PMaine 31 #1 Posted June 5, 2017 Hi everyone, long time no post for me. I have a cabin I'm building in the mountains and I need to clean the site up. Really it's just grading and moving some rocks around that are on the surface. I have a plow and a Johnny Bucket, what's best for general grading and material movement? It seems both have their pros and cons. Thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KC9KAS 4,741 #2 Posted June 5, 2017 Like you said, "both have their pros & cons". For moving short distance and leveling, I would use the dozer blade. If I needed to move a pile from one place to much farther location, or fill a big hole, I would pick the bucket. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tankman 3,518 #3 Posted June 7, 2017 Like my mid-mount grader blade, stone driveways. Your bucket and dozer have different uses. KC9KAS explained it well. Wouldn't make much of a difference, dozer on one Horse, bucket on another Stallion. Considering the weather, another Horse for mowing, yet another for sweeping. A 416-8 would pull the wagon. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DennisThornton 4,769 #4 Posted June 8, 2017 Now you need another Wheel Horse, one for the JB and one for the dozer blade. Different attachments. JB is more for relocating. Bladed is more for leveling. JB would take material, gravel or dirt or..., and move it from the dump site to where you want it. Then the dozer blade would level and smooth it out. One for transport and one for applying. Of course you could maybe push/transport with the blade and of course you could level with the JB but that's somewhat like trying to eat soup with a fork and steak with a spoon. But you could do it! And something is better than nothing! But both is better! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EricF 589 #5 Posted June 8, 2017 At least the plow is easy to attach and remove. Don't know how hard it is to take the JB on and off... but as a scoop/transport device it's a lot faster and cleaner than pushing piles of material any distance with the plow. If you're a one-horse operation, best you can do is plan your work to minimize swapping implements. By the way, I'm a little jealous! I've got some material to scrape up and relocate as fill in my yard, and a johnny bucket would be perfect for moving it. I've got the blade to spread and level it already, but the JB is a bit too expensive. So it's going to be a few trips of hand-shoveling it into the dump wagon and moving it. Easier if I can get my son who keeps saying he wants to work out more to do it! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
