Land Pride, Woods, Befco Grading Scraper

[JRobyn]

I'm looking too. Can any current users answer the question that I have been trying unsuccessfully to get EA to answer:

If my current road profile (hard-packed creek gravel topped with crusher-run) has a slight crown but also has slight wheel rut depressions (1") AND ALSO has slightly raised outside edges, can a land plane/grader be set to cut down the outside raised edges and push the cut material to the inside to fill the wheel ruts?

All of these that I look at have the "sides" that are intended to ride along on top of the surface being graded. So if I grade with the side of the plane along the outside edge of the road, won't it just slide along the top and not cut anything?

- Jay

 

[Eric102]

If I'm reading the specs right the Woods can be set to cut down as much as 1 inch below the skids and if you run the scraper in the right direction it should tend to move the material towards the low spots in the middle of the road.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Almost, if not all the commercially manufactured LPGS cut below the side runners, so no the runners are not going to stop the unit from grading. As far as the material moving sideways, it basically does not. I have tested my LPGS for this sideways movement and my blades are 1" below the runners, painted a strip on the ground and went over it. The best that I could tell, after going over both blades the material had moved sideways about 1". So unless you plan on making a lot of passes, I would not count on the LPGS to be moving material sideways for you.

 

[RKJeepXJ]

I think it'll fill in your low spots just from the material building up and falling to the side. Might take a couple passes to get completely smooth.

 

[Beaux Duke]

Almost, if not all the commercially manufactured LPGS cut below the side runners, so no the runners are not going to stop the unit from grading. As far as the material moving sideways, it basically does not. I have tested my LPGS for this sideways movement and my blades are 1" below the runners, painted a strip on the ground and went over it. The best that I could tell, after going over both blades the material had moved sideways about 1". So unless you plan on making a lot of passes, I would not count on the LPGS to be moving material sideways for you.

MtnViewRanch is correct. When I used mine the first time I got a crick in my neck twisting around in the seat trying to watch the action of the rocks going over the blade. I finally stopped during a pass and sprayed all the rocks on the first angled blade with orange marker paint. Got back on and watched the results. Amazingly the rocks seemed to just bubble up and eventually after moving 10-12 feet forward a few would follow the angled cutting blade but most just bubbled over the blade almost in a straight line.

I can recall as a child watching the grader guy running over our gravel road in front of the house. He was able to move stuff but his angle was much greater than what I've seen on land planes.

 

[jenkinsph]

I'm looking too. Can any current users answer the question that I have been trying unsuccessfully to get EA to answer:

If my current road profile (hard-packed creek gravel topped with crusher-run) has a slight crown but also has slight wheel rut depressions (1") AND ALSO has slightly raised outside edges, can a land plane/grader be set to cut down the outside raised edges and push the cut material to the inside to fill the wheel ruts?

All of these that I look at have the "sides" that are intended to ride along on top of the surface being graded. So if I grade with the side of the plane along the outside edge of the road, won't it just slide along the top and not cut anything?

- Jay

My experience has been that even with the blades set flush it will cut in and flatten out the gravel in its path. What you will have to watch is removing the crown. If you have a lot of gravel to the edges you should use a rear blade to move this back to the center first.

 

[JRobyn]

Thanks all. Sounds like they will CUT where I want, but not MOVE how I want! I could maybe do an initial loosening cut with my existing box blade, but there's not really any good way to angle it. I really don't want to have to also buy an angled back blade AND a grader.

- Jay

 

[Tomtint]

I have a 7' Befco. It works well but IMO, the shanks wear very quick and the replaceable skids also wear quick.

 

[bcp]

I once saw a photo of a grading scraper that had a small blade, maybe 8 inches long, on the front of one skid, just to cut away that outside ridge before the side runner got there.

Bruce

 

[Tomtint]

I'm not sure what, if anything, that would do. The LP rests on the ground and slides across whatever surface its on. The corser the surface, the faster the wear. I almost think a set of wheels may help. But at that point it may defeat the whole objective