Ha Ha. You must have listened to me. I just watched your first video a couple of hours ago. And commented "use a railway iron and go in every direction". Worked well.
@@broughxtreme lol, I just commented on your first comment! Yes, the rail was by far the best method for someone like me without heavy equipment. Thanks for taking the time to comment, any other thoughts or suggestions I'm all ears.
We paid an pro excavator to clear our front land so we could have a lawn and plant pines (about 500] x 400'). He basically popped all the stumps then manually rough filled the low spots with his excavator and skid steer. For final grade, he had a homemade 3 point attachment that had a 8' railroad track coupled with a roller off of an old flail mower. That was connected to an old Ford 1900 and it left the place pancake flat. I was so impressed I took a few pictures of the setup. He has since moved to Florida and sold all his gear. He used a hydraulic toplink and lots of experience to set the pressure and keep everything flat.
That is very impressive! The suspense was gripping me when you were digging up that… is it rock?, is it root? Is it a space ship?, is it an old TV? lol It was satisfying to watch the land become flat!
I built a drag with angle to cut, c channel for runners. Works great at 3’x3’ being pulled by riding mower. A 6’x6’ probably would work great behind your tractor.
In my community I have to grade and remove pot holes on our private gravel road. 20' wide and almost a mile long. I have been using my L3301 Kubota with a box blade. Great set up for pot holes. However I am now starting to have dips and knolls all along it. Any ideas how I can flatten our road back up? Unlike your situation, i cant go sideways on this, I can only go back and fourth. Thanks for your great Videos man!
@@bendavid994 my recommendation would be a land plane. Box blades are great, but also short, allowing for the knolls, the land plane is much longer, it will also fill in potholes pretty well. A long chunk of railroad like I used, pulled at a angle will cut down the high spots and fill in the low, but will always leave a wind-row on one side. Another possibility, use the box blade with the scarifiers down, loosen the drive pretty good, then use a land rake (York rake) at an angle to level, then straighten rake for final passes. Or rent a bulldozer! 😆
I have a rail and I'll be doing this same job as you next year. But I have a 20 ft steel deck haywagon and i will be suspending the rail at an angle underneath the belly of the wagon. I will weld 2 links on one of the wide edges and the other will be contacting the ground. Angle chain will keep the rail from swinging back under the strain. I've used an angle scraper under the belly of my tractor and its a very good leveler between the 2 axles.
Good job! Yes implements like this are usually pulled from the drawbar. Look up a Dixon harrow if you want to see a fancy version of this same idea. You could add three feet of chain on the back of the railroad tie behind the current chain and add another 20 foot section. Your tractor isn’t even working hard. Load er up. Most harrows don’t pull on an angle. Farmers always use some sort of drag after plowing to smooth the ground back out.
If you can, get your hands on a hydraulic landscape rake for the front of your tractor. it'll gather up most of those smaller rocks and save your back.
I don't know about Kabota (it looks like) tractors but from experience JD 3point lift arms are strong enough to lift the front tires clean off the ground say if your trying to oh IDK pull too big of a stump with a chain 😬, anyway a thought... take a couple sticks of tube steel say 3x4 ( something to slide over the ends of the life arms ) drill a hole to pin them onto the lift arms then hang the rail with a 3 foot length of chain off the end. 1 gives you the ability to lift the rail off the ground 2 you can still angle it of you want to 3 you'll get MUCH less drift side to side. IDK just food for thought :)
A little late for this, but you want to slope the ground to the trees. Not sure where you are located but for those un snow country or a place with rain it will help lessen puddles and wet spots. Good job
Hi and thanks, however, those trees are actually uphill from the wood yard, most of the property slopes toward the west/road. Fortunately I don't seem to have any standing water issues in that area, and additionally our ground is very sandy, so things drain very well. Our road is a dirt road, and it could rain for a week, within one full day of sunshine it's dusty again...
The best thing for leveling uneven ground with a York rake is to use a set of wheels on it get a wheel kit for your York rake that is what the wheel kit is designed for not for cleaning the ground it is for leveling
No offense but quit being lazy and just pick up the rocks. The time you spent complaining about the rocks you could have already picked them up and saved us the drama.
@@scorpioDAVE9 😆, yeah yeah... obviously I did pick them up, pretty sure all of my gripping was done while picking rocks, I was multi-tasking! LOL and to be honest, I only showed a tiny fraction of the rock picking. I think I had 12 full (7' wide) bucket loads of rocks, but that was over the course of 3 months while clearing and flattening the area. Thanks for checking out the vid.
Ha Ha. You must have listened to me. I just watched your first video a couple of hours ago. And commented "use a railway iron and go in every direction". Worked well.
@@broughxtreme lol, I just commented on your first comment! Yes, the rail was by far the best method for someone like me without heavy equipment. Thanks for taking the time to comment, any other thoughts or suggestions I'm all ears.
we used to use a chain link fence, 6' wide cand around 15 feet long. pull with a atv. level the ground great.
We paid an pro excavator to clear our front land so we could have a lawn and plant pines (about 500] x 400'). He basically popped all the stumps then manually rough filled the low spots with his excavator and skid steer. For final grade, he had a homemade 3 point attachment that had a 8' railroad track coupled with a roller off of an old flail mower. That was connected to an old Ford 1900 and it left the place pancake flat. I was so impressed I took a few pictures of the setup. He has since moved to Florida and sold all his gear. He used a hydraulic toplink and lots of experience to set the pressure and keep everything flat.
I'm looking into a hydraulic top link right now, should make a several implements much better to use.
Nice job, that worked very nice.
And you have the best audio that I have ever heard on UA-cam. THANKS!!
It’s like you’re brand new at all this kind of stuff.
That is very impressive! The suspense was gripping me when you were digging up that… is it rock?, is it root? Is it a space ship?, is it an old TV? lol
It was satisfying to watch the land become flat!
A stump...
Have used an all metal box spring from a bed just put something heavy on top and drag away works very well
I built a drag with angle to cut, c channel for runners. Works great at 3’x3’ being pulled by riding mower.
A 6’x6’ probably would work great behind your tractor.
Great idea👌. I love your work. Keep up the good work
Thanks, will do.
In my community I have to grade and remove pot holes on our private gravel road. 20' wide and almost a mile long. I have been using my L3301 Kubota with a box blade. Great set up for pot holes. However I am now starting to have dips and knolls all along it. Any ideas how I can flatten our road back up? Unlike your situation, i cant go sideways on this, I can only go back and fourth.
Thanks for your great Videos man!
@@bendavid994 my recommendation would be a land plane. Box blades are great, but also short, allowing for the knolls, the land plane is much longer, it will also fill in potholes pretty well. A long chunk of railroad like I used, pulled at a angle will cut down the high spots and fill in the low, but will always leave a wind-row on one side. Another possibility, use the box blade with the scarifiers down, loosen the drive pretty good, then use a land rake (York rake) at an angle to level, then straighten rake for final passes. Or rent a bulldozer! 😆
I have a rail and I'll be doing this same job as you next year. But I have a 20 ft steel deck haywagon and i will be suspending the rail at an angle underneath the belly of the wagon. I will weld 2 links on one of the wide edges and the other will be contacting the ground. Angle chain will keep the rail from swinging back under the strain. I've used an angle scraper under the belly of my tractor and its a very good leveler between the 2 axles.
we grow corn and reefer in northern ny
That's a good idea. Thanks for sharing.
weld that train rail into a box like a land plane, get a hardened chunck of steel or cutting edge to weld on
Good job! Yes implements like this are usually pulled from the drawbar. Look up a Dixon harrow if you want to see a fancy version of this same idea. You could add three feet of chain on the back of the railroad tie behind the current chain and add another 20 foot section. Your tractor isn’t even working hard. Load er up. Most harrows don’t pull on an angle. Farmers always use some sort of drag after plowing to smooth the ground back out.
A chain drag would probably work best for leveling.
If you can, get your hands on a hydraulic landscape rake for the front of your tractor. it'll gather up most of those smaller rocks and save your back.
I don't know about Kabota (it looks like) tractors but from experience JD 3point lift arms are strong enough to lift the front tires clean off the ground say if your trying to oh IDK pull too big of a stump with a chain 😬, anyway a thought... take a couple sticks of tube steel say 3x4 ( something to slide over the ends of the life arms ) drill a hole to pin them onto the lift arms then hang the rail with a 3 foot length of chain off the end. 1 gives you the ability to lift the rail off the ground 2 you can still angle it of you want to 3 you'll get MUCH less drift side to side. IDK just food for thought :)
A little late for this, but you want to slope the ground to the trees. Not sure where you are located but for those un snow country or a place with rain it will help lessen puddles and wet spots.
Good job
Hi and thanks, however, those trees are actually uphill from the wood yard, most of the property slopes toward the west/road. Fortunately I don't seem to have any standing water issues in that area, and additionally our ground is very sandy, so things drain very well. Our road is a dirt road, and it could rain for a week, within one full day of sunshine it's dusty again...
Everybody wishes they didn't have rocks Haaaaa looks good !
When I lived in Florida even if ya wanted rocks, for anything, you had to buy them. But for the most part I agree.
The best thing for leveling uneven ground with a York rake is to use a set of wheels on it get a wheel kit for your York rake that is what the wheel kit is designed for not for cleaning the ground it is for leveling
@@ronnieschwa2214 Good point. I think I'll try to make a set.
land plane box blade borrow a friends to test
Good enough for government work !
No offense but quit being lazy and just pick up the rocks. The time you spent complaining about the rocks you could have already picked them up and saved us the drama.
@@scorpioDAVE9 😆, yeah yeah... obviously I did pick them up, pretty sure all of my gripping was done while picking rocks, I was multi-tasking! LOL and to be honest, I only showed a tiny fraction of the rock picking. I think I had 12 full (7' wide) bucket loads of rocks, but that was over the course of 3 months while clearing and flattening the area. Thanks for checking out the vid.