Front-End Loader Inclinometer, Tilt-O-Meter, Angle finder? What to use to help with grading driveway?

[joea99]

Got a gravel drive, shared with neighbors. A "road" actually.

Got in a load of item 4 (with small aggregate). Item 4 as it is known here, is basically small stone with grit and stone dust. Road base, some might call it.

Anyway, I'm finding it rather tedious trying to get a surface to my liking.

Basically, I want to pitch the surface to direct run off to one side. Try as I might, once I back off a ways, I can see the pitch is what I want, so I guess my perception while "in the chair" is not too good. So, hoping some kind of tilt gauge might help. Looking at Amazon, etc, there are cheap and there are not so cheap.

Wondering what suggestions there might be. "Right tool for the job" may be suggested, but that is not in the cards.

Machine is a Kubota B21 with a "4-way" bucket on the front end.

I should add that one issue I have, as operator, is that I cannot see the front edge of the bucket, or the orientation of the blade, when "extended", or the bottom of the bucket is, when closed up. So that leads to me making "gouges" at times. That is just an additional annoyance I thought I would throw in the mix.

 

[/pine]

If you're not dead set on buying something...just tape a spirit level ( 2' or torpedo will work) across the loader cross frame bar just behind the steering wheel...

 

[CalG]

I have an application on my pocket phone that works very well.

Add a straight edge to sit it on, and grading a road would go DIGITAL! ;-)

 

[Gordon Gould]

I have a R & B Mfg Model 15C to do exactly what you say. I have had it for years. Easy to read and responsive but smooth. My eye is like yours and I also pitch the road all the way across in some places. Harder to see than a crown. I just mounted mine with double sided tape. Here is a pic I found of it. Google R & B Manufacturing and look at the basic models.



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[IXLR8]

I have a R & B Mfg Model 15C to do exactly what you say. I have had it for years. Easy to read and responsive but smooth. My eye is like yours and I also pitch the road all the way across in some places. Harder to see than a crown. I just mounted mine with double sided tape. Here is a pic I found of it. Google R & B Manufacturing and look at the basic models.

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gg

I have a R&B tilt meter and I just taped it to my box blade to grade/level our road.