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Good day Mike and thanks for the great idea. Another subscriber suggested the same thing. I need to start doing that. Even if I don't use them for the deep areas, I could add them to my rock wall. Thanks again and all the best!

Thanks Erick! All the best!

Morning JE. LOL. Me too but I have learned over the few years that it takes a lot of passes but eventually it starts looking better. But the first several passes always kind of looks like I am making it worse . :)) Cheers!

Thanks Walter! Have a great weekend!

Oops, forgot to mention. Using the back blade to dig and put back some material on center of the road, but definitely using the landplane after that!

Hey good morning Joe. Yes, I was considering it but wanted to provide a reasonably similar comparison between the two units and I figured that assisting it with the rear blade would not have provided a fair comparison. Stay tuned for part 2. Cheers!

Hey good evening Kyle. I agree with you. I told them they need to get several truckloads of gravel in, so hopefully they will. Thanks for the note and enjoy the weekend!

Good morning Dave! Good stuff. Many people asked for the comparison so I couldn't give up the opportunity to work on that road. Stay tuned and have a great weekend!

Good morning Dean. Thanks - happy you enjoyed it. It eventually did but it sure took a long time. Let's see how the box blade does in the next video. Stay tuned. Have a great weekend Dean!

Thanks Saw Junky! All the best to you!

LOL! Congratulations Dr! That's great news. Happy you are enjoying it. I think you'll get plenty of use this winter - I have a feeling we will be getting a lot of snow. Enjoy it and be safe! Let me know how it is going from time to time. Cheers!

Thanks Dave! Have a great weekend!

Thanks Kap! I'm still learning but getting a little better each time. Cheers and hope you and the missus are doing great!

Good evening and thanks Hughie, I couldn't agree more. I explained a similar thing to the good folks there and explained that if they didn't truck in some good gravel soon that they would end up with the exact same result come spring. But hey, I was able to help a little for now - that road is in pretty brutal shape. So I got the potholes and ruts out... for now. But I agree with you - they will be back pretty quick without some proper gravel. Thanks and I appreciate the great info you shared. Have a great weekend!

Good stuff Derek. If you have a few acres or more, then I would go bigger than the BX. Good tractor but big jump in capacity and ability between the bx and the B. My brother has a bx for his 1 1/2 acres and it works great for him ( flat, open land - no forest) but with the B, you get much more ground clearance, lift capacity on the FEL and on the 3 point, more weight etc. Worth taking a good look at both. Good luck with the decision!

Compare the BX to MF GC or Kioti CS. Ended up with a MF. Larger displacement, higher pump output, & dual bucket tilt cylinders. Actually looked at LS, RK, NH, JD, & Yanmar too. If I had gone up in size, I probably would have gotten a Kubota L2501HS or the LS XJ2025H.

Cheers Roy!

LOL Good morning Michael. I needed one after that long day myself. Thanks and have a great weekend!

Cheers and thanks Mike!

LOL. Cheers and thanks Rob ( from MN). !

Thank you! Cheers!

LOL. Yup coming soon. Cheers DIY!

LOL! I'd take that deal. Cheers!

LOL. Good day and thanks kindly William. They are good folks and I was happy to get more practice learning how to use the attachments. Have a wonderful weekend and thanks again for the kind comments!

Good morning John. Yes it diid very well - just took a while longer but good finish on the surface. Keep smiling and all the best!

Cheers Jay! Keep smiling!

@@GPOutdoors Thank you! Have a good weekend!

Thanks 👍

Thanks Ric. Some good advice. Have a great week!

Welcome and thanks Michael! Happy to have you join the gang here. Yup, Guy is one in a million, no doubt. Have a great week and thanks for tuning in!

Good morning and thanks very much GSL! Welcome to the channel! I appreciate the support. Have a great week out there - lots of lawns to manicure! Cheers!

Good stuff Houndsman. And it will make for a good video too. I'll look for it. Cheers!

Yup, I think so Bryan. My friend is an excavator and he has always said it is better to do a little maintenance every year than to wait years until it is badly neglected and have to invest a large $$$ to try to fix it all. Have a good one!

@@GPOutdoors I was a surface mine supervisor until I retire a few years ago. In 2010 our budget for limestone was 50,000 dollars a mouth. Just for the main coal haulage roads. If I remember correctly on the price per ton at the time it was around 3,200 ton per month.

Good morning John. Been a while and it turned out I couldn't see much gravel left on it at all. I learned alot working on it though so was a good experience. Thanks and all the best!

GP Outdoors I’ll bet it was educational. All the best to you as well! Been busy getting the farm going but it’s looking good now!

Good evening Trackdog. It has been an unusual summer for sure. No lie. I don't go more than two days without rain here this summer. Very odd. So you kind of have to get the work done between rain clouds. You see them coming on the horizon and start working quicker to hope you finish before it hits. LOL. Be well!

LOL! That roller would have come in handy again. I like the process you described - works well on my driveway so far. Keep smiling T!

Morning J! That sounds lIke a great idea. I wish I had tried that. I think that would have worked really nicely - especially on that road. Thanks for the great idea. All the best!

Good day Grampie! Stay tuned - it's coming. Just about to check in on the deck build after I refill my cup. Cheers!

Thanks Mark. Sounds like a good, effective solution. A few folks had a similar suggestion but also added that they add a length of chain link fencing to it, too. Appreciate the idea. Have a good week and thanks again!

Not always effective if the road has not been maintained - my road is rock hard from lack of grading (hasn't been done in 12 years, gravel is just dropped I'm the potholes once a year). A neighbor tried the ibeam trick and all it did was skip along the surface.

Good evening and welcome to the channel Liffy! Thanks very much. All colours are good - LOL - just enjoy being outside and learning how to use them. Thanks for joining- have a great week!

LOL! Good morning Mark. Yes indeed. Good folks there and happy to get some practice in on the equipment. I just hope they get some gravel in or I think it will end up the same way come spring. Have a great weekend!

LOL! I know what you mean Shaun. I just go talk to neighbours and see what I can do for them. It provides lots of variety for me to practice using different parts of the tractor. Cheers!

You too Don! Cheers!

LOL! Cheers!

Good evening Donald. It may be. I have not ever looked into it but it may be the same. I thought it was kind of odd since so many folks live there. But perhaps at some point I will check into it more to understand it. Cheers and thanks!

Hey good morning Howard. Thanks for sharing. I was not sure if it was only up here or not. Say hi to young Andy for me. :)) He will start to see little snows in late October and usually by mid November he will see some bigger snowfalls that will last thereafter. I will try to include some shots of snowfalls in some videos for him as well. LOL. All the best to you both!

I've sent Andy mom a text with his answer, he'll get it this evening when she gets home from work. Now from Carl Q&A: did you after finishing with the box blade did you go back the land plane & tough up. Before spreading the wood chips. Same someone's got a honey do list request. LOL! See you on #197.

Thanks Ryan. Very good advice and a bad habit I have to get out of. Cheers and all the best!

guided one if you had watched and paid attention you would have seen the YELLOW one is the land plane and GP said the next video would be with the box blade ( the red one)

Good day ODD. I think we could make a few $$ with it for sure.LOL. Thanks - stay tuned for the next episode. And have a good one ODD!

Hey good morning Guided One. Yes, they can look kind of similar but this more flat-looking one is the land plane. You'll see the box blade in the next video. Thanks for watching and all the best!

LOL. Jon, you will have to wait for Part 2. LOL. I can't give you the sneak preview yet. LOL. Cheers!

LOL!

@@GPOutdoors Another good video. Why do you need to bring in the box blade after that?

Morning Integrate. Well I am certainly not the best at it - still learning. But yes, more weight would be helpful for sure and a little more experience. Thanks for watching and all the best!

@@GPOutdoors Well based on what I know from using a grader there are a few things I would do differently if I built one. first is like I said make the mold boards adjustable both in depth and angle of attack, second they should be angled in opposite directions so you move dirt from the center of the road out, then back to crown the road the trailing edge of the last blade should be highest to feather the material out, and unless the road is sand it needs more weight. Thanks for the post though, it gave me some insight

Good morning Tony. Thanks! This section is done. I am going to do the next section of 225 feet but with the box blade so folks can see how each one performed on a similar surface. A number of subscribers were asking for comparison videos. Have a good one!

Good morning GoodWorks! I started with them higher and then dropped them to the third deepest and left them there until I lifted them out altogether. LOL. You see it missing because the road is so uneven - the camera doesn't pick up the undulations very well but it took a lot of passes to finally get down deep enough that they were digging throughout. I learned a lot doing this. It was good foe me to experience working on a surface so uneven and with such deep potholes and ruts. Thanks for joining the channel! All the best!

Thanks BB!

LOL!

Good day NB! They both weigh about 450 but as I mention in part 2, I think because the weight is more concentrated with the box blade, the scarifiers and the unit seems to do the job much more efficiently. Stay tuned! Have a great weekend!

LOL! Too funny - thanks Steve. I think you have some very good observations that I agree with there. But I wouldn't want to ruin the ending.... Cheers!

Cheers Tom!

Good morning Joseph. Another subscriber suggested the same thing. Thanks for the advice - If I get to work further on it, I will give it a try for sure. Cheers and all the best!

Morning Allen. Rear Blade for me! Cheers!

Yeah part 2 will be interesting. This was a good video, looking forward to watching both of them to see how it turns out 👍..and I only have a boxblade too. Lol

Good day and thanks Whiskies! I should have it out for Monday. Stay tuned! Cheers!

Good morning Leo. I noticed it does bounce around - it is 450 lbs so I guess perhaps all the rocks it is hitting are causing it to jump around as I go. Have a good weekend!

Good morning and thanks Bill! I sure hope not - Have a great weekend!

Good evening Peter. They definitely need to drop a lot of gravel on that road or it will end up looking the same as when I started. Hopefully they will. Cheers my friend!

Thanks Jeff! It is a 60 inch. The dealer told me that the grading equipment should extend a bit outside the width of the tractor (past the wheels). So my blade is a 72 inch. Hope that helps. Cheers!

Hey good morning Andrew! Good to hear from you. Some good advice and information there. Did you sneak a look at my part 2 video? LOL. Coming out in a couple of days. Hope all is going well for you. Cheers and thanks again for the great points, as always.

@@GPOutdoors didn't mean to let the "cat out of the bag". Sorry if I did. I'll see how you conclude with part 2.

LOL. No worries at all Andrew. All good. Cheers!

Morning Chris. Thanks for the comment this morning. Most likely me, I had very little experience using it at the time. Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend!

Good day Richard. I told them the same thing. Hoping they get some gravel in before winter. All the best!

Good morning Terry. I think that's a great idea to get outdoors, stay active and will keep you busy working your own property and for others. Interesting question. Let me offer a few of my thoughts and please remember, I am certainly not an expert but here are my thoughts. He is correct that the B series or any tractor in this size class, does not weigh very much and I have found that weight is an important consideration for sure. I think it weighs about 2,000 lbs all in. I find it does my work well - I have been able to do about 95% of anything I have attempted to do. Grading driveways and driveway repair is not an issue for it, on the small scale that I do it. Blowing and blading snow etc and all the many other things you have seen me do- all good. However, it does not dig very well in our hard and rocky soil. not enough power and not enough weight to be able to dig into the ground with the bucket for example. It digs in with the grapple very well but that is because the grapple has teeth or tines on the bottom which break up the ground well. I can't dig out stumps very well unless the stump is old and rotted, for example. Fortunately, I don't dig a lot with the bucket so it has not been a big concern for me. The second thing to consider is ground clearance and width or footprint. The B series tractor is a "narrow" tractor (on purpose), so I chose it because I wanted to be more nimble and be able to sneak around through the forest easier and it does that very well. But because it is more narrow, I also have to manage how I drive or traverse the terrain because it is not as stable as wider tractors are. The bucket is small on it because it is a small tractor so when I go get my gravel dumped off, I have to make many more trips down the driveway spreading the gravel than I would otherwise if I had a bigger tractor and bigger lift capacity and bucket. Lastly, you may notice I don't dump or put many things into my little pickup truck. It is because the tractor, being a smaller tractor, does not lift too high - I can get it above the side walls of my truck bed but being smaller, it does not have the reach forward to get over the bed without coming too close or hitting the side of the truck. So that being said, yes I love the tractor and for me and most all my needs, it does what I need and I am very happy with it after almost 2 1/2 years now, but if I were to start doing some work as you are thinking about, I would for sure go for a larger, heavier tractor, with a wider footprint, more lift capacity and power, to be able to dig and drag my grading equipment easier or with more ability, and longer reach and power for the front end loader, and most likely would get a back hoe option for it, for sure, as I am sure you will run into jobs where you need to dig or manage the grading of the roads or driveways more effectively so a back hoe would probably be a necessity. Sorry for such a long response Terry but hope it was a little helpful. Wish you all the best and thanks for tuning in!

@@GPOutdoors Wow, what a great response! I'm dairy farm 'kid' so I knew my way around tractors (50 yrs ago:). Our loader tractor then was a JD1020. The JD1020 was +-2.5 ton/35hp/2WD. Even that class of loader tractor really wasn't very effective at digging out dirt that wasn't previously loosened or piled. Maybe dirt digging is sort've the limitation for AG type tractor/loaders. I can imagine that front wheel assist is helpful with many tasks, but front wheels might lose traction fairly quickly as loader digging effort is increased. In this scenario tractor weight/HP is certainly a friend:) Thanks again/T

@@GPOutdoors I notice your tractor has so-called industrial tires. What was the consideration there, as compared to more aggressive AG tires?

Hi Terry , you bet - they are R4 tires. I chose them because I have about 3/4 acre of lawn and as well, I often help my neighbour cut his lawns so my understanding was that the AG tires would cause damage to the lawns in the summer, which I believe to be true. The R4 tires have been good to the lawns so far. But in wet weather they will still tear it up a bit if I am turning sharply on the lawn. Hope that helps!

@@GPOutdoors Makes sense/thx

Good morning Chad! I was thinking the same thing. Better get my warm clothes ready. Great question - brings me back to history class. A Concession Road is basically a country road, so to speak. Way back, the government would split up crown (government-owned) land into 100 acre parcels (usually) and give them to people to build homes and to farm ( that was generally the deal - you had to agree to build a home and to farm the land in order to be awarded a 100 acre parcel). In order to access the parcels of land , the government would build a road through or across the parcels so people could get to their parcels of land - a "Concession Road'. Today you will still see the street signs still showing the numbered concession road as it's name and in some places, like where I am, the concession road has since been renamed. Interestingly though, in my case, even though my road has a proper name now, I still have to input the Concession Road number into a Map or GPS system in order for it to be found - the GPS doesn't recognize the titled name. Sorry, a little long-winded. LOL. ON the chains - I have been doing some digging , including some discussion with Joe Lesage and actually just called a few companies for quotes this past week. A little more expensive than I thought but I will be ready for the winter! Have a great weekend!

Interesting on the Concession Roads! I didn't realize that it was related to the parceling out of land. Here in NY we have township, county, and state roads along with private ones. Then you do have a few roads like the one you were working on where no one wants to claim them or they have been let go by the government. And yeah chains are not cheap. One trick it to go to the highway department and see if they have any old plow chains they are junking. They usually throw them out with a lot of life left on them for use on a tractor. The roads just eat them up. You have to adjust them for width and length but that isn't too hard.

Donnie Bargo they are too expensive, I built my own, ripped off EAs design. Used 10” c-channel for the sides, 4x4 L channel for the cutters, & 3” square for the structure. Got most of it as scrap for free, used 4# of flux core, bought some 3” flat stock to cap the ends of the c-channel at 45 degrees, quart of rustoleum rusty metal primer, & a quart of sunrise red. 40” long x 60” wide - $50 & about 10 hours. Used a Lincoln 180 240v flux core, put a bunch heat into all the structural steel, triple passed everything. Guessing it weighs 300#.

Donnie Bargo they are too expensive, I built my own, ripped off EAs design. Used 10” c-channel for the sides, 4x4 L channel for the cutters, & 3” square for the structure. Got most of it as scrap for free, used 4# of flux core, bought some 3” flat stock to cap the ends of the c-channel at 45 degrees, quart of rustoleum rusty metal primer, & a quart of sunrise red. 40” long x 60” wide - $50 & about 10 hours. Used a Lincoln 180 240v flux core, put a bunch heat into all the structural steel, triple passed everything. Guessing it weighs 300#.

Morning Carmine. I do indeed. When finishing the last few runs I will sometimes lift it slightly off the ground so it will catch any remaining uneven area but maintain the overall grade level. Good luck!

LOL. Cheers Jason. Maybe wait for part 2....:))

@@GPOutdoors ok

LOL. I always pre-warm the tractor up before I begin filming. But the temperature is dropping daily now here. Have a great weekend Tom!

@@GPOutdoors good chance of burning up glow plugs too. If you want to warm up before a shot, have the engine running before hand. I'd think it'd be kind of expensive to replace glow plugs and hope pieces arent burnt off landing in the cylinders. 🤔🤔🤔

Great advice - thanks Tom! Makes alot of sense. Cheers!

Good day James. Yes indeed - still very happy with it after 2 1/2 years now. Thanks for tuning in!

LOL. I think I might have. Have a good weekend GJ!

Hey good evening BOTH! That's a shame - sorry to hear. That's awfully unreasonable. I can understand how you must feel. Up here , it is actually fully unassumed. No town vehicle has ever touched it. It is literally managed 100% by the residents who live on it - totally. I appreciate the good advice though and will keep it in mind as I go forward. Thanks Bill - have a great week and all the best! Pretty son I think old man winter will be calling. Cheers!

Great advice Alos - thanks so much. Cheers and all the best to you!

Lengthen your top link, your rear cutting edge is not touching.

My been drop the shoes down a touch.

Adjust the shoes so that the land plane creates the crown in the road. This is fun I own Woods 84" and love it. Enjoy your channel!

Thanks for the great tips Brian! I appreciate it. Take care and thanks for tuning in!