Dirt Moving B3300SU & Box Blade

[jeff9366]

I bought my Wallenstein BX42 chipper from Iowa Farm Supply. Good customer service, fast shipment.

 

[CanuckPT]

I've decided to go with the Everything Attachments 66" blade after speaking with them today. I don't think I'm going to rush into purchasing a Quick Hitch system until or if I acquire more 3 PH attachments in the future but it will afford me the option in the future! I'm going to pull the trigger & order it in a few weeks. I did contact Mark at Stabilworks per your suggestion jeff9366 but I'm going to hold off on that until I see how it goes once I take delivery of the box blade. Thank you to everyone for your input.

EA 66" Box Blade & StabilWorks stabilizer bars ordered!! My driveway won't know what hit it in a few weeks!! I better start practicing getting my BH77 on & off I guess!!!

 

[jim_wilson]

EA 66" Box Blade & StabilWorks stabilizer bars ordered!! My driveway won't know what hit it in a few weeks!! I better start practicing getting my BH77 on & off I guess!!!

Find as flat and as level a surface as you can to swap the BH77 on and off. I've done it 3 or 4 times on my B3200 and it was a little bit of pain doing in my gravel driveway which is not perfectly flat or level - and it just seemed to go a lot easier on the concrete floor in the garage. May have just been my technique - I probably need to do it a few times to get it down right.

It's getting the two upper pins aligned properly that is the pain - so that they will come in and out easily.

 

[CanuckPT]

Just got my EA 66" box blade!! Gotta try it our soon!

 

[jeff9366]

I am enclosing a link to my thread on mounting the box blade on the 3-Pt. hitch.

It may be helpful.

LINK:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/261489-rollover-box-blade-difficult-load.html

 

[CanuckPT]

I am enclosing a link to my thread on mounting the box blade on the 3-Pt. hitch.

It may be helpful.

LINK:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/261489-rollover-box-blade-difficult-load.html

Thanks Jeff - looks like some great advice in there, I think I tripped over that thread before but it will be much more helpful now that the moment is at hand. Just have to get my backhoe off successfully and try hooking up the BB with my Stabilworks as well!!!

 

[55woodie]

Newbie question and helpful advice needed. . . Is there a secret to "crowning" the gravel with a box blade?
Our 1/2 mile long dirt and gravel road requires a lot of maintenance when a neighbor scrapes it flat with his 6 ' box blade.
The flat doesn't allow water to run off properly and causes pot-holes to form. His solution is to run the rippers to break-up the top crust and flat grade it again.

Problem is our road has softened up too much and it looks like we're in need of many many loads of gravel again. Can a crown be maintained with a box blade?

Thanks!

 

[texasyankee]

Living in the Texas Hill Country that is full of large flat rocks has me stacking 6-8 very large rocks on the top of the boxblade for extra weight. (also have a friend who uses his son's old weight bar and weights for weight which can be removed when needed.) It really helps! Also adds great weight counterbalance when I use the hay spear to load large round bales on the trailer.

My problem is I was never taught how to use the blade or adjust it for various scraping/leveling jobs ... anyone know of an online guide?

And yes you will stop the tractor with a box blade if you get too aggressive.

 

[jeff9366]

Is there a secret to "crowning" the gravel with a box blade?

Problem is our road has softened up too much and it looks like we're in need of many many loads of gravel again. Can a crown be maintained with a box blade?

Perhaps these T-B-N threads, from search/titles/crown will help:

LINK:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/28416-crown-driveway.html

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-buying-pricing/217629-kubota-kx-121-tilt-blade.html

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28416&page=2&p=3326271#post3326271

 

[Mark 42]

The only way I can think of would be put the tires of one side down into a small ditch.

BTW, you can add weight to a box blade easily - 5 gallon buckets filled with water will work.
Or a 60 gal. plastic barrel, if you can get one (often free on CL)

 

[WaterDoc]

I have the same problem with neighbors on our mile long road. They don't even try to crown the road and simply flatten it. Result: No run off and Huge pot-holes. To crown I simply raise or lower the right hand 3-point lift link to the arm. On both my Ford 3415 (47hp) and Kubota M9000 (90hp) the right hand lift link is adjustable. It allows me to tilt the box, scraper, rake or whatever almost 15 degrees if needed. For my 72" box blade I adjust the angle so its about 2-3" higher on one side. Then I just run up and down the road slowly working the gravel, soil, etc toward the center. We get lots of wash boarding on the gravel road out here in West Texas, so I need to be somewhat aggressive to clean those up. Going at a right angle to the washboard gets that done. For added down force I have chained three of the heaviest railroad ties I have across the width of the box blade. They are chained directly to the box blade frame. I also have an 8' three point yard rake that I use to crown the road in the same way. This is also very helpful to get rid of the large rocks that are out in this part of the world (they don't affect our Dodges or Toyotas, but the car drivers cry). When finished the center of the road is about 10 - 12" higher than the edge (road is ~25' wide). Good Luck!!

 

[Turbys_1700]

I pull a 550# Woods box blade with my New Holland 1720...
It is very similar in size to your Kubota and is a perfect match...
Get as heavy of a blade as you can afford...
5' is the right size...