How to Use a Road Grader

Adjust the grader's cutting blades to the angle necessary for grading the road; for example, if the road needs to be graded down to a 10-degree angle, then carefully move the blades' side handle to the corresponding 10-degree angle reading on the grader's side display.

Click the blades' side handle into place carefully by hand to lock it.

Check the grader's moldboard carefully by hand to ensure it is properly attached; the moldboard sets the cutting angle of the blades during grader operation, and the paving cannot be properly performed without it. Move the moldboard into its holding assembly carefully by hand, if necessary, to attach it.

Tighten the connecting bolt between the grader and the pulling machine with a torque wrench; check for looseness in the bolt by gently pulling upwards on it, and tighten it further as necessary with the wrench.

Set the distance you are paving with the construction cones or other markers; put the first cone where you are beginning paving, and put another cone where your paving will end.

Get into the pulling machine and power it on. Drag the grader across the road slowly between the two markers to pave it, and turn the machine off when you have reached the second marker.