Rear Blade Dozer blade/polisher

[Portuguese Farmer]

Pros and cons on these, thanks in advance.

 

[Panik]

It would probably helps folks a great deal in answering your question if you provided some details. A great deal of their functionality depends on:

- Tractor size/weight
- size of the blade your considering
- soil conditions (clay/sand/loam/rock content)
- Intended projects/use

While it’s not the same implement I use a heavy duty angle adjustable 60” rock/York rake in much the same way as a rear blade.

I used the rake with a bx2360 to maintain my shop road as well as create drainage ditches, create large retention swales & rough clean/grade land.

That said even with loaded tires & 150-200lbs of homemade suitcase weights on the rake there are dry times of the year that the rocky clay soil on my ridge is so hard as to be entirely unworkable with the rake unless I use a subsoiler to seriously break up the soil first.

 

[John0829]

Only being able to see the one side of it it looks to me like it is a very light duty blade and IMHO would be very easy to bend. I have seen other blades without bracing on the back end bowed like a rainbow. I know I own one that I spent a fair bit of time welding on, not only the blade but also the pivot point. Not sure how or why mine bent because most of its use then and now is moving snow when and if we have any. I think light scraping/moving of loose materials would be its limited use.

 

[Portuguese Farmer]

Thanks, the back has gussets/bracing and it shows 15mm thick on the board itself.

 

[nyone]

Looks like a really thin POS..and is prob priced as such.

I had a tractor supply version of this and after the first use saw it bending. Sold it that month. I now use a cat1-2 rear blade. Way more bracing, more offset and way heavier. I looked on marketplace and got it for $400.

 

[IndyIan]

One that doesn't angle or reverse seems fairly useless.... Don't get that one unless you need metal for welding project...
I have a light duty 7' blade(400lbs?) and its great for snow, because its mostly useless on hard packed gravel, so it doesn't dig into my driveway when pushing snow. It can sort of ditch when angled right, but I prefer my HD box blade for that too. The 100lbs+ per foot rear blades seem to be great for maintaining gravel roads.

 

[ptsg]

Zeppelin Maquinaria is a Spanish company that builds various implements in house. They aren't known for building bad implements.

This blade is a light duty blade that spins 360 degrees with various holes to pin in place. It's also made for small tractors, like SCUTs and similar. I believe they rate it to 15 to 25HP, but that's not a good indicator in this case, since there are relatively big tractors with 25 hp these days.

For the tractor the OP lists, which is a bit smaller and lighter than mine, I would want something stronger, but in reality, it really dependes on the work it will do.

 

[IndyIan]

One like that will move loose gravel or dirt alright, or snow. It could maybe ditch a bit, but if it hooks a root or big rock on a 3000lbs tractor, it might start bending as its a long lever from the corner of the blade to the pivot? If I never got snow, I would sell my light duty one, my heavy boxblade does everything better(except snow!).

 

[Cycledude]

That definitely ain’t no dozer blade ! I have no idea what the term polisher has to do with your question.

It appears to be built way to light for most rear blade projects

 

[Portuguese Farmer]

That definitely ain’t no dozer blade ! I have no idea what the term polisher has to do with your question.

It appears to be built way to light for most rear blade projects

They are called polisher here in EU, yes it's light, I was using the picture for an example to find out how they work.