how to lay down gravel on a gravel road

Great video! Very educational and you clearly explain what you are trying to achieve with each pass. Thanks for the tips from AUS 🇦🇺

Thanks for the video. Always good to see other operators in action using different materials.

Nice grader, I only ever had tandem drive Champion and then later Volvo 740’s and I’d be spreading behind end dump truck and pups so the material was not as nicely laid out as the belly dumps leave. Our roads were all 7 pass and I’d windrow what the trucks left towards one side and then split the windrow and spread 1/2 of it out in two passes basically one just to each side of the crown. Then I’d go back and get the rest of the windrow and in three passes lay it out across the entire road width overtop of the first two passes I had already laid down. Usually you’d get a pretty nice basic shape that way with the majority of the material where you wanted it, but at that stage of the job the priority was just to get as much gravel laid down as possible while the trucks were there as money for new gravel was always tight. After the trucks had gone to their next project we’d have time go back over the road and do a finish blading to shape it right up and then calcium chloride would be applied for dust control. I run a newer John Deere 772GP 6WD occasionally now amongst the other equipment but don’t have any gravel roads to blade with it, I sure would have liked to have had it for spreading on dirt roads. I enjoy your videos, any day running grader is a good day to me.

Thank you for making and sharing your video, it was very informative content. Well done. 👍🇦🇺

Thanks for helping me learn how to run blade! Thanks buddy

A good blade operator is a must for any successful construction company. Thanks for the video, it make me miss my job!

How does the water run off the road where you left the maintenance windrow?

Good Job. Thank you brother. God bless you 🙏🏽

Love the video I did good by myself but our front runner showed today really thru me but just my second day on there but appreciate the video!

Thanks for the video always learning from them

Use 18M at the mine. But we do tailings and millfeeds on our roads after a little ballast. Fantastic work

Good stuff! Thanks for the explanation!

I get the idea of a maintenance windrow, but it creates a secondary gutter and doesn’t allow water to shed off the road. With that said I’m gonna assume this is a fall blading and you aren’t expecting much more rain for the season

2989hr in a 2021 Cat 160m3 AWD 14’ board , shes named Judy and oh boy can she work , I like your control on the sticks as much as I don’t agree with some method … yer a smooth operator smooth operator 🎵🎤

That's a good job well done ...wouldn't mind seeing how u deal with junctions or approaches thks ...

I don't carry my aggregate that far to side you will have a tendency to loose it. I been building roads and rig sites for forty years . Everyone does it differently. We don't leave windows it catches water and runs down the sides. I always straddle it and then I can keep it in check.

This cool helps a lot when laying base down

All I can say love those Cats, M series or H types Cats, you can keep those other units in the garage ! ( from Canada )

I really like this channel. Nice work!

When putting down new gravel, do you use gravel with a lot of fines so it compacts or pure rock. It’s about half and half for the country road where I live. Some just have a 4 inch lift of pea gravel that doesn’t have any fines mixed in with it, and some roads hardened up like concrete with the fines being mixed in with it. Do you have a preference? What is the benefit of using one vs the other? Ive just started running a blade and haven’t maintained a county road yet.