581 Kubota LX2610 Tractor. Driveway Grading. RB1672 Hydraulic Rear Blade. Box Blade. 4K
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Heading over to a neighbour's to carve out some rain gutters along his driveway. Both Kubota Tractors - the LX2610 and the L3400, Landpride RB1672 Hydraulic Rear Blade, BECO Box Blade and a little can-do spirit. Let's see how it turns out!
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Nicely done! Get your rain gear ready! Need to see the ditches in action! 😁
Hello Mr, I just watched the video on grading this driveway. Talking about the building that has water standing in it. It may be a good size job for y'all, but I would take some readings with a lock level or rotating laser. I'm pretty sure you could cut a swale in front of the doors, and have it drain to either side of the building. And instead of crowning the road, when you get out to the section where the building is, id super elevate it to where the water drains to the other side of the road. At least that way, you won't be draining the driveway to the shop.
Gord, I love the helping hand attitude the neighbors have collectively. Keep it up.
thumbs up for rare footage of Guy REALLY operating the tractor! we had loader, we had boxblade, we had fun making ditches 😎
Good evening GP, I had the exact problems in Shefford and I did the same that you good folks did and I also drop by 2 feet infront my house the ground level and put a water French drain to catch the left over water going to my house too ( many videos about that subject 2 yrs ago !!! ) You can also revers the crown infront the garage and I also did the same too so the water was not going their but instead passing by. Small ditch to evacuate the water away from the road is an OUTSTANDING idea 👌👍😇 but drop the ground level infront the garage !!! Cheers
Some good suggestions - thanks Dave!
@@GPOutdoors 😉 I DO have OUTSTANDING experience about water drainage ask JOE 🤣🤣👌👍🍻
Geez Gord, you and Guy play in the dirt like kids.
Soak up the summer, it's going to be gone all to soon.
Congrats on the LX 🚜💨💨💨👏
awesome job by an awesome team. Always fun to work with friends ... even more when it is to help a friend. You are right; we built a garage 3 years ago and I am so pleased that the gentleman who did the land prep insisted on adding a few truck load og gravel for the pad. That raised it above the surrounding terrain and prevented all tyes of water drainage nightmares. Good advice
I ran a road grader for the county and we would hit the gravel roads hard right after a good rain. It helped keep the fines (dust) down and mix it back in instead of blowing off on the farmers land or yard. It just packed down real good
Thanks for the tip on removing the air in the lines, I didn't know that. Good video.
Continue that ditch line right around the corner into the woods right before the garage that will help a lot
Always more fun working in tandem Gord! Nice job...look forward to hearing how it handled the rain. Cheers! 👍😎
Good stuff, every little bit helps. Like you say you need a little rain to see how it works. Have a great day!
I would install a commercial curtain drain front of the garage and route the water around the building. You can drive right over it and all the water falls in and flows out the ends or wherever you route it to.
Great video thanks. I really enjoy watching a rear blade work
Watch some dirt perfect tile installs. If you are worried about freezing, bury the pipe deeper and use a stand pipe.
happy summer to hot in tampa feels like 110F.. ty for the videos
If he gets a couple loads of gravel I think you may be thinking about this backwards on the application. You already have a pretty good crown on that road. Think about spreading it from below the garage towards your run offs you created. And the the point where you terminated your ditch, stop the new gravel. Even a layer of 1-3 inches up to that point creates a berm like effect, and it you taper that leading edge toward the ditch it will help channel the water coming down the slope of that driveway towards the ditches. Hope this has been clear enough, it’s what I have done with mine. Cheers from NB Canada
Awesome job GP. Guy was no slouch either with the loader and box blade. The run offs will help your buddy a LOT for sure. To keep water out of my shed, I poured a catch basin with steel grate and routed a 12" drain tile under ground to discharge a good distance beyond the shed. But I agree, the problem originated with the original layout of the drive as well as the building flush with the ground in the direction of natural drainage. He is MUCH better off now than he was before though, thanks to a couple of good neighbors.
Great job boys. You kids act like you know what your doing. Continue to work safe
Without a doubt, you are man who sees and appreciates the big picture.
It's hard for people who don't, but often, sometimes even harder, for those who do, to learn how to ask the right questions.
This is at times, almost characteristic of every Yoda, Gandalf, etc figure we've seen in our stories.
Yeshua, all too often, pedastisized to the point of only a vague reference to his humanity, he too, could not rush his realization.
Nor can we, however, we can hold out for it.
Great tips and advice here on offer.
One thing I'd add, many compact tractors on the market lack the necessary 'down pressure ' on rear implements due to lack of hydraulics.
I'm at the point of ordering a kit for my 2007 T1520 NH in preparation for the power rake I'm hoping to find somewhere.
Thanks again - I'll be watching more soon.
nice job guys.i would have put a drain across both doors outside and drain them into the woods, before putting in a sump pit inside.
Hi Gord, Sure is a more enjoyable job when you have quality equipment. I am a bit north of you and had the same problem with pooling in front of the garage. I tried everything to divert the water but these warm spells with rain that we have been having the last few winters in January and February had been hard to work with. Trenches filled with water and froze making them useless in the spring. I finally had a pro with years of experience come in with an excavator and a dump truck. I was surprised to see him haul out six truckloads from the front and several more from the sides as he reset the grade to proper levels and slopes. He used the laser transit and within a day and a half he was done. Two winters since that work was done and I’ve been high and dry. No more caulking the garage doors shut and vacuuming water all night! Makes for a much more pleasant spring.
Great video. Put in a few water bars on driveway that channel water to side.
Good information and very kind of you and Guy to help your neighbor GP!
Morning Doug!
GP, he should consider installing a French drain across the front of his garage doors, this will stop water from entering in. A little backhoe work and he will be pleasantly surprised. Cheers.
Great teamwork, Gord & Guy!
Need a 24 inch wide by about a foot or more deep ditch. Lay some self drilled schedule 40 in the bottom of the ditch and daylight the pipe somewhere. That's a lot of work and the cost of PVC is more than double what it was 2 years ago.
I have a similar situation with one of my buildings. I made a blind ditch in my gravel with my rear blade. I tilted it all the way to one side. The ditch is not very big or aggressive and you can't see it since it's full of gravel. It works pretty well but I will probably have to do it over again soon.
GP, you and Guy did a fine job. I'm wondering if the home owner could install a french drain near the garage door entrance. The french dran can have the piping sloped away and downhill to a retention pond to keep all water at bay. Man, I'd be peeved if I came into my garage and had water pooled inside the bays. I did have a similar issue where water was coming into the back door of the garage from all the rain down pour off the roof drains. I installed several inter-connecting french drains and voila, the rain water was no longer an issue. The rain water all followed the path of the drainage pipes away from our house. Now I was beyond tickled to death. Enjoyed a full-watch. Say hey to Guy for me. Later my friend. Don 👍🏽🤠 7/7/22
Keep in mind that French drains freeze in winter.
Morning Don! Great to hear from you - yes indeed however the drain will freeze in winter. Tough situation for sure. Hope you are keeping well!
Install a trench drain in front of the garage door. It would work well for this application.
Add a French drain in front of the garage. I put one in when I built my garage. I have an extremely steep slope on my driveway. No water in my garage ever. I used 4" pipe and 2" limestone and it drains great.
Nice video - G & G Road Builders in action, too bad about the grade of the garage but hopefully it will help. Cheers
Inthe process of finishing my shop , 15 loads of gravel to build it up. P.s. learned the hard way, i feel his pain .
You could also dig a big trench in front of the garage doors and pour a concrete like a trough with drain tile covered with rock. Then put a steel grate over the top so the water flows through and past the building.
Great video. I am still sharpening my grading skills. Its always nice to see how other people work. I learned allot. Thanks for taking the time to produce this video.
Cheers Marty!
That rain gutter is 12" wide and 12" deep with 5' metal grates that sit flush with the garage and a 4" drain to one side ,your friend would need something much bigger.
GP, went and looked at a LX3310 today. As a Heavy Equipment Mechanic the motor is hand down more aggravating to work on. Just jammed in their with the common rail, emissions, etc. Believe I'll be leaning towards the LX2610. Kinda why I appreciate the B2601.
Good luck M! I'm sure you will get the right one for you. Cheers!
Good job guys that should made a big deference in running the water away from the garage good video take care have a great weekend
Nice job on the driveway. 3” of gravel might be heavy all at once. He’s going to loose a lot when he plows or if he uses a blower it going to be like a machine gun with a lot of broken shear pins. Speaking from experience. Another great video thanks for sharing.
Looks like fun!
Enjoyed that Gord. Good job!!
Nice work Gord, I have finally figured out our long driveway, A Titan 3 point Adapter, that lets me use the blade on the front of our Trackloader, A great combination, Take Care and Stay Safe 🚜🪵👍🏼🇺🇸
Thanks Larry! You too - all the best!
When they built my garage the concrete company said I needed a 12" drain in front of it ( it probably could have been 15") it helps . I also put those rubber gaskets on under the garage doors (on the concrete , not on the door) The combination works great. As always great information , thanks.
I had a similar problem with my driveway, and what we did was dug out along the one side of the drive, ( where it naturally sloped) then put big O down, and filled the ditch with rip rap rock. The access water runs into the rip rap, then out the big O into a deep dug-out hole, filled with rocks, that acts like a catch bowl for the water. We then had a few loads of "m " type gravel on the surface which packs down quite hard. I hardly have a stone loosen even in heavy rains.
Awesome video and great advice.
Great job guys
I know some people if they have a water in the garage problem will pour a apron/approach with a metal mesh top with a channel/void under that leads to a sump pump that takes it somewhere else. this seems like it will work. good job gord.
Since the fluid runs the attachment you gotta figure it fills whatever attachment might be low then when you disconnect it the tractor will be low the difference stays in the attachment
Excellent work by the G squared (G2) team. I will be interested in the result when you get the rain. Cheers!
I’m not a expert but I think before working on the ditch u could pull most of the gravel from the side your working and then the other side so u don’t mix as much of the dirt in it but what a job
Great video gordon. Thanks! I like your use of voice over and text to explain what's going on as we watch the video. Good way to learn valuable lessons.
I think what you did will help tremendously. But you can install other projects such as water bars. Since this a driveway is used a lot, I recommend a rolling dip. It requires moving a lot more dirt than a water bar; they are easier to drive over and last longer. Put the first right at the bottom before you get in front of the garage or at the run-off spot.
GP like the content. This is a great candidate to cut in some water bars across the traveled lane on that last pitch before the garage.
Let’s hope it will do the job.
Any chance you can grade that slope away from the garage and into the woods? Seems like a bit of a compound grade coming off the house and driveway could be made into the woods to direct the water away. Doesn’t need to fall much, 1” or so every 10 ft will be enough to help direct the water away.
Great teamwork! Ive been using the rear blade on my dads CT2535 and its amazing how much material it can move! Nice work!
Looking good I hope it works like it looks it should
Seen it so many times in my line of work people building garages in a hole you're always better off to haul in extra fill to raised the garage... Wish the previous owner would have done it with the garage where I live I ended up putting a Swale in front and putting clear Stone a French drain
Just get a tripod mounted grade control laser, learn how to set the grades and regrade the compound in front of the garage so the garage isn't the low point. Need one Rodman foreman and one operator.
The garage if still a problem could have a highway rated drain grate placed in front of it and a drain pipe buried going off to a convenient kow point . Drain grates come with a channel to be placed in a 10 to 12" sq. section of concrete c/w steel or cheap plastic grates depending on strength and durability needed.
Rent a small roller compacter and regrade any time that the ground isn't frozen.
Thanks john. Some great detail and suggestion. Have a good day out there!
Another great video GP, lots of good tips. Thanks for posting! I struggle with rocks here on my property here in Rhode Island as well. Legend has it (haha) that a glacier caused a wave, and they all ended up on mine and my buddy next doors' properties. I tend to believe it because you can't do anything here without digging more of them up. Oh well, just means more tractoring! Have a good day.
Hi Gord! You and Guy did an awesome job on your neighbor’s driveway! Creating some “exit ramps” for water to escape the driveway works well. I have some on my driveway for the same reason. Thanks for sharing!
Cheers Martin!
Good evening GP.
Looks good..
Water can be a very big problem…
Always nice to have a little help.
Great job Guy..
As always stay safe and always be kind.
Cheers my friend..
Nice job men! 😁
How's she goin'? It's a hard to reshape a lane but you guys did a good job. Making the ditches was key I think. I can just imagine the amount of water that gathers in front of and in the garage. Hopefully this will make a difference. Nice work you guys!! Take care!!!
I hope so too Grampie! Hoping it helps. Fingers crossed. LOL!
You guys did a great job on that driveway. I can feel your pain with those rocks as my property is the same way. Have you considered a hydraulic top link? It is a game changer with rear implements. Have a great day!
Morning Dave. Yes, thought about it but still on the list, so to speak. have a great weekend!
Hydraulic toplink is very handy
A bit too much tilt forward on the box blade level it out more..... Will level out what you have better versus taking more out
Hello Gord and Neighbours! Fantastic job and great advice as always. I think I'd like to get a rear blade instead of using my box blade in winter. Have a good week Gord.
Should see if your neighbour with the bx will go with the backhoe and dig a small swale along the side of the garage to help divert the runoff around the back. I know exactly which place that is and yes the water would rush into the garage no questions asked there lol
Hey Gord, that fellow sure does have a problem with the garage. Looks like you may have helped some with the drive slope but that constant runoff going directly to the garage is going to take some major work. Lots of lowering to be done?? Stay safe and good to see you and Guy coming to the rescue. Fred.
Gord, if Kurt has a sump pump installed in the garage that pumps water away from the house, has he thought about the possibility of installing a French Drain in front of the garage to catch the water and then plumb it into the sump pump well to be pumped away? Just a thought.
GP, nice! Really like that rear blade with the hydraulic angle. Think that might be the next purchase for me. I can justify it, but can also justify a few others too. Then I prolly should build a open pole building first! Lol
( Kinda like the horse before the barn?) Lol
Can you put a swale (shallow ditch) directly in front of the garage doors to drain the water away?
Great info. Have you ever had an issue with the rear angle being frozen up on the RB1672? I am about to pull the bolts off the center section that controls the tilt in hopes of releasing it and allowing it to tilt when it goes back together.
youre a legend sir
At 6 min when bucket fully down forward and pushing gravel they say it's ez to bend a ram very ez
Looks good! I need to get a rear blade -- just have the box blade right now, and really need to do some ditch work on our property. I know the box blade can be used in a similar way, but it won't allow quite the extreme angles.
Why not put a drain in front of garage? Maybe 4 or 6 inch by 24 feet (or width of garage)? That would carry water away.
Put a French drain in around the garage
I like that blade. Does it have an offset setting? I remember when you got it, but I'm too lazy to look up that episode. LOL
Great job GP and Guy!
Does your LX have down pressure on the 3pt hitch arms?
Looking good GP.
Morning Gord, I’ve never considered a rear blade. You definitely make a good case for getting one though. I’ve always had a box blade to use. You and Bob make a good team. Cheers 🍻 have a great weekend! 🚜🇨🇦🍻🏝
Fine job! Cheers!
so what happened with the rain?
Good morning. I did a followup video on it. Very happy it worked great however on the right side of the driveway, we should have dug the end of the gutter further into the forest as we did on the left side. It is good for normal rains but heavy rains will shed away into the trench on the left side but after too much rain, it begins to pool there. The main driveway itself always stays clear. Thanks for asking. Cheers!