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- The Top 10 implements you should acquire first
- How To Adjust & Operate The Frontier LS1145 Mounted Sprayer
- How To Control Weeds
- How To Build A Self-Filling Livestock Water Tank
- How To Adjust & Operate The Frontier LS11 Series Mounted Sprayers
- How To Use A Manure Fork
- How To Use A Food Plot Seeder
- How To Remove A Tree Stump
- Which tillage tool might be right for you
- Why vertical tillage might be right for you
- How to adjust and operate the VT17 Series vertical tillage tools
- How to maintain a gravel drive using a box blade with hydraulic scarifiers
- How To Control Water Drainage In A Small Feed Lot
- How to gravel a farm road using a drawn box scraper
- How To Use A Wood Chipper
- How To Clear Debris Using A Root Grapple
- How To Plant A Food Plot
- How To Handle Large Round Bales
- How To Renovate A Pasture
- How To Gravel A Country Lane
- How to get driveway gravel out of the grass.
- How to use a wood chipper.
- Why shorten a PTO shaft?
- How to choose the right hay tedder for you.
- How to plant a wildlife food plot.
- How to maintain a one- or two-bottom plow.
- How to aerate, fertilize and over seed your lawn.
- How to use a middle buster in your garden.
- How to store off-season equipment
- How to free a tractor stuck in the mud.
- How to create a large vegetable garden with a one-bottom plow
- Time for your tractor’s spring maintenance?
- How to build a rail fence
- How to restore a pasture
- The Top 10 implements you should acquire first.
- How to use a tractor mounted rotary cutter
- How to use a PTO-driven post hole digger
- How to maintain a gravel drive
- How to use a land plane
- How to dethatch your lawn.
- How to use a box blade: The basics
- How to eliminate standing water using a subsoiler.
- How to plant a wildflower meadow
- How to use a tractor mount rotary tiller in your large vegetable garden
- How to make great garden soil.
- Frontier WR00 Series Carted Wheel Rakes
- Frontier WR31 Series High Capacity Carted Wheel Rakes.
- How to use a one-row cultivator.
- How to aerate, fertilize and over seed your lawn
- How to use a grooming mower
- How to use a one-bottom plow
- How to use a manure spreader
- How to adjust and use a rotary cutter
- How to Fill And Level A Low Spot With Gravel
- Frontier TD34 Series Hay Tedders
- How to use a subsoiler
- How to use a rotary tiller
- How to Maintain A Gravel Drive
- Frontier DM50 Series Disc Mower.
- How to use a middle buster
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John Deere Tips Notebook
- The Top 10 implements you should acquire first
- How To Adjust & Operate The Frontier LS1145 Mounted Sprayer
- How To Control Weeds
- How To Build A Self-Filling Livestock Water Tank
- How To Adjust & Operate The Frontier LS11 Series Mounted Sprayers
- How To Use A Manure Fork
- How To Use A Food Plot Seeder
- How To Remove A Tree Stump
- Which tillage tool might be right for you
- Why vertical tillage might be right for you
- How to adjust and operate the VT17 Series vertical tillage tools
- How to maintain a gravel drive using a box blade with hydraulic scarifiers
- How To Control Water Drainage In A Small Feed Lot
- How to gravel a farm road using a drawn box scraper
- How To Use A Wood Chipper
- How To Clear Debris Using A Root Grapple
- How To Plant A Food Plot
- How To Handle Large Round Bales
- How To Renovate A Pasture
- How To Gravel A Country Lane
- How to get driveway gravel out of the grass.
- How to use a wood chipper.
- Why shorten a PTO shaft?
- How to choose the right hay tedder for you.
- How to plant a wildlife food plot.
- How to maintain a one- or two-bottom plow.
- How to aerate, fertilize and over seed your lawn.
- How to use a middle buster in your garden.
- How to store off-season equipment
- How to free a tractor stuck in the mud.
- How to create a large vegetable garden with a one-bottom plow
- Time for your tractor’s spring maintenance?
- How to build a rail fence
- How to restore a pasture
- The Top 10 implements you should acquire first.
- How to use a tractor mounted rotary cutter
- How to use a PTO-driven post hole digger
- How to maintain a gravel drive
- How to use a land plane
- How to dethatch your lawn.
- How to use a box blade: The basics
- How to eliminate standing water using a subsoiler.
- How to plant a wildflower meadow
- How to use a tractor mount rotary tiller in your large vegetable garden
- How to make great garden soil.
- Frontier WR00 Series Carted Wheel Rakes
- Frontier WR31 Series High Capacity Carted Wheel Rakes.
- How to use a one-row cultivator.
- How to aerate, fertilize and over seed your lawn
- How to use a grooming mower
- How to use a one-bottom plow
- How to use a manure spreader
- How to adjust and use a rotary cutter
- How to Fill And Level A Low Spot With Gravel
- Frontier TD34 Series Hay Tedders
- How to use a subsoiler
- How to use a rotary tiller
- How to Maintain A Gravel Drive
- Frontier DM50 Series Disc Mower.
- How to use a middle buster
How to maintain a gravel drive using a box blade with hydraulic scarifiers
How to maintain a gravel drive using a box blade with hydraulic scarifiers
Your gravel driveway isn’t hard to maintain, as long as you’re using the right tools. This video takes a look at how to maintain a gravel drive using a box blade. It’s the perfect project for a Frontier BB4184H Box Blade (US CA) with hydraulic scarifiers. The scarifiers will do a great job of cutting through the washboard surface of the gravel drive, churning the material so the box blade’s cutting edge can smooth it out.
We also show you how to add some topdressing to the gravel drive where a drainage pipe running underneath it has started to peak through the surface.
For this project, we use a John Deere 4052M Compact Utility Tractor (US CA) that matches perfectly with our 84-inch (213.36 cm) box blade. It delivers 52 engine horsepower (38.77 kW) and includes the standard 12F/12R PowrReverser transmission.
We also added a D170 loader with a lift capacity of more than 2300 pounds (104.33 kg), along with a 73-inch (185.42 cm) material bucket, which is one of the Top 10 implements our experts believe you should have in your machine shed.
And, we’ve added an iMatchTM Quick Hitch (US CA) to our tractor, which makes hooking up all kinds of implements as easy as possible because you don’t have to get off the tractor to attach compatible implements to the 3-point hitch.
Okay. Let’s get started. First, Caitlin will hook up the box blade using the iMatchTM Quick Hitch. All she has to do is focus on the top hook, and everything else will fall into place. She’ll close the locking levers to secure the box blade. Then she’ll turn off the tractor, set the parking brake, and come around to hook up the hydraulic hoses for raising and lowering the scarifier beam inside the box blade from the operator station.
Then, with the box blade slightly raised and the scarifier beam in its down and locked position, she’ll set each scarifier shank on its second-to-lowest notch. She wants scarifiers set low enough to churn the surface down to just below the bottom of the washboard bumps, but not into the driveway’s foundation.
And she’s ready to go.
By running the scarifiers through the washboard surface, Caitlin can break up all the bumps. Then she’ll hydraulically raise the scarifier shanks out of the way and spread the churned up material out the back of the box blade, leaving a smooth, even surface behind. It will take her about an hour and 3 or 4 passes up and down the gravel drive to eliminate the washboard bumps and smooth out the sized material.
Now for project #2. There are 2 drainage pipes running underneath the gravel drive. Traffic and erosion have exposed one of them. So we need to add more topdressing material to cover and protect it.
Using our material bucket, Caitlin will pour a few loads of a dirt and gravel mixture right on top of the exposed pipe. And she won’t be shy about using it. There’s plenty more where that came from.
Then, with the hydraulic scarifiers in their raised position, she’ll use the box blade to start pushing and pulling the pile to cover the drainage pipe. She’ll work the material to spread it out, leaving a smooth and even surface. Start to finish, this project will only take about 30 minutes.
Talk to your John Deere dealer about matching a Frontier Box Blade with hydraulic scarifiers, for any other implement, to your tractor.
As always, remember to read the Operator’s Manual before operating any piece of equipment, and follow all operating and safety instructions.
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