*** VOTED*** Best Drone Pilot / Grader Operator in North America !!!! Wow, Frank That is working beautifully...as usual another well thought out and very well built project... I cant wait to see your next build... LOL
As a grader operator myself, mate you’re living my dream, I would love to build one too You’ve done an absolute hell of a job, nothing short of bloody amazing. Always amazed at the skill and determination of people who can fabricate such machines. Truly an art.
As a guy who ran a motor grader for many years, this really impressed me. Very neet little machine. I did watch most of the dozer build videos. I used to run all that equipment in a 35 yr span. Great job !!
Just operating a motor grader is a challenge. To do that and fly a drone at the same time is remarkable. Enjoyed seeing the motor grader operate. Thank you
I can't say I was doing either task properly. The drone sequences are very short as I was running it into the trees, etc. between short segments. It was fun, though. The drone is a very simple one, Mavic 2SE.
A land plane behind your tractor should help bring the gravel back to the surface and may save some money on new gravel. But then again land planes are expensive too. LOVE to motor grader!!!!!!
A land plane is a 3 point implement that fits on the rear of a tractor. It has two cutting edges but no moldboard, the material will be cut the the cutting edges and flow over the blades. Google land plane for tractor. If you have gravel that has mashed down into the dirt, it will bring it back to the surface. You may have to make several passes if it is hard packed. But this tiny motor grader is way cool, it love it, and this guy it a master in the shop for making this thing.
frank that mini - motor grader is just the most fantastic thing i have ever seen, it does every thing the full size ones do, it is just to cool ( AND IT WORKS) . frank you are a special man, your talent for making things is truly unbelievable , i can only dream of doing things like you do. you are meticulous with every thing you do. i bet if caterpillar built small machines like you did they would sell a lot of them.
You collection of cub cadet equipment is impressive, especially the fact you built the pieces yourself! Waiting on a power roller to finish off the construction equipment.
Sweet. As a 48 year old who does earthmoving and grew up doing it since birth under a father who was in the business.....I'm impressed. Small slices and fine scrapes. Keeping the gravel "in" the road and not out in the ditch. Good job man! Excellent craftsmanship. The trailer hitch pivot ball in the front is genius. Someone could nitpick details from their anonymous computer while they haven't built anything as awesome as this. This will suit your needs and it is heavy duty enough for your purpose. I hope the younger generation learns to have this curiosity and innovation. Next?? A smooth drum vibratory compactor to follow up after your grade your gravel roads.
Nice road grader. That is a neat tool to have. I could use one of those. Never owned a cub cadet. Been in the garden tractor hobby for about 20 years. I have 4 fords, 4 Massey Fergusons, 2 Cases and a John Deere. And many attachments. Great video. Thanks. Hope to see one of the dozer pushing the gravel. Have a great day.
You have done a masterful job at designing and manufacturing a perfect example of something homemade, I suspect some bozo will steal the idea. Truly was worth all your hard work built such a great machine. I like Cub Cadet as well, it goes back to my grandfather who liked them as well and used them for everything, hauling, cutting, plowing, you name it we did it together. Be well.
I love ur toys. I stand 3'10. So finding usable tractors that fits me is hard. I cut a lot of lawns with hydrostatic drivers. My buddy as two he's not using. Thanks for the new idea. I'll be watching for ur next build.
Great job! Your neighbors must love you. Seems like there would be a market for an affordable compact grader. Got to love the old cubs. I have 1994 cub 2145, but this was after MTD took them over. It's still a pretty durable machine with lots of metal and a horizontal shaft Kohler engine and is far better than the Cub Cadet lawn tractors they make today.
Not all MTD stuff is terrible. 5 years ago I picked up an '02 YardMachine 21hp V-twin with a 46" deck for free off of Craigslist. Runs and works just fine. Paint is a little faded, but the only rust is just a bit on the edge of the deck, and it's quite minor. It's solis, and really clean as far as rust goes. Doesn't look half bad after it rains, either 😂.. All I've got into it during those 5 years are 4 deck belts (3 because of a disconnected tension spring until I found the problem), two drive belts, one new set of blades, a new vacuum hose for the fuel pump, a new inline fuel filter, and just last week a new ball joint ($8 on the shelf at Tractor Supply for an open package missing one of the pair). Just about $150 all said and done. Not counting a new battery every couple years, of course. Gotta say, I would easily *pay* for another MTD of the same generation if I was looking for another one. But this thing, so far, has done everything I've asked of it without putting up much fight about any of it. Hell, even the headlights still work. 😊
frank that is so perfect for what you are doing. some one with a long gravel drive way that needs work now and then. it does a professional job that wold cost thousands to have done.
after years of operating graders, I can see the problems with figuring out the geometry of building one. that is just plain Cool and you did a very good job building it, I'm very impressed.
Really nice little machine. I probably would have thought that I should put a slightly bigger motor on it. But it looks like that twelve horse does just fine.
I’ve seen some of your other videos of your crawler build and using your grader. Love them all, and your grader. It looks like it works really well. If you were in my area, I’d let you maintain my driveway for free. 😂😂😂😂😂
Nice job on the grader. I rin one at work and we have an end plate on the right side to hold the material in, so it just just doesn't keep getting wider.
Need blade extensions and your crown in the road is where you want to start your down pressure on the blade to get the crown lose so when you get more gravel you can build a new crown spray paint your bad areas or put a stake where your water is collecting if it wet all the time or drys up quick . I would get a bed frame to drag behind the gator or some scar teeth off a old plow . Nice machine looks great the fluid pressure on the blade is what cuts in the gravel .
Nice job on the road. I'm thinking a Cub Cadet roller compactor (with a front roller and rear tires design) would have been nice for packing the road after all this work. Or maybe a Cub Cadet skid steer could be helpful for you. Just some ideas for your Cub Cadet heavy equipment tools you have. 🙂
@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 yeah, trying to think how you would put it together though is a big question. how big do you want the roller? stacked solid rubber tires, or a steel pipe? passive or vibratory? so many design decisions to make. it would be way cool to see
A scarifier on the front would maybe a welcome addition? Both for loosening the gravel and added weight? The moldboard frame pivot is an ingenious design. I'm impressed. With hydraulic drive, 12 HP should be plenty. Best regards from Indiana.
Amazing build! Love the blade locking pin, such a clever way to keep the circle rotated to where you want without worm drives. Also the tow ball and hitch for the drawbar, very good use of off-the-shelf components! I'm wondering if you could have done something similar with the lower mounting brackets for the lift cylinders - but your upper and lower trunnions seem to do the job very nicely! 3:58 Are the two axles rigid mounted to the frame? I see one wheel speeding up when it loses ground contact. It seems to be pushing well though, maybe just a smidgen of extra wheelspin around 17:40 ?
The lower mount brackets for the cylinders are all on bearings so they rotate as needed. There are some build videos on the channel that show construction in some detail. The axles are solid mounted. I need to weld the spider on at least one axle so I don't lose traction with the open differentials. Chains would help, too.
@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 oh yes, I saw that they rotate, sorry, I meant you could have used the tow ball solution there as well maybe, to reduce fabrication effort. But it works great as it is. Drivetrain sounds not easy, fingers crossed. I'm always happy to chat about grader design, if you get stuck :)
@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 Totally understood! I have built three different "model" graders using three different main modes of manufacturing. Fabricating a full size one like you achieved would be a totally different beast, so you have my utmost respect for that!
Love the grader Frank it's worked out amazing love all the big boy toys that actually work well👍🏻 I'd love to see a loader with a backhoe I think you would make it right or a roller ether one I'm sure you could do well
Hey great video….. If it has more power than I do with a shovel in my hand then I call that success… would love to see a video of the little bull dozer
Really nice little grader, good power also with so "tiny" engine. I would ad somekind rakeblade back of it, fully mechanical, just to make it better for taking out that edge growin weeds out with main blade, that rakeblade opposite angle as main blade, to push other than gravel back to ditch in lower side of road. Here in Finland gravelroads are some 3-7 % angle for water going out from road. And yeah you really need some gravel to it, you took some sand up from it. I think you need 10 to 15 cm gravel like 0 to 16mm to it, from 0 because it bind it, to almost solid, if rammed properly. I am not a pro for building roads, but learned a lot taking care of my own.
We call that "Crusher Run" which is 17mm down to dust, and it compacts very well. Around here with sandy soil, they mix in 50% of #57 stone, or the 12-17mm sizes, so it doesn't sink into the sand as quickly.
As a member of the International Harvester Collectors Club Chapter #20 Ontario (who now lives in Saskatchewan), and someone who grew up on my grandfathers 108 cadet. I love these videos. I’ve seen a lot of cadet creations over the years and I think you have done a fantastic job! If you’re looking to build something else in the future could I suggest a cadet Mini excavator? Or perhaps somethings to haul your dozer, grader, forklift or other toys? Looking forward to what you come up with next!!
You are spot on. There is one drain pipe under the road about mid way. Uphill ditch is totally filled in. Needs to be cleaned out. I could do it with my Kubota backhoe, but it's a pain to move a backhoe down a long trench.
Looks like the next build could be a vibratory roller. Build the biggest weighted roller that 12 hp will push and vibrate for the front, then shorten a hydro tractor as much as you can (move the engine back so it couples directly with the transaxle). Put your tower with factory speed control on top of the transaxle and link them together with the same articulating steering setup as the dump truck. It would be a great project because you already engineered a large part of it and the back half wouldn't take much figuring. You could put quite a bit of time into the design of a vibratory roller, or even repurpose & modify the assembly from a surplus tow behind unit, trench compactor, etc.
Your craftsman ship is very impressive! I am currently swapping a Perkins 402d-05 2 cylinder diesel into a cub cadet 129. Then I’m going to build a loader for it, and give it a full restoration
Amazing build!! How does the rear drive work? Fixed axles and locking drive between the two? Or does one axle always spin first when you're going over bumps?
two fixed mount axles with open differentials, each with a hydrostatic transmission, driven by a common driveshaft. Low pressure tires (3-5 psi) ensure ground contact in most situations. There are videos on the channel showing how it was done.
It actually slopes from one side to the other but the trees lining it on one side are in the way of me doing a good job of of managing drainage. Some pooling does occur eventually where the tracks are compressed over time.
Now that you've used it for a few years, is there anything that you'd do different if you were to build it again? Or anything you'd add? I would think another hydraulic spool with a set of pioneer fittings on the back would be nice to then build and attach a removable roller packer the lifts and lowers with 2 small cylinders.
I need to change the blade height controls to work the opposite of the way they work now, easy to swap connections, so not really a regret, just a mistake I should have fixed by now. (distracted by other projects). I'd like to add a scarifier or ripper. If I were to do as you suggest (and it's been a thought) I'd add a 3 pt hitch to the rear of the machine. That way I can add different attachments. A scarifier/ripper could be one of them. Use a hydraulic top link.
Does nice work but as I’m sure you already know once you get a nice smooth road bed you need a smooth drum vibrating roller packer to evenly pack the road bed otherwise the areas where tires do not travel does not get properly packed and definitely not evenly. I guess you could build one easy enough if you search online and find an old farm roller that’s broken down but has a good drum you could cut it down and use it to make a packer. The hardest part would be designing the vibrator. The drive and steering would be easy since those are articulated and utilize hydraulic cylinders to turn. If you could figure out how to spin a large offset weight inside the drum with hydrolics.
Just operating a road grader is a feat in itself let alone building one ! Very impressive.
Wow Club Cadet should be jealous of your work. And attention to detail. 😊
You should build a skid steer next
Yea a maybe a cub cadet skid steer😂😂
When he first got into grader I thought it was a cub cadet bobcat
*** VOTED*** Best Drone Pilot / Grader Operator in North America !!!! Wow, Frank That is working beautifully...as usual another well thought out and very well built project... I cant wait to see your next build... LOL
As a grader operator myself, mate you’re living my dream, I would love to build one too
You’ve done an absolute hell of a job, nothing short of bloody amazing.
Always amazed at the skill and determination of people who can fabricate such machines. Truly an art.
Thank you! Just a grown up playing with adult Legos...
As a guy who ran a motor grader for many years, this really impressed me. Very neet little machine. I did watch most of the dozer build videos. I used to run all that equipment in a 35 yr span. Great job !!
Just operating a motor grader is a challenge. To do that and fly a drone at the same time is remarkable. Enjoyed seeing the motor grader operate.
Thank you
I can't say I was doing either task properly. The drone sequences are very short as I was running it into the trees, etc. between short segments. It was fun, though. The drone is a very simple one, Mavic 2SE.
I think the grader might be my favourite build it, it’s actually impressively functional
That is one neat piece of equipment. The road grader was one of my childhood dream machines!
A land plane behind your tractor should help bring the gravel back to the surface and may save some money on new gravel. But then again land planes are expensive too. LOVE to motor grader!!!!!!
I have to ask. Why on earth would he pull a land plane behind...... A LAND PLANE?!
@ do you know what a land plane is?
A land plane is a 3 point implement that fits on the rear of a tractor. It has two cutting edges but no moldboard, the material will be cut the the cutting edges and flow over the blades. Google land plane for tractor. If you have gravel that has mashed down into the dirt, it will bring it back to the surface. You may have to make several passes if it is hard packed. But this tiny motor grader is way cool, it love it, and this guy it a master in the shop for making this thing.
frank that mini - motor grader is just the most fantastic thing i have ever seen, it does every thing the full size ones do, it is just to cool ( AND IT WORKS) . frank you are a special man, your talent for making things is truly unbelievable , i can only dream of doing things like you do. you are meticulous with every thing you do. i bet if caterpillar built small machines like you did they would sell a lot of them.
Thank you, Wayne, but you give me more credit than I deserve. I'm just a guy who never outgrew my childhood erector set. Playing around in the shop.
I would if the things weren't so expensive
Your neighbors must love you. Fantastic work. 👍
Amazing machine. You seem to have plenty of free time on your hands and have used that time wonderfully.
Retirement has it's benefits...
Works real well and it's nice seeing it in operation.
You collection of cub cadet equipment is impressive, especially the fact you built the pieces yourself!
Waiting on a power roller to finish off the construction equipment.
Sweet. As a 48 year old who does earthmoving and grew up doing it since birth under a father who was in the business.....I'm impressed. Small slices and fine scrapes. Keeping the gravel "in" the road and not out in the ditch. Good job man! Excellent craftsmanship. The trailer hitch pivot ball in the front is genius. Someone could nitpick details from their anonymous computer while they haven't built anything as awesome as this. This will suit your needs and it is heavy duty enough for your purpose. I hope the younger generation learns to have this curiosity and innovation. Next?? A smooth drum vibratory compactor to follow up after your grade your gravel roads.
but did he carry a windrow?
Fab Master Frank is the best fabricator on TH-cam! I love his stuff.
Oh Great, I stumbled onto this channel, now I'm going to have to start collecting Cub Cadet tractors!
Welcome to the club!
Frank, What skill you have! you can drive one handed and fly the drone at the same time! Great work!
Doing neither job competently. LOL.
Nice road grader. That is a neat tool to have. I could use one of those.
Never owned a cub cadet. Been in the garden tractor hobby for about 20 years. I have 4 fords, 4 Massey Fergusons, 2 Cases and a John Deere. And many attachments.
Great video. Thanks.
Hope to see one of the dozer pushing the gravel.
Have a great day.
Dozer video coming soon...
What a sweet little machine. I'm sure your neighbors appreciate the road maintenance.
Nice to see you put your equipment to work
Genius, not only is it cool sitting still but functional, ranks up there with the forklift. Enjoy watching the builds.
That is some fine garage engineering. And it works great. Excellent.
Love it, I have a #12 CAT I do the same thing with, keeping roads up on the farm.
The trailer hitch for the traction frame pivot is pure genius
You have done a masterful job at designing and manufacturing a perfect example of something homemade, I suspect some bozo will steal the idea. Truly was worth all your hard work built such a great machine. I like Cub Cadet as well, it goes back to my grandfather who liked them as well and used them for everything, hauling, cutting, plowing, you name it we did it together. Be well.
Nice grader looks & works great. I could call you a Genius, but I don't want to give you the big head! Great job !!!👍🚜
I love ur toys. I stand 3'10. So finding usable tractors that fits me is hard. I cut a lot of lawns with hydrostatic drivers. My buddy as two he's not using. Thanks for the new idea. I'll be watching for ur next build.
Sure you did a great job take pride in what you've done most people could not have done that
Great job! Your neighbors must love you. Seems like there would be a market for an affordable compact grader. Got to love the old cubs. I have 1994 cub 2145, but this was after MTD took them over. It's still a pretty durable machine with lots of metal and a horizontal shaft Kohler engine and is far better than the Cub Cadet lawn tractors they make today.
Not all MTD stuff is terrible. 5 years ago I picked up an '02 YardMachine 21hp V-twin with a 46" deck for free off of Craigslist. Runs and works just fine. Paint is a little faded, but the only rust is just a bit on the edge of the deck, and it's quite minor. It's solis, and really clean as far as rust goes. Doesn't look half bad after it rains, either 😂.. All I've got into it during those 5 years are 4 deck belts (3 because of a disconnected tension spring until I found the problem), two drive belts, one new set of blades, a new vacuum hose for the fuel pump, a new inline fuel filter, and just last week a new ball joint ($8 on the shelf at Tractor Supply for an open package missing one of the pair). Just about $150 all said and done. Not counting a new battery every couple years, of course. Gotta say, I would easily *pay* for another MTD of the same generation if I was looking for another one. But this thing, so far, has done everything I've asked of it without putting up much fight about any of it. Hell, even the headlights still work. 😊
I am extremely impressed. The results are excellent.
Well done, Frank. Well done.👍👏
Man, you build some neat stuff...love those IH Cub Cadets!
I dont care what anyone says, you are one badass dude.
I remember finding the 1st drive of this amazing machine and I was very envious still and and now I see u made a dozer too
Great seeing the grader actually putting in a day's work.
This guy is really talented and creative !!! 👍👍
frank that is so perfect for what you are doing. some one with a long gravel drive way that needs work now and then. it does a professional job that wold cost thousands to have done.
If they do not make one ....build your own ....very talented man ...much respect.👏👏
after years of operating graders, I can see the problems with figuring out the geometry of building one. that is just plain Cool and you did a very good job building it, I'm very impressed.
Really nice little machine. I probably would have thought that I should put a slightly bigger motor on it. But it looks like that twelve horse does just fine.
I’ve seen some of your other videos of your crawler build and using your grader. Love them all, and your grader. It looks like it works really well. If you were in my area, I’d let you maintain my driveway for free. 😂😂😂😂😂
The motor grader is still my favorite one of your “toys”. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
This is by far the coolest video. Thank you
Awesome machine!! From an old grader operator however it needs Wheel Lean on the front wheels.
Nice job on the grader. I rin one at work and we have an end plate on the right side to hold the material in, so it just just doesn't keep getting wider.
Bolts on and off 4 bolts
Need blade extensions and your crown in the road is where you want to start your down pressure on the blade to get the
crown lose so when you get more gravel you can build a new crown spray paint your bad areas or put a stake where your water is collecting if it wet all the time or drys up quick . I would get a bed frame to drag behind the gator or some scar teeth off a old plow . Nice machine looks great the fluid pressure on the blade is what cuts in the gravel .
You are a genius! Thanks for the inspiration!
Nice job on the road. I'm thinking a Cub Cadet roller compactor (with a front roller and rear tires design) would have been nice for packing the road after all this work. Or maybe a Cub Cadet skid steer could be helpful for you. Just some ideas for your Cub Cadet heavy equipment tools you have. 🙂
That would be cool
Was thinking the same thing.
@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 yeah, trying to think how you would put it together though is a big question. how big do you want the roller? stacked solid rubber tires, or a steel pipe? passive or vibratory? so many design decisions to make. it would be way cool to see
Nice work on the grader and the road. Thanks for sharing.
Great jobs Frank, designing, building, operating, and all the while flying the drone!
Pretty cool! I need to borrow that for my driveway!
Very Very impressive, awesome build!
A scarifier on the front would maybe a welcome addition? Both for loosening the gravel and added weight? The moldboard frame pivot is an ingenious design. I'm impressed. With hydraulic drive, 12 HP should be plenty.
Best regards from Indiana.
Definitely need a scarifier. Was thinking between blade and front wheels? A couple weeks will be another video on how I break up the road bed.
Impressive build! Nice video 👍
Marvellous, the only thing missing are some guys in Hi-viz leaning on some shovels. Also, you need some flashing beacons! Good job.
I would call that part of the frame the backbone, just like a motorcycle
Thats awesome to see it actually work.
That’s an awesome little machine.
Thing looks like it dose a fine job. 👍 👌
Amazing build!
Love the blade locking pin, such a clever way to keep the circle rotated to where you want without worm drives.
Also the tow ball and hitch for the drawbar, very good use of off-the-shelf components! I'm wondering if you could have done something similar with the lower mounting brackets for the lift cylinders - but your upper and lower trunnions seem to do the job very nicely!
3:58 Are the two axles rigid mounted to the frame? I see one wheel speeding up when it loses ground contact. It seems to be pushing well though, maybe just a smidgen of extra wheelspin around 17:40 ?
The lower mount brackets for the cylinders are all on bearings so they rotate as needed. There are some build videos on the channel that show construction in some detail. The axles are solid mounted. I need to weld the spider on at least one axle so I don't lose traction with the open differentials. Chains would help, too.
@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 oh yes, I saw that they rotate, sorry, I meant you could have used the tow ball solution there as well maybe, to reduce fabrication effort. But it works great as it is.
Drivetrain sounds not easy, fingers crossed. I'm always happy to chat about grader design, if you get stuck :)
Appreciate the comments, I'm certainly no expert. Obviously lots of compromises in favor of simplicity and basic functionality.
@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 Totally understood! I have built three different "model" graders using three different main modes of manufacturing. Fabricating a full size one like you achieved would be a totally different beast, so you have my utmost respect for that!
Love the grader Frank it's worked out amazing love all the big boy toys that actually work well👍🏻 I'd love to see a loader with a backhoe I think you would make it right or a roller ether one I'm sure you could do well
You sir are a genius. So cool. You have my SUB
Friggin cool man! Now I want one ..
Impressive job perfect size machine !
Hey great video…..
If it has more power than I do with a shovel in my hand then I call that success… would love to see a video of the little bull dozer
Now you need a loader and a roller 😊
Nice work.really looks great.
Really nice little grader, good power also with so "tiny" engine. I would ad somekind rakeblade back of it, fully mechanical, just to make it better for taking out that edge growin weeds out with main blade, that rakeblade opposite angle as main blade, to push other than gravel back to ditch in lower side of road. Here in Finland gravelroads are some 3-7 % angle for water going out from road.
And yeah you really need some gravel to it, you took some sand up from it. I think you need 10 to 15 cm gravel like 0 to 16mm to it, from 0 because it bind it, to almost solid, if rammed properly.
I am not a pro for building roads, but learned a lot taking care of my own.
We call that "Crusher Run" which is 17mm down to dust, and it compacts very well. Around here with sandy soil, they mix in 50% of #57 stone, or the 12-17mm sizes, so it doesn't sink into the sand as quickly.
As a member of the International Harvester Collectors Club Chapter #20 Ontario (who now lives in Saskatchewan), and someone who grew up on my grandfathers 108 cadet. I love these videos. I’ve seen a lot of cadet creations over the years and I think you have done a fantastic job! If you’re looking to build something else in the future could I suggest a cadet Mini excavator? Or perhaps somethings to haul your dozer, grader, forklift or other toys? Looking forward to what you come up with next!!
I like the trailer hitch.
Need to make a Cub Cadet excavator next to get some proper ditches on that road.. nicely done
You are spot on. There is one drain pipe under the road about mid way. Uphill ditch is totally filled in. Needs to be cleaned out. I could do it with my Kubota backhoe, but it's a pain to move a backhoe down a long trench.
Great video and great music!
Looks like the next build could be a vibratory roller. Build the biggest weighted roller that 12 hp will push and vibrate for the front, then shorten a hydro tractor as much as you can (move the engine back so it couples directly with the transaxle). Put your tower with factory speed control on top of the transaxle and link them together with the same articulating steering setup as the dump truck.
It would be a great project because you already engineered a large part of it and the back half wouldn't take much figuring. You could put quite a bit of time into the design of a vibratory roller, or even repurpose & modify the assembly from a surplus tow behind unit, trench compactor, etc.
Your craftsman ship is very impressive!
I am currently swapping a Perkins 402d-05 2 cylinder diesel into a cub cadet 129.
Then I’m going to build a loader for it, and give it a full restoration
Has All the functions except front wheel tilt, and blade tilt.
Would love to operate it . One of my favorite pieces of iron to run.
It's not articulated either, as some are. Compromises, compromises...
Nice job Frank I love the greater
Nice work!
Sure likes his Cub Cadets!!! So do I.
That thing is awesome!
You need to be designing space craft to go to mars. To build this thing from scratch is impressive.
Amazing build!! How does the rear drive work? Fixed axles and locking drive between the two? Or does one axle always spin first when you're going over bumps?
two fixed mount axles with open differentials, each with a hydrostatic transmission, driven by a common driveshaft. Low pressure tires (3-5 psi) ensure ground contact in most situations. There are videos on the channel showing how it was done.
@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 Cool! Thank you.
Great job!
How much crown in your driveway, it looks pretty flat to me. How good?does water drain off,
Or does it puddle?
Great video!
It actually slopes from one side to the other but the trees lining it on one side are in the way of me doing a good job of of managing drainage. Some pooling does occur eventually where the tracks are compressed over time.
EXELENT BUILD. A+
Now that you've used it for a few years, is there anything that you'd do different if you were to build it again? Or anything you'd add? I would think another hydraulic spool with a set of pioneer fittings on the back would be nice to then build and attach a removable roller packer the lifts and lowers with 2 small cylinders.
I need to change the blade height controls to work the opposite of the way they work now, easy to swap connections, so not really a regret, just a mistake I should have fixed by now. (distracted by other projects). I'd like to add a scarifier or ripper. If I were to do as you suggest (and it's been a thought) I'd add a 3 pt hitch to the rear of the machine. That way I can add different attachments. A scarifier/ripper could be one of them. Use a hydraulic top link.
That's just awesome!
Works great now I need one 😊
Awesome for sharing thank you
americans are fine builders. that comes from it when you have to do all the work yourself
Great machine sorry if I missed it but is it 4WD?
Yes, it is
You should build a roller with a steel drum on the front and drive wheels on the back.
Does nice work but as I’m sure you already know once you get a nice smooth road bed you need a smooth drum vibrating roller packer to evenly pack the road bed otherwise the areas where tires do not travel does not get properly packed and definitely not evenly. I guess you could build one easy enough if you search online and find an old farm roller that’s broken down but has a good drum you could cut it down and use it to make a packer. The hardest part would be designing the vibrator. The drive and steering would be easy since those are articulated and utilize hydraulic cylinders to turn. If you could figure out how to spin a large offset weight inside the drum with hydrolics.
Front tyres on backwards?
Can you make more of these maybe with a newer tractor ?
How can I get one ?
Coolest thing ever!!!!!
What nice toys
Good job
Hi Frank, about how many feet of driveway do you maintain?
About 1/3 mile.
The front tires are mounted backwards