Repair a gravel drive using a box blade | John Deere Tips Notebook

Over time, some of the gravel will get pushed off your gravel driveway leading to erosion, potholes, ruts, and bare spots. Let it go too long and you’ll have a repair project on your hands.

Equipment List:
John Deere 5075E Utility Tractor

Frontier BB2072 Box Blade

John Deere Loaders


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[aaronburford]

Love it! Box blade on driveway project.... My favorite!

[aaronburford]

Absolutely love box blade usage on drivewaya

[gregbakke]

Nice tips for those of us (me) who've never used a box blade.

[jamesTWisco]

This video is extremely useful!!! Thank you for the tutorial!

[anthonytyler]

Pretty good video for beginners like myself that are learning the box blade. My driveway is on a hill so I've got to do more research then going off this video. Thanks!

[johanhernandez]

You guys should make a small roller to compact dirt or gravel

[simpleman]

Don't forget to crown your driveway a flat drive is not good you want the water to flow off the driveway

[blairmielnik]

Why not offset the blade height and form a crown?

[strartur]

What about a roof type profile to shed water???

[aaronburford]

Rewatched! Liked, Subscribed, Shared!

[joshlasceski]

Not enough weight on the rear axle for that full load of gravel, add rear ballast with wheel weights and rimguard.

[jroderick]

Good video, but water is a very important part of any good blading project. Without water youll not achieve compaction and rock will segregate leaving nothing but marbles which will need scooped up and removed and replaced with new rock. A good rule in the finish grade business is to never move dry rock. Each time its done youll lose fines.

[truthseeker]

Could you use that rock rake you got for the beach?

[joeltell]

Could you know I used the box plate on my gravel driveway And let's just say all of the gravel is at the n l o l

[bae]

so we're not going to crown this driveway?

[DanRibar]

How do you use the cat1 hitch on the box blade with a cat2 3pt hitch on the 5e?

[rosshardy]

Can a box blade be used for grading 40-60mm rubble?

[mark]

What would be a good base to put on top of sand, to help support the gravel?

[mwa]

Doesn't seem like a good idea though to mix all that grass and soil from the middle into driveway.

[rvbzero]

That makes 2 guys that don't know what they're doing!