How To Remove Driveway Gravel From Grass
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- čas přidán 7. 04. 2021
- How To Remove Driveway Gravel From Grass - Totally Eliminate Hand Labor In Your Gravel Driveway This Spring
This creative use for the Ventrac 52-inch Power Broom can help save your back and your yard this spring. After a season of winter snow-pushing, the gravel from your driveway can get pushed into your grass. Hitting those rocks with your mower come spring and summer can dull the blades and lessen the life of your equipment.
The Ventrac KJ520 Power Broom is the perfect attachment to use for sweeping that gravel out of the grass and back into your drive. In the video, Aaron explains how best to operate the 52-inch broom for this specific application and how to avoid common mistakes.
The 24” diameter poly wafer bristle broom can operate at adjustable speeds and hydraulically angle 30 degrees left or right. Depending on the situation needed, bristles can be adjusted for minimal or aggressive contact with the surface. During this application, you’ll want very minimal ground contact as to not damage the grass while removing the gravel.
Once Aaron finishes with the Power Broom, he chooses the Landscape Rake to do some light regrading of the gravel in the drive. The KR502 Landscape Rake performs a variety of landscaping tasks. From soil preparation, leveling ground, to removing rocks and debris. The curved tines on the Landscape Rake can be used in either direction. Unlike pull-behind units, the Ventrac Landscape Rake is front-mounted, allowing the operator to keep material from being driven over. This minimizes compaction as well as making the Landscape Rake very easy to use.
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I put one ad on Facebook and have had more than enough gravel sweeping jobs this spring. I am using the same broom and love the fact that I can slow it as much as I want to save the grass. I also use reverse (carefully...so I don't get blasted in the face with rock lol) if I need to, to get the correct angle. I found that setting the broom to a 2" contact on the shop floor and then weight transfer setting 4 is a great starting point. Then if I see I am missing some rock I can easily reach down and change to weight transfer setting 0 or 1 and usually pick up what I missed.
Your neighbor is a lucky guy to live next to a Ventrac employee!
Respirator, brother, respirator!
No shit - so nice of you.
I think Aaron has about the best job anyone could have, if you're a gear head as I am. Love this kind of stuff!
Work is so easy with a Ventrac ! Best purchase I have made. For "Fathers Day", maybe I will get a broom. Pit/lab cross. He will be such a good loving dog.
Hi Aaron. I'm not a vet tech and don't work at a vet's office. I am just a country boy from Ohio that really enjoys your videos and thinks that your dog is a beautiful little pit bull mix.
Thanks for the comment! And glad you like the videos 😎
Thanks for following up on my segment suggestion.
He definitely looks like a mixed breed and he has some boxer in him.
Love the videos and the 4K quality
Pitbull Labrador mix
Thanks for the awesome vid
That's the leading opinion!
Well done! Truly a versatile machine.
Show this to Tractor Time with Tim. He used some inexpensive but labor intensive methods to get the rocks out of the grass.
I've used the power rake on shallow settings to get gravel and other debris off of grass.
Great piece of equipment.
Thank you for the video. I am trying to buy a rotary broom now to do this in my yard. Bad winter! lol
Thank you for the support and good luck with the project! Here is the link to find your nearest dealer www.ventrac.com/dealers
I love these videos and really find this so satisfying just watching this stuff. I would love to maybe get a machine but have no idea if there is a viable market here in SoCali with Covid and all. Any of you guys have any recommendations?
Chip is a pitbull / boxer / lab mix. 100% cute and high energy I'm sure!
FULL of energy. He plays as hard as he naps!
As always..... Great Demo Video!.
** Bonus Points for the Video "idea"😉😉of power racking stone out of yard right about the same time it showed up on the Honey-to-Do List.... Ledgendary Aaron....Ledgendary....
We do what we can 🤣🤣🤣
American Bull mix?
2:52 smug mode engaged
2:13 min... I am disappointed to see you need to adjust the caster height on the power broom with washers. Are you sure this can't be done hydraulically, or at least a lever with notches on a half moon plate, like you have on the flail mowers?
It's a cost/benefit tradeoff. We could devise a system that would do this, but it would add a LOT of money to the attachment. And primary applications for the broom are typically those that you want to find the right setting, operate, and not make any adjustments until brush wear becomes an issue. So a lot of people would be paying for a feature that they wouldn't use all that much and we try to avoid that as much as possible. On some attachments, features like this can be add-ons but this would require a significant re-design of the structure so it's not really possible on this one.
Aaron what the difference between the two rotary brooms you offer?
The HB580 is 58" wide and the KJ520 is 52" wide. The KJ narrows to 48" working width so that it can work effectively on 4ft sidewalks. It also has an updated design that uses larger diameter wafer style bristles which can be replaced individually or supplemented with different material types. Performance wise, they are similar but the 52" model has a little more torque and with the larger diameter bristles, does a better job of digging in to compacted snow/ice or other debris. The main reason to choose the 58" model would be for the extra working width.
Why does the caster adjustment use washers instead of having a crank mechanism for up and down adjustment, similar to a trailer tongue jack wheel? It would be so much faster to make adjustments on the fly instead of having to remove the whole wheel and count washers (and try not to lose them in the process over time).
4:40 mmmm, slow motion.... **drools**
A love bug yes maybe pittie mix
Now your going to have a weed and grass planted driveway lol
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I am going to say American bulldog (which is a distinctly different breed than the English bulldog).
We handed a broom to a new employee after setting the height. He came back at the end of the day with 3 inches left on the broom...
Oh No! They may have been using down pressure instead of leaving the attachment in float. That can wear bristles out in a hurry!
@@ventrac He was a very smart guy actually. He is a manager of hundreds of people now. He used logic instead of common sense.He thought the more down pressure...the better job it does...lesson learned. We try to hire farm kids now.
@@tf7274 Nothing beats good old fashioned common sense.
dog looks like a pitbull50-70% with white lab mix.
Personally he should be the mascot
I looked at the first couple comments and I don’t see anything about your little wood chipper there. He looks like a pitbull to me. But he could surely be something else. Probably a mutt.
pit bull terrier
Looks like American bulldog breed.
can't you get the puppy's DNA tested to get info on his breed and possible genetic disorders and allergies for the best care?