We GRADE a LONG winding country road with a Brand NEW grader unlike ANYTHING else out there. #tractor #grading #roadgrader #oneofakind #equipment #construction
Great job with the road! I can tell it's smoother after your grading. The Roadrunner is pretty ingenious. Makes use of what you have already (skid steer) without having to purchase another separate unit that needs maintenance as well.
I KNEW you'd end up getting a road grader attachment! Very cool , Stanley ! . This is a game changer for all your needs and a potential money maker for neighbors , or anyone that has rural land 👍❤️💯 I'm happy for you my friend 👍
This is a very simple but effective attachment. I’d like to see a closer up of the material you work with. I’m from TN so our roads are typically hard packed clay, creek gravel, or standard crusher run. I’d like to see how this attachment fairs to some harder ground. I’d also love to see a comparison of this unit vs a standard 6 way blade.
It would work great on a gravel road. Because it would flow better than sand with leaves mixed in. Having the wheels out front would be a must with a skidsteer. Great upload.
that machine is something! Im loving all the new attachments for skiddys! Becoming even more versitile! Keep up the great work! Any snow last week at all? Had a few flurries where i am.
Good to hear your daughters growing and learning weather that stresses you out less or not isn’t as important in the long run at least she’ll be closer to home if so you can see her more it’s important people always try to continue to learn improve and change weather they fail or not
being a motor grader operator that attachment is only designed to cut 1 way, there is no option to articulate the blade left or right ,, once you understand that you will be able to compensate when cutting or trimming a road
Looks like a very solid attachment and is a good buy at a price tag of $8k. From your video it looked as if it did a nice job of resurfacing the road, but hard to tell how the crowning of the road came out on the video. Yes I would like to see you do a more in depth video on getting that attachment to actually set a proper crown. I would imagine that the first pass or two is to clear all the leaf litter and debris. I have been going a lot of grading over the last 30 yrs or so, and I would buy that attachment. I am in CA and they are building most new housing developments are “high density”, meaning that you are lucky to have 5’ on the side yards. I am wondering if the make an attachment that is about 36” that would mount on a Boxer or other mini track loader. I am going to look into it. Thanks for another helpful video!
Any thoughts on comparing it to 6 way dozer blade ? We use a 6 way for crowning and swells, it would be interesting to hear your input on which is faster or more flexible. PS hate leaf's when grading, due to clumping , just the nature of fall and woods though. looks like it would work good with clean material or rock under 1.5" with fines.
That is a design I have had in my head for a while looks like I should have put it on paper. They done a good job building it and you sir are genuine. Keep doing you showing things naturally as mistakes make you smarter.
The Bobcat branded version includes a pair of laser sensors to independently adjust the height on each side. Easily one of the biggest time savers available for a concrete pour.
That design is very similar to our trail drags we use for snomobile trails,exact same principal! We have used our old unit to grade the road to our storage barn,does a great job erasing the potholes!
Scope out Yellowstone track system they make grooming stuff for cross country, ski trails and snowmobile trails I just hauled a tractor trailer load of them from Sheridan, Wyoming to Vermont.
Great content as always. I'm happy for you and your family that your daughter has chosen to move closer to home. The video of her lifestyle was fascinating. Hopefully you'll make one of her living off the land in this new setting.
Ya know Stan, one of the many reasons I watch is Honesty. I believe we come into this world naked, & leave naked, the only thing we have in between is our reputation... It kinda hard, in this day & age, to have personal ethics. Kudos to you for sticking to yours!! When ya asked about cost, at first k thought he was gonna add a decimal place, lol. Heck I've seen box blades for $15-2000, lol! This def seems to have a place, especially if ya don't have a center mounted grader blade on a tractor. Please give us an update on how this works out... & As always, Thanx !!
Job specific, my road has 3/4 minus which might give any grader fits but a rake is the perfect answer with proper addition. This thing might be great for prep work with very small base material.
I like that it could work on parking lots too the price seem very reasonable for what it was doing for you I like how you show the mistakes I love honesty waiting for your next video
Bobcat (brand) makes a similar attachment that adds laser sensors to automatically raise & lower the blade to a tripod-mounted construction laser. A machine like that could do a more precise job leveling a grade for a concrete pour in minutes compared to what would take hours for me to do with conventional methods.
So I can buy one for my tractor now and then use the same one when I finally buy a ctl? Priceless. Would use this 2-3 days per week. Definitely looking into it further, thank you so much.
Stan, that piece of equipment is really cool. Will it build a freeway. No. But for driveway maintenance vs cost it's a well built for the job.the biggest problem that a skid steer has. Is it has no suspension. So it wants to work on the same plane it's sitting on. This grader makes it much easier to transition and create what you want. Well done...
One, the roads you are doing are already in pretty darn good shape(compared to what I am used too). Two you have all nice dirt, in my area the ground is pretty much pit run rock that works its way up to the road surface, how will it work on that??
Pretty neat. I've seen 6-way dozer blades which have a lot of sloping ability, but they don't have that box blade mechanism or wheels out front. Just wonder the price point between this and a laser grader. Usually, to crown a road, I bring in topsoil (screened down to 1/2" with expanded metal) and dump it down the center of the road, and then just use a skeleton bucket to smooth /feather the sides down. Then wait for local traffic to wheel pack it.
Stupid question time!!!! When you start the cut to set your crown angle, do you then reset it when the tracks get onto the cut area, or does the grader have a pivot to let the machine articulate behind it since the shoes and wheels are still on the original surface angle and the machine is on the new cut angle? Newbie in a track loader here, but loving the thought of something like this for my road!
It will be nice having your daughter much closer to home. I am sure that you and your wife will sleep better at night, I know that I sure would. Take care my friend, and thanks again for the videos.
Cool! Grading work looks great! I recognized your "Home" place part way through. Funny I was living sort of like your daughter, when i was young in Hawaii. I know what you mean by "carport".
I love your videos good stuff! This thing looks sweet! You guys should make a video of fixing a long gravel driveway filled with potholes. I need one of these things and can’t find a video of it repairing any gravel driveways.
Outstanding Stan. Saw one similar with only a single but larger moldboard connected to a laser level. I didn't get to learn about it so I'm sorry I can't share any info
I think you could get similar results with a harley rake with a power tilt. and have more uses for it. that said it looks like a durable piece of equipment for the right person.
@@Dirtmonkey what would you charge someone for the job you did on your property? I have no reference so to me it would be at least $500 bucks and that's probably very low. How long did it take you?
LOL. There was some dirt mixed in with the leaves too. It would be nice to see if it could withstand redoing and topping a gravel drive. I don't know about full integrated GPS, but you can stick a laser level receiver on anything.
That is a great attachment for grading road and for as many passes you did you were not working with a road that was semi graded already how man years you said the road wasn't Taking care of so to my knowledge you did really food for the amount of pass you did and for the ones that will complain I would say I would like seeing you do it in less passes great job and I am sure your daughter will love it too have a great day
I wonder how it would do on packed gravel roads in my small town. We have 1960s wore out Main Taner grader and it’s hard to learn on. I am new to my town maintenance. Plus it’s a pain in ass to turn around. Maybe something like this would do the job.
I’m glad you said skid loader attachment. I was totally about to go on my tractor with grader scraper rant again like I did on Instagram when you posted the video of this thing. Never mind lol. A tractor with a top and tilt will do the same thing and be a lot cheaper if you don’t already have a skid steer. If you do then it’s a great attachment but if you want to be a bit cheaper just buy a tractor and grading scraper.
From what I’ve seen land planes really come into their own on subsequent maintenance passes. Drop it down and drive pretty much. This one just adds the crowning ability. I’d bet someone that owns a land plane uses it more often since it’s so simple, resulting in having a road that’s never a massive chore to fix outside of a big flood event or something.
@@davewood406 well ya that is true. I already own a tractor and land plane and definitely can’t afford a skiddy and that roadrunner. I’ve been using the land plane for 5 years to rebuild a driveway full of rocks. I’ve found that it’s a simple learning curve and you can get good results fast and cheap. I’d personally rather spend years rebuilding a driveway then doing house chores so I picked the land plane route. If I had a skid I would buy the roadrunner. I am curious on how well it would do on my glacial till driveway. Got big round rocks and zero dirt lol.
@@1farmer608 never having seen the mechanicals of this tool beyond the video. I would worry that the adjustment gimmick on extremely rocky ground is asking for trouble. Just a hunch though. Asking too much of a standard land plane and you might have some hammering and/ or welding to do, where this thing is probably more complicated if you bang up the works and bind it up.
I love your daughter, finding herself. She went from veganism, dealing with do no harm to any living creature, to being a self-providing hunter/gatherer. Life is one big experiment.
Unrelated question Stanley, but, have you ever gotten your hands on an Avant articulating loader? I’m convinced it’s an unbelievable machine but im a novice and it’s way too big a purchase to get wrong
Wow. Looks well built. I can see a lot of other uses, fine grade for building pads yard installs.... I like the versatility to go from skid steer to 3 point! Noticed if you pick the wheels up they show the angle of how the machine is sitting. Good video!
Hey Stan! That's an awfully expensive way to rake leaves! Just kidding. Looks like it works pretty good, especially if you have a skid loader. I imagine it would work quite well on a tractor with a 3 pt hitch and live hydraulics. I like the elevation indicators, makes it easy to adjust. Don't let your hippie daughter freeze to death out there, get her cutting lots of firewood!
"I don't know if they didn't have friends in high school or if their mom didn't breastfeed them" Love the channel, and I would love to see a video of how to crown. God bless Stan.
@@Dirtmonkey Yeah, appreciate the honesty. Some of these dirt guys doing residential/farm work think that because they're an operator/mechanic, who can barely do simple addition, after monday morning quarterbacking some piece of equipment or another actually believe they know more about machinery and structural design than an engineer. Then they build something and it falls apart. But it didn't fail,.. because the rebuilding it several times is just "fun research and development". LOL Like some of the other comments, it'd be nice to see this thing operate in a gravel road/driveway that needs to be reworked to see how durable it is,.. maybe putting a complete road/driveway in from subgrade prep, base, to finish grade/gravel.
It’s great your Daughter is home I remember watching the vid of you Guys In Hawaii eating different fruits. I like the grader,might have to get one. You know your the reason I have a Sno power😂
It looks like the cutting edges need to angle toward the center in order to build up your center crown. I believe an 8 ft box blade with hydraulics would work better and cheaper
