Building our land leveler

[BMan2005]

Pretty much have my plan together in my head & going to pick up supplies tomorrow. Will be using mostly metal out of a friend's recycling yard & some new things I'll be purchasing. I'm sure it won't be as nice as some you can purchase, but for the diy that wants something just serviceable I figured you would like me sharing the build. I plan to over build a little bit, and heavy.

We need it to help put a final smooth level on land we had cleared this past year & smooth our 1500' drive (soon to be double) so we kinda needed one.

Build pictures to come

 

[airbiscuit]

Not quite sure what your design will be, but if you are going to use it for a drive, it would be nice to make it adjustable for tilt, so you can build and maintain a crown to the road.

 

[BMan2005]

Just straight blades. I have a Landpride 4096 to keep a crown on the road. From all the reading I've done most everyone who has them with angle says they honestly don't move much dirt to the center for a crown. Have you had a different experience?

It'll be 8' wide x 6' long btw

 

[joeu235]

The only I know of to make a crown with a land plane is to adjust one lower link on the 3 point to make the crown side higher.

 

[BMan2005]

The only I know of to make a crown with a land plane is to adjust one lower link on the 3 point to make the crown side higher.

Maybe that's what airbuscuit meant, having some tilt adjustment in the blades. I automatically took it as angle, which still may because I haven't ever ran one either way. But I could definitely see tilt doing it.

 

[airbiscuit]

Are you building something like this?

 

[airbiscuit]

Or a grader/scraper

 

[BMan2005]

2nd video maybe I should have wrote land plane? I know it goes by a few names, kinda confusing. The Twin blade set up.

Also I was thinking to set up the blades to cut 1.5" below the skids on it, sound about right?

 

[airbiscuit]

Here is a pretty good thread.

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/287452-land-plain-blade-height-help.html

 

[BMan2005]

Material list complete. Final build will be 8' wide x 6' Long.

2- 12" I beams cut 6' long for side's
1- 6x4x 3/8 tubing for front cross member
1- 4x4x 5/16" tubing for rear cross member
6- 2x3x 1/2" pieces of angle iron for cutting edge to me mounted to and various brackets.
2- 8' double sided 1/2" cutting edges
4- packs of bolts for cutting edge.

I have some 2x2" & 2.5x2.5" square tubing laying around that will be used to build the 3pt & top link mount/brace as well.