Ripping up the Driveway. Tearing out the weeds along edge of driveway with Land Plane Scarifiers

[@rogerr1296]

Gotta love how stuff you don't want to grow will thrive on solid rock and it laughs at any type of weed killer you try but the stuff you really want to grow dies if you just look at it cross ways.

[@tonycosta3302]

Nice work. I think if you do that on a regular basis the grass will go away. Have you considered using a propane torch to kill off the grass? It might be preferable to the chemicals given the livestock you have.

[@sunnyday5621]

The same as the grass on your lawn does not go away when you cut it, this grass will not go away either. I can tell you from experience, that weeds love when you use a torch, the ash is excellent fertilizer. Chemicals and spraying is a pain, but with an established root base underneath, it is the only way to get rid of them. For some weeds, a 4%+ industrial vinegar will burn them out when applied heavily. But other weeds find the vinegar as good as a fertilizer. I buy it in a 35 gallon drum, and start my weed control from there.

[@brucemartini2288]

yup, BURN dem weeds, though it would take a Lot of propane, long driveway, lotta weeds

[@reaperhunter7297]

When can we see the old case doing work again? Also the driveway looks good 👍

[@karenexner7284]

That's an incredible improvement on the driveway. I bet you count your blessings every time you use that tractor!! Lucky guy.

[@donkeylong7707]

Ahhhh! That country sound of crickets, frogs and bats. relaxing

[@freeholdequine2733]

You could use horticultural vinegar to spray the weeds and grass on the edges of your drive

[@cornealbakker4517]

I dug down 2 feet put a gravel bed fabric and still got weeds. don't use weed killer it is tempting

[@rayeddy528]

Good stuff Evan !! Thank you for sharing !! My suggestion is to invest in a hydraulic middle arm . You will not regret it ! Comes in handy in a lot of situations !!!! Stay safe and God bless you and yours !!!!! Eddy

[@DancerOfClouds]

Evan, kudo's to you for doing your driveway maintenance. In farming, maintenance is always a must. Well done

[@d.j.robinson9424]

I think it looks great, and that top grass will die off. 👍👍💚

[@Tomhohenadel]

Nice bit of road repair after work. Looks like great weather. Thanks Evan

[@wolcottfamilyworks]

Evan, your driveway looks better than most that weren't done by themselves. Keep up the good work.

[@RicofAllTrades-yp4dw]

Such a nice tractor with rear remotes deserves a hydraulic top link. Game changer.

[@marshahopeck8036]

You are such a wonderful teacher, keep on keeping on! Can't wait until you both can do this full-time!!! Thank you for your wealth of knowledge!

[@scrapironprepper]

I gotta get one of those. You dont take us to the end of the drive very often. You shouls do a whole farm video. The good and the bad. Thats what you do, show us all the good and bad. Just like the rest of us do. Its always better to experience life both ways than not at all.........TFS.........God Bless

[@ericwalstrand3512]

I like when I don't have any notifications for new videos, but I check anyway and there's a new one from Country View Acres

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Looks good Evan, one of these days maybe you can do a redo on the driveway and get the right outcome that you are looking for. They are expensive to do but it all depends on how much it bothers you to look at the driveway. Stay safe and keep up the fun around there. Fred.

[@ianhaggart1438]

Cracking work on the vid. We tend to drive along the edge of our track to compact the ground and stop the grass growing. Every time we are going out or coming home becomes edge maintenance 😆. Stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@walterchapman2884]

Looks like you have a lot of hardwood trees around , their sure pretty this time of year!

[@daleh645]

Looked like a ripping good time 🤣 God bless 🙏🏼🇺🇸

[@stuartsplace100]

Looks Great Evan,awesome job,Ed from Vermont

[@Vaseemm]

I spray brine (I use the road salt sold at the big box store to make it) and that kills everything for about a season. Spray once may need a 2nd application in a week and one more before winter but no tearing fabric and spreading grass and weeds all over. It's also very cheap to make than that weed-kill stuff.

[@Dan-qy1rg]

I made the same mistake with not cutting down the top soil before I put the chat down for the base. It still looks like you did good getting some of that pesky grass out. Thanks, have a great rest of week.

[@SOEtacticalgear]

Looks good man. Good info. I want a land plane for my skidsteer.

[@Tonetwisters]

Great shots, Evan! Drive is looking better ... Your leaves are turning. Wow. Still 81 around here in northeast Florida.

[@dougmcnattin386]

sounds like you need to dig out the edges 2' on each side. Then put a strip of fabric in both. Then add new rock. Good luck! You are doing a great job as a part time full time farmer. Keep up the videos.

[@teenagefarmer]

good work. glad that you got the Land plan working properly. stay safe God bless.

[@joeberry4179]

I don't have a landplane only a box blade and it does fairly well. I have had to spray weed kill every 4 months just to keep things presentable, best wishes to you.............

[@kipcudd7253]

I used to put in gravel drives in and I always tilled up the drive then scraped it off, piled it up as the homeowners always wanted the topsoil for filling low spots, etc. But this was before the fabric was being used. Everybody always sprayed the edges to keep the grass down. I put 2.5 crusher run then 3/4 crushed concrete topping and the grass came thru that I just let it grow, best grass in my whole yard but you can park an 18 wheeler on it and it's never sunk in. Just mow it and now dust and I've bladed snow off in that area didn't bother it. Just keeps growing.

[@salmonhunter7414]

A blind man would be happy to see it. Nicely done.

[@ithacacomments4811]

If I had a nickel for every time I have said to myself in my lifetime....."If I was going to do this all over again." Somehow the reality of life opens the mind to so many new visions!

[@gbentley8176]

From experience a drive such as you have must have a crown. Trimming without using a water bio friendly herbicide first means regrowth whatever you do. Personally I learned long ago that maintaining a drive to the width of the vehicle traffic is in the end the most time friendly way. I have several miles of track to maintain. Horses for courses really. Excellent channel. God bless from the UK.

[@ronharrison1776]

looking good .

[@kevinfaglie6367]

Looking good man when I had my land I had a driveway the classic one that has the grass in the middle and if you're in a low car you can hear the grass rubbing cuz it Mounds up in the middle looking good man

[@BroqueCowgirlHomestead]

Once you get it like you want you can maintain it by spraying ag grade vinegar to kill any grass.

[@travismeccariello]

I cut the top soil off ours and put down fabric and then gravel but still have tons of weeds. It’s a never ending battle. Also I didn’t put down enough gravel so I can’t use rippers. Gonna have to piney up for more rock! Your drive looks great!

[@ronaldlee2376]

Do not beat your self up, grass/weeds always win out. Limestone breaks down (dust) sweetens the soil, this is why lime is put on ag. fields to sweeten soil & improve yields. I have fought your battle every year for more than 6 decades. I gain upper hand until the next shower then I slip back into 2nd place again. Same effect using ground control, just a chess game, but never give up !

[@novaka240]

Good for you for not spraying! There are ways to go without. Keep up the good work!

[@sylviaprudhomme5417]

You work hard to keep things nice

[@markroeder2491]

Hi Evan, have you thought of building a flame weeder? You could hook it up to your tractor and keep those edges under control without having to use poisons on your property.

[@realreviews9207]

Evan, 5 gallons water, 2 1/2 to 3 pounds of water softener salt, 2 cups of vinegar and 1/2 Cup cheap dish washing all mixed and put into sprayer. This will kill all vegetation to the root. be careful to not get any salt grains into sprayer as it might clog sprayer. wait at least on day for water to absorb salt because water will only absorb so much salt. I used this mix on my stone driveway and this really works. Store bought mixes are only goof for 3 to 6 months. This works forever. This mixture will make 100 gallons of killer for about $12.00. Good luck, THIS WORKS, TRUST ME.

[@captnsquid8151]

Evan, it is Mothers Natures way to reclaim the land as she wants it. All we can do is prolong it to some extent. The ripper did OK. You are on a farm not trying to get on the front cover of Home and Garden. It looks fine. Go over it once a year. If you Add 4 inches of gravel, you will still get grass. Good video

[@joebarrett9830]

It's a little late now, but when installing a new driveway you should take it down to a hard surface, clay if you have it in your area. I seldom use the papers, it's more of a hassle than anything. Once it's cut in down to clay or hard surface, then put the #2s down for the base layer. I suggest driving on it for roughly a year to really pack it in, but a couple months if driven on regularly will work just fine also. Then you put like a #53 crushed stone as a middle layer or if you don't want to put a lot of money into a driveway you can top off with the top layer of #73. But after the middle layer (53s) is down you drive on it and pack it down as well. A good rain will also help lock in the stone. Then you put the final top layer on which can be #73s which also has dust or #10s which doesn't have dust and doesn't lock in as well. You should have roughly about 6-8" from the ground to the top of the driveway. This is how it should be done. Many of my customers want the corners cut and only want about 4" so they stop at the middle layer stage with either the #53s or the #73s. I can understand, it's rather expensive, but to do it right, you would never hit the road fabric or the base layer of #2s when grading it. Every driveway will grow grass and weeds. It's a course surface and catches all the seeds as they are blown or thrown into the air when mowing. It's just the nature of the beast. A good vegetation killer will solve this if you hit is 3-4 times a year before it gets out of control. I would suggest that between your grading times, you should spray it. About a month after grading, you should spray it to kill off things starting to grow in the driveway.

[@clarencewilson8610]

I think you did fine! Need to spray!

[@trwsandford]

I’m liking that land plane. My tractor has the old style box scraper, I use it for this very job. I can’t work anywhere near as fast. I’m also thinking you are getting better results.

[@pruchnicadventures]

Looks good.

[@bay9876]

Give it a winter of ploughing snow, run-off from heavy rain and frost heaves to assess the road work in springtime. Maybe a load of new gravel laid down as filler would keep'er for another year.

[@rodfair5698]

Evan, have you ever tried salt as a weed killer ? Get yourself a 50# bag of salt swimming pool salt is pretty cheap, or you should be able to get road salt where you are, dissolve a pound in a bucket of hot water and spread liberally on weeds. It will also stop new weeds from growing. You can also spread it on the rest of the driveway. Do not spread near trees. This is a semi-permanent method of killing unwanted growth.

[@lorenmeyer5290]

Great job Evan looks better!

[@brucemartini2288]

well, stone looks fresh and new again😏

[@lymanharrold166]

I'll trade my talcum powder dust for your weeds. Road maintenance is never ending. Enjoying your videos. Keep 'em comin'.

[@kevinbaker6168]

Check and see if your local ag supply has a granular herbicide that you can apply on the driveway. A lot of times the spray knocks down the growth, but the roots keep growing or the spread into the gravel.

[@chris3m98]

Buy some vinegar from the cleaning supply aisle of Walmart (it's stronger than the grocery section) & spray it on the edges. It will be good for about 2 years before it MAY grow back.

[@stevehoover16]

Nice job

[@jwszewczyk]

I use a "field and pasture prep" for no-till planting as my weed killer. It's cheaper than most and works very well on weeds and brush.

[@dalewallace8203]

I would love to have a land plane and soil pulverizer but I have a box blade and grader blade I use on the parking lot where I work I start out with the box blade and rippers to loosen up the rock then finish with grader blade turned around backwards and run over it pretty fast it doesn't pick up a lot of the rock but it breaks up the dirt clods and grass then after a rain it looks pretty good

[@howdyshaun6139]

Maybe get a burner torch and torch the edges, then a few days later, do the landplane. The roots will have died, slowing the regrowth, and the plant matter will break up into small pieces with the landplane a few days later.

[@bparsons72007]

I just spray mine driveway edges with glyphosate (cheap round-up) and after a couple months before new grass comes back, then grade with the box blade.

[@csnanny1882]

Looks like this will be a long time job.

[@charminghollowforge1109]

Home made two burner 3 point weed burner

[@TheGoodguy68]

The rippers on a box blade will actually pull up gravel from a old overgrown driveway and make it look new!

[@marydanen5220]

Looking good😉

[@lawrencelipon8673]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👌Evan is it a wirey weed that mimics grass, we have it around here and the stuff even grows in small cracks in pavement the only way that works for me is a tiger torch

[@leol1682]

Evan do this wen it rain .

[@petryjkcr]

Isn't the purpose of the fabric to keep the aggregate from sinking into the soil below? It makes an excellent bed for roots for sure - best to do what you said and remove the vegetation, put down the fabric and bury it deep. . . Love the channel!

[@graemeblakeston4603]

Hi Evan, love watching your escapades. If you set the rippers into the 3rd hole up and bolt some 1!inch metal under the blades you will get a 1inch deep dig into the gravel

[@andrewsamanthamadison3320]

This video should have been titled after Luke Bryan’s song “kick the dust up” man o man how nice it is to have a cab in that situation!

[@wadelyman7552]

Clethodim is your friend with grass.

[@jlvetor123]

Make up a weed/grass killer: 1 gallon vinegar 2 cups EPSON salt 1/4 cup Dawn dish soap the original blue Spray the edge of your driveway If you want your drive to look good.

[@myk55501]

Try pickle juice works really good getting rid of the grass and it's non-toxic for animals plus it smells like pickles then you can take salt and soak it overnight in a plastic bucket and put that down too that will that will kill anything but I don't like doing that

[@BridgetBatchelor-m1i]

Evan have you tried using vinegar instead of chemicals to get rid of the grass? It does work great.

[@CountryViewAcres]

No, but I may try that.

[@nickgillon2625]

Spray the unwanted grass a couple of times a year . No mess no fuss

[@yellowgreen5229]

Such a large driveway is INSANE, save the climate.

[@johnzink3309]

Thx

[@johnranalletta9249]

Ventrac Power Rake. Ask 'em. Maybe they'll let you use one.

[@kenrosser8160]

Mix up a jug of vinagar salt an dish soap an spray it

[@danielhaertling1493]

I have good luck spraying the grass on my gravel before i blade.

[@tidelovinyankee1368]

Don't you worry, Evan, it will all work out when you put an asphalt driveway down.

[@georgemoomaw9437]

Weld a bar on the tool and drill a hole where you need it to give you that 1 inch depth.

[@stephensaasen8589]

Might look into a soil sterilizer for the edges of the driveway.

[@samlikely3201]

Use vinegar it's cheaper better for natural environment also a long lightweight chicken tractor's plural with a specific breed ( don't eat those eggs ) chicken's we're made to eat your weeds can move long skinny tractor's every other day and drive around them coming and going

[@jonkwin9620]

Weed-killer granules and a layer of smaller gravel on top would keep it good for at least a year or two.

[@geraldskaggs3903]

Evan, the way I control the grass and weeds in my gravel driveway is to spray the driveway with Roundup, then wait until the grass and weeds are dead. Then you can grade the driveway without having all the sod and weeds on your driveway. Works for me.

[@chriscampbell2327]

Look like you need an extra ripper between the 2 out ones.

[@ssmith8881]

Evan - Wrong tool. Spray the weeds with glyphosate every couple of months. I buy "compare-n-save" 41% concentrate. One gallon is $58 on Amazon. You mix 1-1/2 oz per gallon so it lasts for a year or two. I find it is best not to tear into the gravel much with a ripper.

[@danielheartsill4269]

Now that you have the machine like you like it and you can do it more often you will be able to do away with the weeds on the side. Like everything else it takes many passes some time.

[@margaretbedwell3211]

Your driveway looks good. Would burning with your propane torch help or just burn off the green and do nothing to the weeds. Thanks for sharing. Have a Blessed evening.

[@scotttatroe7282]

I have the same set up I hit it with Round up to kill the weeds then I use my box blade then I use a drag it seems to work pretty good

[@tmmoose470]

Your rippers are scarifiers!!

[@michaelharris1486]

One word "Roundup" 🙂

[@gwhorn635]

Looks good 👍 Would a box blade work similar? ThT is what I have but I haven't used it yet.

[@ronevans852]

Yeah, I’ve had that problem for years, you just can’t win. Those weeds just come back. I’ve wanted to asphalt for years, but that so expensive. So I’m doing the drive sections at a time. Hopefully I’ll have know weeks. I’m about to do 5,040.00. Have already put down 3,000 in couple yrs. Ago. I field your pain. Good luck with your problem.

[@rayyoung7780]

A couple of applications of roundup would have saved you a lot of money and effort imho.😊

[@alvinbrown3756]

You could spray the grass with grass killer along the edge s oof the drive way

[@jakeschisler7525]

Be better to do it either during a rain or right after. My driveway i go around and spray it with killer i buy at tsc.

[@robertmacomber4036]

Nice work on the driveway, Evan.. I know that it is an expense, but have you thought about black topping your driveway, even a part of it??

[@michaelchamberlain4618]

Get a rake and rake it up

[@derick3818]

Spread wood ash on the edges of the driveway to kill the grass

[@rdlowman6]

TO ADD ANOTHER ADJUSTMENT, DRILL A SECOND HOLE ONE INCH FROM THE CURRENT HOLE IN THE LAND PLANE.

[@rare_wubbox360]

Great video! Looking for a implement like this for my own gravel road But is it better to drive on right hand side and by doing that shifting the gravel tovard th middle of the road? 👍🇳🇴

[@CountryViewAcres]

I did drive on the right hand side when I went over it without the rippers. So all the gravel was pushed back to center.