Ditch cleaning help

[MOlivin]

Hey all,

My driveway is on the side of a hill. I've got a hill side ditch running about 2000'
Which gets filled with leaves a couple times a year.
What is the best route cleaning this out? A PTO vacuum? I need to basically suck it up and blow it across the driveway and down the other side of the hill.

I need to figure this out before I finalize topping the driveway with 4" geocell and 3/4"clean.

Thoughts?

Thank again!

 

[MapleLeafFarmer]

I will throw out a CHEAP option..... how about a landscape rake?

used ones a cheap and easy to find.

 

[MOlivin]

That would not work in this situation. The ditch is 18" wide and about 12"deep. The high side is at about a 45 degrees slope, at it's steepest.

 

[Caden]

Hard to picture your exact situation. My angle blade can offset way out to the side for the purpose of ditch work.

Slide/swing it out in direction of the ditch so you can keep tractor on the road, drop that side to match ditchbank pitch, angle so you pull debris up into the road.

Then keep an angle, level out blade, and move debis to the other side of the road.
Not a perfect solution but a good rear blade is a super versatile attachment with some ingenuity.

 

[chim]

I'm sure that with 2000' you want something that works very well. This is probably something you don't want to hear, but how about reshaping it so you could drive along (on the road side) with an offset or tilted rear blade?

 

[Grandad4]

I agree with Caden about an offsetting scraper blade. I used a 7 foot one to maintain a similar ditch. Your L6060 should easily handle something like that and an 8 foot size would give even more reach

 

[MapleLeafFarmer]

That would not work in this situation. The ditch is 18" wide and about 12"deep. The high side is at about a 45 degrees slope, at it's steepest.

gotcha... when we say ditch we mean something like 20' across, what you describe here we call a trench (haha) devils often in the details.

cheers

maybe a 3 pt debris blower but a lot of bucks imho...