine. But we do tailings and millfeeds on our roads after a little ballast. Fantastic work
I don't carry my aggregate that far to side you will have a tendency to loose it. I been building roads and rig sites for forty years . Everyone does it differently. We don't leave windows it catches water and runs down the sides. I always straddle it and then I can keep it in check.
I agree don’t leave reel” big storm will cut side of road out
Good Job. Thank you brother. God bless you 🙏🏽
Thanks for the video always learning from them
Doesn't the maintenance windrow keep water from flowing into the ditch?
@@MarlaCox-d9q it can hold back a little bit of water but generally it’s all lose not compacted material and water will go right through it in my opinion there’s more benefits to having a maintenance windrow then not having one thanks for the question and thanks for watching!
Might be a stupid question but what do you mean by packer? Is it a roller attached behind you?
Yes I have a rubber tire packer roller that pins on my rear ripper and it works extremely well.
Love the video I did good by myself but our front runner showed today really thru me but just my second day on there but appreciate the video!
Your welcome thanks for watching!
When putting down new gravel, do you use gravel with a lot of fines so it compacts or pure rock. It’s about half and half for the country road where I live. Some just have a 4 inch lift of pea gravel that doesn’t have any fines mixed in with it, and some roads hardened up like concrete with the fines being mixed in with it. Do you have a preference? What is the benefit of using one vs the other? Ive just started running a blade and haven’t maintained a county road yet.
When I lay down new gravel I use 3/4 inch gravel with a plasticity ratting of 7 or 8 and that’s the fines what bind the gravel together it should be a 50/50 blend to much fines and not enough rock you have sloppy material if you have to much rock it stays lose and will washboard and be rough so very important to have the right mixture thanks for the question and thanks for watching!
So when you do your first pass left to right to even up the windrow are you pretty much just cutting at the level of the old layer?
Yes I’m getting all the new gravel up off the old layer equalizing all the material in a windrow then I start laying that windrow down in lifts.
Good day sir - question about your packer. A lot of guys running them up here in Saskatchewan always want to run them off a float circuit? It looks like you run yours of the ripper circuit which has not float. Can you think of why an operator would want the packer to float? Seems like having pressure on it would help with compaction no? I’d appreciate your thoughts, thanks!
Good day to you also and yes a lot of guys do have there packers set up with float I don’t have float on this grader because it wasn’t set up when it was made I have float on my other 140M3 with the packer I like the float for when I get in my hilly area just kick it in float that way your tandems always have weight on them now with this setup I have to manually adjust it not a huge deal just something you have to be mindful of hopefully that explains why lot of guys want float.
How do you know what angle of the blade you have compared to horizontal to get the 4%? I see that there is an angle indicator for the machine on the window but that does not tell you the blade. Very interesting video!
Has a slope meter, or you know you have to much slope when your nut starts to hurt
I really like this channel. Nice work!
Happy that your enjoying the channel thanks for watching and enjoy the content.
@@graderman140m I’m fascinated. Thanks for making it.
2989hr in a 2021 Cat 160m3 AWD 14’ board , shes named Judy and oh boy can she work , I like your control on the sticks as much as I don’t agree with some method … yer a smooth operator smooth operator 🎵🎤
All I can say love those Cats, M series or H types Cats, you can keep those other units in the garage ! ( from Canada )
I like the cat machines but don’t have any problems operating the Deere machine either
Does yout maitance windrow not trap water and pothole your rd?
No it does not because my maintenance windrow is all lose material it might hold back a little water but it generally goes right through the windrow and doesn’t cause any problems.
Do u work with a watercart? Ur working ur gravel to dry? Do u usually lay gravel on a dry base?
I don’t have access to a water truck I’d love to have one but not in the township budget unfortunately so I pretty much work with what the conditions Mother Nature gives me not ideal but I make do with what I got thanks for the question and thanks for watching
This cool helps a lot when laying base down
What do you prefer for a blade modulation setting on your M?
I run my modulation control on normal in the M I think it matches the other machines I operate thanks for the question and thanks for watching!
why do you roll your blade out on your final pass?
The reason I roll my moldboard ahead when I finish is because I want the smooth finish plus I like being able to see whole cutting edge I explain it like trying to butter a slice of bread you don’t lay your knife straight up and down you put it ahead to smooth it on hope that explains why I do that thanks for watching
What’s the advantage stripping gravel in one lane vs stripping down middle?
I prefer do to that you could do it in the middle I just find it easier to take it to the shoulder and start relaying everything.
@@graderman140m I agree, where I work they always want the middle.
What recording device do you run? Its a great video btw
I use a GoPro hero 8 and happy to hear that thanks for watching.
Do you worry about your maintenance window holding in water Or is that something That is ok
No I don’t my maintenance windrow is light and loose material and it generally doesn’t hold back water and if it does hold back a little water the benefits of having it out weighs the negatives.
Does it have a gps?
No GPS on this machine I do everything freehand.
Good stuff! Thanks for the explanation!
Your welcome thanks for watching!
Great job I do the grater too but I’m not as good as your u . Very nice road😊
Nice work! Good to see people with pride! We gotta 140M and nobody likes it but me.. They rather run the H..
Thanks and I totally agree with you on that and that seems to be the case with some operators they either hate it or love it.
Man i wish we had nice material to work with like that all I get to work with is shale. I had a little freak out at work the other day I was off for a week and they up a guy on one of my roads and he leave enough material on the road and was left with a large wind row so instead of bringing it back across the road again he decided to push it in to the ditch and brush the supervisor asked me if there is anything I could do told him to get me a excavator and a few trucks and reditch the roads he didn't like to hear that.
I know I’m definitely spoiled with the material I have to work with and wow I don’t blame you really sucks when someone makes a big mess for you.
Great job drain shoulder carriageway awesome
it is very long and you very lucky man nice gravel in my city the 1 inch the nice gravel and under full boulder is very not happy
Yes I am very lucky to have the good material and plenty of it to work with i know a lot of areas don’t have that luxury just have to do the best job you can with the material you have thanks for watching!
noticed you have a gap between trucks, your belly dump should dump close together!
@@RonBlanchard-b1m I do have a little gap but nothing that I can’t fill when I equalize all the material and lay it down this last year my contractor started using side dumps I prefer them over the belly dumps get more consistent windrow with them thanks for watching!
Hello sir, I watched your video. Very good work sir. I am a grader operator. I have experience. I am from India. I am currently working in Oman. Sir, I would like to work in your company. Can I get a job in your company? Please, sir, reply to my messages. Please, sir. 🙏🏻
Thanks for the compliment unfortunately we are not hiring anyone so can’t help you out there thanks for watching!
@graderman140m Thank you sir for your reply sir your company is not hiring grader operators sir it was my dream to work in your country sir i can't get work in any other company sir i have a request please let me know if possible 🙏🏻
Please disregard the previous question as you answered it already.
Sir, we can hear you talk but can see nothing of your work.
sorry for that i have better camera mount now,
You guys have some weird looking gravel. Almost looks like just dirt. Around here it’s pure limestone.
We have all natural pit run gravel here in my area they run it through a crusher and this is all 3/4 inch gravel here very good material we have limestone on the western half of your state but in my general area this is the material we have thanks for watching
@@graderman140m it looks like it lays down nicely. I live in a small town in Oklahoma and although there’s several limestone quarries around the little quarry where I live has the highest quality of limestone in the area so we’re fortunate there. Thanks for the video. I haven’t got to spend any real time on a motor grader despite logging countless hours grading on dozers and excavators so it’s nice to see some grader action. Hopefully one day I’ll get some seat time in one because I really prefer the more technical finish stuff over the balls to the walls excavating, etc.
Thanks
Your welcome thanks for watching!
Parabéns pelo vídeo top top muito bom mesmo o trabalho meu sonho de 1 dia trabalhar na área de terra plananagen nos 🇺🇸🤝parabéns mesmo 140m muito boa muito produtiva e as manobras são perfeitas mais ágeis para o operador obrigado pelo vídeo top top. Wesley patroleiro Uberaba mg brasil 🇧🇷👍🤝🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏👍
O vídeo ficou bom só faltou ativar a legenda para o idioma do Brasil 🇧🇷
Assume job. That's what I'm running only mine isn't 6wheel drive
Nice
My friend I watch you're grader ticniqiues but I did not try latest grader! only old use? I watch in the Philippines my friend? thank you ?
Thanks for watching! I am glad you are enjoying the videos!
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PLEASE come to Bremer Co. In Iowa and show the grader operator how to do his job as he hasn't a clue how to grade a road. Or the county engineer doesn't have any common sense if he's telling him how to do it..
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Its good
decent blade work but having the cam mounted on the hard had makes this video un bearable to watch. if i didnt know better it looks like alot of duckwalking. try a stationary cam
thanks and thanks for the suggestion I was trying to give everyone a video of what i am seeing from my perspective i honestly have not found a better way to video inside the cab thanks for watching!
@@graderman140m I didn't mind the view... really shows how much your head is on a swivel!
First 2 seconds. oh ya m series.
A new one at that. Mine is a 14 with 7000hrs as of yesterday. We have 2 2021 with them extra controls.
I will hopefully be getting a brand new 150 in the next year or so be putting an order in for one this coming March thanks for the comment and thanks for watching
@@graderman140m Ya I got a few thousand more hours to put on mine before I get a new one but it's still tight except the articulation. Be headed out at 3 to start rolling snow. We got hit hard yesterday. Looks great keep up the good work.
@@graderman140m and not sure if you've ever taken a certified cat class for blades but i highly recommend it. Our county let us go and it was surprisingly informative. Got some cat contacts if you or anyone you know is interested. Think it was like $1500 for 5 days and they came to us. One guy from here in idaho and another from Arizona. 10 out of 10 instructors and information.
would suggest using a cam corder with mag mount and take cam off your head- smooth video then.
Windrow
how the rind rows today?
They are great thanks for watching!