Rear Blade Rear plow blade carnage

[s219]

Yeah, those are lousy welds. And given the rust already there, it may have been cracked before you even used it.

 

[MrWinkey]

Just got in from plowing. Yes the dealer swapped me out the rear blade no issues. Same make/model/size. Went out and plowed all the neighbors first then my driveway. Everything held together. I'm not impressed with the quality on that blade but at least it's in one piece. I have not run across that brand before. It would be easy enough to add some extra welds and gussets to it. Just didn't think it should come apart first time out.

No I did not have the blade flipped around. I was pulling about 5" of heavy wet snow. Already made one run down my driveway so it was kicking off a big pile. My driveway has lots of rocks so hitting the occasional rock for the plow to climb over is not unusual. Only going 2-3 mph.

I had a light duty Rollins blade on my old Mahindra 2816 and it survived the same treatment for 10+ years. I hoped this rear blade would at least make it the same time frame.

 

[MrWinkey]

The blade appears to be a Braber Equipment Agri ease HEAVY DUTY back blade.
Braber Equipment - Rear Blades

The 6' is 330 lbs and rated to 60 hp.
Braber Equipment - Heavy Duty Rear Blade

The blade was most likely made in China, if not it was india. Braber is not known for quality, this reinforces my opinion of that.

Yes this is the Braber 6' Heavy Duty rear blade. The one that broke had big plates on it "Made in China"

This current one has slightly different stickers and name plate so it's possible that it's a different factory. Still not impressed with the weld quality. It stayed together at least for now. I will probably go over the welds again once it's not snowing sideways and miserable out.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Just add some gussets and welds and you should be fine.

Nice tractor, by the way.

 

[nybirdman]

For sure defective from factory;would have failed in either direction.I still maintain that pushing with a year blade is not good.
All the stresses are on the top link;a while back a member here tore the connection from the tractor right off the casting.
I believe the reverse blade moving forward is for final smoothing/doesn't dig in.
Final;your Equiptment do as you see fit.

 

[LouNY]

For sure defective from factory;would have failed in either direction.I still maintain that pushing with a year blade is not good.
All the stresses are on the top link;a while back a member here tore the connection from the tractor right off the casting.
I believe the reverse blade moving forward is for final smoothing/doesn't dig in.
Final;your Equiptment do as you see fit.

For some situations you would almost have to push backwards;
pushing snow banks back,
back filling trenches, ect.

 

[tractorcrazy]

I have skidded a lot of logs from a chain attached to the back of my back blade (a lot safer this way)but never did damage like that on a kingkutter five foot blade I'd say something got missed being welded or no penetration when welded

 

[ovrszd]

Were you "pushing" with the rear blade;that's a no-no;designed to pull not push.No trip somethings got to give.

Obviously pulling.

 

[ovrszd]

For some situations you would almost have to push backwards;
pushing snow banks back,
back filling trenches, ect.

I've moved much more snow pushing with a rear blade than pulling. Much more.

In this case the failure was going to happen regardless of direction. Actually the frame component of this blade doesn't know whether you are pushing or pulling. If he had destroyed the frame or the 3pt tower, maybe. But he didn't. He destroyed the turntable.

 

[Wyobuckaroo]

Our old Buhler Farm King 6' blade was 9/10 wore out when we got it.. It is still about 3/4 wore out save the TLC I have given it.. However, it works fine and was VERY cheap..

You seriously need to do a warranted replacement with your dealer as that was a mess with a reasonably nice paint job cover waiting to wreck since day one. I would scream and complain as high on the food chain of the dealer, and manufacturer as it takes to to get results..

Good luck..