Rear Blade Lenth of blades

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Aubrey foster

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I just made a plane leveler to level my gravel road to my house. Does any one know how much of the blade needs to below the main frame. I think it's about 1.5" but not sure.
 
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Not sure what the real name of this attachments but it made with main beams that are 48" by 12" that makes tthe side it has 2 angles that weld to bottom and are caddy cornered from each other. The blades mount to the angle. Then it has the 3 point frame welded on the top side.
 
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This is what I made. The angles are welded to the bottom with blades on them.
 

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From what I can tell from all the different posts that I have read about this, the cutting edges will be anywhere from flush with the bottom to 1" below the sides. I think that in one of them the guy put his front cutting edge below the sides and his rear cutting edge flush with the sides. I know that on both of my units that were factory built, both cutting edges are 1" below the sides.

It looks like you did a very nice job building your scraper. :thumbsup:
 

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On my store bought grader/scraper the depth of cut is adjustable. I have mine set to about 3/4" below the skids, works well for me. I also have a hydraulic top link which I fiddle with to take less of a cut if desired. You can do that with a manual top link too, just takes a bit longer to get it to the best spot.
 
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Thanks for all the info
 
 

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