yes in deed a nice day to be out on the tractor for sure. I had been wanting to make this video for a long time. I was waiting on a good driveway in rough shape with very little gravel. this one was perfect and a true challenge. it turned out a lot better than I expected. I'm feeling pretty good this week. my son came home and is helping me with a few things around the house. great hearing from you Don I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I have a few more I'm working on soon.

thank you my brother I'm very happy to share what little I know about these tools and implements. appreciate the kind words.

very true, typically i bust up potholes with a pickaxe before I dress the road a lot of people use the rippers on the box blade to bust the holes up. thanks for adding the additional information. peace love and respect!

its ironic but many times in making these videos I learn a little something new myself. really appreciate your kind words.

so glad you enjoyed them!

awesome! I know you will have great success!!! have a blessed Christmas!

thank you so much! it's hard to know when making these videos if you're giving to much or not enough and keep it within a decent amount of time. thank you so much for commenting, subscribing and sharing my videos so others may find benefits within my channel. peace love and respect!

awesome I know you will have great results!

You kept me engaged for the ENTIRE VIDEO. :)

thanks brother! I hope to make a few more before the cold weather hits. been raining the last week and cant do much. I just subscribed to your channel incase you decide to put up a few videos yourself. its fun, a lot of work but fun to see people enjoying them. peace love and respect!

thanks Tom very much appreciated.

awesome you are very welcome. please feel free to check out some of the many other useful videos on the channel

thanks for watching, lately we have not had much rain around here. it was a fun video to make.

Steve I'm so glad you found my channel and its proved to be useful. I hope to make a few more worth watching videos in the future.

I love ole GP he is a great guy and very knowledgeable.

awesome that is what I like to hear! I'm sure you will have great success with these techniques. thanks so much for stopping by.

I hope to have more examples of the road blade in use in the near future. I been cutting in a road the last month when weather permits.

always glad to share information! love my UK brothers and sisters!

so glad you enjoyed it. I hope you find many of my other how to tractor related videos just as informative as this one.

Glad you enjoyed it! this was a fun video to create.

I absolutely LOVE the road blade! it is my go to implement when doing roadways. there is no better way to crown a roadway other than buying a "motor grader" which is tens of thousands of dollars. when it comes to road maintenance you just cant beat a road blade and box blade. plus they can both be used for so many other applications other than roads. I was just forwarded the opportunity to test out one of the Dirt dog road blades model number 5060 and it is a beast! loving this thing!

EXCELLENT! this is what I like to hear, anytime my videos help folks to better understand and use their equipment I feel I have succeeded to pay it forward and help others. Lord knows plenty of folks have helped me over the years. stay blessed and thank you very much for the kind words and for subscribing. peace love and respect Dave in Virginia.

thank you so much for the thoughtful words. I hope you and your family will have a truly blessed Christmas. I hope to get back on track making a few videos very soon. peace love and respect.

awesome, I'm sure it will help. my friend who lives in this house is named Mike Schmidt how ironic is that!!!

thank you so very much for subscribing! I'm thrilled you found my channel and it is proving to be worthy of your time to watch. I hope to make more videos with valuable tips and techniques. thanks again for the kind words.

thanks for dropping by my channel! its been real excited to share the little bit I know about these things. youtube has been a blessing to me and many other folks to.

I never rip a driveway. most of the time that causes more pot holes to appear. land planes are ok but no way they can perform the task that a road blade can perform. I have used both and prefer the road blade because its simply better and more versatile way more usefulness for your money. I will be doin an extensive road blade video in the future.

@@daveknowshow if you don't bust out the holes with a ripper here, they continue to hold water even after you resurface. We bust through the holes and resurface. Boom, no more holes. This is just from the little experience I have and from what the older guys have told me.

@@phatrides222000 busting up the hole is one thing ripping up the entire roadway is another and simply not necessary and generally creates additional holes in areas where you previously had no holes. I generally tackle holes that keep coming back in roadways by digging just around the hole by maybe one foot and the hole it self. then I mix in crush and run in that spot. or 56 gravel with sand in that one spot. this works most of the time. typically the hardest hole to fix is at the entrance / exit of a road way or hard curves. these holes generally always come back no matter what you do short of paving or concrete the roadway entrance / exit. the fact is gravel and dirt roads require regular maintenance and in my experience ripping up the entire roadway creates more soft spots where the road was just hard enough to not fail. so again I stress fix your holes at the holes and try to never rip up the entire roadway. this is just my experience your situation and soil conditions may vary. I hope which ever way you do it that you have great results. Dave

just follow this guide and it will be easy as pie for you as well. see my video on setting up the boxblade the angle of the dangle and you will have great success!

yeah I been going through some depression according to my Doctors. this came on all of a sudden. according to my counselor I have plenty to be depressed about so its normal. even my Doctor told me to make more youtube videos. lol I thought that was funny. I have one in mind I'd like to start on so maybe in the next day or so. thanks for checking on me. peace love and respect! Dave

I'm trying to be ok Tim, thanks for asking. been a rocky road. health no so good and my mom's health is failing as well. she is 86 and its one scare after another. I hope to get a few videos out soon. even if its some old footage I been sitting on. really appreciate you thinking of me. peace love and respect, Dave

excellent Max! yes a crown is ideal but this corvette was dragging really bad. I still left a small crown but not much. very subtle, I went back over there last night and the driveway is still looking great. the guy watched my video of his driveway and then got me to deliver his tractor out there and now he is looking for a road blade. I may lose that repeat business with these training videos. ha ha lol thanks so much for the comment brother peace love and respect have a blessed up coming Christmas holiday.

100% understand about the low riding corvette. My niece has a low riding Camaro and doesn't like to bring it on our drive....I live at the base of a mountain in Va and have to deal with a lot of water drainage during and right after a good rain. From watching your videos I am sure I am not stating anything you don't already know. We seem to be about the same age and I am always looking for good videos to try and learn something new. Never too old to learn!! Your channel is excellent in my opinion.

something you may advise me on......I have a Mahindra 4025 4X4...w/loader..and backhoe....and my lower boom pin, where the boom swivels....will stop taking grease quite often. I have to remove the pin....clean the passage out...and basically "over grease" in an attempt to reduce the plugging of the passage. This, in turn creates another problem by having too much grease attracting dirt. Any suggestions? I am a disabled VET, but spent most of my life as a heavy equipment mechanic and this one has me stumped.

thank you so much for the kind words! I also live in Va. I'm in Chesterfield county near Amelia county. both not far from the city of Richmond. yes I'm still learning every day!

good question! many people have the same issue. it could very well be the quality of grease. with that said I have never been a stickler on grease quality or brand. I always felt any grease was better than no grease and just grease it often to push the dirt out and keep the flow going. that Mahindra 4025 is a beast of a machine! if you come up with a solution to this issue please keep me updated I'm always open to learning new things myself. hopefully its no signs of premature wear at those pins. peace love and respect!

thanks brother

so glad you found the videos helpful

yes we need a little rain around here to.

thank you for taking time to watch my friend.

thank you

thank you!

thanks James, appreciate you taking your time to watch my channel. peace love and respect my brother!

thank you for watching, it was a fun project and helping a friend out is what I do best. brought me a lot of joy fixing this driveway for them.

Helping others is the best reward!

remove them with the backhoe. or dig out with a maddox by hand. roots that large are hard on the tractor rear housing. you can try the boxblade ripper but dont slam into the root driving fast. I have seen rear housing rip right apart.

lol I know right. funny thing is right after posting this video my door bell rings this morning and its my insurance agent asking if I can come do his driveway. ha ha. seems like its a much needed thing for the fall season.

thanks brother really appreciate you taking your time to watch my video. hope you're having a great week!

looks can be deceiving! lol

he decided it was cheaper to buy his own tractor and keep the driveway maintained than to have it paved. lol so now after viewing a few of my youtube videos and buying a L2501 with a box blade he does a pretty decent job keeping it in good shape for the vette's plural he has like 4 and three of those are antiques. must be nice to have money coming in like that. I was glad to help him he is a good guy.

thank you, you will enjoy the satisfaction of successful results. its a lot of fun working the gravel around. very relaxing.

daveknowshow ha! Successful is yet to be seen. I’ll refresh how to use the box blade by watching your video again. Thanks soooooo much for your videos. That beard has really grown.

the beard is getting out of control, lol its funny when people see me that have not seen me since the beard. they freak out. its the first time I have let it grow like this. the story behind the beard: some people told me november was cancer month and men were suppose to NOT shave the entire month as a symbol to fight cancer. so every Nov I let it grow. last year I let it grow and come December my mom took ill. I was looking after her 24 - 7 and simply did not shave. come January mom went into the hospital and while I sit by her bed side 24 hours a day by the third day I collapsed, bleeding and ended up down stairs in the ER where I was ironically diagnosed with cancer. I still have not shaved. Nov will be 1 year with no shaving. I'm not sure where this beard thing is going. maybe its a hiding place, I have yet to figure it out. I'm thinking maybe spring I will let it go and send the hair off to be made into a wig for someone else with cancer who has lost their hair. not sure how that works. I'll look into it though.

the lever that controls the three point stays up on a position style three point. it raises the three point to the height of the lever position. the three point lift arms are power up and gravity down. but they simply stay at the position under no strain yet you can lift the arms by hand manually. you should not be able to push the arms down though. I hope that answers your question if not feel free to reach out to me here or my personal email at Daveknowshow@aol.com

I've got and old girl friend up there in ohio. works for nasa . been up that way right much in my lifetime. she was right mean to me but I sure loved that gal. seems I always love the worse ones the best. lol

its not always easy to do. if you can get under the ice it will break up in sheets. trouble is depending on how it froze it can take the gravel with it. I'd use salt and sand to try and melt ice and create traction. ice is a real problem. if you find an answer that works without destroying the driveway let me know. wish I was more help for ya.

@@daveknowshow Thank you and God Bless!

middle or lower hole is good for ground engaging work middle or top is good for mowing and brush hogging. I keep mine in the middle except when pulling a single bottom plow for garden plowing. hope that helps

if its bad we sometimes put in a sort of speed bump to direct water to the side and keep it from washing out the middle. its a balance and what ever you can get to work for your situation I'm all for that. driveways can be tough in mountainous terrain. best of luck my friend!

I'm actually working on a video series that will take a ton of mystery out the blade and how to use it. the blade can be complex in how you present it to the ground. so look for that video in the future. you wont likely see anything like it any where else.

the box blade is a great tool! it can do many things however as I stated in the video once the box is full it NO LONGER cutting. whereas the road blade angled cuts the entire length of your driveway moving rock from the outside edge into the middle and from the middle back out. image the row of gravel left in the middle from the road blade in one pile. that pile would likely fill a box blade several times over. I still like using the box blade when needed and you can have great results with just a Box blade. Road blades can be found used fairly cheap. I paid $300 for that Road blade which came with a three point spike aerator. " not a plug style " I see them on CL for between 150 and 250 all the time. mostly because people think they are only used for snow removal. a road blade is used for much more than just removing snow. so yes you need a new toy I mean tool, well we can call it a tool for the sake of the wife. lol this one I have is old and worn. it dont tilt or offset like some. still it works great and since its old its heavy and made solid. it was made by lienbach

yes you can do it either way I find pulling in the sides first leaves me with a nice fresh boundary line to go by and keeps me from digging the center line any deeper. you don't want to go deeper with the driveway as in doing so you could open up a possible pot hole. typically the center of the driveway is close to where the over all finished height should be once crowned. if you don't want a crown just blade down the center a few times as a last pass.

I have never used this implement myself so I can only go based off seeing the youtube video from their website. it seems like a solid built attachment. I can see where it would be perfect for a horse arena or a dirt race track to groom it before each pass. or even a base ball field or prepping for seed beds. I'm not convinced its a better option for a gravel road than a decent road blade and boxblade to really strategically move gravel from the outside in where its needed and then move that gravel with the boxblade to fill in the low spots. of course being an old dog sometimes its hard for me to embrace new methods of doing things with out really getting my hands on one and trying it in various conditions its hard to endorse it as a better option. especially when you can find very nice road blades and boxblades used for cheap. I bet this new implement cost a pretty penny. great comment by the way and thanks for dropping by always good to hear from you. Dave

Thanks for that Dave, I can see where you are with that analysis, and 'old dogs, new tricks'! etc. I cannot find a video with the TR3 that deals with a driveway in need of substantial renovation, only sponsored videos. Perhaps we can convince them to let an experience guy like yourself to have a free go??!!

@@tonynewnham3114 lol yeah that would be a good one if they did that. however honestly that thing would have to do things that from what I have seen cant be done by it as its configured. one thing particular is rotate side to side to bring in gravel from the sides of the roadway back to the middle like you can easily do with a road blade with out going to deep and creating more issues than you had before. going to deep can create a situation where a recurring pot hole is born that was not previously there. this is why I never use the rippers down on a gravel roadway unless its absolutely necessary and even then I avoid it at all cost. I would be a hard one to convince that the TR3 is a better option than a road blade / box blade combination. I cant even bring myself to admit a land leveler is as good an option as a road & box blade combination and it is about as close as you can get to having both tools in one. although in my honest opinion I would prefer having the two separate as they are so much easier and so much more precision tools when used separately. I doubt they will want to try and convince me this old dog is very skeptical of these new all in one implements.

being poor all my life I have had to use what I have a lot so that helps. lol

true skills are born out of true needs. the poor boy club offers some consolation.

lol at poor boys club i'm surely a member.

H1 recorder lapel mic jvc handicam and a couple old domber cams on the tractor. "domber cams are like a gopro hero "

well if your close by me I might can do that. i'm in chesterfield va 23838 or get busy on your new tractor and get it done.

thanks brother

absolutely yes! the road blade is what roads are made with. typically on road ways you need to bring material from the outer edge inward towards the middle where it can then be used to fill in pot holes and such. so using the road blade is honestly in my opinion the best tool for the job unless you own a moto grader which is a road blade with its own motor and wheels. the blade is located in the middle of the belly of the machine rather than in the rear like a rear road blade such as used in this video. you can actually use the road blade to do the entire road with out the use of a boxblade at all if planned out correctly. travel down one side with the blade angled pull material inward. then the opposite side pulling material inward. then start at one end driving down the center of the road with the blade straight not angles and turned around backwards to back drag and spread the loose dirt or gravel into any pot holes and such. this method has worked for farmers for many years. the road blade can also be used to crown the roadway for better water drainage during raining seasons. just youtube search crowning a roadway and you will see many videos where a moto-grader is used to crown a roadway by state road builders. the same can be done with a road blade set at the correct angles. have fun and keep learning! thanks you for a wonderful question and thanks for dropping by my channel. I'm sure you will find many very useful tractor related videos on my channel. peace love and respect Dave in Virginia

daveknowshow thank you Dave! And I’ll check out the rest of the channel too

that's a " wash board " effect. I see it a lot on many roads. the angled blade should help. a lot of times this comes from rain on a crowned roadway. I'm honestly NOT sure what the best course of action is. however I will try and find out!

Thanks

half a mile maybe.

this was a no charge job for a friend. typically 150.00 so long as travel is not to far. its additional for gravel if needed.

sounds great! thanks for watching paying it forward!

thanks for stopping by and commenting always good to hear from you.

that pavement gets expensive around here. lol ha ha

thank you brother! glad you enjoyed it! peace love and respect!