MarkV
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- 1998 Kubota B21, 2005 Kubota L39
DrEd said:Pardon my confusion. If I want to level an area (the moles have made a mess over the last 10 years) the landscape box is not the way to go?
What I did in despair on one very large area was to rig a 10' 4X10 on chains and drag it around to level the area. I'm now working a smaller area and wondering how to use the landscape box.
DrED welcome to the forum. Very few tractors have 電own force on the 3pt hitch so they are always floating, meaning the 3pt arms will travel upward freely as the terrain changes. There is no upward resistance on most 3pt systems. They can be limited as to how far down they will travel with the position control lever. When the position control lever is in its lowest setting the landscape box, most often called a box blade, will float up and down with the contours of the terrain.
For what you are trying to do it takes a bit of practice. You will learn to anticipate the terrain and as the front of the tractor hits a high spot you raise the position control lever so the box blade does travel to far downward cutting a dip in the ground.
Try taking smaller cuts with multiple passes. Set your box blade so it will only cut the highest spots on the first pass and lower it a bit more for the next pass. This technique will keep the tractor on a more even plain and give you smoother grade.
By the way, most everyone suffers a learning curve when it comes to using a box blade. Once you master it the box blade is a great tool.
MarkV