Box Scraper love the box blade

[b3200tlb]

Hi all !
after owning my b3200 for a year i have been impressed and have started many projects. yesterday i bought a used box blade and today i unhitched the back hoe for the first time and put on the three point hitch gear and tried the bb. what an amazing tool!!!! i was able to accomplish soooo much in a short period of time. i had pulled about 27 stumps , and what looked like a mine field was leveled and groomed . i had been battling just back bladeing with the fel which just seemed to smooth it and not grade it.
very impressed with the box blade . i can see that i will be tearing into more areas of the property now !
thanks to all of you for the info on this site as i have been lurking and reading up on all your tips.
the box blade is a united 566hd, bought it on ebay for $329. looks like it was hardly used and the 66" width lets me get right up to the fence where i am grading. still learning how the toplink majorly changes the end result.
happy spring
doug

 

[Mousefield]

You sound sooo happy. Took me a almost a year to get a used boxblade and then take the backhoe off my CK35 for the first time. I use mine for grading our private gravel road. Enjoy yours and many happy hours in the seat.

 

[jenkinsph]

Doug,
Welcome to the forum!


Just so you don't feel to weird, I bought my backhoe and boxblade and it was three years before I got around to trying out the boxblade.

I use the boxblade to rough grade where large amounts of soil needs to be moved and finish off with a landplane to really get it smooth and flat.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

My dad could really make a box blade earns it keep. He could get dirt out of a new pond as fast as the dozer and in place on the level. If one owns a naked tractor and only has a few $$$$ of one piece of equipment it would place at the top with a toss up over a bushhog in my case.

 

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the box blade is a united 566hd, bought it on ebay for $329. looks like it was hardly used and the 66" width lets me get right up to the fence where i am grading. still learning how the toplink majorly changes the end result.
happy spring
doug

We have a general use "How To" Box Blade video that talks about when to use the toplink that may help answer some of your questions, and also show a couple ways to use them that you might not have thought of before. Let me know what you think!

 

[Sackett2]

A hyd toplink makes a boxblade 10X more useful-look into it

 

[TripleR]

A hyd toplink makes a boxblade 10X more useful-look into it

TnT even better.

 

[miramadar]

We have a general use "How To" Box Blade video that talks about when to use the toplink that may help answer some of your questions, and also show a couple ways to use them that you might not have thought of before. Let me know what you think!

I've found all of your videos to be very informative, well produced and well thought out. Thanks for providing them!!

 

[spruce Deere]

I have owned/operated compact tractors for years with a variety of implements for the tractors, But not till' this year no box blade. Now I have a box blade and it is like havn' a blend of a ballast, sub-soiler, loader bucket, rear blade, cultivator, mabe even some tiller, scarifier and u-dozer blade all in one 3 pt attachment. Simple design, low maintenance with many apps is always good:thumbsup:

 

[Gale Hawkins]

A tractor without a box blade is only half a tractor. :laughing:

We wound up buying a new Bush Hog brand this year when we got the FIL's 265 MF because NO one trades them in unless they got backed over by a bull dozer or something. They never wear out and take up little space if parked.

 

[Johndeere3720]

A tractor without a box blade is only half a tractor. :laughing:

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The boxblade was my first implement I got. It came 2 years before the tractor and I used it for just about everything. It is definatly a multi purpose tool. I can push, pull, and till dirt all in one pass. I extend the top link and it is excelent for grading ground.

 

[spruce Deere]

True that....Gale hawkins all major wear items on good boxes are replaceable and the one I did find that was a trade-in was FAR from good shape. I found a total of 3 used box blades over a year of looking. Two of which on craigslist and 72 inch land pride that looked like it had been hooked to a 300 hp tractor and used to push boulders and rip out 300 year old oak tree stumps, bent lift arm pins, side plates bent out, scarifier beam beat out and cracked not to mention the one missing scarifier. Crazy sales guy at the dealer that took the thing in on trade told me he still needed 400 bucks for it. He also told me they all look that way after while....:confused2:mabe he was just slammin' land pride brand because it was at a deere dealer.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

:confused2:mabe he was just slammin' land pride brand because it was at a deere dealer.

My local Deere dealer is my Land Pride dealer

 

[jimmysisson]

Don't forget winter. I use my Gannon on the back and a modified truck plow on the loader. Pull snow from a garage door, push back a driveway sideways, pull slush the plow spreads around. Solid and short counterweight, too. Very useful in the white season.
Jim

 

[Sackett2]

TnT even better.

I wanted the tnt, but the extra cost made it a bit out of reach; am happy with the top link as a start

 

[eternalwolf777]

I'm learning that working a boxblade is sort of an art form.

 

[Car Doc]

Yup box blade is a must have I think you did good there it will get lots of use and imo a disc harrow is a close 2nd both can do a lot of work in no time.

Steve

 

[waltsp]

I got a box blade with the used New Holland TC18 that I bought this past fall.
Played with it some but not seriously. Started prepping the drive getting it ready for base this weekend. There is a little soil with lots of limestone. I was using the back blade to level the drive. Today I put the box blade on and set the rippers down just a little. It was doing OK, but then I took some of the rocks that had been pulled on the blade for some weight. What a difference. Now the rippers really get down and rip those rocks out.

 

[bake321]

Hey those look just like my weights!! Unfortunately when I moved the tractor from Arizona I didn't bring the ironwood log that was my weight back there.

Cary

 

[lakngulf]

what an amazing tool!!!! i was able to accomplish soooo much in a short period of time.

I agree with you fully. An amazing tool, and I am just learning how to used it. Happy tractoring.