In the meadow, we have some huge piles of mulch. We need to spread these out along the walking path that goes around the meadow, down the creek, and to the pasture.
But, in some cases, we need to grade the footpath first so that it's:
level (not sloping left or right when walking down it)
wide (about 5' wide, so a little wider than the frontloader bucket)
clear of brush (nothing growing from the sides that will hit your legs when walking the path).
Often, the best way to do this is to position the tractor (without an implement on the rear) parallel to the path on the downhill side, and then knife the bucket down on the uphill side to drag soil to the downhill side. This makes the uphill side of the path lower while building up the downhill side.
This isn't a perfect diagram, but in case it helps, this is the kind of change I generally make, viewed as if you were walking along the path looking at the path ahead:
In the meadow, we have some huge piles of mulch. We need to spread these out along the walking path that goes around the meadow, down the creek, and to the pasture.
But, in some cases, we need to grade the footpath first so that it's:
Often, the best way to do this is to position the tractor (without an implement on the rear) parallel to the path on the downhill side, and then knife the bucket down on the uphill side to drag soil to the downhill side. This makes the uphill side of the path lower while building up the downhill side.
This isn't a perfect diagram, but in case it helps, this is the kind of change I generally make, viewed as if you were walking along the path looking at the path ahead: