Contractors know that grading is what makes or breaks a finished site. A land leveler is the ace up your sleeve for getting ground prepped and ready. Use it to grade a pad for concrete or shape a gravel driveway. Trot it out to smooth field edges. A purpose-built attachment keeps the job moving.
Buckets and blades can get involved in smoothing out ground, for sure. They’re great for moving piles of dirt or doing rough cuts, but a land leveler gives you tighter control when the ground is already cleared of big stuff, it’s still rough/uneven, and it’s time to finish. With its wide frame, front and rear cutting edges, and simple drag design, it can:
You could try these things with a dirt bucket or a snow blade…but you’d just be constantly tilting or dumping. The leveler works in both directions and keeps things consistent. Contractors would much rather reach for an attachment like that to save time and headaches before the pour or before the asphalt trucks show up.
The Prime Attachments Land Leveler and 4-in-1 Bucket both show up on jobsites for grading tasks, but they shine at different stages:
Land Leveler |
4-in-1 Bucket |
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Best for finish work. Wide contact surface and dual cutting edges let you smooth and prep quickly. Perfect for driveways, shop pads, or landscaping finish. |
More versatile for rough grading. You can doze, dig, grapple, and backfill before moving to finer leveling. Also handy for compacting edges and filling soft spots. |
The long and the short of it is that on most projects, contractors end up using both: the 4-in-1 for shaping, the land leveler for polish.
Picture a crew setting up for a shop pad. A bucket might cut the grade, but it’ll leave ripples and ridges.
A land leveler drags clean and redistributes material evenly to deliver a base that’s ready to pour. In the end, that’s less hand raking and fewer re-dos. Don’t waste your valuable time. Contractors often talk about speed — a land leveler makes jobs faster not because it does more things, but because it does one thing better than anything else.
If any of the jobs below are frequent tasks for you, you’re gonna want to consider getting a skid steer land leveler to keep jobs snappy:
Because our heavily built Prime unit is engineered with four ½” gussets and a double-welded cutting edge, it resists bending or twisting even under pressure. We stand by its U.S. manufactured durability…it’ll surely outlast generic rakes and cheaper, lightly built imports with tack welds.
There’s so much more to leveling a site than making it look smooth. You’ve got to make sure water drains where it should and concrete pours and settles without any issues. The finished surface has to stay strong. The Prime Attachments Land Leveler is concocted to make that dream a reality. Pair it with a 4-in-1 bucket to make your skid steer into a grading machine that’s hard to beat!
Looking to step up your site prep? Request a quote today and put our land leveler to work.