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Rkh · Apr 20, 2013

I have a 800" driveway & was wondering how well they work. I have a 6"stone rake but dont fill pot holes like I thought it would. would the box blade work for filling pot holes?

Anonymous-0 · Apr 20, 2013

Box blades are very versatile for lots of things but a little too big for an 800 inch driveway.

pete black · Apr 20, 2013

my 600 ft.driveway is made of chert which compacts into a very hard drive and i find that my 6 ft. box blade does not do well at all for smoothing and nothing for pot holes. slow entrance and exit speeds are best to prevent the development of pot holes.

jim johnson · Apr 20, 2013

Yeah but that 6 inch stone rake will be just right for that 800 inch driveway

samn40 · Apr 20, 2013

I like my power link-box for levelling potholes, carrying stuff, etc. When it is nearly full just set it on the ground with a slight angle and reverse....it will cut off all the high bits and dump out some gravel on the low bits. The picture is of it being used to spread tar planings on my yard.
Sam

Wile E · Apr 20, 2013

I just bought a box blade a month ago from a New Holland dealer 30 miles from me.
It works better than a rear grader blade by far.
I told my wife right after I used it to resurface/scrape/grade the driveway I wish I had bought that years ago. Yes to answer your question, it does fill in potholes.
My wife even commented on how nice it looked afterwards......Complements from Mrs. Wile E are kinda rare.

The only thing I have seen that works better than a box blade is this large scraper device used on the rear 3 point that has 2 sides and 2 small scraper blades inside it. I do not remember what it is called. Go to youtube and type in grader blades and see for yourself.

jose bagge · Apr 20, 2013

Box blades work great, until you create some whoop d doos from going a bit too fast- they always seem to match the wheelbase of my tractor, and every pass seems to perpetuate them.

Geo-TH,In · Apr 20, 2013

I disliked my box blade, sold it. When one wheel of the tractor goes in a pot hole either the blade goes up or down making a speed bump or another hole.

I made a v-shaped driveway leveler. It works well in leveling tire ruts out in a yard.

I also put a 3 inch slag pipe on my 7 snow blade. It works great to level loose gravel in a drive. That's why I got rid of my box blade.

Can't find pic of slag pipe.
George

Anonymous-0 · Apr 20, 2013

Rkh, when you put an apostrophe for feet and it comes up quotation marks in the preview pane it is easy to make right. Hit "return to form". Change the magically appearing quotation marks to apostrophes and when you go back to the preview pane it will be corrected. At least this works for me. HTH. TDF

Two Dogs · Apr 20, 2013

Scuse me y'all. The above by yy is me. Sumpen happened. TDF

showcrop · Apr 20, 2013

Whenever our highway dept, used to fill potholes with a york rake they were back during the next rain. To remove them filling will not work. You have to cut them down to the bottom of the hole and re grade. The way to prevent potholes is, as was said reduce speeds, but more importantly is to crown the drive way so that water runs off. potholes happen when the tires splash water to the side and some sand with it.

Ken Macfarlane · Apr 20, 2013

I don't find they work well for road work. Those three bladed things that bring the gravel back to the middle and slope it work much better.

Bruce from Can. · Apr 20, 2013

Just make a drag out of some old I-Beam. Drag it up and down the drive way a few times after a rain, you will be suprised at how well it will work.

Royse · Apr 20, 2013

Box blade works great for filling in potholes when it can stradle them.
Your york rake would probably work better if it weren't solely dependent
on the movement of your rear wheels. Try adding some trailing wheels to it.
They can be made easily removable, but the further back the better.

Chip812 · Apr 20, 2013

I have an 850' drive way that I'll probably "blade" tomorrow. I have one that has the "prongs" on the front... I usually run them about 2" below the level of the box so that it 'stirs' up the gravel. I have really good results.

John B. · Apr 20, 2013

Yes it will fill the holes if there is something for the blade to put in them.

You'll like a box blade once you use one.

Rkh · Apr 21, 2013

I have a 6"stone rake with the 2 rear tires. I use the front bucket scraper blade a couples inches in the gravel & stone rake in the back after a heavy rain. I may not have setting on the stone rake deep enought or angled right. like the one guy said, the next rain storm it goes right back to what it looked like before I raked it.

showcrop · Apr 21, 2013

(quoted from post at 03:31:57 04/21/13) I have a 6"stone rake with the 2 rear tires. I use the front bucket scraper blade a couples inches in the gravel & stone rake in the back after a heavy rain. I may not have setting on the stone rake deep enought or angled right. like the one guy said, the next rain storm it goes right back to what it looked like before I raked it.

Yes, the key to it is the difference between what it takes to just fill them versus having them stay filled through a few rain events.

Blackhole49 · Apr 21, 2013

I concur that box blades are great for grading. It works best if it wider than the tractor tires. Not sure what the one poster was talking about going up and down with the tractor. Wonder how he had mounted. Mine floats with the three point.

SparepartsTN · Apr 21, 2013

Jose, George and others with the problem of creating ruts when the blade goes up and down with the tractor rear wheels. Put the three point hitch in "draft control" instead of "position control" with the box blade dragging on the ground. Adjust the cut with the upper link and your results will be much better. The back of the blade will pack the road that the front of the blade has just fixed.

Rkh · Apr 22, 2013

to my surprise, nobody has mentioned the use of a roller over the driveway, after a box blade or blade use.

showcrop · Apr 22, 2013

That is probably because most of us drive our driveways thus compacting them. If it is too steep to drive on it would then probably tend to wash out.

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