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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3238936" data-attributes="member: 5412">It&#039;s dark so can&#039;t get a pic, but the pull behind road grader I have weighs around 500 lbs and I&#039;ve added an additional 350 lbs of tractor weights. The 8&#039; blade tilts, angles, and really digs to clean up washboarding on the flat part of the shared road. The tilt allows the gravel at the edge to be pulled to the center of the road and deposited for a crown. The wheels of the grader are behind the blade, so they are always running on previously smoothed out surface. &nbsp;Almost never use the 3 point 7&#039; grader blade anymore, but when I do I can take the 350 lbs of suitcase type tractor weights off the pull behind and hang them on the 3 point to give it additional weight so it&#039;s not just skating across the surface.Put the ditches in with a mini track hoe I borrowed, and basically hand placed softball sized and larger rock in the bottom to prevent them from eroding. Worked for about 20 years, but this rain event the water was coming so fast that all of those rocks ended up in a pile at the bottom of the hill.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3238936, member: 5412"] It's dark so can't get a pic, but the pull behind road grader I have weighs around 500 lbs and I've added an additional 350 lbs of tractor weights. The 8' blade tilts, angles, and really digs to clean up washboarding on the flat part of the shared road. The tilt allows the gravel at the edge to be pulled to the center of the road and deposited for a crown. The wheels of the grader are behind the blade, so they are always running on previously smoothed out surface. Almost never use the 3 point 7' grader blade anymore, but when I do I can take the 350 lbs of suitcase type tractor weights off the pull behind and hang them on the 3 point to give it additional weight so it's not just skating across the surface. Put the ditches in with a mini track hoe I borrowed, and basically hand placed softball sized and larger rock in the bottom to prevent them from eroding. Worked for about 20 years, but this rain event the water was coming so fast that all of those rocks ended up in a pile at the bottom of the hill. [/QUOTE]

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