Best Attachment fer road maintenance

[logan97]

what would be the best attachment to maintain 1 mile of gravel rd.

for a Kubota B7800 30 hp

 

[Cat_Driver]

There are many here's one:

DURA-GRADER spreader/grader

Also :

Road Boss Grader | How It Works

And:

ATI Corporation - Level Best Laser Grading System

 

[Mark_in_NH]

The above mentioned items will all do a great job but to buy anyone of them you had better have deep pockets, especially a laser guided unit.
If you have normal pockets like most of us. A box blade and or a Landscape rake will do a very nice job.

 

[logan97]

should have included more info.

Kubota B7800 30 HP

 

[JJT]

what would be the best attachment to maintain 1 mile of gravel rd.

If I could only have 1 implement for the job - I'd get the widest box scraper I could handle. This allows you to rip and move material, unlike a rake that really is just for finish work. If you have pot holes, they'll need to be ripped out with the scarifiers. With the box scraper you will not windrow off the top material.

 

[Mark_in_NH]

A landscape will indeed remove pot holes, I do it every spring on over a mile of dirt roads. But the road materials has to be loose enough for the tines to cut into.
I certainly agree that a box blade w/ scarifiers would be a much better tool to break up and grade the roads surface and cut a crown. The landscape would do a very nice job for final smoothing and grading, although I am sure that the box blade would do just as well at this.
Unfortunatly I only have the rake. I would very much like to try a boxblade on the roads this spring just to see how it would work in comparison to the rake.

 

[dsgsr]

I do gravel road maintenance among other things with my tractor for a business and have more than one tool, but if I only could have one tool, it would be a Box blade with Scarifiers. Pot holes won't go away unless the hard base underneath is broken up and made as lose as the surrounding material.

David

 

[brandoro]

I'm pleased with the job my LandPride grader/scraper does on my lane. The
B3030 with turfs pulls it in 2wd most of the time. I have actually never needed to use the rippers.

 

[Soundguy]

a angle blade if you could only have one thing.. but a box blade would make a good addition/

soundguy

 

[radman1]

a angle blade if you could only have one thing.. but a box blade would make a good addition/

soundguy

That would also be my order of attachments. The angle blade gives the ability to move gravel/rock back and forth over the road, can level and fill in holes well. Look at road maintainers, angle blade and some will also have a drag. If you have a HD angle blade and don't want it to cut in too deeply, just turn the blade around backwards and does nice job of smoothing the surface.