Well sir, I am very impressed. I've run road graders for a long time. I've always wanted a mini grader just for little jobs. Never thought of building one. I like what you have done. I have a mile long road to grade now that I've moved to my new place. If you lived closer I'd just have you come do it or build me one. Or maybe the plans 🤔. Hahaha . Nice job.
Ok, I am really impressed with this grader. I am going to watch and save the series in memory of my late Father who was a Master Mechanic for 50 + years. He passed in 1991 but he would be so impressed with this.
This is so awesome. It is abundantly clear that you’ve got some SERIOUS time put into thinking and planning this thing. It’s amazing and done absolutely perfect. I don’t think a full staff of engineers could have done any better. Well done!
That's an awesome machine wish I had one myself it would come in handy since i live on a farm. The dump tractor u keep mentioning would also be very helpful too. Keep up the awesome work cant wait for the next video
I'm building a Dozer/Loader/Grader from a 2006 GT2544 on my channel and saw this in my recommended and can't stop staring in amazment at the scale beauty of this glorious machine. Fantastic build.
You're missing one light. A light shinning on the back of your blade so you can see what you cutting. The only reason for that is if you was running at night though. If you get snow where you're at then you might be out in the dark pushing snow but that would be the only reason for that light. You might want to add a bracket and cylinders out front of the blade for a ripper or in front of the wheels for a ripper and/or blade that just goes up and down to knock down piles or to plow with and the ripper of course to help you loosen the surface of whatever you're grading or cutting. Awesome little grader you've got. Really, really cool! You did an amazing job building this and making it strong enough to do the work. The trailer hitch serving as the pivot for the blade frame is genius and makes it easy to take on and off too I'm sure. Making me jealous. I want one now. LOL!
Hi, thanks for the comments. The pair of lights in front of the dash tower illuminate the blade and traction frame pretty well. I've been thinking about a ripper on the rear. It would really help with the compacted driveway.
Thanks for the walk thru on the machine beautifully made machine, sounds good and looks factory been wanting to build one myself for a while, still collecting.
Appreciate the new video and detail. Great work in general! Organizing the shops for this seasons projects and looking forward to moving forward with the fabrication projects and less of the legal and advocacy work.
Pretty slick. I had a grader someone built in the 50's. Had a 25hp kolher and reminds me alot of this one. It ended up breaking a drive motor and I was gonna have to replace both and a couple other things when the guy down the street offered me a price I couldn't pass up and let him have it. I wished I still had it though, so handy for the grade work I do.
The 6 wheel drive graders will have them forward. If you look at pictures on machinery trader quite a few front tires are forward on rear drive units... proving the salesman doesn't have a clue😉
I had a 68 Cub Cadet. The 12 HP Kohler was a strong engine. I started having issues with it idling. Upon examination the carburetor shafts were all worn and it was leaking air around them. A kit that rebushed it and it was back to running like a top. With the cast iron engine, cast iron transaxle and liquid filled tires it could move incredible loads.
My husband said you sir are a genius. He's really into anything like this. He was an aircraft mechanic (mostly sheetmetal) for close to 40 years. Anyone thumbs down this is just jealous
Awesome. Been thinking about building one from lawn tractor parts for decades. Actually thinking of getting bigger and older small model I can trailer behind my 1ton these days. Currently have a John Deere 1010 dozer and a M440 Vermeer trencher with backhoe attached now. No trailer yet to haul them on and hoping to learn which small motor grader model under 5 tons would fit the trailer I am hoping to build.
Beautiful build! Nice and heavy duty! I built a PF Engineering FEL for my WheelHorse and had a great time. So satisfying to see the progress on a project like this. What are you using for a welding setup? Have you thought about adding a scarifier to the rear or a front plow? Those would be nice add one. Thanks for sharing and for your inspiration!
all that and the back lights dont work off the forward/rev lever .. just tossin it out there.. this the one with the blown hydro pump ??? think was the 2 auto valves ??
Awesome job!! I would like to know where you got some of the parts. Hydraulic cylinders, spool valves, the large gear that rotates the blade, hydraulic motor, bearings for hydro cylinders that raise and lower the blade, etc. Thanks for the walk around video, I would love to see that in person. I restore old Cub Cadet machines and have 5 of my own. I typically rebuild/restore to original condition, but I did make a zamboni attachment for one of mine to resurface our pond. I fabricated all of that from scratch, but building a grader would require a lot of parts that need to be purchased. any info would be greatly appreciated.
Kudos !! VERY impressive build and design.. as a long time builder/fabricator my only concern is where you joined the new arched frame tube to the narrowed original frame rail... a very high stress point I'd add a heavier duty and larger overlapping 360* gusset plate surrounding that joint ..
I don't fully understand which joint you are referring to but I think you are referring to the main frame (the 4x6 tubing) to the tractor's original frame. If you look at the new video I posted of the Build, Part 1, you'll see that the main frame tube overlaps about a foot and is welded to a large 1/4 inch thick plate that is welded under the tractor's original frame, The 4x6 tubing is first welded to this 1/4 inch thick bottom plate, then diagonal plates are welded to the sides of the 4x6 tube and down to the bottom plate, then the two sides of the tractor's original frame are bent and welded to the 4x6 frame. The bottom plate is continuous welded to the bottom of the tractor's original frame. Check out that video to see what I mean.
@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 yes, o.k... sounds good.. you've done a fabulous job in design and execution.. I'll have to look for the build videos... I love watching these kind of videos as I've built and modified all kinds of vehicles.. cars, trucks of all types and sizes, tractors, boats, bikes, etc. I love how you incorporated the Cub parts into the design.. Thank you for your reply and detailed explanation..
@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 I built a tractor with a cub cadet rear and a Honda twin tractor eng. I will need a foot control as my steering tower is hand made, and no place for a lever. I might use Toro as it's simple to complete.
Front axle is a regular cub cadet axle with spindles upgraded to carry the trailer hubs. The mold board is actually a 5 foot Land Pride blade. The cylinder trunnions are home made.
The hydraulics all run off the forward axle's hydrostatic transmission which has auxiliary hydraulic ports. The reservoir is the axle housing, holds 7 quarts. The hydrostatic transmissions have finned aluminum bodies and fans provide cooling though the entire axle assemblies also act as heat sinks/heat dissipation.
That's a great question. Articulation really is mostly for reducing turn radius and would require a pivot in the frame plus hydraulic cylinders to control. I decided it was more complexity than I wanted to deal with for minimal benefit.
You Sir are a genius, that is the most unique custom built machine I've ever seen, great job
Well sir, I am very impressed. I've run road graders for a long time. I've always wanted a mini grader just for little jobs. Never thought of building one. I like what you have done. I have a mile long road to grade now that I've moved to my new place. If you lived closer I'd just have you come do it or build me one. Or maybe the plans 🤔. Hahaha . Nice job.
Thank you, Frank, for the walk through and explanation. Great build and machine.
Ok, I am really impressed with this grader.
I am going to watch and save the series in memory of my late Father who was a Master Mechanic for 50 + years. He passed in 1991 but he would be so impressed with this.
I am inspired, but lack the skill, funding, tools and space! Awesome job!
This is so awesome. It is abundantly clear that you’ve got some SERIOUS time put into thinking and planning this thing. It’s amazing and done absolutely perfect. I don’t think a full staff of engineers could have done any better. Well done!
That's an awesome machine wish I had one myself it would come in handy since i live on a farm. The dump tractor u keep mentioning would also be very helpful too. Keep up the awesome work cant wait for the next video
Very impressive build. Now you need to build a cub cadet pan scrapper😀
Nice job. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎
I'm building a Dozer/Loader/Grader from a 2006 GT2544 on my channel and saw this in my recommended and can't stop staring in amazment at the scale beauty of this glorious machine.
Fantastic build.
This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen👍. Excellent job👍
Thanks for walking us through your build and all the details. It's a unique and well thought out build. Well done!
Awesome build on the custom grader and thanks for taking time explaining the building of it!
Very inspiring video walk through on your motor grader project Frank! Look forward to videos of your dump tractor also, you are quite the fabricator!
You're missing one light. A light shinning on the back of your blade so you can see what you cutting. The only reason for that is if you was running at night though. If you get snow where you're at then you might be out in the dark pushing snow but that would be the only reason for that light. You might want to add a bracket and cylinders out front of the blade for a ripper or in front of the wheels for a ripper and/or blade that just goes up and down to knock down piles or to plow with and the ripper of course to help you loosen the surface of whatever you're grading or cutting. Awesome little grader you've got. Really, really cool! You did an amazing job building this and making it strong enough to do the work. The trailer hitch serving as the pivot for the blade frame is genius and makes it easy to take on and off too I'm sure. Making me jealous. I want one now. LOL!
Hi, thanks for the comments. The pair of lights in front of the dash tower illuminate the blade and traction frame pretty well. I've been thinking about a ripper on the rear. It would really help with the compacted driveway.
Thanks for the tour, Frank!
Well thought out.
Thx for the demonstration
Look forward to more in the future
Thanks for the walk around. Awesome job and very impressed with your build. Looking forward to the next video.
Woke up at 1 am just looked and you have this loaded. So I had to watch.
Awesome build! Thanks for sharing!
Very well engineered and done. Great craftsmanship. Thanks for putting the build info together.
Awesome build! To add to your motor grader terminology, the blade on a grader is called a Moldboard
You are amazing! Love the build Frank! AWESOME!
I bet a set of tracks on that thing it would go anywhere. Great build.
Excellent work, looks like factory quality. Thanks for the tour.
Thanks for sharing, super inspiration. Seriously!!!!! That locking pin is brilliant.
Thanks for the walk thru on the machine beautifully made machine, sounds good and looks factory been wanting to build one myself for a while, still collecting.
Fantastic build! You rock!!
Wow! Fabulous. You are an amazing craftsman. Great video. 😊
That’s pretty cool! Nicely done!
This is a great idea perfect grader for small jobs like roads in state parks an camp grounds
Appreciate the new video and detail. Great work in general! Organizing the shops for this seasons projects and looking forward to moving forward with the fabrication projects and less of the legal and advocacy work.
Thanks for sharing, very awesome and masterfully built
Great build sir!
What a fantastic job building that road grader
I like it. Built logically to work right the first time.
Awesome build. Nice job
Awesome great job looking forward to the next video
Excellent clean build. Very professional thank you for sharing
Pretty slick. I had a grader someone built in the 50's. Had a 25hp kolher and reminds me alot of this one. It ended up breaking a drive motor and I was gonna have to replace both and a couple other things when the guy down the street offered me a price I couldn't pass up and let him have it. I wished I still had it though, so handy for the grade work I do.
I love that you did this.
That's definitely an amazing build 👊
Beyond amazing, thank you for sharing!
Awesome ! Thank you for sharing
Great job!!! 👍👍👍
Too cool! Would be awesome to build something half like this. Hats off to you Sir‘ very well done.
Beautiful looking machine.be proud of your work of art.
Nice build! One suggestion swap your front tires to get tread pattern opposite of the drive tires, it'll really help keep the front end from sliding.
That's what I've been told a couple times. Looking on line, I see them both ways. I'll have to give your suggestion a try. Thanks!
@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 it'll help, years of practice...
The 6 wheel drive graders will have them forward. If you look at pictures on machinery trader quite a few front tires are forward on rear drive units... proving the salesman doesn't have a clue😉
Awesome build
Such a cute little toy !!
Very nice , thanks mire making this additional video. 😊
New subscriber.
Nice walk around and information on the build.
Incredible! You're a mad man. 😎
looks good very nice job!!
seems it would be under powered ,for serious work !excellent work !
I had a 68 Cub Cadet. The 12 HP Kohler was a strong engine. I started having issues with it idling. Upon examination the carburetor shafts were all worn and it was leaking air around them. A kit that rebushed it and it was back to running like a top. With the cast iron engine, cast iron transaxle and liquid filled tires it could move incredible loads.
Id love to build that! Even if it was powered by a 2 cylinder diesel Deutz engine ( which I have)
That is awesome great job! 👍👍👍👍
nice doggos and really cool build :D
Cool machine thanks for sharing
Awesome Frank
Great job, thank you.
Beautiful BUILD
Best build ever!!
Great job would be proud to own that.
My husband said you sir are a genius. He's really into anything like this. He was an aircraft mechanic (mostly sheetmetal) for close to 40 years. Anyone thumbs down this is just jealous
Awesome. Been thinking about building one from lawn tractor parts for decades. Actually thinking of getting bigger and older small model I can trailer behind my 1ton these days. Currently have a John Deere 1010 dozer and a M440 Vermeer trencher with backhoe attached now. No trailer yet to haul them on and hoping to learn which small motor grader model under 5 tons would fit the trailer I am hoping to build.
Awesome job enjoy it
Beautiful build! Nice and heavy duty! I built a PF Engineering FEL for my WheelHorse and had a great time. So satisfying to see the progress on a project like this.
What are you using for a welding setup?
Have you thought about adding a scarifier to the rear or a front plow? Those would be nice add one.
Thanks for sharing and for your inspiration!
I have been thinking about a ripper on the rear.
Coolest thing on the internet. You def won.
Thank you.
nicely done.
This is amazing 👏
Simply amazing
Beautiful machine
Nice looking grader . How can i get one and is it for sale? Great job !! Thanks for video.
You must obviously have a mechanical engineering degree. What a great job.
Nuclear engineering actually. Pretty similar but less machine design and more atomic particle physics.
Amazing
Where did you get that gear?
Ive been looking for one for a mini-excavator project...
It's a ring gear from a Cummins 8.3 liter. I bet any large engine's flywheel/ring gear would work. I welded it to a 1/2 inch thick steel disk.
Tandem axle dump tractor??? Man you make some awesome stuff. Have you done a tour of the shop and all the equipment? I'm watching the dozer build now.
Yes, there are various videos on the channel including a shop tour. Though it's almost a year old and some stuff has been added since.
@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 oh ok. I'll take a look for them. Keep up the good work on your projects. It's giving me ideas and my wife anxiety 😄
So cool
Very nice
all that and the back lights dont work off the forward/rev lever .. just tossin it out there.. this the one with the blown hydro pump ??? think was the 2 auto valves ??
Awesome job!! I would like to know where you got some of the parts. Hydraulic cylinders, spool valves, the large gear that rotates the blade, hydraulic motor, bearings for hydro cylinders that raise and lower the blade, etc. Thanks for the walk around video, I would love to see that in person. I restore old Cub Cadet machines and have 5 of my own. I typically rebuild/restore to original condition, but I did make a zamboni attachment for one of mine to resurface our pond. I fabricated all of that from scratch, but building a grader would require a lot of parts that need to be purchased. any info would be greatly appreciated.
Check out the two Build videos I just posted. Should answer most of your questions.
Hi new here like your grader do you have plans for it ? wanting some thing like it for doing snow in Alberta
Kudos !! VERY impressive build and design.. as a long time builder/fabricator my only concern is where you joined the new arched frame tube to the narrowed original frame rail... a very high stress point I'd add a heavier duty and larger overlapping 360* gusset plate surrounding that joint
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I don't fully understand which joint you are referring to but I think you are referring to the main frame (the 4x6 tubing) to the tractor's original frame. If you look at the new video I posted of the Build, Part 1, you'll see that the main frame tube overlaps about a foot and is welded to a large 1/4 inch thick plate that is welded under the tractor's original frame, The 4x6 tubing is first welded to this 1/4 inch thick bottom plate, then diagonal plates are welded to the sides of the 4x6 tube and down to the bottom plate, then the two sides of the tractor's original frame are bent and welded to the 4x6 frame. The bottom plate is continuous welded to the bottom of the tractor's original frame. Check out that video to see what I mean.
@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 yes, o.k... sounds good.. you've done a fabulous job in design and execution.. I'll have to look for the build videos... I love watching these kind of videos as I've built and modified all kinds of vehicles.. cars, trucks of all types and sizes, tractors, boats, bikes, etc. I love how you incorporated the Cub parts into the design.. Thank you for your reply and detailed explanation..
Very nice how many hours did it take to complete the build
I didn't keep track, and when I'm in the shop zone, time seems irrelevant. If I had to guess, 200 hrs.
Sir, Okay 👌 🙂....Now, you need to build a Custom Step deck detachable trailer to haul this beast along with its other siblings....😊👍👍!!!
I do have an 18 ft flatbed trailer. Don't have a 5th wheel hitch to haul a step deck, but that would be perfect.
Frank, what is the pedal on the right. Is this for your hydrostatic direction control, and is that in conjunction with the hand control?
Yes, it is redundant to the hand control. I keep forgetting to use it though as I'm so used to the hand control on many of my other Cub Cadets.
@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 I built a tractor with a cub cadet rear and a Honda twin tractor eng. I will need a foot control as my steering tower is hand made, and no place for a lever. I might use Toro as it's simple to complete.
What is the front axle from? the mull board? are the cylinder trunnions home made? I cant find them in the catalog.
Front axle is a regular cub cadet axle with spindles upgraded to carry the trailer hubs. The mold board is actually a 5 foot Land Pride blade. The cylinder trunnions are home made.
Where is the hydraulic oil reserve storage and cooling.
The hydraulics all run off the forward axle's hydrostatic transmission which has auxiliary hydraulic ports. The reservoir is the axle housing, holds 7 quarts. The hydrostatic transmissions have finned aluminum bodies and fans provide cooling though the entire axle assemblies also act as heat sinks/heat dissipation.
Cool
It would be cool with a cab and a diesel motor
I thought about a cab but a cab big enough for a person would throw off the scale and look awkward I think. Yep, a diesel would be neat.
Would have been neat by a small 3 cyl diesel.
You should post a parts list and blueprints and instructions
I would have to create that documentation. I had no written plans.
I think that would be ok
where did get the big gear for the blade 2 rotate with?
Welded a Cummins 8.3 flywheel ring gear to a 1/2 inch thick steel disk.
@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 thxs have been watching your 2 new videos. thxs bought some stuff and tring 2 start my own small road grader.
Do you have any video of the actual build?
I posted two videos of the build just the other day.
would like to see the motorized dump trailer
It's one of the vids on the channel. A couple months back.
What would it take to make it articulate ?
That's a great question. Articulation really is mostly for reducing turn radius and would require a pivot in the frame plus hydraulic cylinders to control. I decided it was more complexity than I wanted to deal with for minimal benefit.
Do you sell plans for that grader
There never were any plans. It was built from an idea.
Now to see if cub cadet would like to buy your build plans.