posted 6 years ago
Now I mention the road that we build, but even after hauling the gravel, and using the tractor to spread the gravel out, it was not ideally smooth. Not for heavy haul trucks!
I did have a 3 point hitch grader blade, but those do not work because when you go into a hole, the grader blade...which is cantilevered out the back...goes even deeper into the hole, and when the tractor comes upwards, the grader blade goes even higher. You can run the lever a lot and semi-flatten out the gravel, but that is not ideal.
The ideal is to make the grader be in the middle of a long span. That way, as the tractor goes up or down, and the trailing wheels of the grader goes up and down, the blade only moves half the distance. But this trailer has a walking beam suspension, just like a real road grader, so I dismantled my 3 point hitch grader, found some I beam and fabricated it into a drop down hitch, and now when I want a grader blade, I bolt my grader between my log trailer and its hitch. This makes my grader 18 feet long, and so as I grade my roads, them come out ultra smooth. In fact only two passes are required. If the blade kicks up a rock, and the wheels roll over it, the blade is unaffected because of the suspension system of the trailer. The blade also pivots from left to right, or right to left, or straight across.
I use this A LOT because it can grade roads, smooth fields, or even plow snow.
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