Box Scraper Land Planes / Grading Scrapers

[milkman636]

About 7 years bought a EA land plane. Best tool for hillside driveway maintenance. Quickly paid for itself in recovering gravel and making a durable, low maintenance surface.

Areas around barns, lawn, orchards are getting smoother just by occasionally driving around.

Only used rippers once on some yard grade work change.

Grader blade and yardbox are just sitting around.

Which EA model did you get?

 

[milkman636]

I have bush hog brand land plane. Works great. My buddy copied it and made one he pulls with his plow truck works great.

I hadn’t thought about that brand. I had one of their 7’ rear scraper blades that was quite well built. Is there any particular aspect that you like or don’t like about the model you have?

 

[milkman636]

Dirt Dog

I have a dealer for that brand in reasonable driving distance. I haven’t spoke with them yet because they have price tags on them that seem more in line with what big green or orange stores would charge. And the way the mast for the top link is reinforced by a single piece of flat stock to the middle crossmember looks a little under-engineered in comparison to the rest of the implement to me. I’m not opposed to one if the price is right though. Do you have one of the dirt dog blades? What model and how is it performing?

 

[m5guy]

The only thing I could complain about it is the removable scarifier teeth are cheap cast from China and I broke 2 of them, of course doin a favor for a friend. If you maintain your drive in a reasonable manner , you don't need the scarifier teeth anyway. That was the only time I used them. I bought a bush hog brand only because that's what my closest dealer carried at the time.

 

[Smokeydog]

Which EA model did you get?

6’ with rippers. EA brand. Length of side boards and angle of blades improves operation of this type of tool.

 

[deezler]

I see one of the same model you have for $1500 new if I want to drive 2.5 hours to get it. Locally, similar models are listed more in the 1800-2800 range. They seem to be priced pretty high for what they are. If I’m happy with it in ten years I’ll be over the price, but I also don’t want to spend that and get one that doesn’t meet my expectations. It sounds from the thread you linked that you don’t have any buyers remorse. Is that accurate?

Yes, accurate. My 72" bad boy scraper has been flawless so far. Just wish I could store it under a roof, some rust is creeping.

 

[Williy]

milkman636 I did not get the rippers and don't really need them
it really digs up the dirt/gravel etc I usually make 6 or 7 trips up
and down the drive way to make sure its nice and smooth and
the LS cost me less than $2K I can't remember exactly what I
paid but think it was approx $1300 or $1400. If I run across the
receipt I will let you know

willy

 

[milkman636]

milkman636 I did not get the rippers and don't really need them
it really digs up the dirt/gravel etc I usually make 6 or 7 trips up
and down the drive way to make sure its nice and smooth and
the LS cost me less than $2K I can't remember exactly what I
paid but think it was approx $1300 or $1400. If I run across the
receipt I will let you know

willy

Thank you Willy. I have mixed feelings on buying rippers too. I had removable teeth on a previous box blade, and then upgraded to one with nicer teeth on a retractable bar. I don’t think I want to go back to the individual teeth with keepers that you fidget with to deploy or retract. I seldom need the ones on my box blade either because it has good weight. So I appreciate where you’re coming from on this.

 

[metalbender]

Look for an old tumblebug. Usually under $100. Check out You tube Squatch253 has a few videos

 

[Smokeydog]

Everything Attachments has a new wicked land plane. Improve ripper teeth. They already had a better way of mounting rippers compared to other manufacturers.

 

[deezler]

^ dang. Does look nice, but over twice the price of my Bad boy land plane. And it would do the exact same job that mine does. Sometimes EA seems to overbuild stuff just for the heck of it. And they charge you accordingly. More power to 'em and anyone who wants the best.

 

[civilian]

OP, I have a Land Plane GS0560 for my Kubota X2230 tractor. It has roughly 22 hp. That land plane is 60" wide, and has 2 angled blades, either for pulling forward or could be bolted for reverse pushing. But the blade holders are welded to the side frame, and set about 1/2" to an 1' below the side frame bottoms. If I just drop the 3pt and let it float, the landplane can load more than the traction the BX2230 can pull. If the blades could be level to the bottom, in freshly spreading gravel might be better. Can't say. I think I wanted the next frame size GS1560? But salesman said too big for my tractor. Is the 1023 bigger than my BX2230? Mine has loaded turf tires, with wheel weights. Jon

 

[milkman636]

OP, I have a Land Plane GS0560 for my Kubota X2230 tractor. It has roughly 22 hp. That land plane is 60" wide, and has 2 angled blades, either for pulling forward or could be bolted for reverse pushing. But the blade holders are welded to the side frame, and set about 1/2" to an 1' below the side frame bottoms. If I just drop the 3pt and let it float, the landplane can load more than the traction the BX2230 can pull. If the blades could be level to the bottom, in freshly spreading gravel might be better. Can't say. I think I wanted the next frame size GS1560? But salesman said too big for my tractor. Is the 1023 bigger than my BX2230? Mine has loaded turf tires, with wheel weights. Jon

The 1023 is basically the same as a BX. I had a BX 2370 previously and I’d call the two tractors basically identical in size and capability. I also have a larger framed tractor with 38hp. I’ve seen a couple of the smaller land planes out there priced significantly less than the 72” varieties that I’m considering for the larger tractor. So if you had to pic a new model today to match the BX2230, would you still pick the GS0560? Or do you think a GS0548 might be a better match?

That’s also an interesting and surprising point about the blade depth not being adjustable on your land pride. There is a land pride dealer under 5 miles from my house, but he didn’t have a single grading scraper in stock to look at when I stopped in this week.

 

[milkman636]

Everything Attachments has a new wicked land plane. Improve ripper teeth. They already had a better way of mounting rippers compared to other manufacturers.

I did notice that briefly on their website the other day. I didn’t take time to watch the video about it. But I probably should now that you jogged my memory. Thanks. I shouldn’t let my bias for the retractable teeth keep me from weighing all the options out there. It’s something I plan to only buy one of in my lifetime.

 

[jon171717]

I have both a box blade and a land plane. Purchased both from Everything Attachments. The landplane will do the job for you. If it's the only project you think you'll need it for, maybe you could find one to rent.

 

[Jims1025R]

I was given the action end of a [previously] horse drawn 1920 Adam's grader. I modified the draw to have a three point bar, and put one hydraulic cylinder so I can lift or lower one side of the mold board while I'm grading. It works perfectly! It does snow well too, if I decide to swap out from my rear mount snowblower.

 

[Brendanspapa]

Have you considered a pull scraper? They can remove/load, haul, and level as you dump. Search for them on the used equipment sites like Trackerhouse and Machinerypete. There’s two types, one loads and hauls and the other simply drags.

 

[milkman636]

I have both a box blade and a land plane. Purchased both from Everything Attachments. The landplane will do the job for you. If it's the only project you think you'll need it for, maybe you could find one to rent.

I searched rental yards and that is one attachment they didn’t have available locally. The closest yard that had one available was over an hour away and they were basically $100 a day, and I picking away at this project an hour or two at a time as my schedule permits. I’m on a have grass seed on it by September kind of timetable.

 

[milkman636]

I was given the action end of a [previously] horse drawn 1920 Adam's grader. I modified the draw to have a three point bar, and put one hydraulic cylinder so I can lift or lower one side of the mold board while I'm grading. It works perfectly! It does snow well too, if I decide to swap out from my rear mount snowblower.

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That is a sweet setup. I’d love to score something like that.

 

[Mudder]

Kubota B7800 “land shaped” drainage features and created raised areas for a barn and round pen, and pond and track using FEL, and box scrape. Final smoothing with a 3pt. rake. Using a disc then the rake works well also if dirt has become hard.