Rear blade decision

johnnyvol · May 24, 2020

Bumping this thread instead of starting another. I'm looking at the blades mentioned earlier (LP, Woods, Bison..etc)

I previously had a Bush hog 176-10 with skid shoes and I never felt like they did what I expected them to do. This time I'm looking at the tailwheel option. Anyone have experience with that set up?

Thanks,

John

FTG-05 · May 24, 2020

Question for those with grader blade hydraulics: What size cylinder do you have or should you use for the angle function? I have the EA ED 8' grader blade and that's the function I would like to change "on the move".

Thanks,

i7win7 · May 24, 2020

Have a 2.5x8 on a 7' land pride for sideways swing function. Have to move cylinder for opposite swing.
Measure pin to pin spacing (middle of cylinder stroke) on you blade, then measure spacing on retracted cylinders in store, add 1/2 of stroke value, get as close to your center measurement as possible for blade angling.

MtnViewRanch · May 24, 2020

FTG-05 said:
Question for those with grader blade hydraulics: What size cylinder do you have or should you use for the angle function? I have the EA ED 8' grader blade and that's the function I would like to change "on the move".

Thanks,

Depending on the blade, but Land Pride uses 2", 3 1/2" & 4" cylinders. The RBT blades use 3 1/2" & 4" dia cylinders. You can probably get by with a 3" dia cylinder with a 1 1/2" dia rod. That gets you around 10,000lbs of pushing power on the rod side.

I have 4" cylinders on my RBT45108. But then I'm running a 13,000lb machine.

Fladogman · May 24, 2020

My uncle has an old Ford blade with the tail wheel and it works great. He prefers it over a box blade for road work. I just bought a blade and will be adding a tail wheel on it in the future. I can't understand why they're not more popular nowadays like they were years ago.

FTG-05 · May 24, 2020

MtnViewRanch said:
Depending on the blade, but Land Pride uses 2", 3 1/2" & 4" cylinders. The RBT blades use 3 1/2" & 4" dia cylinders. You can probably get by with a 3" dia cylinder with a 1 1/2" dia rod. That gets you around 10,000lbs of pushing power on the rod side.

I have 4" cylinders on my RBT45108. But then I'm running a 13,000lb machine.

Excellent. Thank you!

FTG-05 · May 24, 2020

i7win7 said:
Have a 2.5x8 on a 7' land pride for sideways swing function. Have to move cylinder for opposite swing.
Measure pin to pin spacing (middle of cylinder stroke) on you blade, then measure spacing on retracted cylinders in store, add 1/2 of stroke value, get as close to your center measurement as possible for blade angling.

Currently, there is no pin-to-pin spacing since there there are no pins on the EA ED blade. I have to fabricate them all. But the first question was cylinder size. Everything follows from that.

Thanks,

MtnViewRanch · May 24, 2020

FTG-05 said:
Currently, there is no pin-to-pin spacing since there there are no pins on the EA ED blade. I have to fabricate them all. But the first question was cylinder size. Everything follows from that.

Thanks,

I would get at a minimum of a 12 stroke cylinder. The longer the cylinder, the easier it is too make a fine adjustment. An RBT 35 series uses a 14" stroke unit and an RBT40 series uses a 16" stroke unit.