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Depends on operator skill. Which probably means that if you have to ask,
have fun cleaning up after yourself (experience at being the unskilled
operator on some different machinery - where everybody starts
sometime...) Exactly how hard it is also depends on things like if the
blade is 6-way or only 4-way, and whether you happen to have a handy and
expensive rotary rake attachment (which can nearly eliminate the need
for hand raking I'll mention below.)
It's pretty much exactly not what you want in a road grader (blade
sticking out front of a short track, not supported between wheels on
long frame.) So you are fighting the normal tendency of the machine to
get the work done. I've had a guy use one to pretty good effect on road
work - but that's what he does a good part of the day, most days. You
need a good eye or a lot of fiddling with survey equipment to pick the
right high spots and how far to cut them - a grader helps you do that, a
skid-steer leaves it all up to your ability to know where the blade is
even as the machine tips this way and that.
It's a good idea to have and know how to use a manual rock rake, and to
know at what point you are better off fixing things with it, than to try
to get things all the way done with heavy equipment, when it's the wrong
heavy equipment (but presumably what you either happen to own or are
thinking of buying...) - I've seen people who should know better spend 4
hours dragging a york rake around trying (and failing) to fix things an
hour of intelligent hand raking would have fixed.
If you don't already own the skid-steer, that one (looking at the scale)
would be better attacked (if allergic to having someone with a grader
and vibratory roller [I wish the town road crew used one of those, but
they don't] fix it for you) with a rock rake, shovel, wheelbarrow, and
pick (to break up the hard stuff for shoveling and/or raking from the
high points.) Then drive your truck over it a lot, or hire someone with
a roller, preferably a vibratory, which packs the base much better than
a plain roller.
Even if you don't intend to dig much, might be a good idea to call
dig-safe before you get started, lest there be any sketchily buried
wires/cables out there.
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