Smokeydog
Elite Member
Have a 1/2 mile gravel driveway that has 330 feet of elevation drop winding thru the East Tennessee woods. Over half is 270 years old wagon trail. Worn and places much like a creek bed. So rough at first no one would spread gravel. Hauled by pickup, then one ton 4x4, 5 ton single axle now mostly tandem axle. Wore out grader blades. Used box blades. Now have the contours and ditching about right. Bought Everything Attachments land leveler two years ago. Managing fines and maintaining proper contour is so important to driveway health. We are having record breaking rainfall. 20” this year and 5” yesterday on saturated ground. This would have caused major rutting but the driveway is holding nicely. Been 10 years since new gravel was brought. The land leveler helps reclaim past gravel, distribute fines with minimal disturbance of road bed and builds a lasting base. Improves road bed each time. Takes only 20 minutes to grade the entire driveway. Buying less gravel, taking less time and having a better finished product makes me look smarter than actually I am. Easy to use. Good engineering does most of the thinking for you. Few tools pay for themselves this quickly. Got the model with the scarifiers. Within minutes broke two points off and haven’t used them since. Don’t need them for driveway work but might be handy for yard work. Overall one of best driveway tools I have used. Haven’t used either the grader blade or box blade since.