3RRL
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- 55HP 4WD KAMA 554 and 4 x 4 Jinma 284
Thought I'd share a little story about changing out the worn inner blade on my trusty boxblade. You've seen the wear I've gotten of several years use on my hard decomposed granite roads and all the roads, trails and foundations I've built with it. The front of the side plates on the box itself have rounded and worn down about an inch, at least. I'll weld some plate back on another time.
The blade itself has worn over an inch too. Worse is that in the center, the blade has worn down 3/8" more than on the ends. You can see the difference on the tape measure. So when I drag the boxblade, the cut is no longer flat. We decided to remove the inner blade and flip it over to use the good edge on it.
Here is Loretta helping me chisel all the caked on dirt which is packed between the inner and rear blade so we can get to the nuts and bolts. Also some photos showing the wear of the blade at different points with the measuring plates. I'm not too unhappy since I've probably got what ... about 400 hours of good use out of this one.
The blade itself has worn over an inch too. Worse is that in the center, the blade has worn down 3/8" more than on the ends. You can see the difference on the tape measure. So when I drag the boxblade, the cut is no longer flat. We decided to remove the inner blade and flip it over to use the good edge on it.
Here is Loretta helping me chisel all the caked on dirt which is packed between the inner and rear blade so we can get to the nuts and bolts. Also some photos showing the wear of the blade at different points with the measuring plates. I'm not too unhappy since I've probably got what ... about 400 hours of good use out of this one.