Fixing A Gravel DRIVEWAY with a NEW ATTACHMENT 4K
Video by Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek
Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek
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This DIY project demonstrates how to effectively repair a washed-out dirt/gravel driveway using a compact mini-loader equipped with a specialized soil conditioner attachment. The process involves identifying the problem areas, preparing and connecting the heavy equipment, and then using the soil conditioner to break up packed dirt, redistribute buried gravel, and level the driveway surface.
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(5,709 characters)good morning one and all how are you I'm doing excellent thanks for asking okay so we got a wash out right in the middle of our gravel driveway Ling gravel that's dirt all right so we got a wash out right in the middle of our dirt driveway uh and it just has been an ongoing battle so we're going to take this down and and we're going to use the mini and a new attachment that I don't know if it's going to work typically it takes a lot more gallons per minute than what a mini can do so we're going to find out what we're going to be using today is the Cass 33 I love this loader I still love this loader I have the C 40 that's an excellent machine uh but this this little this little girl right here saved my heiny so many times so if that can run a power rake that'll be interesting like I said normally they require a lot of uh a lot of gallons per minute or high flow so that cast has two pumps on it so you can activate one or you can activate a second so it's almost like you have the ability to to uh put it in high flow and here we go this is the piece of equipment this is TNA topnotch equipment attachment so this is made by uh specifically four topnotch equipment and their line of attachments and they make some pretty good stuff uh as we lick it over why I say they make some pretty good stuff I've never used this and I have my doubts but I've used other top-notch equipment attachments augers trenchers things like that and and look at the size of these hoses good heavyduty hoses for that size of an attachment tubular frame up here good aggressive meaty tires up in the front although the tires aren't we don't need meaty just you know they're not going to have traction or nothing and Zach's going to want me to probably lower the trailer down so let's do that and shut I love it when the plan comes together don't you how's the upside of my nose there you go it's always this one too on everything I know it's like why don't they just have two of these and call it a day hey were you there when we were putting the attachment on I don't know but the guy told me the hydraulic pressure goes up like 10% for every 10° rise in temperature or some crazy thing like that I don't know what the heck the heck it was but so if you ever have one that just refuses to go it's cuz you got too much pressure built up in something and it looks like there's too much pressure built up in the attachment in this case she just won't go on hey how do you like them Cujo pants they're good probably going to be stained up now cuz I never washed them supp all right on [Music] now a soil conditioner like this can be used on a gravel road now in this case the driveway is just packed too hard and tight to allow me to really do any grading with it and I've got to loosen it up just to be able to level it out and fill in those holes but a piece of equipment like this is really best suited for grassier or turf areas if you wanted to loosen up the subsoil to allow your grass to establish that's where an attach ATT like this really starts to [Music] [Applause] shine now another thing this is doing is a great job at bringing that grapple back up to the surface so a lot of times people will regra or reclassify their driveways because it all gets packed in and mushed together and it doesn't really look like it has its surface layer to it well a soil conditioner like this does a great job of just bringing the light right back into an old gravel driveway because the gravel never really goes anywhere it just gets embedded deeper into the top layer I got smooth that made that dang now if I just knew how to run it better I'd actually look like I knew what I was doing right well it's no different than well it is cuz you're used to with a skdy you got both controls right right here your hands you your feather and all that stuff where this your steering wheel articulation trying to use the joystick all right well thanks for making excuse for me I was just going to say I need more practice all right well let's keep her going [Music] all right we practiced where it didn't matter up top and I think I got her kind of dialed in so let's uh let's hit that rut and drag it down into the Sandy area down there and leave it there bless you bless [Music] you know you guys have to regrab the driveway well it just doesn't float off into the air poof oh just get compacted and other soils get on top of it not yep so you can do a little extra life to your driveway just by bringing that gravel back up and that's this is my gravel I mean we don't have gravel but it's sand and probably what 2 in rock yeah yeah sand and rock is what we got here but that is what our driveways are made out of where we are but that's a good way to uh well that didn't take more than a half an hour and we had this whole driveway just yeah no you don't need to get a big machine you don't need to get a big 641 of those old yeah just a little one a little one will do with your Castle or that's like that's that's you don't need a big skid with all that horsepower and all that other stuff I tell you this machine has come in like just today I mean we couldn't have built that whole cabin without that cast loader Center beam was hiked up with it every ounce of material was brought down the yard was never destroyed we regrade the driveways we moved trailers around anyway all right uh that's going to call it for today hope you guys enjoyed watching us play out in the dirt fix this driveway recover the gravel do the stuff that we do but that's it for this one God bless go get him you guys and we'll catch you on another one and yeah we're going to play for a bit longer so we're going to turn the camera off and just have
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