ha, I bought a Kubota 2920 tractor with a FEL and backhoe for some yard work.
maybe a little bigger than the JD above.
I know your job is very small but...

too bad your not closer I would help you out. it would cost me about $200 in gas to get up there and back.

A Bobcat has been used several times on this driveway to spread a pile, the dump trucks just drive around the 'shoe with the bed raised...easy peasy, and over my lifetime, a tractor and boxblade has been used the most....just not by me ;). This is a spur-of-moment, while the time is right idea...

Hell, I could just rent a trailer and bring a John Deere & box blade over...got them....wrong tool for this imo.

I have a few ways to go...thanks all!

Wrong tool... lol...

When you’ve bought and spread, say... 100,000 tons of gravel, you’ll have exceeded my experience on the subject and you can let us know what the right tool is.

This isn’t about the right tool... This is about you seeking validation to go rent a bobcat and **** around for a weekend. It’s more fun with beer, so pick a good one.

Have fun.

Lol

I do know the geometry of this driveway and when a 4' bushhog is the best tool despite being slow witted ;). A tractor as small as Tim"s might work....it'd be hard, the JD we have is too big for this task...and not on that property. Besides that....any pro here would use a BC....just to be wrong :)

Notapro...fer sure....

I'll see what Goober wants....it'd be ea$y low hangin' bux on the way home...I will not pay him to drink 3 hrs first :).

try coquina rock instead of gravel.
it will compact like cement.

just put in 45 tons on my driveway.....one of the reasons I bought the tractor.

There's probably 5-6 small dumptruck loads of large gravel there...just movin' it.

I don't really know.

I'll go checkout what she's running during a commercial.

a shovel is the right tool, take your time and pace yourself

You, sir, are a masochist of the highest order.

Unless the soil is very rocky, sod cutters make short work of this sort of thing. I'm always surprised how many people struggle to remove an area of grass... i think most people dont realize that you can rent these at most Home Depots.

Mrs. Ahab could get er done in a day or two.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/1008512-i-have-whirlygig-my-kabuki-works.html?highlight=Whirlygig

I have a 23 hp Kubota with a 3 foot bucket up front (and a whirlygig on the back). It is better than a shovel for leveling a driveway, but not much better.

(good thing for the wallet. my yard is too small for a tractor to even park on.)

I'm fifteen years into this now with just a shovel....I probably should have just bought one :)!

If you can find a cheap Toolcat 5600 let me know where it is and I'll pay you a finder fee.
I just sold a 2012 5610 (has 3 point with PTO rather than a dump bed) with 1100 hours for 32K and that was the cheapest one listed anywhere on the internet that I could find.

I've already told him what the right tool is. SmileWavy I'd run circles around your backhoe and have time to stop and drink a beer while you're making a 3 point turn. And yeah.. I've got your tonnage matched.

A Toolcat (esp. on tracks) does seem to be a pretty capable machine!

There is absolutely, positively no way that you would spread gravel with a bobcat faster than a backhoe.... The average backhoe bucket holds around three times what the average bobcat bucket holds. And slow? Not with my operator in the driver seat.

Keep dreamin....