Box Scraper love the box blade

[b3200tlb]

Hi all !
after owning my b3200 for a year i have been impressed and have started many projects. yesterday i bought a used box blade and today i unhitched the back hoe for the first time and put on the three point hitch gear and tried the bb. what an amazing tool!!!! i was able to accomplish soooo much in a short period of time. i had pulled about 27 stumps , and what looked like a mine field was leveled and groomed . i had been battling just back bladeing with the fel which just seemed to smooth it and not grade it.
very impressed with the box blade . i can see that i will be tearing into more areas of the property now !
thanks to all of you for the info on this site as i have been lurking and reading up on all your tips.
the box blade is a united 566hd, bought it on ebay for $329. looks like it was hardly used and the 66" width lets me get right up to the fence where i am grading. still learning how the toplink majorly changes the end result.
happy spring
doug

 

[Mousefield]

You sound sooo happy. Took me a almost a year to get a used boxblade and then take the backhoe off my CK35 for the first time. I use mine for grading our private gravel road. Enjoy yours and many happy hours in the seat.

 

[jenkinsph]

Doug,
Welcome to the forum!


Just so you don't feel to weird, I bought my backhoe and boxblade and it was three years before I got around to trying out the boxblade.

I use the boxblade to rough grade where large amounts of soil needs to be moved and finish off with a landplane to really get it smooth and flat.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

My dad could really make a box blade earns it keep. He could get dirt out of a new pond as fast as the dozer and in place on the level. If one owns a naked tractor and only has a few $$$$ of one piece of equipment it would place at the top with a toss up over a bushhog in my case.

 

[EverythingAttachments]

the box blade is a united 566hd, bought it on ebay for $329. looks like it was hardly used and the 66" width lets me get right up to the fence where i am grading. still learning how the toplink majorly changes the end result.
happy spring
doug

We have a general use "How To" Box Blade video that talks about when to use the toplink that may help answer some of your questions, and also show a couple ways to use them that you might not have thought of before. Let me know what you think!

 

[Sackett2]

A hyd toplink makes a boxblade 10X more useful-look into it

 

[TripleR]

A hyd toplink makes a boxblade 10X more useful-look into it

TnT even better.

 

[miramadar]

We have a general use "How To" Box Blade video that talks about when to use the toplink that may help answer some of your questions, and also show a couple ways to use them that you might not have thought of before. Let me know what you think!

I've found all of your videos to be very informative, well produced and well thought out. Thanks for providing them!!

 

[spruce Deere]

I have owned/operated compact tractors for years with a variety of implements for the tractors, But not till' this year no box blade. Now I have a box blade and it is like havn' a blend of a ballast, sub-soiler, loader bucket, rear blade, cultivator, mabe even some tiller, scarifier and u-dozer blade all in one 3 pt attachment. Simple design, low maintenance with many apps is always good:thumbsup:

 

[Gale Hawkins]

A tractor without a box blade is only half a tractor. :laughing:

We wound up buying a new Bush Hog brand this year when we got the FIL's 265 MF because NO one trades them in unless they got backed over by a bull dozer or something. They never wear out and take up little space if parked.