For a residential gravel driveway under 1,000 feet, a 20 to 35 HP compact tractor with a 5- or 6-foot box blade or land plane does the job. Weight matters more than HP; choose a heavy tractor with at least 800 lb of 3-point lift so the implement bites instead of skating. We don't have bare weight in our data yet, so check it on the spec sheet.
Driveway work is about ground pressure and implement quality, not horsepower. A land plane (also called a land leveler) is the single biggest upgrade over a basic box blade for restoring a washboarded gravel surface in one pass.
Heads up: this list is filtered on PTO horsepower and three-point lift. Bare weight, drive type, and engine horsepower aren't filter criteria here, so check each one on the model's spec sheet before you buy. We don't have bare weight in our data yet.
Attachment classes covered on this page: box-blade, rear-blade, land-plane, Listed PTO HP, 15 to 45 HP, 3-pt lift, ≥ 800 lb, Box blade, 5 to 6 ft, scarifiers, Tires, R4 industrial. Recommended models are filtered live from the tractor and implement records, so a newly verified model appears here automatically. The list is filtered only on the criteria this job requires: horsepower, loader capacity, hitch category, three-point lift or sub-compact class. Other figures in the spec grid describe the job and do not filter the list, so check each against the model's own spec sheet. Each figure comes from manufacturer documentation with its source and verification date on the record.