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!!!!!!
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.
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.
*** 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 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 !!
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.
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 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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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
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. 😂😂😂😂😂
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
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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
That is one neat piece of equipment. The road grader was one of my childhood dream machines!
Wow Club Cadet should be jealous of your work. And attention to detail. 😊
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!!!!!!
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.
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...
*** 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 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 !!
Genius, not only is it cool sitting still but functional, ranks up there with the forklift. Enjoy watching the builds.
Amazing machine. You seem to have plenty of free time on your hands and have used that time wonderfully.
Retirement has it's benefits...
What a sweet little machine. I'm sure your neighbors appreciate the road maintenance.
I think the grader might be my favourite build it, it’s actually impressively functional
Marvellous, the only thing missing are some guys in Hi-viz leaning on some shovels. Also, you need some flashing beacons! Good job.
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.
Man, you build some neat stuff...love those IH Cub Cadets!
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.
The trailer hitch for the traction frame pivot is pure genius
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
Love it, I have a #12 CAT I do the same thing with, keeping roads up on the farm.
Nice work on the grader and the road. Thanks for sharing.
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.
Your neighbors must love you. Fantastic work. 👍
Works real well and it's nice seeing it in operation.
Very Very impressive, awesome build!
I am extremely impressed. The results are excellent.
Well done, Frank. Well done.👍👏
This guy is really talented and creative !!! 👍👍
Impressive build! Nice video 👍
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 .
Great jobs Frank, designing, building, operating, and all the while flying the drone!
That is some fine garage engineering. And it works great. Excellent.
This is by far the coolest video. Thank you
Nice to see you put your equipment to work
Fab Master Frank is the best fabricator on TH-cam! I love his stuff.
Nice work.really looks great.
Great seeing the grader actually putting in a day's work.
You are a genius! Thanks for the inspiration!
Impressive job perfect size machine !
Awesome machine!! From an old grader operator however it needs Wheel Lean on the front wheels.
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?
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.
That’s an awesome little machine.
Thats awesome to see it actually work.
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...
I would call that part of the frame the backbone, just like a motorcycle
If they do not make one ....build your own ....very talented man ...much respect.👏👏
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
Friggin cool man! Now I want one ..
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. 😊
Nice grader looks & works great. I could call you a Genius, but I don't want to give you the big head! Great job !!!👍🚜
Now you need a loader and a roller 😊
You sir are a genius. So cool. You have my SUB
Nice work!
That thing is awesome!
Great video and great music!
Thing looks like it dose a fine 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.
Pretty cool! I need to borrow that for my driveway!
Oh Great, I stumbled onto this channel, now I'm going to have to start collecting Cub Cadet tractors!
Welcome to the club!
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.
The motor grader is still my favorite one of your “toys”. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Sure you did a great job take pride in what you've done most people could not have done that
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
That's just awesome!
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.
EXELENT BUILD. A+
Works great now I need one 😊
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
I like the trailer hitch.
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 Frank I love the greater
Awesome for sharing thank you
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
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
I dont care what anyone says, you are one badass dude.
americans are fine builders. that comes from it when you have to do all the work yourself
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.
Amazing!!!
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.
Coolest thing ever!!!!!
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
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!!
Sure likes his Cub Cadets!!! So do I.
Good job
works 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.
Nice job
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...
Now that is cool.
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.
Awesome.
What nice toys
very cool
You need to be designing space craft to go to mars. To build this thing from scratch is impressive.
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.
You should build a roller with a steel drum on the front and drive wheels on the back.
Ficou show
👍👍👍
Hey frank you need to put a couple of amber rotating lights on so people will know road work being done use caution ⚠
That's a great idea! I like it!
I would love to be your neighbor!