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B3350, Kub. 5" rotary cutter, LP 48" forks, Titan Aerial Platform, KK XB Dump
I've got about 300' of gravel ribbon driveway from the road to the house. It tends to get grass & weeds growing in the gravel ribbons. Due to the old trees planted along the drive and their roots, herbacide, paving and full excavation of the ribbons, installation of weed barrier and re-graveling are out of the question. I did try burning the weeds, but they came back within weeks even thicker!
To avoid tree damage, I end up scratching up the gravel by hand with a mattock, raking out grass & weeds and then spreading new gravel on top. The mattocking is getting old (and so am I), so am trying to come up with something to use the Bota to do the heavy scratching. I only want to scratch up what's there - maybe an inch or 2 - nothing deeper to spare the tree roots. What I have in mind is fabbing a variation of a FEL mounted pond scoop - I'd scratch going in reverse and with the FEL, I can float or apply some downward pressure as needed.
See attached design photo - what I was thinking about was using a piece of flat steel, cut some teeth into it - maybe bend it at the blue line 20-30 degrees - maybe add gussets on each end to strengthen at the bend & bolt it to the quicktach plate.
If there's already something like this on the market, I'd like to check it out. Don't have or need a BH. Would appreciate your input on the design, specs for quicktach plate, bolts (and how many/where), scratcher piece (what to use), etc. Red lines at top would be rods so I can see the edges of the scratcher plate. Gray piece is QT plate, orange is scratcher.
Thanks!
To avoid tree damage, I end up scratching up the gravel by hand with a mattock, raking out grass & weeds and then spreading new gravel on top. The mattocking is getting old (and so am I), so am trying to come up with something to use the Bota to do the heavy scratching. I only want to scratch up what's there - maybe an inch or 2 - nothing deeper to spare the tree roots. What I have in mind is fabbing a variation of a FEL mounted pond scoop - I'd scratch going in reverse and with the FEL, I can float or apply some downward pressure as needed.
See attached design photo - what I was thinking about was using a piece of flat steel, cut some teeth into it - maybe bend it at the blue line 20-30 degrees - maybe add gussets on each end to strengthen at the bend & bolt it to the quicktach plate.
If there's already something like this on the market, I'd like to check it out. Don't have or need a BH. Would appreciate your input on the design, specs for quicktach plate, bolts (and how many/where), scratcher piece (what to use), etc. Red lines at top would be rods so I can see the edges of the scratcher plate. Gray piece is QT plate, orange is scratcher.
Thanks!
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