Posted by john in la on June 02, 2023 at 20:27:36 from (97.80.68.11):
My driveway is hard packed yellow clay. You could not put a water line across it with a pick ax. It has had river gravel put on it a few times in the years I have lived here. From driving over it the gravel gets pushed down into the clay never to be seen again. I use a box blade with the rippers down to try and dig some of the gravel back up usually with little or no success. Usually all it does is cut small ruts in the clay where the rippers run. Without the rippers the 6 foot box blade just runs across the top doing nothing but maybe catching a high spot and pulling it into a hole.
I priced a 22 ton trailer load of 57 gravel washed to get the mason sand out of it for $750 a load delivered. Talking to my neighbor to see if he knew anyone I might get a better deal he says you want me to fix your driveway. I say sure have at it. He brings his JD 1020 over with a 6 foot land leveler. I have seen this things before but never used on or watched one work. I considered it like a box blade without the box.
He runs across the drive a few times; gets off makes and adjustment; and then runs over it a few more times. This land leveler is cutting down into the hard drive and bringing all those old rock buried in the clay to the top. Took him about 45 minutes but he has my driveway looking like I just bought a new load of gravel in. Where has this land leveler been all my life. The price tag to buy one while expensive seems easier to take if you consider he saved me $750 on a load of gravel.
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