| shulerfarm - 11/15/2025 21:29 I need something that will be heavy enough to dig in and grab potentially hard dirt. Ideally I need to work the roads when it it very dry so the mud holes do not have water in them. This makes everything else very hard. Not loose gravel. Maybe I could pre "rip" with a field cultivator to give the blade some loose dirt to work. I will primarily be fixing roads that have been abused by deer hunters (proud of their 4x4 trucks and don't care that it rained 4" day before dog hunt) or loggers running semi trucks around or even through fields. Almost wish I had a simple 3 point blade on a tractor that could hydraulically push down. As far as I know all tractors are single action cylinders controlling the 3 point hitch. Or add a 2000 lb concrete block to the blade.
more than once I've had to disk the road to get it workable. I have a mile of township road that shares the line with two fueding townships.
It gets 'worked' once a year, regardless if it needs it or not. Usually only fills the holes with clumps of grass, roots and high organic dirt from the shoulder... first rain and it's squished out.
Somewhere in my grove there's a single gang one-way disk that should work well for pulling the ridge off the edge of the shoulder that should limit how much ends up in the ditch.
Problem is, the better I make this mile, the more traffic uses it, which pounds it out faster... the Devil in me wants to deep rip this just before freeze up and let it sit as-is. But I'd be the guy they'd knock on the door at 3 am.. to pull them out when they auger themselves in to the axle..
People are like cattle.. they will NOT split the track of the previous traveler.. and insist on pounding the trail into oblivion.
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Pull grader vs 3 point grader blade
