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^^^^^THIS^^^^^ My driveway is 750' long and the above does a good job.

Would a compact tractor do the job?

go our local scrap metal dealer and by a piece of heavy I beam10' long tow that behind your pu it'll do the job better then a RR tie.

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Tractor and a box blade or land plane. Right tool for the job.

Not if you do it right. Buy the generic roundup at tractor supply company, if you catch it on sale it's $29 for 2.5 gallons of the 41% concentrate. That's enough to kill 10 acres of grass. Buying the branded roundup in small quantities is huge waste of money, the generic stuff is dirt cheap in bulk. I have an electric boom sprayer for the back of my Atv, the tank holds 15 gallons and the boom sprays a 9' swath. It takes me 12 minutes to empty the tank along a trail 1 mile long, so if your driveway is a quarter mile long it would take 3 minutes to spray. A similar setup could be put on your UTV for a couple hundred bucks, you don't really need the boom, they make boom less nozzles that work fine.

Your alternative is to buy a tractor & box blade which is hugely expensive, or hire it done.

Yep.
Sprayer $100.
You can hold the wand yourself out over the hood and spray the center of the road really easy.
One tip wide spray nozzles are easy to use and cost little.
If you want to take help, you could have your wife drive slow and you could pump and spray with your backpack sprayer and save the $100 dollars.

Roundup (the real stuff) I buy from local farmer buds. They buy it in 300 gallon shuttles.
It's VERY cheap this way. Like $30 bucks a gallon for the good stuff. A gallon of roundup, used correctly, goes a long way.

The last thing I will say is...a backpack sprayer, used by us homeowners (read rookies ) is about the most inefficient and expensive way there is to spray "stuff".
We homeowners think we have to drench the weed or grass till the spray runs off.
We don't.
Watch a farm sprayer sometime...........they are spraying at 10 miles an hour and just a mist is hitting the ground.
That little mist on the intended victim kills very well. Homeowners overkill way to much, then wonder why it's so expensive to spray.

I bought a 60" DR Powergrader to take care of practice fields for our local girls softball association. I've also used it for various other jobs with our construction company with good results. I agree with one of earlier posters that if there is a lot of grass, this won't work very well the first time, but once it is removed, it should do a good job. I put a cast iron grate on mine for additional weight, and pull it with a Polaris 350 4 wheeler with no problem. I did break a weld once where the plate that holds the adjustment wheels is, but that was my fault. Had mine about 10 years and its been a reliable piece of equipment.

Rent a tractor and a Harley Power Box rake for 1/2 day. Should last 3-5 years 'til you have to do it again.

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