Grading Box Blade On a Hill

[John_Mc]

Not it does not. The cutting edge of the Box Blade will be 3" to 4" lower, that is why there are two stirrup holes.

It is easier to try it than to type about it. Give it a go.

I understand that the cutting edge will be 3 or 4" lower. What I don't understand is WHY it needs to be lower (except in the special circumstances I described in my first post). If your boxblade engages the ground properly when on level ground, the geometry of that engagement with the ground does not change just because you tilted the ground (and the tractor along with it).

I guess it doesn't really matter. If you need your boxblade to go lower, use the lower holes. If you need to raise it higher, use the upper holes. A fairly basic concept.

 

[jeff9366]

If you are pulling down mounds with a Box Blade, the tractor will be angled down and the Box Blade cannot reach the soil in the 'normal' stirrup pin adjustment.

For the Box Blade to touch/move soil the stirrup pin adjustment must be moved to the lower hole.