excellent, especially your narrative on wife and gravel purchase@@@ I find driveway clean up the most fun of all my work up in Vemront. Your text on using the box blade was 100%, most of us take years to learn it, common sense but people should be directed t read it to learn quickly what many of us learn over years.
just remember "happy wife, happy life" good job I built an extension from our driveway 250 ft to our pole barn made my wife happy 40yards of double regrind concrete
Wow, spectacular job. How does a person learn to get all these angles so perfectly. You did not appear to use a transit or anything and it looks like you have the perfect gradient for water run off.
The problem with my BX25 isn't getting implements on and off the three point, its getting the dang backhoe off and the whole three point hitch back on!
Good video, liked the time lapse. I would however, like to have seen a bit more on the techniques and thought process before hand. Otherwise it was informative & easy to watch. I Would also like to know, how many hours you had in the project?
Silly me -- I watched this expecting to see demonstrations of techniques... The video talks a lot about WHAT was done, but none at all about HOW to do it. You may want to modify the title of the video to more accurately reflect the content. You clearly know what you're doing with the equipment, so it's disappointing that I wasn't able to learn how you did it.
The problem with people that take on use of equipment and find they can get 75% done with just going out their and trying, is that they can then waste years doing it wrong, me included. When you work with somebody who knows, you race through the learning curve. This video was spot on if you also read the text (assuming one can read), wish I would have seen it years ago, but finally learned it all through time and money.
Those trucks are registered at 105,000 pounds. So either they are limited by bridges in the delivery area, have an extremely high tare weight, or he is wrong on the yardage. Here in Ny, the max is 80000 and you can get a quarry truck to 23-25 ton legally.
You might have benefited from some driveway fabric to prevent the gravel from washing done into the soil after a few years. Relative to that beautiful expensive rock you bought, fabric is pretty cheap (I bought the commercial grade stuff on eBay).
So on my RPM gauge I have a yellow line it annotate the ideal PTO setting. I realize that the PTO setting is not something I’m using while I’m using my box blade however that is the RPM that I run my tractor out when I’m moving dirt like I am in this video
Advice: Never mix natural gravel (ie round shaped pebbles.) into crushed stone as it 'lubricates' and destroys the surface and sucks mud to the surface immediately.
I don't usually post comments, but great job! I have a similar situation, similar property. Constantly have problems with puddling, constantly running one my 3000ft driveway with my box grader or land grader. You run your tractor like a pro. Do you do tractor work professionally?(Just curious....I live on the other coast)
Nope I don’t do it professionally, I end up helping out friends and family with tractor work, I have also assisted with building several houses and doing most of the dirt work for that.
Not sure why he is pushing with the front bucket like that. It's not a bulldozer, you could easily just push with the box blade in reverse and itll do a better job without risking bending anything. I'm not saying it will bend anything on the loader but might as well just use the box.
Aaron Buehler just a flat cutting edge I find that the rippers in the box blade break up the dirt enough to move it. And I like the smooth finish that the loader bucket leaves
1500 bucks? That’s a tri axle and should carry more at once. You paid for all them trips more than the material. 3/8 minus red is cheap like 7 bucks a ton. Fairly flat there so it shouldn’t wash out. I got 2 deliveries of it at 22 ton per delivery for just under 500 I think. Not sure how many yards that is but 1500 on just stone is pretty costly. Of course your driveway is much much longer than mine so I could be way off here. Update 22 ton 2x is about 88,000 pounds if a yard is about 2500-3000 pounds it equates to 30ish yards. Of course the bigger stone you got might weigh more vs volume.
@@DanielWoodell lol dude I live on a 3000 acre commercial farm. I think I know exactly what I'm talking about. I'm sure it works for your needs though. Not saying it's bad. But all stone driveways get pot holes and dips. It's just part of its cons.
The high-speed time-lapse footage is just too damn fast to be of value! It shows WHAT you do but not HOW you do it. I watch vids like yours to learn. The high-speed stuff is just too fast to learn much of anything. Your work seems to be of high quality but I have little idea of how you got from start to finish.
greg bakley yeah that’s what I was thinking but they have some kind of limit he said about what they can carry weird by me that truck would have been bursting at the seams coming in
Depending on type of gravel and how far they have to haul it thats about average To blacktop that much would have been more than 10 times that amount most likely
TheSoloAsylum I have no problem getting full loads delivered to me. Maybe state law limit them but no problems in Kentucky getting a full load delivered but I am in the country and 5 minutes away from the quarry.maybe they overload with out fear because they know they will not get caught!
I don't know about your soil there but where I live I had to put down 3" - 4" rock to build a base that is stable enough to resist washout in heavy rain. Probably different everywhere.
Finally someone who does something! Most of these videos are people who stand in front of a camera and TALK for 90 percent of the video. Thanks for telling what your doing WHILE your doing it!
Awesome Video .... This is the first You Tube video I have seen were I didn't feel bored thru unnecessary redundancies the fast forwards were Great excellent video composition ....Thank You
I weld a ball hitch to almost every attachment that can support one. I have one that I cross drilled for a pin that drops in a hole In the center leading edge of my bucket. That one is super handy.
In my opinion that gravel is going to be dissapearing into the dirt after a couple years of rains. Compaction is really important and with all the equipment you have, suprised you dont have a heavy roller...maybe you do.
then you order another load, some of course will disappear over time. Once you get enough gravel down you can use the box blade on the driveway and pull up alot of the gravel you lost.
Curious as to your hydraulic top link system on your L3200. I have the same machine and am interested in installing such a system. Having to climb down and manually adjust (especially when using a box blade) is a PITA. Nice video!
So I don’t have a hydraulic top link. I have made a quick adjust top link. It’s a mechanical version. See below link. . Quick Adjust Tractor Top Link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h6333tMD_B0.html
That Kubota tractor and the box blade is working just fine and did a great job of leveling up your property and the gravel you purchased really helps in improving the road to your house and I hope your wife is pleased with the work you have done to improve your home and the road up to it.
Gig Harbor here, nice tractor work and leveling. Looks like you used the Gorst Quarry crushed minus rock, that stuff packs so good and will last longer than the other crushed minus rocks.Steve
Agree with many of the other comments . Better to compact the soil as much as possible before gravel. Generally you will need a 4 inch gravel base . You will be adding that much again soon then it will be ok with resmoothing with box blade regularly. I find it best to put a couple of inches of larger stone or slag up to 2 inch or more if soil loose. then top with about 2 inches of the size range you used. Maybe if you have high clay soil you will get by with about 2 inches for a while.
Hello fellow Washingtonian I'm on the other side of the state nice video man. I love your property. I found your videos because I'm looking at buying a new Kubota.
Nice video! Glad I stumbled on your stuff man! I live not too far away in the Seabeck area. Keep up the good work. Maybe some more in video description of what you’re doing & why.
The before pictures of that driveway look better than mine ever did. Seems like this whole project is just an excuse to drive your tractor... and I think any excuse to drive a tractor is a good one :)
I always tell people if you buy crappy equipment you won't want to run it, on the other hand if you buy high quality equipment you will want to run it. Yes, you will find something to do with it :).
I appreciated your video. I a local from north kitsap area, so the plug for your gravel company is helpful. Thank you for posting this. I found it informative.
