How many "TnT" owners

[dcyrilc]

This is my current problem also. So I have to manually set the offset at this time. The killer is that I have the extra valve that needs to be added and already have the offset cylinder & hoses. Just need the time to get it done. Luckily with a 9' blade, I don't need to offset my blade all that often.

If you look at the boom, there is one hydraulic for angle and one manual adjustment for the offset. Someday I'll get it all plumbed up.
Oh, just for the information, this blade weighs about 1140lbs.

Who makes a 9ft or wider blade? Mine is 8ft, but if I put on my duels, I'm around 9ft6 wide. I didn't know anyone made a wider blade.

 

[Pops15]

Who makes a 9ft or wider blade? Mine is 8ft, but if I put on my duels, I'm around 9ft6 wide. I didn't know anyone made a wider blade.

Landpride makes 9' and 10' wide blades like Brian's.

 

[jenkinsph]

Brian,

Went out and measured my hitch and I have a total of 15 degrees of tilt (measured with a high degree of accuracy). So if I set the left arm in the middle I would only get 7.5 degrees of tilt per side which isn't enough. I would like to get about 15 degrees to both sides without adjustments.
No height issues that I can see, when adjusted as in the picture which allows a range of level (with cylinder fully retracted) to full tilt to the right side (cylinder fully extended) which is a 15 degree angle I still have about 1 inch of clearance using an 8' wide implement.


dcyrilc.

My previous blade mentioned in the post above was 10 ft wide and all hydraulic including offset which was needed since with duals (18.4x38's) the tractor was close to 11 ft wide. Don't remember the brand but it wasn't Deere anyway. These blades are still available I am sure.

 

[dcyrilc]

Landpride makes 9' and 10' wide blades like Brian's.

Thanks, I'll do a search for Landpride.

 

[jenkinsph]

Cyril,

Frontier has 9 and 10 ft models listed rated up to 160 hp. Very likely these are rebadged Woods brand.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Who makes a 9ft or wider blade? Mine is 8ft, but if I put on my duels, I'm around 9ft6 wide. I didn't know anyone made a wider blade.

There are many makers of 9' & 10' rear blades. Most of them are pretty much the same in design, weight, etc. When I was looking for one, the one that I felt was THE BEST was Bison. But they are made in Mexico, and the West Coast Distributor was not going to be getting any in for months, so I went with Land Pride. Actually I think that all the bigger names have them, there are no economy makers or models of these size blades. They are ALL big $$$$. If you ever go to any farm-AG shows, that would be the place to maybe get a deal on one. I would say that you should expect to pay between 4 & 6 thousand for a new one. Mine was right around $4K and that was with NO hydraulics. My Land Pride RBT45108
is rated for a 125HP 15,000lb machine. Now that is way over kill for my tractor, but the next smaller blade, an RBT40 series is to small-light duty, it is only rated for 100hp 2wd at 9,5000lbs.

 

[dcyrilc]

dcyrilc.

My previous blade mentioned in the post above was 10 ft wide and all hydraulic including offset which was needed since with duals (18.4x38's) the tractor was close to 11 ft wide. Don't remember the brand but it wasn't Deere anyway. These blades are still available I am sure.

Mine has 13.6x38's. And though I haven't measured it, it just fits through the 10ft wide door. When I first got the tractor, I looked a little bit at blades and didn't find anything over 8ft, so I never looked any further since it already came with the 8ft blade.

Sometime down the road, after I get rear hydraulics on it, I'll have to take another look at blades. A 9 or 10ft blade which offsets would be very helpful for cleaning out my ditches.

 

[DK35vince]

Also - - what are the sizes of the cylinders you used for top and side. You said that the cylinders were "with check valves" - not sure I understand this either.

Thanks for the help,
Reggie

Reggie,
I almost forgot to get you the cylinder sizes.
Both cylinders are 2" diameter.
Top link in the closed position. Center of pin to center of pin is 21"
Side link closed is 17 1/2"
The check valves on top and tilt cylinders Keep the cylinders from leaking/drifting down.
I originally tried top &tilt cylinders without check valves and my tilt cylinder would always drift down and not be level.
I later switch to top & tilt cylinders with check valves. I recommend them, they never drift off.

 

[kruszert]

Viince,
Thanks for the info. I have already called Rick from Wallace Tractor to get a price on the second set of remote valves - - he is working on that. The cylinders without check valves are a bunch cheaper (Bailey sells them) than the ones from CCM with the check valve but if they don't hold their position without a check valve I guess I better spend the extra money.

Thanks for the help,
Reggie

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Viince,
Thanks for the info. I have already called Rick from Wallace Tractor to get a price on the second set of remote valves - - he is working on that. The cylinders without check valves are a bunch cheaper (Bailey sells them) than the ones from CCM with the check valve but if they don't hold their position without a check valve I guess I better spend the extra money.

Thanks for the help,
Reggie

Reggie, I don't seem to have any problems with my "TnT" sets not having any check valves, but then I guess that I am one of the few.