Homemade Road Grader

Mochaman · Jul 12, 2011

I've hung around here for a long time. I visit every once in awhile and I thought I would post some of our road grader build pictures. We have been using it to maintain a 1/4 mile long roadway for the last couple of years and I really like it. It is a scrap pile build so you may see the John Deere rotary hoe parts and the Allis Chalmers plow parts... ha, some paddle wheel scrap as well. Anyway here are some build photos.

lhfarm · Jul 13, 2011

Welcome to TBN! Very impressive job. I look forward to seeing what else you've built. I also hope you will tell us a little more about yourself.

k0ua · Jul 13, 2011

You could build and sell those all day. What a beautiful build project.

James K0UA

DJ54 · Jul 13, 2011

Sweet..!! A man after my own heart, with the scrap pile build..!! What a lot of people see as "junk", is pieces/parts for a project such as this...

Don't Ya' love it when someone asks "Where did you get that..??" And you point towards the shop... I guess I inheireted from my pappy, the "gift" to see, just not what it is, but what it can be. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

teg · Jul 13, 2011

One heck of a first post!!! Nice Job :thumbsup: Welcome to TBN...

Jason14j · Jul 13, 2011

Nice work!

PapaPerk · Jul 13, 2011

Very nice!

mmurphy · Jul 13, 2011

Welcome to TBN.
Nice build, and awesome welds.

hawkeye08 · Jul 13, 2011

Very nice, welcome to the forum!

Gordon Gould · Jul 13, 2011

You have built yourself a very nice grader :thumbsup:
Welcome to TBN.

BoFuller · Jul 13, 2011

Awesome job! and Welcome. :thumbsup:

kebo · Jul 13, 2011

Great job, and excellent craftsmanship!! I'm sure it works great to top it all off. Thanks for sharing.

Cacinok · Jul 13, 2011

Welcome to the forum. Nice build.

Mochaman · Jul 13, 2011

Thanks very much for the welcome!

I like coming on here and seeing what others have built and what works. My favorite implement here lately believe it or not is an ugly old slip/pond scoop. We get the sand and gravel from the "beach" down at the river where our property is located. It took a little over 500 trips over the river bank and back to build up the surface.

My biggest problem is I don't take enough pictures when we build something.

Once again. Thanks for the kind words.

Mochaman · Jul 13, 2011

DJ54 said:
Sweet..!! A man after my own heart, with the scrap pile build..!! What a lot of people see as "junk", is pieces/parts for a project such as this...

Don't Ya' love it when someone asks "Where did you get that..??" And you point towards the shop... I guess I inheireted from my pappy, the "gift" to see, just not what it is, but what it can be. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Yup. I like going to the recycling yard just to pick through the scrap pile. I got my two blades for the road grader from two bent up grader blades at the recycling yard. One was like brand new just bent like a pretzel. So that kept build costs way down.

Do you build stuff too?

beppington · Jul 14, 2011

Mochaman said:
Yup. I like going to the recycling yard just to pick through the scrap pile. I got my two blades for the road grader from two bent up grader blades at the recycling yard. One was like brand new just bent like a pretzel. So that kept build costs way down.

Do you build stuff too?

How did you straighten it?

Mochaman · Jul 14, 2011

beppington said:
How did you straighten it?

Oops! I wasn't very clear. I didn't straighten it I used it for parts. When I was looking for the blades for the road grader the yard had two. One old rusty one bent up with all sorts of crap welded to it for support and one that was a beast but the three point and swivel pad was twisted beyond repair. I picked both for $60 bucks and used the 5 foot blade just as it was and cut down the other blade and recycled all the unused parts. I still have the heavy duty blade support off the second one. I don't know what I'll use it for but it sure looks nice

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woodlandfarms · Jul 14, 2011

Love the build but I am confused. are the two little rods running across the bottom your blades? Or do you not have pix of the blades?

Sorry.... Great build, looking to copy it.

Carl

bcp · Jul 14, 2011

woodlandfarms said:
Love the build but I am confused. are the two little rods running across the bottom your blades? Or do you not have pix of the blades?

I think those are warp stoppers, while welding the top pieces.

Bruce

Mochaman · Jul 15, 2011

I didn't realize I didn't post any pics of the blades. BCP is right when tacking it all together the welds will pull so we tack in braces to stop that from happening.

I'll post a pic of the blades.