Clearing SNOW off road with grader. North Idaho. 

I used to plow our gravel road with my old D6 cat, but I only had a 10 foot blade, so it wasn't optimal. Most we ever got was about 10 inches of snow. That hardest part was trying no to dig down into the road, which made me wish I had a float position.

A thankless job I hope you're appreciated 🙏

Old and reliable 👏 JD workhorse

< use to drive a john deere older grader way back from 1989 till 2005 And loved every min of it! I worked for a street dept in Indiana, And i gragered alleys.

Can't wait for these videos this season

Thanks for bringing us with for the ride. Beautiful area to be in.

Thanks for sharing your work day! Look forward to seeing the 772 grader maintaining and grading and plowing snow! ❄️ Happy New Years🥳👋

A good guy doing a good deed,; most people don’t know the long hours put in by you guys, without you, people get stuck or into horrible wrecks, I for one appreciate it.. Keep up the great work. I watched the entire video and look forward to more!

Checked out some of your videos. Interesting!! Nice little grader. I could sure use one of those. Subbed 👍

Keep up the great work frank I would like to get a job operating a grader one day happy holidays brother

Very cool machine brother... happy holidays to you also

Anything with snow and heavy equipment always draws me in lol. Nice little vid. More action shots mixed in with you talking would be nice. Nice area you live in.

I'll be back when you get some snow :)

Frank, show finished road in the future. 👍👍🤘🏻🤘🏻 Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎉

Thanks for sharing, Frank. First time viewer and even if I'm a female, I love heavy equipment. Snow removal videos are the best, hehehe...this from a girl who lives in Alabama. Have a great day

I enjoyed it

I'm a firm believer in the "Fullness of Time" meaning that things simply take as long as they take, which make me very patient. The only time i'm not is when I'm heading for the 'head'. When you gotta go, you gotta go.

Great video, I’m a 37 year blade operator for a county road dept in western Iowa. I’m also an instructor for Iowa Sate University’s MOGO program. We offer a training program for new and old moter grader operators. We cover summer road maintenance and snow removal. I’ve subscribed to your videos, maybe we can share some or part of your videos. I also have a channel with a few Grader videos. Thanks.

The small city I live in is very hilly they used to use these 1950s and 60s models to clear snow all the time. They were much better than the front end loaders they use these days.

More video of the machine working and less video of you. I am not wanting to be rude or nasty. I just want to see more of the grader workings and the landscape around you. I did enjoy your audio contribution. Do you have a magnetic base for your camera to show the many different viewing angles as you work - both inside the cab and outside? I just subscribed and am looking forward to more videos. I have a limited amount of seat-time in a grader while I was in the US Navy Seabees. I remember plowing snow while I was stationed at the US Navy base in Brunswick, Maine. Good memories. May God Bless America

A grader can do a wonderful job of opening a road with a V plow on the front.

About how much would it cost to replace the cutting edge on your blade? Now I understand you have a specialized cutting edge.

We live around kalispell off an unmaintaned forestry road and use an old austinwestern grader to plow around 2 miles of road to get out. thing is, it don't got any breaks and hydraulic steering with a tone lever

Personally i prefer manual controls paired with a steering wheel, tried and trued

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You can drive in front of me - any time!!👍🇨🇦😆❄

Nice video and a beautiful day to be removing snow on a grader, are those Sandvik blades/ teeth you are using in this video? After 25 years of intermittently operating graders in the Canadian arctic (Champions, Volvos and Cats), recently I started doing snow removal using my first ever John Deere out on the east coast which was also my first ever time on a 6 wheel drive grader, a newer 772G. My impression now that I’m used to using this grader dealing with these east coast storms is that the front wheel drive sure would have been a nice option to have when using the sloper and wing attachments in the past. (Does anyone else reading this use a sloper to pull snow down out of high snow drifts for a blower following behind you?) Additionally I think that the John Deere seems to be a quality, well balanced machine which to me means a lot. Anyways I’d sure like to have the grader parked in my driveway and start out from home like you do!

Why would you not have your front plow ready ???

Those are not ice bits they are sandvex teeth and they're for grading gravel roads

Do you contract with the county or are you an employee?

Only a inch

Oh you absolutely want to put people in the ditch especially near town people who only view you as an inconvenience to their commute..............or trying to get to the ski hill 2 minutes sooner than the person they're following, so they can be the first one to crash or the first one to run me off the road so I don't hit them

Why let that cutting edge wear that bad?

i had 2500 hundred dollars fine from the country where i live graded and sanded the range road before Christmas the country did already paid double for the fine the young some she lost control and rolled the 2022 country vehicle i own the towing company i am playing by their rules and the rules of the province to proper registration and insurance to yes cash money too all of the speeding ticket have to be paid cash laughing at that the road was a skating rink to have a dairy farm why i do it for the milk trucks as to the fine the judge will throw it out of the courtroom to the property was graded and sanded to we do clean the driveway to laughing his granddaughter was not hurt when she rolled the vehicle yes she was able to go to her grandparent's place after that laughing we rode a horse for an hour after that too