What size Befco grader/scraper for Kubota L45

[JasonR093]

Hi all. I'm in the market for a Befco grader/scraper for my L45. Im trying to figure out if I should go with the 72" or 84". Recommendations please? Thank you.

 

[Professor Marvel]

I have a NH TC45D and pull a 72" land pride land plane and I can drag it down depending on which road I am using it on. If I drop it into low it always picks up the slack though but then I cant keep up speed. What is the shape of the road you plan on working on?

 

[JasonR093]

Im not exactly sure what you mean by "shape" of the road. It has very high crown with lots of potholes. Its strait for the most part with a grade in some parts of maybe 8%. The length is aprox. 500ft long. I wanted to know if land planes need to extent WIDER than the width of the tractor tires. Thank you.

 

[Professor Marvel]

I do not think it needs to extend past the tire footprint. Where I have a smooth gravel road I could go with a 84" but when I am working my road with lots of ruts an extra foot would cause it to ride over some of the problems and not fill them in. IE thwe 2 sides of the grader hold it up over the ruts. If you have a nice base the larger would be nice but 72" should cover the width of your tires shouldn't it. I am guessing your bucket is 6'.

 

[Professor Marvel]

Maybe I am not explaining myself well. I think 72" should cover your tire spread. Either size should work fine for you from the sound of it. Potholes are not like the ruts I sometimes have problems with. If your road is over 12 ft wide I would get the larger one. If not, you would have to make 2 passes anyway so no real advantage to 84". I think your tractor will pull either fine. If your gravel gets deep the larger could bog it down a little more and force you to drop to lower range. I think my results look a little better when I can keep up speed but it is not awful if I need to slow down.

 

[Kytractor]

I pull a woods 84 box blade just fine with my L45 not sure about a scraper. I noticed when the edge of the road has washed away some, the 84 is good to fill this back in by extending past the tire width. I already had the 84 or I would have probably bought a 72 Box Blade. My rd is around 1,000 feet. Hope this helps.

 

[Webber]

I just put many hours on a Befco 72" behind my L48. That size will do for you with power to spare. The road I did was very bad, big rocks, little gravel, big holes and sow washouts. It took many oases but this 1600' road can now handle a 20mph truck vs 5mph before. Lost 4 of the ripper teeth.
Will caution you that the pins that hold the ripper teeth in may work free, many times mine did. I bought safety type to keep them in. In the few spots that there was good gravel, it did a great job!

 

[94BULLITT]

You will want it to extend past the tires. Depending on how wide your road is you may not need the 7' landplane.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

While you can get by with the 84" unit, I think that you would be better off with the 72" unit and actually be capable of working the implement vs the implement working the tractor.

Just :2cents: from a guy that has a 5 foot & 7 foot industrial grade units that maintains a little over 2 miles of roads.