Gordon Gould
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Sounds like a plan :thumbsup:
Angle for Road grader Blades
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crazyal
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If you go to Land pride's website they have the specs listed for their grading scraper. Not sure if the pitch of the blade is listed but I thing they use 17 degrees for the angle of the blade. I plan on making one too, just haven''t found the time. I'm also still toying with the idea of adding rippers to help loosen the dirt when it gets packed down.
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sandman2234
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If it ends up being to heavy for my TC30 , I can always just throw a chain on it and use my Freightliner to yard it up and down the driveway .
Thanks Everyone .
Fred H.
Can I borrow your Freightliner? Mine is HEAVY!!!
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/175396-dava-grader-process.html
David from jax
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FredH
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Sandman : You do notice that it IS Parked right next to the Freightshaker ?
With the new in-frame and Garrett turbo , the 1,000,000 mile truck should have no problem yanking it around .:thumbsup:
Fred H.
P.S. As a side note , I ended up settling on 10 Degree angle and a 45 degree pitch of the blades . I did though forget one thing , Bought the steel but forgot
to weld it on . Two 1/2" x 3" x 8' skid shoes . Wife went to use the newer Dodge and wanted to know what the steel was in back . Duh !! Good thing I
wear a belt , Wonder how many times I would of forgot my pants by now !!
With the new in-frame and Garrett turbo , the 1,000,000 mile truck should have no problem yanking it around .:thumbsup:
Fred H.
P.S. As a side note , I ended up settling on 10 Degree angle and a 45 degree pitch of the blades . I did though forget one thing , Bought the steel but forgot
to weld it on . Two 1/2" x 3" x 8' skid shoes . Wife went to use the newer Dodge and wanted to know what the steel was in back . Duh !! Good thing I
wear a belt , Wonder how many times I would of forgot my pants by now !!
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You did notice the link to my build, didn't you? Too many pictures, but what the heck. I think your questions on angles were included in there. Mine is a little heavier duty than yours... or at least heavier, lol.
A million miles on a freightshaker is rough on the old bones. Last calculations I am just over two and a half freightshakers...getting tired of chasing polka dotted lines, but they just keep coming! One of the owner-ops at work drive their's as a team, by slipseating it. She takes it out and when she gets back, he takes it out. 6-7 hundred miles each, per driver per day. Poor old truck didn't catch it's breathe till the motor went at 1.4, and a week later a used motor from an auction was building air on the brakes. That only lasted a year till a rod chewed a hole through the side of the block. Now they are back to making payments on a newer one. The cycle never ends...
David from jax
A million miles on a freightshaker is rough on the old bones. Last calculations I am just over two and a half freightshakers...getting tired of chasing polka dotted lines, but they just keep coming! One of the owner-ops at work drive their's as a team, by slipseating it. She takes it out and when she gets back, he takes it out. 6-7 hundred miles each, per driver per day. Poor old truck didn't catch it's breathe till the motor went at 1.4, and a week later a used motor from an auction was building air on the brakes. That only lasted a year till a rod chewed a hole through the side of the block. Now they are back to making payments on a newer one. The cycle never ends...
David from jax