Land Plane

[Gordon Gould]

If I had a BB but no TnT, I'd add TnT before I spent any money on a different tool.

That is definitely something to think about I think - at least a hydraulic top link. It will make your BB so much more controlable. I have both a LPGS and box blade. A rear blade also. I use the TnT on all of them. The land plane gets the most use by far because surface maintenance is required more frequently than contour maintenance. If you keep the surface maintained properly the road contours that control drainage last longer.

gg

 

[Smokeydog]

I notice that some land planes have ripper teeth and others don't. How useful/necessary are ripper teeth?

I got the rippers with my EA land plane attachment. Tried them briefly at first and promptly broke two ripper teeth from big rocks under my road bed. Ripped the tooth sockets apart. Really didn’t need them anyway. The blades could cut and move driveway materials well enough. Didn’t need to dig that deep and disturb ground. Replaced the teeth. No damage to frame or shanks.

For context most of my 1/2 mile driveway is 275+ year old wagon trail. 1000 acre land grant from North Carolina, now Tennessee. One of the few paths to cross the clinch river. Some of the road was much like a creek bed. 60+” rain per year, hillside hollow and in the woods makes maintaining the driveway plus over mile of other roads a challenge. I can’t fully explain why land plane works better than boxblade or grader blade. The results are more durable road bed from traffic and rain.

Have several larger landscape and soil contouring projects planned that the rippers might work better on.

 

[Welshman]

I got the rippers with my EA land plane attachment. Tried them briefly at first and promptly broke two ripper teeth from big rocks under my road bed. Ripped the tooth sockets apart. Really didn’t need them anyway. The blades could cut and move driveway materials well enough. Didn’t need to dig that deep and disturb ground. Replaced the teeth. No damage to frame or shanks.

For context most of my 1/2 mile driveway is 275+ year old wagon trail. 1000 acre land grant from North Carolina, now Tennessee. One of the few paths to cross the clinch river. Some of the road was much like a creek bed. 60+” rain per year, hillside hollow and in the woods makes maintaining the driveway plus over mile of other roads a challenge. I can’t fully explain why land plane works better than boxblade or grader blade. The results are more durable road bed from traffic and rain.

Have several larger landscape and soil contouring projects planned that the rippers might work better on.

Thank you.

 

[defranks]

I'm surprised at the price of these things. I considered getting one to complement my box-blade, but it's hard to justify the price when the box-blade works well. I understand that the land plane probably works a bit better but for my money the box blade's going to keep on grooming my driveway.