Scooby074
Super Member
I have a woods BSE4 "Heritage" box blade I use behind my BX. It has never been good. It just skips along the ground regardless of angle of attack or length of the rippers. It's only good for tilled dirt!!! not hardpacked clay or gravel. Basically useless!!
The root cause is weight, its far too light to penetrate the ground at a mere 309 Lbs (6.4 lbs/in)
So I had to address it in order to try and get my backyard in shape.
Unfortunately I dont have any "in construction" pics but I'll answer any questions you have.
I went to the scrap yard and picked up a 8x4x.250 W beam.. 6' 95lbs. This size is crucial, and it was quite fortunate I found it because it fits a 4x8X16 concrete block between the flanges. The block measures 3.5X7.5" You'll see why the beam size matters in the finished pics $20
Then I needed something to support the block, got 48" of 2" channel. and 5' of 1/2" round bar $17. Then I got 12 4x8 solid concrete blocks, $25. Total for everything, $62!
Assembled product without brick, sorry for the crappy paint, It was all I had left in a spraybomb and wanted to keep it from flash rusting. I intend on painting the implement Kubota orange in the future when I add a receiver hitch to the centre rear of the BB.
The rod across the top will hold the brick in place.
Finished product. There is room for another brick.
In use. Before adding the weight all the rippers would do was scratch the surface. The cutting edge wouldnt even begin to cut in.
Finished weight:
309 lbs + 100 (steel) + 32 lbs/block * 13 blocks = 825 lbs. 17.2 lbs/in. A 269% improvement!!
The BX25 3pt is rated at 660 lbs @24" behind the lift points however the tractor has no issues lifting the BB even with a full load inside. Plus it is great counterweight for the loader. The BB finally preforms like I expected it to. I highly recommend that everyone with a light BB upgrades theirs and adds weight, the difference is truly night and day. Where before the BB was a toy, now its a tool!
The root cause is weight, its far too light to penetrate the ground at a mere 309 Lbs (6.4 lbs/in)
So I had to address it in order to try and get my backyard in shape.
Unfortunately I dont have any "in construction" pics but I'll answer any questions you have.
I went to the scrap yard and picked up a 8x4x.250 W beam.. 6' 95lbs. This size is crucial, and it was quite fortunate I found it because it fits a 4x8X16 concrete block between the flanges. The block measures 3.5X7.5" You'll see why the beam size matters in the finished pics $20
Then I needed something to support the block, got 48" of 2" channel. and 5' of 1/2" round bar $17. Then I got 12 4x8 solid concrete blocks, $25. Total for everything, $62!
Assembled product without brick, sorry for the crappy paint, It was all I had left in a spraybomb and wanted to keep it from flash rusting. I intend on painting the implement Kubota orange in the future when I add a receiver hitch to the centre rear of the BB.
The rod across the top will hold the brick in place.
Finished product. There is room for another brick.
In use. Before adding the weight all the rippers would do was scratch the surface. The cutting edge wouldnt even begin to cut in.
Finished weight:
309 lbs + 100 (steel) + 32 lbs/block * 13 blocks = 825 lbs. 17.2 lbs/in. A 269% improvement!!
The BX25 3pt is rated at 660 lbs @24" behind the lift points however the tractor has no issues lifting the BB even with a full load inside. Plus it is great counterweight for the loader. The BB finally preforms like I expected it to. I highly recommend that everyone with a light BB upgrades theirs and adds weight, the difference is truly night and day. Where before the BB was a toy, now its a tool!
