I sloped around my steel building. Dirt was soft here, but did get down into some clay. This dirt had been disturbed in last 3 months, so was not super hard. Pushed quite a bit of dirt with blade and was pleasantly surprised. Able to adjust height of blade either by using tilt or raising/lowering boom.
Also cut a shallow ditch to divert water near my dad's shop. This was hard dirt that has not been messed with in 20 years and is driven over frequently. Took some effort to get corner of blade to dig into the dirt, but once it got started, was able to cut the ditch without too much trouble. This is about as stressful as I can see being with the blade. It seemed to do fine.
I still can't wrap my brain around that 10" boom on the toolcat pushing an 80" blade, but nothing bent yesterday and machine seems no worse for the wear. I am not worried about the driveline as it will spin the tires if in a bind, but have worried about the boom bending. I am careful not to catch the corner of blade or bucket when moving fast as I think this would be asking for trouble. I wouldn't go trying to dig up roots with corner of dozer blade, but so far I am impressed.
I thought the blade was going to be my excuse to get a t190 as I thought the toolcat was not going to work effectively with it, but so far so good. No plans to get a t190 now as the toolcat did better than I expected.
I was shocked to see dirt rolling up to the top of the blade as I pushed. Looked like a dozer at some points
Larry