Why didn't I get a Boxblade sooner?

Dmace · Sep 22, 2007

If I had got this thing last year I would be much farther ahead in my yard work. It's amazing how you put the teeth all the way down and shorten the top link to really rip the rocks and roots out and then you can put the teeth at the top upside down, lengthen the top link a little and grade a driveway smooth as glass.

I went with the 48" unit because my ground is as solid as concrete full of rocks and roots. I had a few times where it would grab a large rock and stop me in my tracks. Although a few times I was able to lift up the 3pt hitch and it would pull the rock right out, amazing. Is this bad for it at all, I can't see it being harmful and it works great.

Some pics:

Tractors are just incredible machines.

TBDonnelly · Sep 22, 2007

Why didn't I get a Boxblade sooner?

Because you were waiting to get a second tractor to store your backhoe on.

Don

TractorLegend · Sep 22, 2007

I cant say enuff how much I enjoy my rear blade since I installed the single remote and the tilt cylinder. My driveway is crowned this way and that, the blade was about useless without it. The adjustment holes built into the Kioti blade were a joke...the first hole off center moves the blade a whole 30 degrees! With the tilt I have infinite adjustment. woo hoo.

curly · Sep 22, 2007

I have my hyd top link in the mail from Wallace. Can't wait. He gave me a price on the side link too, but I didn't swing for that yet. When you put the side link in do you move the adjustable one over to the left side? When you put the back hoe on do you remove the hydralic links, or how does that work?

I've only got about an hour on the bush hog, so still an ameteur there

But I'm an expert on the boxblade...I have at least 3 hours on it so far

Just kidding about the expert rating, but I was able to get the road to my pole barn drivable with mine. And honestly, previous to the 6 weeks ago or so when I started looking for a tractor, I would have been out there with a shovel, axe, pick axe...whatever. And there were a million roots.

Yes, tractors are phenomenal work savers.

irwin · Sep 22, 2007

TBDonnelly said:
Why didn't I get a Boxblade sooner?

Because you were waiting to get a second tractor to store your backhoe on.

Don

Hey!!, I resemble that remark!!!!

Well I do need to finish several jobs that need the backhoe. ( I made the subframe, so of course it's a BEAR to get it back on...so I don't want to take it off yet....

) Once I get those chores done I'll be getting a boxblade directly...or...like you said: I'll have to get another tractor..

TractorLegend · Sep 23, 2007

curly said:
I have my hyd top link in the mail .

I'm not sure how a hydraulic top link would benefit blade useage?
Tilting side to side with the hydraulitc side link is pretty self explanatory- but fore and aft with the top link? How could this help??

Highbeam · Sep 24, 2007

The only time you can really hurt the BB is when cruising along pretty quickly and you catch a rock or root on one tooth and this can break or bend the tooth along with tossing you out of your seat. Once you've hooked something, using the 3ph hydraulics to lift the box plus the hooked object is the norm for me. You want to get rid of whatever you're hung up on so it doesn't happen again. The tooth should fail before the box unless the box is made of tin foil.

The other way to cause damage is when going in reverse and using the rear of the BB as a bulldozer. It works extremely well since your tractor is driving on leveled soil while the blade is creating more level ground to drive on. Operator input is minimized this way unlike when going forward where the very dips and rises that you are trying to eliminate are causing the BB to rise and fall which creates more dips and rises. While dozing in reverse if you hit a stump or big rock the lower 3ph arms are subject to compression forces which can lead to buckling.

As a former dozer owner I frequently resort to the backwards method for initial smoothing. The BB makes a fine counterweight for loader work too. Skidding logs with it is very effective but somewhat unsafe. You set the box down, chain the log closely, lift the box which lifts the tree's nose and then skid it. Be careful not to pull so hard that you flip the tractor. I've drug three logs at a time this way.

It is a must have implement and part of my intitial purchase along with a mower and FEL.

RexB · Sep 24, 2007

Dmace that's a nice job and Beootiful woods you have -- post more pics of the work and woods

curly · Sep 24, 2007

TractorLegend said:
I'm not sure how a hydraulic top link would benefit blade useage?
Tilting side to side with the hydraulitc side link is pretty self explanatory- but fore and aft with the top link? How could this help??

Do you mean Box Blade usage? Just keeps you from having to get off the tractor and turn the top link by hand to tilt the bb back for blade or forward for teeth.

If you mean some other blade...I don't know