Track pot hole repair machine

[Pottersfarm]

Any suggestions for a stoned track repair machine to run behind a tractor? Haven’t got a 360 and don’t want to buy one. The track is heavily used and needs maintaining every 2 weeks during winter wet months. The forklift bucket is just not working well enough. I think we need something that can rip to the base of the pot holes and then level and I’d be looking to buy some kind of vibrating roller also. It’s about 400m long and 4m wide.

 

[Dave6170]

Murray Machinery

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[Agriimark]

hire a machine and do it properly and do it once. make sure there's plenty of camber for water to run off and use decent aggregate. compacted well and should be better than most uk roads

 

[ollie989898]

Pay a firm to come in, crush and compact the sub base and apply cement to it?

 

[BuskhillFarm]

Landleveler and odd lorry load of stones, or concrete/tar in stages if money available

 

[Pottersfarm]

hire a machine and do it properly and do it once. make sure there's plenty of camber for water to run off and use decent aggregate. compacted well and should be better than most uk roads

Hire what machine though? That’s the point of the question.

 

[Pottersfarm]

Pay a firm to come in, crush and compact the sub base and apply cement to it?

We do that as well from time to time. I’m talking about every couple of week to titivate it. I’ve got a tractor, got the time etc and the loader bucket isn’t doing the job good enough. We are on about 2500 vehicle movements per year mainly heavy stuff.

 

[uztrac]

Try a weighted dutch harrow,followed by a weighted flat roll.

 

[Pottersfarm]

Try a weighted dutch harrow,followed by a weighted flat roll.

Tried the Dutch Harrow approach before and it wasn’t any better than the loader bucket really.

 

[Agriimark]

Hire what machine though? That’s the point of the question.

sorry i wasn't clear in what i put. depending on the length of track etc then a 360 digger. something like an 8 tonner or 13.

 

[Pottersfarm]

sorry i wasn't clear in what i put. depending on the length of track etc then a 360 digger. something like an 8 tonner or 13.

I’d be hiring one every few weeks then which I don’t want to do, hence in the op I want something to suit tractors as we already have them. I’ve no other use for a 360 so it’s not on the shopping list.
I’ve had people in with 360’s before and it lasts no longer than the loader bucket to be honest anyway.

 

[L P]

Spent the day on tracks here today, it's brutal on handler bucket and used 100 tonnes of hard-core. Been planning to make a simple grader for some time to go on the handler. Was reckoning on two heavy 8' rsj's welded face to face, mounted at a 15 degree angle to the handler mounting brackets with hardox bucket lips welded to the leading and trailing edges of the RSJ, probably box in the webs to stop it twisting. Crowd back and forth would allow battering left and right.. cheap and simple.

 

[Nearly]

Buy a.leaky power harrow from a sale and.mix some cement in.

New neighbour does that with a posh machine. Just as well really. His new drive is half a mile long and buggered.

 

[Oscar]

I m sure I have seen a box grader which goes on 3pt linkage which had rigid tines on front , box which you fill with stone and adjustable plates to alter camber and in picture it was towing a flat roller . Think it was being sold by a front linkage dealer , sorry no name but started with a S ?

 

[Old apprentice]

I welded 18 inch girders front and back front one middle points forward back one points backwards in the middle about 4 feet apart at each side with a pivot bare across with times that go into the road gravel with a ram to push times into gravel.It is on three point linkage it takes about 4 runs to cut gravel up to level lot holes up.

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

I made one with an I beam on its side (H that way) goes on the handler, you can get the stone out of the edge gutter and blade it to the middle, or reverse and push to the out side. Its at an angle and just works on the LHS. Will try for a picture in the morning.

Don't use it currently as we have done the "mix it up with cement" , many tonnes of cement and money and starting to show issues.

edit Obviously not ripping it out to the base, I don't think thats something you want to do every fortnight

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

Picture as promised.

 

[Lincsman]

Council contractors use what looks like a heavy rotavator (this is in a standard Tarmac Road) them "power Harrow" and roll back with lots of sprayed tar, finally spray with a surface dresssing.

This is on deepy rutted country roads that can be closed for a week.

 

[britt]

There have been threads on this before, look back to find them.
I have an old Record dutch harrow with the tines removed and angle iron bolted on in a diamond shape. The trick is to do it regularly enough that potholes barely form.
The stuff that comes out of the hole is still there, if you scrape it back in before it gets too far you don't need to add much stone each year.
The stuff that comes out initially sits around the hole exaggerating it's depth.

 

[gmgmgm]

If you have have loose gravel on the surface, then a box grader (with adjustable tines) to rip up the pothole areas and roughly shape/camber, followed by a "land plane" / "land grader" to keep it shaped.

Big in the USA, here is an example of a land plane: https://www.rktractors.com/implements-land-planes-rk-tractors.php Seems harder to get in the UK.

If you keep getting pot-holes in the same place, then I believe you need to rip it more/deeper to aid drainage there. It's all about drainage.