My NX6010

[GaryRo]

Eric, think i might buy a tractor like yours. Was wondering your likes and/or dislikes since you now have a few hundred hours on yours.
Thanks, Gary

 

[MinnesotaEric]

I continued using the box blade to grade where a driveway will go.

Found out that my aging iPhone doesn't do reverse videos very well.

I think I'm going to look into adding defroster grids to the rear and side windows.

Clear View Defroster Order Guide

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Gary, I purchased the Kioti because of the cab layout and because it was 22k less than the John Deere 4066R, 15K less than the Kubota L6060, and 8K less than Massey's MF1758. And yet very comparable in final capabilities. The discount to the primary CUT brands allows me a huge modification budget. You can read about the modifications in the first 36 pages and counting of this very thread.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Today I broke one of the box blade's scarifiers.

I also got more of the driveway smoothed out.

 

[94BULLITT]

The scarifier probably broke because it was frozen and brittle.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

The scarifier probably broke because it was frozen and brittle.

Maybe. About 20 degrees today. I see that all the pockets are peening.

 

[oldpilgrim]

Eric, please don't go to Egypt and visit the pyramids. I kind like them the way they are and you have a habit of breaking things.

 

[milkman636]

Eric, please don't go to Egypt and visit the pyramids. I kind like them the way they are and you have a habit of breaking things.

:laughing: That's funny:laughing:

In all seriousness, I have been following this thread just to see what breaks next. The road looks good though Eric. It seems like the worst might be behind you now.

Everything Attachments might need to look at using a broader contact surface to better support the scarifiers under load. It seems like they might have slightly under-built that part of their extreme boxblade. The good news for them is that now they know where they can send their stuff for some "extreme" testing.

 

[ksbrdmkr]

A lot of old plows ,50's, and cultivators had trip shanks to prevent breakage, so Eric not abuse but lack of engineering. Enjoying the thread. Now if the Kioti's were as simple as the old Allis WD/WD 45's a trip lever could be attached to the hand clutch and flip it out of gear when an obstacle was hit. .

 

[Threepoint]

I think I'm with Roger's theory on this -- the shank being more brittle from the cold. That, combined with an impact from a stump or buried rock. But I'm also wondering if there was a freak metallurgical fault that caused it to shear where it did.

Not sure how EA could have provided more support to the shank at that spot and still have the full range of vertical shank adjustment. The design already looks pretty substantial to me.

Eric, I'm curious what gear range you were in when cutting in your drive with the shanks down? If anything but low, looks like you sorted out whatever it was that was sapping your power awhile back.

 

[GManBart]

Maybe. About 20 degrees today. I see that all the pockets are peening.

20 degrees F is about 25 degrees too warm for typical carbon steel to become brittle....have to see what EA says they use to make them to have a better idea.

 

[fieldman12]

It's probably better that the shank broke instead of a weld or something else on the box. Eric should get a job testing out equipment to find all the "weak" spots lol. The road looks nice.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

The worst of it is yet to come. Smoothing out the soil where the road/driveway/whatever-it-becomes is easy. My soil is a combo of spagmun peat and sand. I occasionally have a rock. What I do have is roots. The box blade is engaging he scarifiers about 1/2" - 1-1/2" into the top soil and the blade is doing the work. I'm amazed at the peening and the broken scarifier and wondering just how well this tool will hold up as I hoped to use it to not only smooth out 30 acres but also to use on other people's lands and driveways. From my perspective, I wasn't using this tool very hard. Low gear. In this configuration, the tractor is blasted around 7800 pounds and in 4x4.

I got the heavier CAT 2 box blade assuming it to be tough enough to do the work I intended to do and a good value to the Gannon/Woods 80" box blade.

I have on video when the scarifier broke the trouble being that I didn't point the camera down far enough to video the actual break. I'm more interested to learn if I should concerned about the pockets peening than a broken scarifier which could have been a manufacturing defect.

At any-rate, we're all learning and I have confidence that the guys at Everything Attachments know what they're doing. What I do need to know, with everybody seeing how I'm using the attachment, is if I should get a heavier box blade or continue using this blade and the peening is normal and expected and should not impact the use of the tool.

That said, I put Mr. Grapple away for the winter.

With six below temperatures forecasted this evening, the tractor is now rigged for winter and filled with number 2 diesel cut with number 1 diesel, which should be good down to 20 below fahrenheit before fogging up.

 

[s219]

Take a picture of the fracture (both pieces) of that ripper and post here. Might have some clues. I doubt 20F is cold enough to be a factor. It was either cheap metal, or had a defect, or maybe you just exceeded the design load.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Take a picture of the fracture (both pieces) of that ripper and post here. Might have some clues. I doubt 20F is cold enough to be a factor. It was either cheap metal, or had a defect, or maybe you just exceeded the design load.

All I have in the back of my truck at the Nevis Muni is the bottom part.

 

[s219]

If you can get a closeup of the fracture surface, please post, otherwise no big deal. There will be some sort of story told by that surface....

 

[k0ua]

Interesting that it did not break at the hole.

 

[oldpilgrim]

it's not a close enough pic to be sure, but that looks like a casting to me.

 

[milkman636]

It looked to me like the piece of steel backing the scarifier up was split, right on the back slide of the slot. If that is a split, it needs to get fixed. The tine is a simple drop in replacement. A sideways load could break it, especially if turning while its in the ground.

 

[TSO]

I think it was a design or manufacturing flaw in the shank personally.

I have used my 7ft box blade like crazy this year, snagging stumps, roots, bricks, boulders, etc. I've never broken a shank.

Today I graded about an acre size parking lot that was paved with asphalt millings. I used the shanks to break up the asphalt, much of it being solid patches. That's pulling in Med gear with 48 HP, up to around 7-8 mph.

I really doubt it was the cold...