Box Scraper has anyone added weights to a box blade

[allen in texas]

Well, let's back up a step here. What is your boxblade not doing - that makes you feel that more weight is the solution?

//greg//

On occasion I need it to bite and peel the dirt. It has been hard dirt and after a few inches the BB would just ride up on top on it. Weight helps. I know. I had my cousin stand on it. He's good for something.

Runner,
I can't hang the weights inside because I do not have the bars you do. My cammond blade is built differently than yours.
Also I don't want the weights encroaching on the capacity of the BB.
You have given me and idea for a bracket though.
Thsi will have to wait. As of last week, I discovered I need to tear my tiller down and replace a seal. CRUD!!

Edit
I have a hydraulic top cylinder and I can adjust the blade any way I need to. Sometimes, I don't want to run the scarifers. I just want a nice clean cut. Weight lets me do this. When this ground here is dry, it's hard, hard, hard. When it has a bit of moisture in it, it cuts like a dream. Sometimes, I need to cut it when it's dry. I'm only talking about an inch or so but I want it to cut. It's a thing of beauty when I get it to cutting and rolling the dirt up in the box.

 

[nunyabinis]

Man, I sold my JD 750 with two suitcase weights on the front. Had I thought about adding them to my boxblade I would have kept them!

Make me an offer.

 

[Conservation]

What about adding weight to a rototiller? Mine doesn't always bite and dig down real well. I have tried about everything besides weight at this point. I have some lead bars laying around I could use.

 

[allen in texas]

I still haven't done anything.
It will soon be time to address this situation again.

 

[kthompson]

Question on the box blades having problem cutting...are these the design with the fixed rear blade? There is a another thread asking about reason for the hinged rear blade and this is one reason given. I have used a bb with the fix read blade a good bit and for cutting dirt did not like it. Did not realize there was better bb with the hinged rear blade which helped with this as you have the weight on ONLY the cutting blade.

Noticed someone had weights on a "blade" also. I have found it I rotate my blade a little it cuts much better than if at 90 degrees to tractor.

 

[wedge40]

I have some square plastic buckets ( kitty litter pails.. about 5g each )

I filled them with concrete.. 4 of them will fit on my box blade. should add over 300#.. etc.

soundguy

Sound guy could you show us some photos of your kitty litter weights.
I have a bunch of those that I want to use for that exact same thing.
Ballast for my BB and yard rake. I plan on making a full up cement ballast box sometime this summer.

Wedge

 

[Erik_in_Hoyt]

Wedge, I did similar to soundguy with the square buckets.
I took some 2x2 angle and bolted it front and back on top of the BB, then attached some expanded steel to those and just lay the buckets on their sides - I can fit 6 of them on my 66" BB with a cinch strap over the top to keep them from bouncing off.
gives great ballast for loader work without having to shell out the $$ for filled tires.

I'll try to remember to take a couple pictures tomorrow when it's light out.

 

[Taylortractornut]

both of our have them here. I have a Yanmar YM3000 and dad had a 970 Deere. now a 3110 ithink Kubota . we had some extra Deere Yanmar weights that slide over the bracket on the front and they slide onto the sides of the blades. That makes a big difference in your grading. espesiallon on course stuff like 2 inch stone. It all around helps the finish and stops bounce and helps cuttin.

 

[Soundguy]

Sound guy could you show us some photos of your kitty litter weights.
I have a bunch of those that I want to use for that exact same thing.
Ballast for my BB and yard rake. I plan on making a full up cement ballast box sometime this summer.

Wedge

Next time I'm back there with a camera I will snap a few pics. the kitty litter pails are rectangle-ish and about 5g in size.. I fille dthem with crete and left a metal wire loop in the top ( #10 fence brace wire ) to tote them. The kinda lay in and lean forward on my box blade.. the bottom of the pails has indentions that seem to fit and hold perfectly.

soundguy

 

[Egon]

Has anyone ever added removable weight that isn't just ugly

It may not be pretty but its very cheap, readily attainable and does work.

I use a rock.