Anyone tried 'walking' a large wacker with a digger?

[doobin]

Got a steep chalk track to re-do. Don't really want to invest in a machine mounted plate as I'd use a large forward/reverse one more.

Has anyone tried attaching the wacker plate to the q/h via a chain set low on the wacker, then setting it going slowly forward, then dragging it back uphill/sideways and letting it walk back down again? Might be an easy soloution. Should be easy to control the line it takes, and give it a decent amount of time where it needs beating down well.

 

[Gunners]

Yep, it works but doesn't get as much force down as it would on the flat. If the tracks that steep that you cant push a wacker plate up it, its not going to last whatever you do to it.

 

[GazCro]

Got a steep chalk track to re-do. Don't really want to invest in a machine mounted plate as I'd use a large forward/reverse one more.

Has anyone tried attaching the wacker plate to the q/h via a chain set low on the wacker, then setting it going slowly forward, then dragging it back uphill/sideways and letting it walk back down again? Might be an easy soloution. Should be easy to control the line it takes, and give it a decent amount of time where it needs beating down well.

Tracking up and down all the time might just keep loosening the top mind. Did do pretty much the same thing a few years back on a v steep section of woodland footpath. Long bit of rope power barrow and snatch block attached to a tree worked a treat. Makes it a two man job but if ropes long enough and you work on sections you don't have to travel on the section you've wacked.

 

[Komatsu]

Why not step it/bench it, compact each step which will be level going for the wacker,then cut the step off, if you do it in sections, the over fill (steps) which you cut off to can be used on the next section without to much waste.

 

[GazCro]

To be fair if it's that steep a wacker or roller won't go up it what use is it as a track.

 

[doobin]

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To be fair if it's that steep a wacker or roller won't go up it what use is it as a track.

I didn't specify the hill gradient I did it about 8 years ago with a wacker attachment on a Monterbert breaker. It made a pretty decent job, however the grips to catch the water have been neglected, and this has led to water rushing down it the last few years which has caused some big old ruts.

 

[Danny]

What about a ramax

 

[Hg2702]

Make a bracket up for the wacker and fit it on the quick hitch poor mans compactor

 

[DaveDCB]

My wacker plates all cut on the smallest of slopes... presume they have tilt switches in to protect the engine from oil starvation.

Can’t you just track it in?

 

[diggerjones]

What about elephants foot on the breaker. Thats if you have breaker

 

[Shovelhands]

You like a project, @doobin , could you make something out of something like this ? Strip the engine off and fit a hydraulic motor? Hitch on top a away you go?

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[doobin]

No, it’s a rutted steep slope but also a sunken lane and I only have rubber tracks. Some kind of compactor needed.

 

[GazCro]

How long is the track out of interest?

 

[doobin]

Maybe 200m. Not long just steep

 

[DaveDCB]

Roller on a chain to digger/dumper save messing around!

 

[doobin]

Roller on a chain to digger/dumper save messing around!

I considered but I only have a single drum roller, thought wacker would give more compaction.