Box Blade Upgrade

[HarleyScooter]

I was doing something I shouldn't have when I bent all the mounting brackets for my XB box blade, I thought it was time to upgrade from the flat bar mounting brackets, this is what it looked like when I started.

 

[HarleyScooter]

This is what I came up with to make it stronger.

 

[HarleyScooter]

After a little paint.

 

[HarleyScooter]

Last picture

 

[Barnboy]

That looks Great! When you do a job you do it right. Did you use a brake to bend the plate for the hitch or is that just welded? Just cuious I might need to build something like that someday.

 

[RonR]

Wow, did your little BX just pull that thing apart?

I knew mine had a lot of power, but WOW!

Ron

 

[HarleyScooter]

I used all seperate plates and welded them together.
Scott

 

[HarleyScooter]

I was trying to remove a slab of concrete about 36" W X 8' long, with one scarifier turned around to the back. I backed up to it but I couldn't get under it so I kept pressure against the cement and raised the blade, I did this a few times and when the front of the tractor stopped going into the air, the cement popped free from the ground. I tried to raise the blade to drive away, that's when I noticed the 3 point was allready up and the flat bar arms on the box blade were all bent and twisted. It was my fault for not driving home and getting the right attachment, but modifying things gives me something to do since I retired.
Scott

 

[hobbyfarm]

Good Job. HarleyScooter,

Be careful backing your BX under load with the TPH down, a couple of members here have bent their draft arms.
Apparently, those draft arms that have the acute angle on them are weak when used in reverse!

 

[SCB]

Yep! I'm one of them. They will bend pretty easy.