Box Scraper Back Blade OR Box Scraper for Subcompact?

   / Back Blade OR Box Scraper for Subcompact? #1  

hammerblossom

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Hi. I've looked at a lot of worthwhile posts on this site and have just registered. Hope some experienced members can help with this question.

I have a new Kubota BX2350 with FEL, and, not having unlimited funds, want to buy the most useful 3pt implement. Under consideration are a 5' backblade and a 4' box scraper with scarifiers, both from a chain farm supply store. I hope that whichever is selected will suffice to counterbalance the loader when that is in use, because I can't reconcile the cost of a ballast box.

Although it snows a great deal here (Central NY), I don't expect to use the tractor for snow removal regularly. For that purpose, however, I think the backblade would be more useful. I plan to use the loader quite often to spread dirt and once in a while to spread small amounts of crushed stone. Here again the backblade would seem more useful.

I maintain about five acres of fields with a small brush hog, and some areas are extremely rough, having been farmed previously by equipment many times the size of my little 'Bota. I plan to level the worst of these areas as time permits, partly buy regrading where possible and partly with dirt I'll have hauled in.

Any advice and tips for operation would be a great help. Thanks.
 
   / Back Blade OR Box Scraper for Subcompact? #2  
I have both for my TZ25 NH. The box blade is great to spread dirt and maintain the stone driveway. The scraper blade is good to "angle" landscape, or to clean the sloped ditch along the driveway. As far as snow goes, Probably 6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other..... I bought a blower years ago and never looked back.
 
   / Back Blade OR Box Scraper for Subcompact? #3  
I use both for landscaping and plowing snow. IMHO the box will, because of it's weight, will do the rough work (leveling, grading, moving) quicker, while the blade does the finish work because it floats over the grade rather than digging in like the box.
 
   / Back Blade OR Box Scraper for Subcompact? #4  
The easy answer of course is to get both. I have a 4' box and a 6' blade for my BX2660 and use both of them. I'm really starting to appreciate what the box scraper will do. The combination of the both of them is the best choice, but if you are not doing snow, you would likely be better off with the box. To compliment it, you could build a drag for next to nothing.

If you have a chance to try each one or borrow one or the other, that might help. I found it took me a while to warm up to the box, but now I think it an ingenius device. Good luck.
 
   / Back Blade OR Box Scraper for Subcompact? #5  
When you purchased your tractor and loader the dealer should have filled the rear tires as ballast. If you are not sure, you need to call , and have it done if it was not. As for the implement, try a search here as this has been discussed many times. I believe and agree that the box blade would be used more. I use mine much more than the blade but maybe your needs are different.
 
   / Back Blade OR Box Scraper for Subcompact? #6  
I like working with the box scrapers although I didn't always feel that way, and feel the blades are very limited as far as use.

There is much that can be done with the loader bucket with some time taken to develop some skill with it.

Depending on your tire selection many of the BX rims will also take the 75lb wheel weights off garden tractors.
 
 
 
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