Grading Anybody make any type of weight box to mount on box blade?

[DavidD]

I found a couple of truck brake drums fit nicely between braces on my box blade. Usually have all my chains stored in them. Drums are close to 100 lbs each and spare chains add up quick.

 

[MF RED in MT]

KC, now that setup deserves a Rube Goldberg award of the month for ingenuity!! :thumbsup::laughing:

Thanks for the kind words, but the modification does not have an alarm clock nor a coffee maker, yet...

Another option is, when "JAWS" and the receiver extension is removed, the receiver can be unpinned and lowered to a normal horizontal position.

I tend to find myself somewhat in between Rube Goldberg and Red Green, but unknown if that's a good place to be...

JAWS was developed last summer for bucking up my logging truck full of 18' logs, see the pictures below:

KC

 

[Threepoint]

I found a couple of truck brake drums fit nicely between braces on my box blade. Usually have all my chains stored in them. Drums are close to 100 lbs each and spare chains add up quick.

Nice additional weight, but from the pic it looks like those drums extend well down into the box area. Seems like that would interfere with filling the box fully with material when doing heavy grading. :scratchchin: As I've always understood it, the beauty of a box blade is that it works on the principle of chaos theory. Unless obstructed within the box, the material (e.g. crusher run or river run) randomly churns over and over itself, before being distributed evenly out under the rear cutting edge. I've always marveled at how they do that!

 

[Threepoint]

Thanks for the kind words, but the modification does not have an alarm clock nor a coffee maker, yet...

Another option is, when "JAWS" and the receiver extension is removed, the receiver can be unpinned and lowered to a normal horizontal position.

I tend to find myself somewhat in between Rube Goldberg and Red Green, but unknown if that's a good place to be...

JAWS was developed last summer for bucking up my logging truck full of 18' logs, see the pictures below:

KC

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Very impressive! "The Little Tractor That Could" :salute:

 

[Wyobuckaroo]

I tend to find myself somewhat in between Rube Goldberg and Red Green, but unknown if that's a good place to be...
>>>>>>>
This is never a bad place to be, as long as it works for you and is cheaper than other alternatives.

Remember... If the women don't find you handsome, let them find you handy... eh...

 

[DavidD]

Nice additional weight, but from the pic it looks like those drums extend well down into the box area. Seems like that would interfere with filling the box fully with material when doing heavy grading. :scratchchin: As I've always understood it, the beauty of a box blade is that it works on the principle of chaos theory. Unless obstructed within the box, the material (e.g. crusher run or river run) randomly churns over and over itself, before being distributed evenly out under the rear cutting edge. I've always marveled at how they do that!

I did lose some of the capacity of the box but it still seems to work. The only job it does nowadays is driveway gravel

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

I found a couple of truck brake drums fit nicely between braces on my box blade. Usually have all my chains stored in them. Drums are close to 100 lbs each and spare chains add up quick.

Now that is thinking “ outside the box”.... well maybe inside the box, round inside the box, that is....

Great idea....those I could find at the junkyard!