Box blade damage

[sandman2234]

I had just replaced the cat pins with a cat 2 pin that fits a cat 1 bolt hole in the implement and it bent at the smaller end, the top of the rake was barely touching the right rear tire on the tractor but I would not drive foreward and risk puncturing an expensive tire. I am trying to find an "A" frame that is pressed out of plate steel just like the ones on a Howse blade, but not having too much luck finding one.

Been there, done that, lol. However my 70 hp JD 2555 is rough on box blades even in forward. I strengthened it repeatedly, and the only thing that hasn't broke is the plate style uprights. They would really not be hard to fab out of a piece of flat plate if you took a few minutes. Torch cut, torch heat to bend and drill and mount it on the boxblade. David from jax

[Mud Mechanik]

Just wanted to post some pictures of the repair job.

[Guesseral]

Very nice job! Did you put cat 1 pins back in?

[Mud Mechanik]

They are cat 2 pins.