Box grader

[Beefsmith]

Got a 600m stone track to keep maintaining for a local customer that runs up to some industrial units. It’s made up of a good base and then topped off with stone. The guys been doing it with a mini digger and it’s taking to long and he’s well past retiring age so he’s asked if we can go in once a month to sort it out due to the extremely high volume of traffic across it (around 10000 movements per year). A mini digger isn’t an option for us and is very time consuming so a box grader seems the answer. What is there available for around £1,000? Tractor would be what’s available so 160-240hp and we’d need to camber it to one side as there a natural fall on it anyway due to the field topography either side. It gets lots of water running across it and down it.

 

[Fendtbro]

Sounds like a job for a motorgrader and roller. Centre Camber might work best. Someone really good with a big digger and tilty bucket should get it close enough. Should last a while then you might manage to maintain it with something tractor mounted.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

guy up here made his own, it was on wheels at the back, had a hopper on top with a slide worked by a ram,the outlet was angled to the off side of the grader to the front, wheels lifted the grader up and down at the back, there was a small blade at about 45 degrees, the blade was fixed at the back, and a ram on the front to let it down or lift it up,
the blade only did about 5 foot from off side to middle or just a bit more than half the track width on the right hand side of tractor that pulled it, he filled the hopper with stone, drove down the lane doing the right hand side of track, with the blade pulling surplus stone from the edge to the center, taking care not to have much extra, he opened and closed the slide on hopper as needed,
then he turned around and went back doing the other side of the track on way back,
he said once he got a good track, and done regularly it took little or no stone to keep it good and was a just a 1 pass in each direction, was a 15 min job once a week, as it was on the pickup hitch and had few pipes to plug in on tractor,

cannot get any pics as it was sold a few years ago