First time using a land leveler to maintain our gravel driveway. Definitely easy to use.
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- Опубліковано 20 гру 2021
- I just purchased a 6 foot land plane from Titan attachments and it is being delivered today. I also had a dump truck load of gravel delivered and now it time fix any potholes, add gravel to any low spots and dress up our gravel driveway.
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I the crown of the driveway was too high. So I graded it to lower the crown. I drive a little car back to forth to work. And the bottom of the car would hit the driveway in spots. I think that's a good indicator that the crown was too high and needed lowered.
The scarifiers are there for a reason.
There's so much material below, utilize it.
If the crown was so high you had to take all the surface rock off, then your base rock was crowned too high too. I’m not sure how best to fix that, but I guess quite a bit of new rock. Maybe (but maybe not!) you could move base rock outwards without making that layer too thin. Depends on what the soil underneath was shaped like. You might be able to dig down in a couple places to check that. If you can’t take it down any more, then you’ll need an inch or maybe two of the surface rock to fix from above. 440 yards by 5 yards wide by 1/18 (for 2”) is still 122 cubic yards of gravel. That’s 6 triaxial loads I think. Big project. Somebody please check my math here.
crown was to high due to wheel tracks compacting on each side...one cure is what you did grade crown into wheel track area....other is to add material to wheel track area....a gentle crown is best want water to get off drive but as slow as possible so it doesnt take any material with it ...
@@garynelson4749 In our driveway, the wheel track went down from compaction and outward migration of rocks displaced and rattling downslope. That was why the first move was to pull that displaced rock back in. Our drive was much narrower than Evan’s though - it’s limited to one-way traffic.
My grandpa used to drive down the crown to pack the middle and keep the weeds back from the sides.
I love it when you get a new toy!
I just feel so happy for you!
the dog laying down inside the land plane was the absolute best.
The best part of that was when he didn't scream at the dog the way that I probably would have. Patience is a virtue.
Having the right equipment sure does make life easier
Once you use the land plane enough you will learn how to gradually lift it as you’re moving to feather out the material it’s carrying and not leave any piles. Also, you’ll figure out when/how to use it in Reverse to carry grade and spread material more quickly and accurately, such as in that dumpster area. They’re nice attachments, though, and well worth the money.
Haha! I was just starting to think 'uh...why don't you put it inside the shop'.😄
Making a screen to drag behind you to really smooth it out is a great last step. Chain link fencing works great for that.
It doesn't seam that long ago you where installing the driveway. Time flies when you're having fun!!
I agree; didn’t realize I had been subscribed that long. Tim
i love that the pooch just lays in the fresh gravel on the leveler in the driveway :) something my dogs would do
That’s awesome, boy you got the dogs workout in! The one was funny when she laced down on the pile, behind the tractor! Lol 😂 🥰
This is mad, I was just thinking of you Evan and up pops your video 👍
Great job...but of course once again your dog stole the show...so funny and cute!
Another good video. Have a great rest of your Tuesday. Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas.
Your dogs crack me up.
Merry Christmas loved the dog laying on the tractor great add🌲🌲🌲🌲
Being able to do the work inside the cab of the TYM had to make the work so much better…one might even say fun…lol
Yes, this was an enjoyable task.
Amazing piece of equipment, thanks
Great purchase ! Merry Christmas!
Good morning! From someone who has only ever used a plain scraper blade on a driveway, I am envious! Those things do a really nice finishing job and are fairly easy to use. I have two observations from my experience and one from observing a UA-camr who is a fantastic operator of such equipment. First, my dad told me once that potholes don’t go away by filling them - they have to be cut down below their depth a little and the whole thickness of gravel re-establish. We had a quarter mile drive like you do, and the road past us is now paved but when I was born, it was a 7-mile gravel county road. Dad said the county guys who ran their graders told him that trick about the potholes. Those scarifiers could be useful to cut them out but you’d have to be careful not to get into the base rock. Second, Dad said the gravel on our drive migrated out down the slope from the crown, and we usually had to angle the blade to bring it back to the center to maintain the crown. Most of the time people running land planes run outside in on the right to do this. I couldn’t see your crown vs flat situation, but it does look like you moved the smaller aggregate off the center to dig up the 3” base rock. If you can get back on it sometime it’s not frozen, now that the grass is dead, try running your right side on the outside and see if the smaller rock can be brought back in. Third, it appears the cutter blades are set pretty aggressive and you may want to get a 1/8” flat strap between the runners and the sides to soften it a bit. Probably want a season of experience this way before committing much effort toward that though. If you carry a little more weight on your lift arms it might be ok as is. Mike Morgan of Outdoors with the Morgans has done comparisons of scrapers vs box blades vs land planes. I think he has a Land Pride model. You could reach out to him and ask how deep his cutters are below the runners. I know his can run in reverse and cut - it has cutter bars going both ways. He finds a flat spot and works in reverse so the tractor doesn’t go up and down and propagate that undulation to the implement (like what happened to you when your wheels went from the gravel pad to the yard at the dumpster pad).
Anyway, the road looks a lot better. Nice and smooth, nice and wide. Good to start the winter in good shape!
True, master of the land plane in maintaining multiple long driveways and trails is Mike Morgan on Outdoors with the Morgans! Forward and reverse, he has it down on widening and maintenance. Looks great for your first time running the new blade, great purchase! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Merry Christmas to you, Rebecca, and all the animals.😊🐾🎄❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Would without a doubt buy products from any company that packs their stuff this well, even when its big and beefy metal like this, shows concern and benefits for their customers
And you really made a great job with that driveway if it has lasted so long and that well, you drive a lot on it so must have been a great basejob made
And I think that somebody found themself a new gravel dogbed :D
I have wanted one of these forever! Jealous! Nice video sir!
Enjoyed seeing how it works
Great implement for your driveway!
Nice work!
The driveway looks great. Nice job, Evan The very best of the holidays to you and your family.🌲
Viewed, Liked, Share, Subscribed... Love the driveway maintenance, love the land leveler usage!
Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and family.
....lookin' good, nice job..
That's a really cool piece of equipment, great job!
Very happy with your content,love watching your channel.
Hi, Evan! I absolutely love your new implement! It should serve you well. I love watching your “a man and his tractor” footage.
That’s a great piece of equipment really did a great job with your driveway. Wishing you and Rebecca a Merry Christmas
Great product and great results.
Driveway looks better, good job, looks like you made a good worthwhile purchase for the farm. You and Rachel have a Merry Christmas.
That thing works great!!
Trying to convince my folks they need one of these for the property now. Great demonstration. Thanks for sharing Evan.
Wow I always was curious if the land leveler works better than a box blade. Looks way better to me.
Kevin, you like this channel?! So you see how a channel succeeds without click bait titles and no drama thumbnails! Your channel would be more successful with out the click bait, try it and you will see!
@Rebel Robinson Mine has scarifiers and I can drop the blades below the skids. This allows me to rip the old gravel out of the ground.
Great video I'm glad you wore some paint off the new tool .
Merry Christmas and Happy Newyear stay safe
I love my box blade but, I can definitely see the land plane does a wonderful job. You got some great footage Evan. I believe my next new implement will be a 5' land plane. Thanks buddy for sharing your experiences.
Evan, the land plane is really needed for a gravel driveway and you did a good job for the first time using the land plane. If you would like some tips, go to Outdoors with the Morgans and Mike would be happy to show you some tips he has learned using his land plane on his property. He is in western Pennsylvania.
It is so enjoyable watching you build up your farm because you know what your doing and you do it well !! You and Rebekah are both intelligent, hardworking, and kind people!! I'm excited to see what you have accomplished with the barn! I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!
Looking good be safe merry Christmas to you all
Great job Evan, driveway looks great. Thanks for sharing with us, Fred. 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻✋🏻✋🏻
Driveway looks much better now!
Well done!😊 👍🏻
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 you two!
love to see the progress each year. Reminds me of our farm 25 years ago and the progress we have made one year at a time. Just keep plugging away at it and each year and added piece of equipment makes it get easier and easier.
Wow that box blade is awesome! I've never seen anything work that good! Enjoyed watching! Merry Christmas!
Looks great 😊👍
Looking Good Really enjoy your videos 👍
Evan love the work you done on your Roads and a landplane his a must for gravel road , Mery christmas to you and your wife and familys too .⛄☃
Your driveway is looking good.
Looks good doing a nice job
Nice TYM65, I have the same one. With stereo and air, I can go all day long during alfalfa season...
thats pretty neat.....love your videos
The driveway turned out nice!!
Love the sound of a gravel driveway
Enjoyed the video, and just subscribed. Thanks for sharing!
Really enjoyed that, thanks. And I learned a bit, too :-)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and Rebecca. Blessings for 2022. From Texas The Lone Star State 🌟
Nice job Evan. Thanks for sharing. I watch about 3 of your videos a day
WOW, what a Great job... Practice makes perfect... Our right-of-way sure needs this done, too - Thanks for sharing....
Merry Christmas to you and Rebekah ...
I have a land plane and love it. Does a great job.
from the Netherlands thanks for the video
What a difference after you went over the drive way. All looks good.
It looks real good to me.
My Grandpa used to have a similar scraper box on their old Massey Ferguson loader.. I remember them saying it was originally a landscaping tractor, but since the box scraped smooth, it worked amazing for scraping up the concrete after the cows..
Another great video keep it up Evan are used to live in that state of Illinois Pontiac now I live in Tennessee love every bit of it
Love Titan equipment......I could watch videos line this all day long.
Nice work, Evan. I do not have a need for one yet but I might in the future.
greetings mr. evan; the reason the grass/weeds is coming through the edge is because the limbs are hanging close enough to make drivers dodge them thus allowing the weeds to come through where the drive is not being driven on.....................g
It will be interesting to see after another rain and a few weeks how the driveway looks when things have settled back down.
In just a few days it is already looking better from driving over it.
Great machine! Also makes a good dog bed!
Glad to see this video, I am glad I bought a box blade instead of the land plane
I know another UA-camr has one and his driveway is 5 miles long. That's a better implement than the box blade
Good job sir.
Love it!
Hi Even,looks like the scraper u bought is doing a real good job of your driveway/Ed from Vermont
Thanks for sharing
Your dogs crack me up! 🤗
they work great. you can also use them in reverse, and they will smooth things out great.
thats a really nice tractor.
Try backing up with it down when you are leveling areas, works well for me, just leave enough room to pick the grader up and over the excess pile at the edge- say against a fence or the driveway apron at the shop or barn.
Merry Christmas to you, your wife and all of your family and loved ones.
thanks for the videos.
It looks like you made a wise choice, Evan. I purch!purchased a set of Titan pallet forks for my NH 25S and have been very pleased with them. I wish I had found Titan before I bought my grapple. I think I could have saved myself some cash and not given up anything in quality.
Have a Merry Christmas!
Evan, you can also grade with it with your tractor in reverse. Makes touching up those ends easier.
I tried using it backwards a little bit. Didn't put it in the video. I figured people would say I was using it wrong.
@@CountryViewAcres I wish you didn't have to think about what some viewers might say!
I was actually wondering if you were going to think of unpacking it inside the barn.......LOL
Evan, the best time to use that with the rippers is when you've had a good rain. Doing that, you'll increase the compaction on the driveway.
At the beginning of the video...I thought you were a genius.
You had made a loader bucket out of a garbage dumpster🤔🤔🤔me thinks I'll be moving a lot more mulch around 🤣
Been using a land plane for about 4 years now, and they are the bomb, wouldn't be without one. I do gravel driveway repairs. As a side note, please get your electrical panel cover back on in the shop before something really bad happens. We electricians notice those things. They work very well for dirt as well. Thank you, Dan.
New toy for Evan, should have been under the tree, oh what the heck. Merry Christmas to you & Rebekah
I'm betting the trash truck starts rutting up that new wet area to get to the dumpster. Possibly getting stuck. There is no large base stone down to support the weight of the heavy truck. Be ready to fix it or you might get a call that they won't return until it's fixed so their truck doesn't sink. Those trucks are heavy and need a lot of stone to hold them up, that 2-4 inches is no where near enough. But, it's a good thought so you don't have to keep moving the dumpster into your driveway for them to pick it up.
If you have stone added later on and the center is still the high point, if you hire a guy with a dump trailer, have them put a board in the middle of their dump gate before loading or before dumping. This will prevent stone from coming out in the middle and spread it into the tire paths. Just a thought. Love the videos, keep em coming.
Where the dumpster gravel is, is where the driveway to an old house was. So it is a solid area, just lower than the driveway and rain puddles there.
@@CountryViewAcres Good deal, I was worried when I had seen that. I was thinking the trash truck would sink to it's axles. lol.
You lost the lock-pin @14:21 in the video 😉 Great video btw...I just found your channel and subscribed 🙂
I love my land plane I've had it a couple of yrs they are built like tanks
like others have said just lift up on the 3 point and it'll feather out the material.
Evan , another great vid, we have been watching you and Rebecca for quite awhile now. The progress you have made is nothing short of amazing. I certainly don’t want to stick my nose in your business, but you might wanna put your cover on your electrical service panel in the pole barn for safety sakes.I think it would be a good idea, you just never know, something could fall into the panel or any number of things could happen. keep up the good work and thank you. Merry Christmas🎅
Good thing the dogs kept you on track 😂
Thank you for showing the planner at work. Never seen one used before. It's a great grader
For the 3 point hitches. Love your help, my little guy. Mini Australian, he would be getting in the bucket also, wanting to have me throw the rocks for him. They are such great dogs, never get in way when I am on my Backhoe. I usually have him sit on my lap, he loves to just sit there as I'm grading, just watching very intensly. I'm trying to teach him how to operate tractor.
Your video is a great how to do it video, for that Land planner.
Very cool
Looks great, you did a good job. We put 3 inch gravel in as a base and covered with alot of #2 gravel. We are always pulling up the bigger gravel with box blade. It always goes back down tho. I think your equipment is alot better than a box blade for driveways.
Good video