Salvage Box Blade

joes_427_vette · Nov 23, 2009

Found this jewel at the salvage yard. Needs a little TLC, and a couple 7' cutting blades. Now to check the township for used snow plow cutting edges. For a hundred dollars its a good start on a rear blade to maintain the trails in the woods. By the bend in the frame it was behind some serious horse power.

Steve C · Nov 23, 2009

joes_427_vette said:
Found this jewel at the salvage yard. Needs a little TLC, and a couple 7' cutting blades. Now to check the township for used snow plow cutting edges. For a hundred dollars its a good start on a rear blade to maintain the trails in the woods. By the bend in the frame it was behind some serious horse power.

It is a good find. It looks like a poor design that can benifit greatly from a little help with a welder. Straighten out the tooth bar mounting area and weld plates to the top and bottom creating a box member. Mount tabs with holes drilled in them to the top of the boxed member for the tooth bat retaining pins. Straighten out the bent horizontal rear mamber, it looks like angle iron, place another similar sized angle iron on top and weld it in place creating another Tubular boxed member, that will greatly enhance the strength of those areas at very little cost. Weld a new brace that extends from the top link mount to the rear of the blade where the existing angle iron connects to the back of the blade on both sides. This will prevent the bending force that is introduced in its present design when pulling the blade forward. As it is now when the blade fills it will try to rotate upwards at the rear if it hits an obstruction. It will just bend the horizontal angle iron. With the new braces will be in compression when that happens, eliminating the bending force. It wouldn't take much of a tractor to make the bends that are shown here, just back it into something like a small tree stump and it will bend due to the poor origional design and lightweight construction. It would probably take less than $20 worth of material to more than double its strength.

Iplayfarmer · Nov 23, 2009

joes_427_vette said:
Found this jewel at the salvage yard. Needs a little TLC, and a couple 7' cutting blades. Now to check the township for used snow plow cutting edges. For a hundred dollars its a good start on a rear blade to maintain the trails in the woods. By the bend in the frame it was behind some serious horse power.

It's too bad I'm not closer to you. I have a few old cutting edges from some county snow plows that I have no use for. They're too hard for me to be able to do much with them.

That's a good find for $100. It looks like it will move snow just fine as it is. With a few mods like Steve suggested it will be as versatile as any.

joes_427_vette · Nov 25, 2009

It's a Bush Hog BX 840. I thought they were built a little stronger. A friend told me to use grader blades. He said they are curved and would tend to pull the box blade down instead of dragging over the top. Besides plow blades are ground flat which would float more than dig when needed on packed ground.
* Think my Cannon camera is ready for the rebuilder pile also. Must be depixled .

gregsons · Nov 25, 2009

this last summer i went looking at the kabota dealer for a hd box blade lowest priced on new was over 600. then i saw in the weeds behind his used equipment area the top of a old box blade real old but real hd. it waas just missing the teeth. he said $100 bucks and its yours, i told him i only had $75 on me he said sold. went in my pocket and only had $70. the dealer said ok its yours. i drove home very happy a little paint and it would look new. I guess it came on a trade in tractor and it had been sitting back there for a few years thing works great.

joes_427_vette · Nov 25, 2009

That was a slick offer. Looks like it worked several times... including the sales tax. My new Woods HD 6' was a cool grand new. I have used it pushing and pulling, unable to make a ripple in the steel braces. They make great equipment. Too bad I don't make that great of money supply.
I can fix this one and maybe later pass it on to a local farmer that would have a need. I will look for a deal on steel to repair so it can be reasonably priced. I will enjoy the challenge of repair to what it should have been in the manufacturing process.