Re: Box blade
[Re: lobo]
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02/28/21 11:45 AM
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I've got one on a JD 1025R. It works fine for minor road repairs. Primarily, though I use it for ballast, with or without additional suitcase weights for heavy loading of my front end loader.
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Re: Box blade
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02/28/21 12:08 PM
02/28/21 12:08 PM
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I've got one on a JD 1025R. It works fine for minor road repairs. Primarily, though I use it for ballast, with or without additional suitcase weights for heavy loading of my front end loader. Is yours 48 inch? My tractor is 2320. A little bigger than yours but about same horsepower. I think 48 might be about right.
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Re: Box blade
[Re: lobo]
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02/28/21 12:24 PM
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Good question. I think so. I'm out and about, so can't verify. I know it's not more than that, and probably not less. I'll get back to you when I can.
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Re: Box blade
[Re: lobo]
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02/28/21 01:00 PM
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Have a 60" on my 650 that is 17 HP. Traction is my main problem. Too big a bite and will spin down in this red clay.
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Re: Box blade
[Re: lobo]
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02/28/21 04:15 PM
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Get the heaviest box blade you can afford. The extra weight makes a lot of difference if you want to fix gravel roads. The lighter ones tend to just skim over the top where he heavier ones dig in at less of an angle.
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Re: Box blade
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02/28/21 05:32 PM
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Mines a different brand but it will tear it up and get it looking like new. After a couple of times using it, it takes nothing to smooth out the driveway once in the spring then once in the fall. In between uses I will use my blade to move the outside gravel to the middle if needed. Rent one with the teeth on it and try it. Russ Here's where I got mine. https://www.everythingattachments.com/Tractor-Land-Levelers-Land-Graders-s/9893.htmI am surprised some guy doesn't go around offering to do this each spring and leave a number to call and have it done in the fall. seems plenty of people would be all to happy to pay a hundred dollars and a dollar a foot after the first hundred for that. get a guy with a dump tuck to drop you some gravel from time to time for added charge seems like a good side business for someone who plows in the winter , much up the drive way then charge to fix it,
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Re: Box blade
[Re: lobo]
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02/28/21 06:08 PM
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Renting one was my first thought. Can't find any place close to rent one or I would.
I don't think my tractor is big enough to tear up the one I'm looking at.
Last edited by lobo; 02/28/21 06:10 PM.
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Re: Box blade
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02/28/21 10:08 PM
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Weld a couple of grab hooks to the top of the thing and it makes a great skidding tool. The logs but up to the rear plate and won't snag in the gibbons of the rear of the tractor. If ya want to really be fancy, ya can weld a couple of bit of pipe to it as well and in those pipes you can then store a rake and a shovel, so you have them at hand when bodging up a driveway. As others said, it makes a good counterweight for loader work and mine pretty much lives on the back of the tractor. When my drive way gets washed out with a lot of bad weather, I take the tractor up to the mailbox to get the mail and fix the driveway as an extra
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Re: Box blade
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02/28/21 11:51 PM
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Yep get a heavy weight and heavy duty. They are not indestructable, and if you tear it up just call Scuba 1 he can fix anything. I had two that I tore up and called Scuba he got them back up better than new. Thanks again Scuba. Anytime buddy. Aint much one cant get back to working order with a Zeus machine and a retina ruiner.
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