bumperm
Veteran Member
Hey bumperm- I know it's an old thread - how did the UHMV scraping edge work out? The orig. edge on my BX5450 is so worn as to be of no value as a template.
I'd found a guy who fabricated these shoes pretty cheap-
am interested to see how they work/wear this season. He'd make me a scraping edge if I could supply the specs........any help would be greatly appreciated.
The UHMW-PE scraper wear edge is working fine, no significant wear.
At first blush, not so impressed with the design of the skid sliders shown in your picture. I prefer a vertical metal mounting plate with either slots or off-set holes to adjust skid height. There is no need to mill or mold in the recess shown - better to have the material thicker and simply use longer carriage bolts. While turning the tractor, the side edge can see lateral loading if the slider hits a small bump etc, and this will stress the thinner material at the slots.
The useful area and thickness of the slider wear surface shown is minimal (mine have 10" X 2.5", 3/4" thick UHMW shoes, with angles cut fore and aft to go over bumps and irregularities. They have worn maybe 1/8" off the thickness in two seasons). Even if the ones shown are UHMW instead of cheaper plastic HDPE or similar, they would not last long in my application.