Motor grader attachments?

[BaconIsMyFriend]

Are any of you guys familiar with front and rear mounted motor grader attachments that look like specially designed tillers? I had never seen such a thing until there was a county grader parked alongside a gravel road in North Dakota. Was told they help with washboarding. I bet they really heat up the hydraulic fluid with much use, unless the grader has a feature that dissipates the heat well.

Wish I had a decent camera along to take pictures. The grader operators drive the machines in such remote areas and long distances from populated areas, that a county pickup is often towed behind.

[texashunter56]

Something similar to this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaEiMs4

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[BaconIsMyFriend]

For some reason I can't view the video.

[texashunter56]

Try this link. Not sure why the other did not work. It was a link to a Texas Company using a FAE Stone Crusher on the back of a farm tractor to build ranch roads.

https://youtu.be/vaEiMs4Jp1E

[BaconIsMyFriend]

Thanks. Could've been similar. The ones in the graders run off high flow hydraulic pumps. Next time I see one parked will take a closer look. Didn't see a brand name on the attachments.

[Drycreek3189]

Try this link. Not sure why the other did not work. It was a link to a Texas Company using a FAE Stone Crusher on the back of a farm tractor to build ranch roads.
https://youtu.be/vaEiMs4Jp1E

I'll bet the maintence on that thing, once it gets a little age on it, is costly.

Back in my youth, I worked on the " good road ", and one contractor I worked for was an inventive type of a fellow. He took an old LeTourneau C scraper and replaced the pan with a rock crusher. The idea was to blade the rock up into a roll, and just drive slowly down the road, big rocks going in and little rocks coming out the back. Back then, all the new roads were built with native iron ore for base. It's about all gone now, but then there was iron ore all over ET. Most contractors used a grid roller to bust the rocks down to a size that could be incorporated into the road base. His idea worked, after a fashion, but that sucker jumped up and down like a peanut thrasher and stayed broke down most of the time.

He (the contractor) was the best shot I've ever seen with a .22 rifle, but that's another story.