How to Grade with A Skidsteer

sharing your experience for free is a hell of a great gift!!.. i have to pay for tickets and most instructors are quite busy to go over the processes ... also, the older pipe liners are real pricks to try and work with... so thank you Sir!! 😃

Once again another dynamite video, love the ride-a-long portion. I miss drive a stick so it's so relaxing to see how you drive the truck with ease looking cool!. The dumping of the material is always a highlight for me. The sound, the smoothness as it is spread..... love it!. Then your masterful work on the equipment doing the grading with attention to detail! The customer service aspect of warranty work is top shelf! This is why I always push like to your videos and make comments sir!

Todd nice video man. I love the way you share your knowledge for others to benefit from. Keep up the good work brother!

I appreciate your existence, just started grading my own property for the first time ever, these videos have helped a lot. I let your videos play as background while I'm in my garage that's how I've been learning

Thanks for showing us how it’s done Todd. Says a lot about you that you stand behind your work. You’re a master with that machine. Nice backblading job.

Very much enjoy all of your videos! Learning quite a bit about excavator operation and practices from watching you. Great resource for newbies!

You are the best at what you do sir! Great content... Started watching driveway work because of your channel!

Hey just wanted to say thanks. Also been spending the past year + grading my 200 ft gravel drive and adding around it new sections. Have done it 4-5 times this past year alone each time with different techniques and different attachments just getting the practice in hours in while I can. Something I really enjoy doing and hope to keep doing in the future. It bugs the fam but it’s a great practice arena lol.

Good video. Glad to see you upgraded the equipment

Good job as always. Have a great week. Thanks for sharing.

Love the in cab audio synced up with the exterior wide shot!

I do a lot of grading with the skid steer and I always try new techniques etc to see what works better. And you know, last time I did a longer road the first 10 loads of top gravel I got, every load I graded with a different technique in a 100 ft section each. And when I started I thought that certain techniques will yield better results then others. The result was, I had every load graded out before the next one came in, and in the end, I couldn’t tell a darn difference between each section even tho I did them all differently. That tells me, only skill matters. Sometimes I go back to jobs I did a long time ago, jobs I thought I did good at the time. But seeing them now, I can do better then that haha. But regarding your video, all I wanna say is, I do it very differently and I do 90% of the work with the bucket flat on the ground, forward and reverse. I always cut and slice, push and pull. Either with the heel or the cutting edge, and I like to keep some material in the bucket for weight. But I really don’t do any dragging I found that’s a waste of time even for beginners. Cut and push forward, slice and pull backwards. If you are perfect, all you need is one pass forward, and one in reverse to finish it off. On each side of the road of course. But I don’t have that much skill yet.

Gravel driveways and roads in the mountains are so susceptible to hard rains and getting the right material and fall on them are often a process of adjustments. Enjoy your vids. Be well and cheers. ☕️

Thank you for taking the time to make this video and give of your experience.

Very nice job good proud of you and how the breading turned out it’s Sunday morning here in West Virginia going to Sunday school this morning’s by God bless your business you and your family

love the Mack ...low end torque is awesome

Looking good Todd !!

I do the same with my driveway jobs. I'll do the majority of earth moving with my Landpride slide grader. After I've got the shape I desire, I'll use the loader bucket to dress it out pretty and smooth.

Looks good!

The way he explains what he’s doing reminds me of Bob Ross painting a picture lol.