Thank you for a nice simple video. I'm over 50 and recently lost my dad. He was barely able to show me the basics on his Kubota, and while we all worked the fields growing up, we we didn't get any tractor time. So I'm learning now.
I loved my dad's rollover scraper. His was one of the oldest I've ever seen. They have been made by different companies probably since the 1940s. You can see rollover scraper videos on UA-cam. You never have to get out of the seat to put the ripper's up or down, or change the box direction. Just reach back and pull the lever behind you. His is the one that I learned on when I was a kid long before I joined the operating engineers. By far the best box scrapers ever made ! 😀😃 I don't care for the modern Gannon scrapers. But whenever using any kind of box scraper it's always nice to have the top & tilt kit so you can make adjustments on the fly and save a lot of time.
Not a problem with loose.material, but a good word of advice, be care when going backwards using any of these implememts because your tractor is made for pulling with 3pt not pushing. Loose stuff like dirt and a little gravel isn't so bad. I really have to be careful with my bx1880. Its weak from from start compared to a lot more tractors. It'll do what i need aroud here. Great video.
Can you use it to clear rocks and roots too. Debating picking up a box blade or a York rake. I need to level ground too but I cleared a brush area there are a lot of small saplings and roots still . Will it take care of them ?
Question about that "pothole" if you had a couple buckets of gravel, would you have chosen to fill it in to act as a "foundation" to then cover with dirt so as to allow a reinforcing of that soft spot to allow for possible drainage and maybe future depressions in that spot?
A person definitely could do that, but in my experience, the water will then permeate the voids between the gravel, andit'll just turn into a muddy mess with gravel in it.. If it stays wet, and we really wanted to drain it, we'd make a trench that leads to a ditch or something and then the gravel would be helpful to give the water a path in which to travel. At least until the dirt works its way into all the gravel
There's really no reason to ever put soil on top of gravel. First time it gets wet, it will start washing into the gravel and you'll be forever chasing your tail filling more potholes.
No! The water will collect in that area and make more mud!! It would be much better to try to dig out the mud and replace it with fairly dry dirt and pack it in! Gravel, or better yet a layer of base rock works better if it is above the surrounding dirt ! Base rock is a mixture of gravel, sand, a little bit of dirt and some crushed up bricks or asphalt. In construction it's also known as class 2 material. That's what they use underneath of roadways and parking. Once it's spread out and compacted it also keeps most of the water out! They also use it for temporary roads in construction sites. I'm a retired Operating Engineer.
Hey bro, good instructions! Would you do the same thing on a gravel parking are that’s 85x100’ that over the years got a couple of low spots ? I was told not to use the rippers! 🇺🇦☮️✌🏻
The rippers are very useful, but they'll loosen up the area you use them on, so you can end up with more potholes. If it's just a couple of potholes, the rippers might cause more harm than good. But if it's an old parking lot that constantly develops a lot of potholes, the rippers would be great to tear the whole mess up and then re-spread the material
Love the video. I have a box blade for my LS 3025 and it’s been great for building a 5/8 minus road on my homestead. I’m curious though. What is a land plane? Does it perform a similar function? Which one is better? Thank You in advance.
A land plane or grading scraper is like a box blade, but it has no back on it. Pretty cool tool for grading driveways and whatnot. They aren't as adaptable as a box blade, but they are way easier to use for smoothing driveways, and they can save you on gravel too
Don't use the ripper's unless you need to loosen up all the ground, then regrade it without the rippers. Leaving the ground with ripper marks is very sloppy work! If you need to use rippers then rip up everything and mix the material up good before grading it out and compacting it. If you don't then it will get worse quicker.
@@sublimesalamander nobody in construction uses a land a plane! They are not adjustable. They are made to smooth out driveways that have loose material on them. But their functionality is very limited. Scraper boxes are used throughout the world by professional landscapers, road and parking lot builders. They are used on the back of skip loaders and farm tractors, both of which have several similar functions.
I disagree- moist dirt keeps the dust down and can grade more evenly. Plus, I'm in Western Wa. There's some years where if you waited for the dirt to dry out, you might be waiting a year to do the job!
@@HomesteadBandwagon there's a significant difference between moist and muddy. I did a lot of grading in the operating engineers on skip loaders doing that. Several different soil engineers showed me how to check the dirt for the proper amount of moisture in the dirt for best grading and compaction conditions. Maybe the ground in your area is different than most other places. Generally speaking the best way to test for the proper amount of moisture is to pick up a handful and squeeze it in your fist, then open your hand flat and if it sticks together. If it does then it's not too dry. Then touch that ball of dirt with one finger very lightly and see if it easily crumbles. If it does then it's not too wet. This is perfect, not too dry and not too wet. Once again, it should be able to stick together but just barely. This is the perfect condition and should not be Dusty at all. My dad did commercial tractor rototilling for over 50 years and he used the shovel test. Be able to stick the shovel into the ground without too much trouble, pull up that shovel of dirt and turn it over on the surface and see if it crumbles easily without sticking together in large sticky clumps. Perfect condition for rototilling and will not be Dusty.
@@HomesteadBandwagon I am also somewhat familiar with the weather in Washington and Oregon because I have relatives up in Seattle and Spokane. On construction jobsites in California we used to joke about the circle test. If it looked like rain, someone would draw a circle on the ground, and see if a drop of rain fell inside that circle, and if it did we would call it a rain day and go home. And somebody else would say if that happened in Washington they would never get to work because it rained so often up there. 😁😉🙄
@@TF856 That's definitely ideal, but, unfortunately, it's rarely possible here. I can roll dirt into a ball into August or September most years. Then, October comes around and we're back to mud!
Thank you for a nice simple video.
I'm over 50 and recently lost my dad. He was barely able to show me the basics on his Kubota, and while we all worked the fields growing up, we we didn't get any tractor time. So I'm learning now.
I'll bet he'd be proud to see you getting on that tractor and figuring stuff out!
I loved my dad's rollover scraper. His was one of the oldest I've ever seen.
They have been made by different companies probably since the 1940s.
You can see rollover scraper videos on UA-cam.
You never have to get out of the seat to put the ripper's up or down, or change the box direction.
Just reach back and pull the lever behind you.
His is the one that I learned on when I was a kid long before I joined the operating engineers.
By far the best box scrapers ever made ! 😀😃
I don't care for the modern Gannon scrapers.
But whenever using any kind of box scraper it's always nice to have the top & tilt kit so you can make adjustments on the fly and save a lot of time.
We had a guy in the shop with a 25 or 30 year old Woods rollover scraper with a hydraulic control. Wasn't interested in selling, unfortunately...
Viewed, liked, subscribed, shared! Love box blade process
Very useful video. Keeping it simple for us newbies
Glad it was helpful!
Hi man, just found your channel, super cool content and really helpful for new tractor owners like myself! Well done!
Thanks! If you ever need a hand, just let me know- you got yourself a fantastic tractor
Nice video explaining the boxblade
Great video with the bow blade! Love it!
I give this grading a grade of A👍🏽
I see you've been working on your dad jokes. A solid effort.
Not a problem with loose.material, but a good word of advice, be care when going backwards using any of these implememts because your tractor is made for pulling with 3pt not pushing. Loose stuff like dirt and a little gravel isn't so bad. I really have to be careful with my bx1880. Its weak from from start compared to a lot more tractors. It'll do what i need aroud here. Great video.
I wish I had a big stick 😂
Tractor hard and carry a big stick 😁
Very Nice. Thank you.
Can you use it to clear rocks and roots too. Debating picking up a box blade or a York rake. I need to level ground too but I cleared a brush area there are a lot of small saplings and roots still . Will it take care of them ?
It'll drag that stuff away, but a lot of dirt will come with it. A rake would sift the material a little, which might be less frustrating
Great video, liked and subscribed
Can you just put down scarifiers on one side to level out a slope?
Question about that "pothole" if you had a couple buckets of gravel, would you have chosen to fill it in to act as a "foundation" to then cover with dirt so as to allow a reinforcing of that soft spot to allow for possible drainage and maybe future depressions in that spot?
A person definitely could do that, but in my experience, the water will then permeate the voids between the gravel, andit'll just turn into a muddy mess with gravel in it.. If it stays wet, and we really wanted to drain it, we'd make a trench that leads to a ditch or something and then the gravel would be helpful to give the water a path in which to travel. At least until the dirt works its way into all the gravel
There's really no reason to ever put soil on top of gravel. First time it gets wet, it will start washing into the gravel and you'll be forever chasing your tail filling more potholes.
No!
The water will collect in that area and make more mud!!
It would be much better to try to dig out the mud and replace it with fairly dry dirt and pack it in!
Gravel, or better yet a layer of base rock works better if it is above the surrounding dirt !
Base rock is a mixture of gravel, sand, a little bit of dirt and some crushed up bricks or asphalt.
In construction it's also known as class 2 material.
That's what they use underneath of roadways and parking. Once it's spread out and compacted it also keeps most of the water out!
They also use it for temporary roads in construction sites.
I'm a retired Operating Engineer.
Hey bro, good instructions! Would you do the same thing on a gravel parking are that’s 85x100’ that over the years got a couple of low spots ? I was told not to use the rippers! 🇺🇦☮️✌🏻
The rippers are very useful, but they'll loosen up the area you use them on, so you can end up with more potholes. If it's just a couple of potholes, the rippers might cause more harm than good. But if it's an old parking lot that constantly develops a lot of potholes, the rippers would be great to tear the whole mess up and then re-spread the material
Love the video. I have a box blade for my LS 3025 and it’s been great for building a 5/8 minus road on my homestead. I’m curious though. What is a land plane? Does it perform a similar function? Which one is better? Thank You in advance.
A land plane or grading scraper is like a box blade, but it has no back on it. Pretty cool tool for grading driveways and whatnot. They aren't as adaptable as a box blade, but they are way easier to use for smoothing driveways, and they can save you on gravel too
Don't use the ripper's unless you need to loosen up all the ground, then regrade it without the rippers.
Leaving the ground with ripper marks is very sloppy work!
If you need to use rippers then rip up everything and mix the material up good before grading it out and compacting it.
If you don't then it will get worse quicker.
@@sublimesalamander nobody in construction uses a land a plane!
They are not adjustable.
They are made to smooth out driveways that have loose material on them.
But their functionality is very limited.
Scraper boxes are used throughout the world by professional landscapers, road and parking lot builders.
They are used on the back of skip loaders and farm tractors, both of which have several similar functions.
good grader
Ground looked fairly soft.
Close the oven door to extinguish the oxygen
If it sticks in the box then it's too wet to grade.
Especially if it sticks in the box as you shake the scraper up and down.
I disagree- moist dirt keeps the dust down and can grade more evenly. Plus, I'm in Western Wa. There's some years where if you waited for the dirt to dry out, you might be waiting a year to do the job!
@@HomesteadBandwagon there's a significant difference between moist and muddy.
I did a lot of grading in the operating engineers on skip loaders doing that.
Several different soil engineers showed me how to check the dirt for the proper amount of moisture in the dirt for best grading and compaction conditions.
Maybe the ground in your area is different than most other places.
Generally speaking the best way to test for the proper amount of moisture is to pick up a handful and squeeze it in your fist, then open your hand flat and if it sticks together. If it does then it's not too dry.
Then touch that ball of dirt with one finger very lightly and see if it easily crumbles. If it does then it's not too wet.
This is perfect, not too dry and not too wet.
Once again, it should be able to stick together but just barely.
This is the perfect condition and should not be Dusty at all.
My dad did commercial tractor rototilling for over 50 years and he used the shovel test.
Be able to stick the shovel into the ground without too much trouble, pull up that shovel of dirt and turn it over on the surface and see if it crumbles easily without sticking together in large sticky clumps.
Perfect condition for rototilling and will not be Dusty.
@@HomesteadBandwagon I am also somewhat familiar with the weather in Washington and Oregon because I have relatives up in Seattle and Spokane.
On construction jobsites in California we used to joke about the circle test.
If it looked like rain, someone would draw a circle on the ground, and see if a drop of rain fell inside that circle, and if it did we would call it a rain day and go home.
And somebody else would say if that happened in Washington they would never get to work because it rained so often up there. 😁😉🙄
@@TF856 That's definitely ideal, but, unfortunately, it's rarely possible here. I can roll dirt into a ball into August or September most years. Then, October comes around and we're back to mud!
Start the video at 3:23
Let me think about it and talk about it and think about talking about it and talk about thinking about it until something actually happens
Thanks for the support, Jim!
A landplane would have been a better choice, but theres times when you make due with what you have