Ditch digger

[J_J]

Originally Posted by curly

Way to go JJ. I guess it ain't just a South Carolina thing huh?

Curly,

I was born in Dillon county, South Carolina a little township called Manning. I lived in S.C. for 20 years.

[hdbikercouple]

why not mount what ever digger you want out past the wheel. to keep from hurting your 3 point arms. take a chain, fasten it to the digger or to its boom and the other to you tracter frame or another solid point like your axle housing. lots of loaders and blades have a mounting point on this housing so it should be strong .

[sandman2234]

I dated the daughter of the landowner on one side, and the other side is woods. Fast forward 25 years and the city still won't do what I thought they should have been doing all this time. Hard bunch to deal with, but I am still not going to give up and let them off the hook.
David from jax

[sandman2234]

J_J,
Did you ever go into that T/A truckstop in Manning? The late owner had quite a collection of firearms on display. His widow removed them when she sold the truckstop. Another one was White's truckstop in Raphine, Wv that had an amazing collection of firearms on display. White's also had old motorcycles and other things of interest on display. Last I saw Mr. White he was looking old, so even that collection may be gone from display.
David from jax

[J_J]

Originally Posted by sandman2234

J_J,
Did you ever go into that T/A truckstop in Manning? The late owner had quite a collection of firearms on display. His widow removed them when she sold the truckstop. Another one was White's truckstop in Raphine, Wv that had an amazing collection of firearms on display. White's also had old motorcycles and other things of interest on display. Last I saw Mr. White he was looking old, so even that collection may be gone from display.
David from jax

Last time I saw Manning was in the middle 40's. I lived in Clinton, S.C. for a while.

[curly]

Originally Posted by J_J

Curly,

I was born in Dillon county, South Carolina a little township called Manning. I lived in S.C. for 20 years.

Ahha...that splains it

[SkylineLakes]

I have a similar need. I and other residents maintain 10 miles of mountain road in our development in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The ditches are often cut right up against embankments and trees, so the work has to be performed from the road. I thought that I had once seen an offset ditch plow, but I don't recall if it mounted on the 3-pt hitch, the drawbar or elsewhere.

We have a Kubota L3410 with a FEL and BH, but with that many miles of ditch, we need something that we can drag or push, rather than digging. Our box grader is not wide enough to extend beyond the tires, and our rear angled scraper blade is not beefy enough for the task.

Because we do have a FEL, I am interested in the suggestions about mounting a ditch plow on an arm to the FEL. Has anyone tried this or seen it done?

This is my first post, so please pardon any protocol errors!

[GordonR]

saw this the other day
the couunty road crew had what appeared to be a 12" post hole digger mounted sideways on an A frame and driven by hydralucis(sp) with a deflector at the back to put the debris on the road to be picked up later
thought that was a slick solution to rural road maint.
Don

[sandman2234]

SkylineLakes, welcome to TBN!
As far as your mounting something on the loader, for doing this, I wouldn't even consider it, but heck, I am worried about bending my lift arms which are alot less expensive than a FEL frame which is what will get twisted if you hit something stronger than your loader. I think the trick is going to be something mounted on the rear, not the front. You can always use the bucket to pick up whatever the rear mounted implement drags out, but other than that, I would shy away from it.
I don't know what the answer is, but in my case it doesn't affect me as much as it does you.
David from jax

[SkylineLakes]

Please tell me I understand the issue. If you push gravel with the FEL bucket and you hit a big rock, the tractor might stall or lose traction, but probably won't be damaged because the impact is 1) evenly distributed between the arms, and 2) in the direction for which the arms are designed to absorb impact. Likewise if your box scraper gets hung on a rock--the force is fairly evenly distributed between the the hitch points.

It sounds like the main concern is the twisting action that could result if the offset plow were to come to a sudden halt, because it would pivot, pulling on one point while pushing against the other. If that is the case, it sounds like the only solution would be to attach the plow boom to something more solid (e.g. the mid-body frame) or prevent the cause of the stress (e.g. a tension-release decoupler).

Is the 3-pt hitch that frail? I've seen pictures of box scrapers hoisted up to a 30 degree angle and being used to cut ditches, but the tractor had rear hydrolics and the hitch might have been category 2.