Using 4' boxblade on BX24 in high gear bad?

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I have a long dirt road I maintain with the BX24 and 4' box blade. It's been working fantastic.

Sometimes I put it in high gear to speed the job up. It doesn't seem to phase the tractor and I only do it if the box blade is lightly filled or I'm polishing it off.

But when I do this I do smell a whiff of "clutch" type smell now and then.
Tractor still only has 20 hr's on it didn't know it was working harder and some something new is still burning off (like a decal on exhaust type thing). Smells like brakes/clutch. But I didn't think I could smell something like this on a hydro.

Am I cooking something doing this?

Maybe at high speed I'm smelling the blade burning

P.S. The light duty woods 4' box blade with no weights has worked perfectly fine. The road it packed like concrete and breaks up fine when I ask it too.

 

[redharley]

Try low range is smell gone? Most of the time when using a back blade or such I use low range with no problems or smell's.Whats the rush?

 

[mswlogo]

No smell in low. That was implied.

Time is money.

 

[BXpanded]

You are most likely smelling the air from the hydraulic system vent just behind the seat. The vent looks like a little red button. Probably has nothing to do with the HST range you're using, other than the hyd fluid may be getting warmer when you use high range. As the oil gets hotter it emits more odor.

 

[Jimmyp5]

You are most likely smelling the air from the hydraulic system vent just behind the seat. The vent looks like a little red button. Probably has nothing to do with the HST range you're using, other than the hyd fluid may be getting warmer when you use high range. As the oil gets hotter it emits more odor.

agree, I get this smell when "working the tiller hard" it is also a sign to check level of the fulid. ....

 

[Deano]

mswlogo,

I too get that smell when I use my landscape rake on our dirt lane in high. I was always wondering the same thing. Thanks for taking the time to ask. I did not know that red button looking thing was a vent.

Makes sense.

Deano

 

[mswlogo]

Thanks guys, I'll double check levels.

So if it "feels ok" to do some work in high gear I should be ok?

 

[BXpanded]

Yes, shouldn't be a problem