Been operating for approx 30 yrs and as you will know we are always learning. Dozers and Graders are my main two machines i operate and enjoy both machines with Dozers my main machine. I like how you explain everything and also the Why your doing it that way. Im also a Trainer Assessor as well. Keep up the great work and the comments on why and and how mate.. Look forward to following your channel from now on.
It’s a nice job but working for the public can be challenging everyone seems to be an expert blade operator if your the general public it’s got it’s good and bad like every job has.
YES, and I bet it gets tiring doing the same thing over and over and always having to be perfect, just like you said the Public that Pays Taxes is always judging you. I have MOWED public roads with Flail mower for 15 years. The general Public always is a big Judge & Jury and complaining to Government HQ back at the County HQ. I always tried to mow as good as possible with a Flail, but it has limits especially around sign posts and any build up in ditch.
Gees man.... Mighty fine work you're doing. I'm sure that the maintainers around my area of Texas County Oklahoms understood about 5 percent of the words you said throughout the entire video. They are dumb as hell. 4% crown on a road? Never heard of it. Majority of our roads out here have water standing in the middle because they send the windrows to each side. Ditches? nah, that's a foreign word to them. I'm a farmer who has an old 1952 Caterpillar 12 and I can build a better road then them. Anyways, good job, keep it up, you certainly are a master of the trade.
We’ve got 1 mile of private red clay road here in north west Alabama. My cousin built it to county specs back a couple three years ago. He used a sheep’s foot compactor and graded it with his cat 140. I put down clean #4 base rock but I haven’t dressed it with 3/4 minus yet. I was wondering if it was necessary to put that base rock down first? I’ve still got 1/2 mile I’m going to build one day when the finances are in place. Thanks
I’d recommend you put the base rock down first otherwise lot of your 3/4 minus will disappear in to your sub grade if ya don’t want to place rock you could lay out fabric but that gets expensive quickly hopefully this helps ya out thanks for the question and thanks for watching
Thank you for your excellent experience at grading gravel Public ROW. Your video A+ your work is masterful. One question how do you like JOY stick control on the New style of CAT grader. I see that other brands have kept there steering wheel. For me personally for long trips back to base. I prefer a steering wheel on just ROADING grader. What say you sense you do this Day in a day out. Being in seat, for years with the Levers on each side of wheel, then a big change to Joy sticks. Would Love your opinion on the major change in control platform on CAT graders.
Thanks for the compliment I’m glad others can learn from my knowledge and see the pride I take in my roads as far as your question I absolutely love the joysticks on the cat M series I don’t miss the steering wheel at all my opinion is why other brands leave the steering wheel in is they don’t have the same level of steering that cat has I’ve run the Deere joystick controls and there steering is horrible with the joystick hope this gives some insight for you I appreciate you watching and the question.
Question(s)? What do you run for air pressures in the winter for snow removal? Do you have any other tips with setting up a blade for winter? We have no wings or front plows with them.
I myself run 55psi in the front 2 55 on my right side tandems with my wing and 45 on my left side with you not having a wing or plow I’d run 45 psi in all 6 tires and honestly not much else to get blade ready for snow
That's great, Can a bulldozer operator operate the M-series grader easily, coz I want to change over to a grader but I lack experience, but on a d6n xl dozer am good with 4years experience. Any advise
I would suer think you could switch over from a dozer to a grader it will just take you the seat time to get familiar with the machine good luck on the switch if ya have any questions feel free to ask away.
How does the water get off the road that you leave the maintenance windrow on? It seems it would be a dam that just stops the water and holds it on the road. Never seen this maintenance windrow done before where I'm at but most of the gravel roads are gone in my area now. They also cut from ditch to ditch and cover the road from ditch to ditch and don't leave a windrow at all. NC, Rowan county.
My maintenance windrow will hold back a little water but it generally washes right through not causing any problems in my opinion the benefits of having a maintenance windrow out weigh the negatives.
Trying to maintain a gravel road at an old quarry the county acquired. Trying to put blended stone in but they have core stone mixed in. Is there a way to weed out core stone and leave the blend? Trying to figure it out and it's whooping me lol
Oh man that’s definitely tough to work with I’ve had that similar situation and I windrowed the material up and had a rock bucket on a skid loader sift through to get the bigger rocks out that worked the best otherwise if you can get like 4 or 5 inches of good material over it.
I wish my townships would put down gravel like that, we get 3000 C.Y. a year per township. ITS LIKE PISSING IN THE WIND! How many yards or tons do other townships put down per year?
Oh my yeah that’s not much to work with at all pretty much all my townships I do when they gravel a whole mile 2 inches is the minimum I got one that puts down 4 inches a mile that’s 2500 ton a mile I’m very lucky that they have the budget to put on the gravel they do.
I work at a road commission in Michigan and am in my 1st year behind the sticks of a 143h. I am interested in your training class is it possible to get more info.
I’d recommend you watch my videos I explain a lot on how to properly maintain gravel roads I’d also recommend you reach out your area LTAP and see if they can help you with any training.
This is pretty average gravel for my area it’s got a decent amount of clay in it the rock is all natural stone from pit run gravel then crushed to 3/4 minus.
They obviously work the best when you have good moisture but I still use it even when it’s dry conditions it gives the road a smooth texture look and I find traffic to drive Whole road vs one spot hope this explains it thanks for watching
Been operating for approx 30 yrs and as you will know we are always learning. Dozers and Graders are my main two machines i operate and enjoy both machines with Dozers my main machine. I like how you explain everything and also the Why your doing it that way. Im also a Trainer Assessor as well. Keep up the great work and the comments on why and and how mate.. Look forward to following your channel from now on.
You make that look far easier than it actually is, good work G,day from Aus 👍
Amazing blade work once again!!! Keep up the good work??
You have the ultimate dream job put it in the gear and go awesome keep up the good videos
It’s a nice job but working for the public can be challenging everyone seems to be an expert blade operator if your the general public it’s got it’s good and bad like every job has.
YES, and I bet it gets tiring doing the same thing over and over and always having to be perfect, just like you said the Public that Pays Taxes is always judging you. I have MOWED public roads with Flail mower for 15 years. The general Public always is a big Judge & Jury and complaining to Government HQ back at the County HQ. I always tried to mow as good as possible with a Flail, but it has limits especially around sign posts and any build up in ditch.
Gees man.... Mighty fine work you're doing. I'm sure that the maintainers around my area of Texas County Oklahoms understood about 5 percent of the words you said throughout the entire video. They are dumb as hell. 4% crown on a road? Never heard of it. Majority of our roads out here have water standing in the middle because they send the windrows to each side. Ditches? nah, that's a foreign word to them. I'm a farmer who has an old 1952 Caterpillar 12 and I can build a better road then them. Anyways, good job, keep it up, you certainly are a master of the trade.
county blade operators in ND are just as bad if not worse.
Really looking good got the right moisture and everything I wouldn't know what to do without water valves and storm manhole sanitary manhole
Thanks and lol I got a couple gravel streets in a city I have to maintain and they have manhole covers definitely a challenge working around them.
Very Neat work!!!😎
Good to see u got moisture, none here!! Southeast Missouri
You do a Awesome job
Yes we finally got an inch of rain so was nice to get some roads worked up and packed in hopefully you guys will catch a nice rain down there.
We’ve got 1 mile of private red clay road here in north west Alabama. My cousin built it to county specs back a couple three years ago. He used a sheep’s foot compactor and graded it with his cat 140. I put down clean #4 base rock but I haven’t dressed it with 3/4 minus yet. I was wondering if it was necessary to put that base rock down first? I’ve still got 1/2 mile I’m going to build one day when the finances are in place.
Thanks
I’d recommend you put the base rock down first otherwise lot of your 3/4 minus will disappear in to your sub grade if ya don’t want to place rock you could lay out fabric but that gets expensive quickly hopefully this helps ya out thanks for the question and thanks for watching
Thank you for your excellent experience at grading gravel Public ROW. Your video A+ your work is masterful. One question how do you like JOY stick control on the New style of CAT grader. I see that other brands have kept there steering wheel. For me personally for long trips back to base. I prefer a steering wheel on just ROADING grader. What say you sense you do this Day in a day out. Being in seat, for years with the Levers on each side of wheel, then a big change to Joy sticks. Would Love your opinion on the major change in control platform on CAT graders.
Thanks for the compliment I’m glad others can learn from my knowledge and see the pride I take in my roads as far as your question I absolutely love the joysticks on the cat M series I don’t miss the steering wheel at all my opinion is why other brands leave the steering wheel in is they don’t have the same level of steering that cat has I’ve run the Deere joystick controls and there steering is horrible with the joystick hope this gives some insight for you I appreciate you watching and the question.
Question(s)?
What do you run for air pressures in the winter for snow removal?
Do you have any other tips with setting up a blade for winter? We have no wings or front plows with them.
I myself run 55psi in the front 2 55 on my right side tandems with my wing and 45 on my left side with you not having a wing or plow I’d run 45 psi in all 6 tires and honestly not much else to get blade ready for snow
That's great, Can a bulldozer operator operate the M-series grader easily, coz I want to change over to a grader but I lack experience, but on a d6n xl dozer am good with 4years experience. Any advise
I would suer think you could switch over from a dozer to a grader it will just take you the seat time to get familiar with the machine good luck on the switch if ya have any questions feel free to ask away.
@@graderman140m thanks for this reply though I have seen it 7months away
Good stuff, nice explanation on what you are doing and WHY ? ( from Canada )
Glad to hear that thanks for watching!
Do you ever use cruise control ? I strip right of way and reclaim a lot. I love my cruise
I use it once in a great while I generally prefer to run it with my foot but everyone is different on what they prefer.
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How does the water get off the road that you leave the maintenance windrow on? It seems it would be a dam that just stops the water and holds it on the road. Never seen this maintenance windrow done before where I'm at but most of the gravel roads are gone in my area now. They also cut from ditch to ditch and cover the road from ditch to ditch and don't leave a windrow at all. NC, Rowan county.
My maintenance windrow will hold back a little water but it generally washes right through not causing any problems in my opinion the benefits of having a maintenance windrow out weigh the negatives.
@@graderman140m Thanks for answering. 👍
Trying to maintain a gravel road at an old quarry the county acquired. Trying to put blended stone in but they have core stone mixed in. Is there a way to weed out core stone and leave the blend? Trying to figure it out and it's whooping me lol
Oh man that’s definitely tough to work with I’ve had that similar situation and I windrowed the material up and had a rock bucket on a skid loader sift through to get the bigger rocks out that worked the best otherwise if you can get like 4 or 5 inches of good material over it.
@@graderman140m thank you. We'll give it a shot.
How much articulation do you run in an operation like this?
Really depends if I need to articulate I will generally don’t articulate over half way though.
I wish my townships would put down gravel like that, we get 3000 C.Y. a year per township. ITS LIKE PISSING IN THE WIND! How many yards or tons do other townships put down per year?
Oh my yeah that’s not much to work with at all pretty much all my townships I do when they gravel a whole mile 2 inches is the minimum I got one that puts down 4 inches a mile that’s 2500 ton a mile I’m very lucky that they have the budget to put on the gravel they do.
I work at a road commission in Michigan and am in my 1st year behind the sticks of a 143h. I am interested in your training class is it possible to get more info.
I’d recommend you watch my videos I explain a lot on how to properly maintain gravel roads I’d also recommend you reach out your area LTAP and see if they can help you with any training.
@@graderman140m will do thank you
Your material looks like it has a high clay content. Whats the rock?
This is pretty average gravel for my area it’s got a decent amount of clay in it the rock is all natural stone from pit run gravel then crushed to 3/4 minus.
@@graderman140m I used to get limestone spread on my roads if I was lucky. If I treated it right it set like concrete
@@mattyallen3396 I live in North Alabama, we’re lucky to have several limestone quarries in our area.
Do packers work in dry conditions
They obviously work the best when you have good moisture but I still use it even when it’s dry conditions it gives the road a smooth texture look and I find traffic to drive Whole road vs one spot hope this explains it thanks for watching
All that moisture in fresh material and you got a Packer .. your bound to kick up a pot of Gold somewhere 😂