garc
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- Joined
- Jul 27, 2008
- Messages
- 114
- Location
- Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
- Tractor
- 05 Kubota B3030 ROPS
Part I is back here
I ordered a bare side link cylinder from CCM (10ｼ" OA, 4" stroke) and fabed clevis ends from Kubota fixed side link. After taking pic lower clevis was shortened and redrilled. 3 point lower link (not shown) was notched for clearance.
Kubota B3030 rear remotes and control handles.Left for top angle (longitudinal) and Right with Float position for tilt angle (lateral).
CCM Top-N-Tilt installed with ｼ" hoses. Check valve on top cylinder to hold position (2008).Working well with a 4" tilt off horizontal 27" from centerline. Check valve disabled on tilt cylinder to allow float.
Finding it difficult to level and smooth your gravel driveway or dirt road with just a box blade/scraper?
Try an 8 foot 200 pound piece of rail from your local scrap yard quick attached to the bottom of you box scraper. Or you could simply notch your 4N1 bucket to get a good grip on that piece of rail...
and use your bucket dump and curl to control the angle of attack from the operator's seat,
that is, if you don't mind driving backwards.
Below is my solution for snow removal on my 1000+ feet of gravel driveways.
When the frame is longitudinally level the blade is held 1"off the ground with 3x10 casters and does not disturb the gravel. The pneumatic rubber tires and casters failed so I replaced themwith industrial casters and 10"x3" steel wheels.
I can tilt longitudinally with hydraulics for on the go blade height adjustment and lateral tilt is on hydraulic float.
The casters are individually height adjustable to control tilt when on lateral float;useful on driveway for drawing excess gravel from edges moving evenly toward centre.
I made a brake warning light system. I have driven off too long and too many times without realizingthat the parking brake was still ON. Green for "brake OFF". This serves as a circuit check.
Of course this only works if you look at the warning lights as you drive off instead of looking where you want to go so I added another micro switch this time to the speed control pedal which activates the horn when the brake pedal micro switch is activated. Problem solved (it's a loud horn that I added with the primary button integrated into center of the light switch as used on other models).
I ordered a bare side link cylinder from CCM (10ｼ" OA, 4" stroke) and fabed clevis ends from Kubota fixed side link. After taking pic lower clevis was shortened and redrilled. 3 point lower link (not shown) was notched for clearance.
Kubota B3030 rear remotes and control handles.Left for top angle (longitudinal) and Right with Float position for tilt angle (lateral).
CCM Top-N-Tilt installed with ｼ" hoses. Check valve on top cylinder to hold position (2008).Working well with a 4" tilt off horizontal 27" from centerline. Check valve disabled on tilt cylinder to allow float.
Finding it difficult to level and smooth your gravel driveway or dirt road with just a box blade/scraper?
Try an 8 foot 200 pound piece of rail from your local scrap yard quick attached to the bottom of you box scraper. Or you could simply notch your 4N1 bucket to get a good grip on that piece of rail...
and use your bucket dump and curl to control the angle of attack from the operator's seat,
that is, if you don't mind driving backwards.
Below is my solution for snow removal on my 1000+ feet of gravel driveways.
When the frame is longitudinally level the blade is held 1"off the ground with 3x10 casters and does not disturb the gravel. The pneumatic rubber tires and casters failed so I replaced themwith industrial casters and 10"x3" steel wheels.
I can tilt longitudinally with hydraulics for on the go blade height adjustment and lateral tilt is on hydraulic float.
The casters are individually height adjustable to control tilt when on lateral float;useful on driveway for drawing excess gravel from edges moving evenly toward centre.
I made a brake warning light system. I have driven off too long and too many times without realizingthat the parking brake was still ON. Green for "brake OFF". This serves as a circuit check.
Of course this only works if you look at the warning lights as you drive off instead of looking where you want to go so I added another micro switch this time to the speed control pedal which activates the horn when the brake pedal micro switch is activated. Problem solved (it's a loud horn that I added with the primary button integrated into center of the light switch as used on other models).
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