GuglioLS
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- Joined
- Feb 13, 2005
- Messages
- 1,155
- Location
- Edgewood, NM USA
- Tractor
- Jinma 354, 1953 Ford NAA Golden Jubilee, Komatsu Bulldozer
I have just been itching to tryout the 360* Rob-o-Blade since last weekend when it was completed! First I had a four day trip to San Jose, CA. When I got back there was more work for me, finally yesterday (Friday) I thought I was going to get to try it out for sure. Well it started to rain, then poured, then overnight it turned to snow
Oh Man. Well today I said the heck with the mud & snow. I'm going out there to try it out anyway. There was only about 2" of the white stuff on top of some really bad muck.
I went out into the field where, when I tear up the ground - I don't really care. The snow was sticky wet, when it's mixed with dirt, I call it Snirt
Here's a 5 meg (34 second) video clip I was able to take:

The tractor is "driving itself" while I was facing backward holding the camera to get the video and operating the hydraulics all at the same time.
I started out by back dragging the blade, then swung the offset over to the left side. Man that stuff is sticky - it would not slide off the blade. Then I rotated the blade 180* on-the-fly just for fun. Toward the end of the clip you can see where the cutting edge was getting a grip and digging into the snot, that's when the tractor stopped driving itself in a straight line, and I figured I better get a grip on the wheel at that moment.
When (if it ever) dries up, I'll get some action shots of it cutting into some decent dry dirt.
That all for now -
Larry
I went out into the field where, when I tear up the ground - I don't really care. The snow was sticky wet, when it's mixed with dirt, I call it Snirt
Here's a 5 meg (34 second) video clip I was able to take:

The tractor is "driving itself" while I was facing backward holding the camera to get the video and operating the hydraulics all at the same time.
I started out by back dragging the blade, then swung the offset over to the left side. Man that stuff is sticky - it would not slide off the blade. Then I rotated the blade 180* on-the-fly just for fun. Toward the end of the clip you can see where the cutting edge was getting a grip and digging into the snot, that's when the tractor stopped driving itself in a straight line, and I figured I better get a grip on the wheel at that moment.
When (if it ever) dries up, I'll get some action shots of it cutting into some decent dry dirt.
That all for now -
Larry