Thanks and hopefully you will get a packer will make you so much more efficient and yes the tiller on the tractor really speeds up the process of breaking down and mixing the material all together plus it was a very cost effective purchase to make.
On your other video about crowning a road you said to think ahead when you see a soft spot. What do you do when you encounter one? Our roads are 120 ft wide and made of crushed scoria. We run 240 ton trucks on them.
I see you have a Sharq Edges hat on. Have you used that edge before, the blue one that is held on with the quick change backing plate and if so, what did you think? I’ve talked to them recently and they didn’t think that would be the best option for the roads I work. I use the rotating bits year round and they hold up well, on gravel roads and also in the winter for snow and ice removal.
I’ve used them and I do like them they do a very nice job mixing material but reason I no longer use them is I didn’t like having to rotate them 4 times a day to keep them straight I prefer the double carbide edges or I use the rotating carbide bits like your using now. So I’d stick with what your using now
Hey graderman do you generally only pull shoulders in the spring time? I did some shoulder pulling last fall but got a lot of complaints from taxpayers saying it looked awful. (Which i agree it kinda does until the grass starts to take back over). So would you reccomend staying away from this in the late summer/fall to avoid it from looking all tore up for 6 months?
Hey Eric I have had a few guys pull shoulders in the spring but generally see majority of it done in the spring time you can do it in the fall but have to have a water truck and some type of compaction plus if you would happen to catch a late fall rain and road go to crap got a very short window to get road fixed before winter
I'm interested in your front blade setup. I have a 140G and would like to set it up with a Balderson style blade with stinger bit system. What can you tell me about it? Do you have a video relating to it?
I can do a walk around video on my front dozer blade for you all I can tell you on it is a local welding shop made like a dozen of these and sold them to townships in the area they don’t make them anymore I’m suer one could make your own I love it very heavy built and does a great job of cutting out washboards will get video for you in next week or so thanks for watching!
It can get pretty ugly depending on if you get a slow rain right after you pull it in but it’s got to go through a couple rain cycles before it sets up and sometimes we will leave it all depends on how much gravel we get back this road here in video I pulled in we put 3 inches of 3/4 surfacing gravel on it and road looks awesome now happy to hear you like the videos thanks for watching.
Do you ever crab walk the grader for pulling ditches I like doing that especially when it's a little wet keeps your drive tires up on the solid road then lines up so your windrow drops between your drive tires
@@graderman140m OK ya you moved your center pin over for more reach. I leave my center pin centered use my circle side shift for reach wich we don't have any roads near as wide as yours are I would be into the fences😂 but then I crab walk my backend pretty sharp run my right front tire down in the ditch wich throws my material up on the shoulder between my back duels
A township board member was just telling me yesterday about a previous operator had a complaint from an owner about undercutting his driveway. Next time, the operator undercut it about 10" and gave the owner half a peace sign as he went by! LOL! I guess public relations wasn't a consideration for him.
Oh my I bet that caused a big mess with the supervisors I try not to undercut driveways but sometimes have to do them being put in wrong and never got fixed.
How wide do you maintain your roads? 26ft? And how often should a township disc shoulders? I hear you can reclaim a certain percent of gravel every mile just from the discing but good luck convincing them of that lol
I keep my roads 22 to 24ft wide and I disc my high traffic roads every year and I generally do the whole township every other year and if you use the disc properly you can recover a lot of gravel plus you bring back some binder to the gravel also but your right the general public hates seeing the disc come out and they call the board complaining I’m very lucky I have supervisors that understand how to properly maintain a gravel road and the means discing shoulders pulling shoulders is all part of proper maintenance.
@@graderman140m there’s definitely a high need for gravel roads to be disced around this area but trying to convince these supervisors of that is next to impossible so when I hear complaints of water sitting on shoulders I try to tell them disc the shoulders and 90% of the problems go away.
This is what I tell everyone sometimes you got to make a big mess before it gets better unfortunately that’s just how road work goes I have made the process much better now with the use of a water truck a tractor with a tiller and a packer you have less of a chance of a mess
@@graderman140m I wish we had right of ways that big most of ours aren't half that all new roads down here are supposed to have 50ft 25 each way from center but got very few that wide
I did use my disc but it had grown back from when I had used my disc now we have a 6 ft rotor tiller behind our mowing tractor to break everything up really works great. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching
Yep there was a lot of washboards in this road before I pulled shoulders on it the gravel was all dusted out so that’s why I pulled the shoulders in rebuilt the road top and added 3 inches of good 3/4 surfacing gravel now the road is in great shape and I only blade it 3 times a year
You only show vids in perfect grading situations. I wanna see curvy roads. Cutting ditches with rock and stone and obstacles. Sloppy humped up drive ways and intersections. Hilly roads with imbedded boulders going up and down the hills. You know stuff graders actually go up against. Not flat straight roads with perfect shoulders and ditches with nothing in them.
Nice to see the videos. Your roads are a lot straighter and even width than in my neck of the woods.
Excellent!
Good stuff ! Makes me wanna get out and Pull some ditches now !! Still hopeful I’ll get a packer eventually. That roto tiller is a good idea
Thanks and hopefully you will get a packer will make you so much more efficient and yes the tiller on the tractor really speeds up the process of breaking down and mixing the material all together plus it was a very cost effective purchase to make.
thanks for the videos! they really helped me pass a grader course especially this video!
Your very welcome glad the videos have been helpful for ya I appreciate you watching the videos.
On your other video about crowning a road you said to think ahead when you see a soft spot. What do you do when you encounter one? Our roads are 120 ft wide and made of crushed scoria. We run 240 ton trucks on them.
Beautifull blade work
Thank you and thanks for watching!
I see you have a Sharq Edges hat on. Have you used that edge before, the blue one that is held on with the quick change backing plate and if so, what did you think? I’ve talked to them recently and they didn’t think that would be the best option for the roads I work. I use the rotating bits year round and they hold up well, on gravel roads and also in the winter for snow and ice removal.
I’ve used them and I do like them they do a very nice job mixing material but reason I no longer use them is I didn’t like having to rotate them 4 times a day to keep them straight I prefer the double carbide edges or I use the rotating carbide bits like your using now. So I’d stick with what your using now
Is there a certain brand of tiller you have found holds up the best for busting up windrows???
We have been using the King Kuter brand and last one we had lasted 4 years so not bad for a 2,000 dollar investment
Hey graderman do you generally only pull shoulders in the spring time? I did some shoulder pulling last fall but got a lot of complaints from taxpayers saying it looked awful. (Which i agree it kinda does until the grass starts to take back over).
So would you reccomend staying away from this in the late summer/fall to avoid it from looking all tore up for 6 months?
Hey Eric I have had a few guys pull shoulders in the spring but generally see majority of it done in the spring time you can do it in the fall but have to have a water truck and some type of compaction plus if you would happen to catch a late fall rain and road go to crap got a very short window to get road fixed before winter
@@graderman140m gotcha. We usually always have a water truck running around with me. Thanks for the info!
I'm interested in your front blade setup. I have a 140G and would like to set it up with a Balderson style blade with stinger bit system. What can you tell me about it? Do you have a video relating to it?
I can do a walk around video on my front dozer blade for you all I can tell you on it is a local welding shop made like a dozen of these and sold them to townships in the area they don’t make them anymore I’m suer one could make your own I love it very heavy built and does a great job of cutting out washboards will get video for you in next week or so thanks for watching!
I get down on the shoulder off the road n start from there.. that way I pull up gravel that’s been coming off the wing over the years
How muddy does road get after pulling germs? Do you stone road after done grading?
Like your videos, keep them coming
It can get pretty ugly depending on if you get a slow rain right after you pull it in but it’s got to go through a couple rain cycles before it sets up and sometimes we will leave it all depends on how much gravel we get back this road here in video I pulled in we put 3 inches of 3/4 surfacing gravel on it and road looks awesome now happy to hear you like the videos thanks for watching.
Do you ever crab walk the grader for pulling ditches I like doing that especially when it's a little wet keeps your drive tires up on the solid road then lines up so your windrow drops between your drive tires
That’s what I was doing when I pulled the edges in on this road I drop the windrow between the tandem’s
@@graderman140m OK ya you moved your center pin over for more reach. I leave my center pin centered use my circle side shift for reach wich we don't have any roads near as wide as yours are I would be into the fences😂 but then I crab walk my backend pretty sharp run my right front tire down in the ditch wich throws my material up on the shoulder between my back duels
@@chuckboone7845 yep that’s what I did since I have wider roads and more ROW to work with and sounds like your method works great for you.
I operated a 14 grader before now retired
How many miles of dirt road in your township do you take care of?
I maintain 5 townships they average around 40 miles a township so I cover a pretty big area.
A township board member was just telling me yesterday about a previous operator had a complaint from an owner about undercutting his driveway. Next time, the operator undercut it about 10" and gave the owner half a peace sign as he went by! LOL! I guess public relations wasn't a consideration for him.
Now that's funny.
Oh my I bet that caused a big mess with the supervisors I try not to undercut driveways but sometimes have to do them being put in wrong and never got fixed.
Do u have a video of the tiller
I will have video of the tiller in action in a couple of weeks here it’s a 7ft king cuter tiller.
How wide do you maintain your roads? 26ft? And how often should a township disc shoulders? I hear you can reclaim a certain percent of gravel every mile just from the discing but good luck convincing them of that lol
I keep my roads 22 to 24ft wide and I disc my high traffic roads every year and I generally do the whole township every other year and if you use the disc properly you can recover a lot of gravel plus you bring back some binder to the gravel also but your right the general public hates seeing the disc come out and they call the board complaining I’m very lucky I have supervisors that understand how to properly maintain a gravel road and the means discing shoulders pulling shoulders is all part of proper maintenance.
@@graderman140m there’s definitely a high need for gravel roads to be disced around this area but trying to convince these supervisors of that is next to impossible so when I hear complaints of water sitting on shoulders I try to tell them disc the shoulders and 90% of the problems go away.
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What area are you in if your in South Dakota where I do the blade training for my LTAP
What would you tell people that have concerns about bringing top soil on the road and grass?
This is what I tell everyone sometimes you got to make a big mess before it gets better unfortunately that’s just how road work goes I have made the process much better now with the use of a water truck a tractor with a tiller and a packer you have less of a chance of a mess
Whts ur right away up there ??
We have a 66ft ROW 33feet on each side from the center of the road.
@@graderman140m wow i only have one road with tht kinda ROW down here!!!
@@graderman140m I wish we had right of ways that big most of ours aren't half that all new roads down here are supposed to have 50ft 25 each way from center but got very few that wide
Why not use your disk ahead of your blade to break up some of the grass.
I did use my disc but it had grown back from when I had used my disc now we have a 6 ft rotor tiller behind our mowing tractor to break everything up really works great. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching
Looks like a lot of washboard
Yep there was a lot of washboards in this road before I pulled shoulders on it the gravel was all dusted out so that’s why I pulled the shoulders in rebuilt the road top and added 3 inches of good 3/4 surfacing gravel now the road is in great shape and I only blade it 3 times a year
If you could get in the ditch let us see all the grade that would help understand your technique
I will make suer and do that next spring thanks for the suggestion and thanks for watching
You only show vids in perfect grading situations. I wanna see curvy roads. Cutting ditches with rock and stone and obstacles. Sloppy humped up drive ways and intersections. Hilly roads with imbedded boulders going up and down the hills. You know stuff graders actually go up against. Not flat straight roads with perfect shoulders and ditches with nothing in them.