Looking at purchasing a roller for installing gravel driveways and concrete pad prep. Have an opportunity to purchase a roller reasonable but it is a pad foot and i have no experience with a pad foot roller, always used a smooth drum, thoughts?
The only thing we use a sheep's foot around here is for clay.
Smooth drum best for a finish grade project
I would only use a sheeps foot for placing soil. Best bang for the buck would be a smooth drum with a sheeps foot kit. (sheeps foot=pad foot)
Smooth Drum
Smooth drum for driveways. No more than 6 inch lifts.
Not wanting to derail things here, but sheepsfoot and padfoot are different things.
do elaborate, as I've never actually heard of a padfoot, and just assumed it was a sheepsfoot.
This is a Sheepsfoot style. The feet are designed to fluff the material as they pull out in order to aid drying. This is a Padfoot. The trapezoidal shape leaves a sealed surface.
Also see this video for a nice example of a Sheepsfoot in action.
there you go. I've never even seen a sheepsfoot before around here. been calling a padfoot a sheeps foot for years. thanks for posting
Me too ! Not just me but everybody I know calls pad foots --- sheepfoots. Looks like you gota have some good material for a sheepsfoot.
It's horses for courses. If you only need compaction, go for a Padfoot. If you also need consolidation (drying) choose a Sheepsfoot.
So what are the compactors that use a round pad. They don't have the hooks like sheepfoots.
It's all down to the shape of the sides. If they are tapered to leave the ground cleanly then as far as I'm concerned, they're a Padfoot.
There is all different science in the shape of the pads on a padfoot. I have read about it, but way above my head. I have used a cat in particular, more of an oval pad that sucked. The more rectangular seem to pack better, In my opinion
can a padfoot roller be used effectively with thicker lifts of material, better roads magazine talked about lifts of up to 18 inch, seemed like alot.