My drives are compacted pit run. I built crowns when I put down more pit run so I didn't have to cut them. Once built and compacted they don't maintain much different from a level drive.

If all tires of the tractor are on the same crown then a level box scraper also is at the angle of the crown. I tend to blend in the transition between the crowns and top of the drive by compacting the area either with the box or the loader bucket and sometimes both. To compact with the box I extend the top-link to max so the box rides on the back of its rear cutter. For the loader, I use a fairly flat bucket, lift most of the weight off the front and then drive in reverse using brake steering.

My drives are 14' and the box is 6' long. That means I can work the crowns with one box width a side and leave 2' across the top, which seems to work well. If I had to work with one set of tires on top of the crown I'd have to re-adjust the 3ph level. My 3ph has a crank leveler so it's not much trouble.

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