D3.5

Expensive but did great. Graded yard and driveway, it smoothed everything thing out perfectly. Very pleased with results.

I have a very long gravel driveway that winds its way up a hill with my house at the top and I waited way too long to get something like this to maintain it. DR Power wanted over $200 to ship me one of their graders (I'm in Alaska) so the Handozer was much more reasonable.This drag did a very good job of getting the ruts out and I'm overall satisfied with it. The Handozer is a heavy and solid piece of equipment - I think it should last. Assembly is a bit tedious with manually installing each tooth, but not difficult.Really could use space to set two cinder blocks on top, as one isn't quite enough weight for parts of my driveway. Other than that, it works well. The teeth are designed to pop up, rather than break, when they encounter something like a large rock :). So carry a wrench, because you'll need to hop off your lawn tractor from time to time to re-set a tooth.It tends to float over deeper holes, so you'll still need to get a shovel and fill those in yourself. But if you use this drag every so often before your driveway gets too rough you shouldn't get very many of those in the future.

Overall was very impressed with the performance of this implement. It took my 4 year old, pot-holed SB2 gravel drive and after 6 passes transformed it into basically a brand new driveway. I didn't even have to add any new gravel! Very good build quality and adjustability. It's nice to be able to drag, then just pull the rope to lift the implement to "jump" over areas you don't want to drag.EDIT 8/21/22: Still using this thing 4 years later, every 3 months or so to keep my gravel drive looking great. Due to this implement, I STILL have not had to add any gravel, as it keeps my driveway churned and fresh looking. Have had ZERO issues with it thus far. Looking forward to many more years of service.EDIT 7/21/24: It's now been 6 years, and the Handozer is still going just like when it was new. The only thing I've done at this point is sharpen and adjust the tines a bit, that is all. Still consider this one of the best outdoor equipment purchases I've made.

Updated with pics from this spring. After a few uses, the scarifiers/spikes needed to be adjusted for wear. Still think this thing is great.Used it to groom my 300 ft driveway AND 200 ft shared driveway. Easy to assemble and set up (watch the YouTube video). I bungeeed down a cinder block and went after it. The driveways hadn't been maintained in a decade. It takes several passes to break up the compacted material, and then you need to make passes in different patterns to redistribute the gravel. Super pleased, it tore through weeds, sand, very compacted gravel. It brought the larger aggregate to the surface, and smoothed out the uneven spots.

Had I known about this sooner, I'd have bought quite a while ago. This type of implement was brought to my attention by an ad in a magazine for a DR brand groomer. It was twice the price, or triple if you wanted motorized lift. Was skeptical it would scarify like some more aggressive and again, more expensive (x3), yet this little dynamo really did the trick!. I had a sorely neglected driveway when we purchased the property 2 yrs ago. My first gravel drive. Potholes and ruts 6-8" deep from rain storm drainage. This will not go so far as to introduce a crown on the drive, but with repeated passes, even the deep ruts were filling in and leveling. If you own a lawn tractor and have a gravel drive, do yourself a favor - get one of these and enjoy a much smoother, well groomed driveway. Sounds corny as I've heard the phrase often, but I honestly have had people ask when the fresh gravel was dumped. It really works that well.ONLY drawbacks are very minor:- Watch for bolts. I had to re-tighten spikes shortly into my initial run, as I was sheepish about over-tightening. You really need to see those V-bolts cranking down hard and distorting to fit the shape.- Had one of the lock-nuts on the rear rake that needed replacement- was loose in box, and did not like to stay put.- TRICK: I was using a rock that was just about the right size to fit where cinder block goes. It just didn't want to stay in place. Wrapped a bungee cord on it and solved that. Cinder block or rocks, you will want to have that weight for a hard packed gravel drive.- Could use a better lift method than hanging onto a rope, but it does work. It's not enough of an issue to push me to spend an additional grand on another brandAgain, for the price, this is a great big bang for your buck. MUCH heavier frame/thicker steel than I thought it would be. You'll be shocked at how fun it is to refresh your driveway now and again. I'm sure with regular use the trouble spots will be kept to a minimum.

I was very impressed with this gravel Drag. The price is very good for this, it works great and my driveway looks like I wanted it to. It made the gravel even and it spread the gravel evenly and did a great job.

This thing is a little beast. My driveway is 400ft long and it hadnt been touched in years. It was a mess and this saved it. I saw that some people were having issues getting concrete blocks to fit in the tray but I put a piece of plywood in the tray and added a 50lb bag of concrete on top with 2 ratchet straps and wow! I’m impressed. Before I got this I was sure that I’d have to get a big load of gravel dropped to fill in the potholes in my driveway but after using this it worked wonders to revive and then grade and smooth everything out. After a couple hours of work It looks like it’s a brand new driveway again! I did have to adjust the angle a few times with the turnbuckle but in the end I adjusted the angle so that the front spikes scored the gravel deeply to loosen it up and then Once the rocks were nice and loose I adjusted the angle so the back box/blade “smoothed” everything out to get the driveway nice and even.