Great video! Very educational and you clearly explain what you are trying to achieve with each pass. Thanks for the tips from AUS 🇦🇺

Thanks for helping me learn how to run blade! Thanks buddy

Thanks for the video. Always good to see other operators in action using different materials.

You did a great job how hard is it to get on to that grader.👍👍

Nice grader, I only ever had tandem drive Champion and then later Volvo 740’s and I’d be spreading behind end dump truck and pups so the material was not as nicely laid out as the belly dumps leave. Our roads were all 7 pass and I’d windrow what the trucks left towards one side and then split the windrow and spread 1/2 of it out in two passes basically one just to each side of the crown. Then I’d go back and get the rest of the windrow and in three passes lay it out across the entire road width overtop of the first two passes I had already laid down. Usually you’d get a pretty nice basic shape that way with the majority of the material where you wanted it, but at that stage of the job the priority was just to get as much gravel laid down as possible while the trucks were there as money for new gravel was always tight. After the trucks had gone to their next project we’d have time go back over the road and do a finish blading to shape it right up and then calcium chloride would be applied for dust control. I run a newer John Deere 772GP 6WD occasionally now amongst the other equipment but don’t have any gravel roads to blade with it, I sure would have liked to have had it for spreading on dirt roads. I enjoy your videos, any day running grader is a good day to me.

Thank you for making and sharing your video, it was very informative content. Well done. 👍🇦🇺

Good Job. Thank you brother. God bless you 🙏🏽

A good blade operator is a must for any successful construction company. Thanks for the video, it make me miss my job!

Thanks for the video always learning from them

Love the video I did good by myself but our front runner showed today really thru me but just my second day on there but appreciate the video!

Good stuff! Thanks for the explanation!

That's a good job well done ...wouldn't mind seeing how u deal with junctions or approaches thks ...

I get the idea of a maintenance windrow, but it creates a secondary gutter and doesn’t allow water to shed off the road. With that said I’m gonna assume this is a fall blading and you aren’t expecting much more rain for the season

Use 18M at the mine. But we do tailings and millfeeds on our roads after a little ballast. Fantastic work

I don't carry my aggregate that far to side you will have a tendency to loose it. I been building roads and rig sites for forty years . Everyone does it differently. We don't leave windows it catches water and runs down the sides. I always straddle it and then I can keep it in check.

This cool helps a lot when laying base down

How does the water run off the road where you left the maintenance windrow?

All I can say love those Cats, M series or H types Cats, you can keep those other units in the garage ! ( from Canada )

I really like this channel. Nice work!

2989hr in a 2021 Cat 160m3 AWD 14’ board , shes named Judy and oh boy can she work , I like your control on the sticks as much as I don’t agree with some method … yer a smooth operator smooth operator 🎵🎤

When putting down new gravel, do you use gravel with a lot of fines so it compacts or pure rock. It’s about half and half for the country road where I live. Some just have a 4 inch lift of pea gravel that doesn’t have any fines mixed in with it, and some roads hardened up like concrete with the fines being mixed in with it. Do you have a preference? What is the benefit of using one vs the other? Ive just started running a blade and haven’t maintained a county road yet.

Great job drain shoulder carriageway awesome

What recording device do you run? Its a great video btw

Good day sir - question about your packer. A lot of guys running them up here in Saskatchewan always want to run them off a float circuit? It looks like you run yours of the ripper circuit which has not float. Can you think of why an operator would want the packer to float? Seems like having pressure on it would help with compaction no? I’d appreciate your thoughts, thanks!

Great job I do the grater too but I’m not as good as your u . Very nice road😊

How do you know what angle of the blade you have compared to horizontal to get the 4%? I see that there is an angle indicator for the machine on the window but that does not tell you the blade. Very interesting video!

Nice work! Good to see people with pride! We gotta 140M and nobody likes it but me.. They rather run the H..

So when you do your first pass left to right to even up the windrow are you pretty much just cutting at the level of the old layer?

Man i wish we had nice material to work with like that all I get to work with is shale. I had a little freak out at work the other day I was off for a week and they up a guy on one of my roads and he leave enough material on the road and was left with a large wind row so instead of bringing it back across the road again he decided to push it in to the ditch and brush the supervisor asked me if there is anything I could do told him to get me a excavator and a few trucks and reditch the roads he didn't like to hear that.

Might be a stupid question but what do you mean by packer? Is it a roller attached behind you?

Thanks

What do you prefer for a blade modulation setting on your M?

Does yout maitance windrow not trap water and pothole your rd?

Parabéns pelo vídeo top top muito bom mesmo o trabalho meu sonho de 1 dia trabalhar na área de terra plananagen nos 🇺🇸🤝parabéns mesmo 140m muito boa muito produtiva e as manobras são perfeitas mais ágeis para o operador obrigado pelo vídeo top top. Wesley patroleiro Uberaba mg brasil 🇧🇷👍🤝🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏👍

Do u work with a watercart? Ur working ur gravel to dry? Do u usually lay gravel on a dry base?

it is very long and you very lucky man nice gravel in my city the 1 inch the nice gravel and under full boulder is very not happy

Nice

Do you worry about your maintenance window holding in water Or is that something That is ok

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O vídeo ficou bom só faltou ativar a legenda para o idioma do Brasil 🇧🇷

What’s the advantage stripping gravel in one lane vs stripping down middle?

why do you roll your blade out on your final pass?

Does it have a gps?

Its good

Please disregard the previous question as you answered it already.

Assume job. That's what I'm running only mine isn't 6wheel drive

Sir, we can hear you talk but can see nothing of your work.

You guys have some weird looking gravel. Almost looks like just dirt. Around here it’s pure limestone.

I like only 140 L 6×6 CAT from OMAN

Please PLEASE come to Bremer Co. In Iowa and show the grader operator how to do his job as he hasn't a clue how to grade a road. Or the county engineer doesn't have any common sense if he's telling him how to do it..

First 2 seconds. oh ya m series.

decent blade work but having the cam mounted on the hard had makes this video un bearable to watch. if i didnt know better it looks like alot of duckwalking. try a stationary cam

Windrow

would suggest using a cam corder with mag mount and take cam off your head- smooth video then.