Rear Blade 6' Offset Rear Blade Fair Price?

[QueBota]

6\' Offset Rear Blade Fair Price?

Is $300.00 a fair price for a like new Leinbach 6' rear blade with offset capability? It is the only one I have been able to find locally so I can't get a feel for what the price should be.

Looks like this:

http://www.leinbachs.com/leinbachline/Scrapeblade.html

Thanks,
Dave

 

[RonR]

Re: 6\' Offset Rear Blade Fair Price?

I bought a used King Kutter 6' light duty rear blade last year for $150.

My guess is this is a better (heavier) unit.

ron

 

[rdrce698]

Re: 6\' Offset Rear Blade Fair Price?

I just bought a 5' medium duty with offset, tilt and angle adjustments from Corrier for $355 +105.00 for shipping. This thing is a beast weighs around 300lbs. Probably overkill for my needs and my old B7200 but worth the money.

 

[pifan]

Re: 6\' Offset Rear Blade Fair Price?

your 7200 is about the same size as my 7100 did you have any trouble picking it up? and did you think about a 4 foot I dont know weather to go with a 4 or 5 footer

 

[rdrce698]

Re: 6\' Offset Rear Blade Fair Price?

Hey,
My tractor has no problem lifting the blade. It is however difficult to move around once it's off. The 5 foot seems to be the right size for me bieng that my rear track is 4'. With the offset feature you could probably get away with 4' and just offset the blade when necessary.

 

[PBinWA]

Re: 6\' Offset Rear Blade Fair Price?

I'm rear blade shopping too.

Here in Oregon I've found the following:

King Kutter 72" Offset Light Duty 270lbs - $280
King Kutter 72" Professional - 320lbs - $529
King Kutter 72" Heavy Duty - 620lbs - $849

Howse 72" Farm Blade - 320lbs - $350
Howse 72" Grader Blade - 270lbs - $270

Land Pride 72" Blade - Estate Series - $350

I'm looking for a heavy blade so I'm thinking of getting the KK Heavy Duty but the price on the Howse Farm Blade is pretty good and I can always just add some weights.

Paul

 

[Bob_Skurka]

Re: 6\' Offset Rear Blade Fair Price?

Take a look at the blades by Midwest. They are sold under the Midwest brand and also under some other brand names such as Corriher. The reason I like them is because you can make all the adjustements (tilt, swivel and offset) without the use of any tools. Prices seem to run in the mid $300's depending on size.

 

[rdrce698]

Re: 6\' Offset Rear Blade Fair Price?

I believe you are right Bob. My blade came from Corriher and appears to be the same as a Midwest blade. It functions the same way you described. I did have a problem with the lower link arms that connect the blade to the tractor hitting the inside of my tires (turfs), Has anyone else had this problem? It looks like the pins on the blade may be spaced to far out. Any input?
Thanks, Pete

 

[Bob_Skurka]

Re: 6\' Offset Rear Blade Fair Price?

Pete, Corrhier's blade is made by Midwest.

As for your problem of hitting the tires, I'm not sure what type of tractor you have, but you should have some adjustable anti-sway bars, chains or turnbuckles that you can use to adjust the lower links so they have less lateral play. A lot of older tractors I've played with didn't have any at all, and many of the old machines (like the antique Olivers I like to play with) have a non-adjustable sway bars made out of long flat pieces of steel.

To prevent contact with your rear tires you need to tighten up the anti-sway bars. On my B2910 it has something that looks like a perforated square tube that slides over smaller similar tube and is locked into place with pin. On my TC24D it uses a simple turnbuckle design. In either case, the desired effect you are looking for is to simply shorten lenght of the adjustment enough so that when the implement is raised you cannot push it sideways into the rear tires. You have to leave enough lateral play to get the implement on and off. You may well find that you have to make adjustments for several of your implements when you change them because they are slightly different sizes.

 

[rdrce698]

Re: 6\' Offset Rear Blade Fair Price?

Hey Bob,
Thanks for your reply. There are no swaybars on MY b7200 links. I'm off tomorrow and will make some. There are attachment points on the links but I never had any. Will check it out. Could have used that blade for the foot of snow I had to get off 300' of driveway today! Thanks again.
Pete