We have been doing a lot of road maintenance and are trying to come up with a way to pull ditches on rocked roads without making a mess all over the road. Has anyone seen an attachment that would do that? We were thinking about using a ditching bucket that was 12" wide at the bottom and 36" wide at the top but that would be cumbersome doing miles of road.
What do you have to attach it to?
A dozer?
You mean a "V" or trapezoidal bucket http://www.stricklanduk.com/v-ditch-digging-buckets
Here twe cut them from the road with a grade all or a hoe if we have to. Never have an issue with making a mess on the road. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk
I was thinking about a trapezoid bucket but didn't know if there was anything else that might be faster. I could attach something to my 20k lbs or 40k lbs excavators or a skid steer.
I'm not clear whether you intend to maintain a formed ditch, or form one. CTL machines excel in the light duty work of cleaning out a previously formed ditch. If nobody offers a rotary ditch cleaner, a great opportunity awaits the patent holder. If the ditch isn't shaped well you want first a Gradall. A very skilled operator can do well with a big excavator & a toothless bucket & wrist.
I like the idea of a rotary ditch cleaner. Something I could put on the excavator or skid steer and pull material out of a ditch. Maybe even have it dump onto a belt that goes in the back of a 10 Wheeler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zso_5u6u_kY
Nifty.... but I'd hazard a guess it costs a bit more than the OP has available in his budget.
Somebody will build one for a CTL. A drum with flails will scoop cigarette butts, and beer cans into a hopper, then the driver dumps it into a truck to be hauled off to a facility able to make Lamborghinis out of cigarette butts.
This is what I am trying to make but on a smaller scale. http://ditchmaster.net
yes I’ve seen a rotary ditch cleaner. It throws the dirt into the field. Pretty nice ditch left behind. Our county put a large single disc on a grader mounted to a conveyer belt to build all the roads in the county. That was years ago. Don’t see them anymore. this might be a better option. I’m trying to find out who manufactures then. I found pics of these on a blade in Scandinavia/Sweden. It allows for positive and/or negative cut for pulling the shoulder and grading the road top in one pass. I was just told that someone in Washington was custom building them for Yakama County. I’m going to call them.
Do you have to remove dirt or can you just lose it?
This is what a few of the counties around here run....when they have to.