8' wide LPGS for a CUT

[oosik]

No Aczlan - the gal at ADM said that since they converted to digital they are now +/- 30 pounds( as I remember). Supposedly this dramatic increase in accuracy( ??? ) will more than pay for the cost of converting. She said all the scales operators really like the new digital setup - the "zeroing of the scales" is done electronically and in their warm little scales house. Makes me wonder what they had to do before it was a digital setup. Maybe go out and readjust buckets of gravel. Thinking about it - being an analog system - adjusting buckets of gravel may not have been so far from the truth.

 

[aczlan]

You guys pool your money and buy me one of those drive on scales... and I will let you occasionally use it. By appointment and if I am around... I would take real good care of it...

Stop by where I work and you can run across the scale all day for $8/trip. A new one like we have (long enough for a semi truck and rated for 120,000#) runs in the multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars.

No Aczlan - the gal at ADM said that since they converted to digital they are now +/- 30 pounds( as I remember). Supposedly this dramatic increase in accuracy( ??? ) will more than pay for the cost of converting. She said all the scales operators really like the new digital setup - the "zeroing of the scales" is done electronically and in their warm little scales house. Makes me wonder what they had to do before it was a digital setup. Maybe go out and readjust buckets of gravel. Thinking about it - being an analog system - adjusting buckets of gravel may not have been so far from the truth.

If their state requirements are like ours are, that means that they measure in 10 pound increments, not 20. I hope its not someplace where the wind blows hard on the trucks being weighed, we have a hard time getting an accurate weight at work when its gusty out.

Aaron Z

 

[oosik]

The ADM scales in Cheney are in a very protected location. Strange - I never thought about the wind affecting accurate weight. There is a State Highway Dept Weigh scales out in a little podunk rest area - Tokyo - its right on I-90 between Cheney and Ritzville. I went thru that area every day on my way to work in Ritzville.

Blow - I don't think I ever went thru Tokyo when it wasn't blowing - and blowing hard. Must have made semi truck weighing for the State Troopers a lot of fun.

 

[sandman2234]

I have a very, very part-time job working for Cat Scale. I work on their cameras when they go out within a couple hundred miles of here, but any scale will work. Load up all of your implements on your trailer with your tractor last. Go weigh everything, pull off the scale, unload tractor, weigh again. Pull off, remove an implement, weigh again. Pull off, remove another implement, weigh again. Repeat till you run out of implements, and weigh the empty trailer and truck. Now you know what everything you have weighs and life is good. Load back up, go home, unload and mark them before you forget, lol.
David from jax

 

[Piston]

They have a scale at our town dump, and it appears relatively accurate. I’ve never asked, but when I step off out of the truck and walk off the scale, it decreases by my body weight, give or take 5 lbs. if I didn’t think they’d look at me like I was crazy, I’d bring an implement each week to weigh.

 

[oosik]

Piston - if that is a viable option - I would sure use it. There is a waste-to-energy plant about 20 miles NE of me that has that type of scale situation. Never been there and not sure how they operate. I checked out crane scales - there are digital ones that run around $125, but they make me wonder because everything else is WAY over the top.

 

[Piston]

So, good news and bad news.
Good news is, I got the grading scraper yesterday (my father picked it up for me and delivered it to my house).

It’s in “mostly” good condition, with one major flaw.

That brings me to the bad news.....
The front blade (and of course angle iron it’s attached to) is very badly bent. Apparently the guy who used it before hit something pretty solid and bent the h-e-l-l out of the front blade.
I’m not sure if I should cut the blade carrier off and weld a new one on, and then buy a new blade from Land Pride, or just go with it the way it is.
I’ll try it out the way it is, and see how it works. But regardless, I don’t like the fact that it’s damaged/bent, even if it works just fine.

Here are some photos, I’ll be interested to see what you guys think of this?

 

[Turbys_1700]

It took a pretty good thwack to get that front blade bent. I would use it and not let it bother me.

 

[oosik]

I would go ahead and use it. If you want you could then get a new blade from Land Pride. I'm sure it will work bent - but like you - I would want to repair it.

 

[Piston]

I’ll wait till our weather dries out a bit. In the meantime I’ll be calling around to a couple steel yards for replacement pieces of angle iron.

A nice surprise today though, when I was out measuring this 8’ grading scraper to get some prices on steel, I measured exactly 7’ across for the angle iron I’d need.

Turns out the guy advertised it as an 8’ blade, but it was a 7’ all along.

I guess all that worrying about it being to big was all for nothing! I then checked the model number, and sure enough, it’s a GS2584. It will be a perfect match!

 

[MtnViewRanch]

I’ll wait till our weather dries out a bit. In the meantime I’ll be calling around to a couple steel yards for replacement pieces of angle iron.

A nice surprise today though, when I was out measuring this 8’ grading scraper to get some prices on steel, I measured exactly 7’ across for the angle iron I’d need.

Turns out the guy advertised it as an 8’ blade, but it was a 7’ all along.

I guess all that worrying about it being to big was all for nothing! I then checked the model number, and sure enough, it’s a GS2584. It will be a perfect match!

COOL. :cool2:

 

[GLyford]

I'd use it as is to be sure you find all the existing stumps, rocks, and boulders where you're working, then fix it. With my luck I'd end up with a matched pair of bent ones...

 

[oosik]

I have the same Land Pride GS2584. The only time I might have come close to doing any damage to the LPGS is with the scarifiers full down. I was busting out a trail - out thru the sage brush and field grass - scarifiers full down - ran into a bunch of boulders - size of soccer balls and smaller. Before I could bring this entire operation to a full stop - I'd bounced, jangled and twisted thru about ten feet of this stuff. It "worked" the LPGS so hard that it blew the orange paint off the unit in several areas. But nothing broken, bruised or bent.

You can not believe how nicely this unit will completely remove even the largest clump of sage brush - with the scarifiers down and going next to dead slow. Soccer ball sized round rock - not so well.


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[metalbender]

Looks like trying to use the bent blade will give some serious trenches in your road, like premade wagon ruts. Better do the repair before use.

 

[hawkeye08]

I would try and straighten it on hydraulic press before replacing..

 

[BMan2005]

So, good news and bad news.
Good news is, I got the grading scraper yesterday (my father picked it up for me and delivered it to my house).

It痴 in �ostly good condition, with one major flaw.

That brings me to the bad news.....
The front blade (and of course angle iron itç—´ attached to) is very badly bent. Apparently the guy who used it before hit something pretty solid and bent the h-e-l-l out of the front blade.
I知 not sure if I should cut the blade carrier off and weld a new one on, and then buy a new blade from Land Pride, or just go with it the way it is.
I値l try it out the way it is, and see how it works. But regardless, I don稚 like the fact that it痴 damaged/bent, even if it works just fine.

Here are some photos, I値l be interested to see what you guys think of this?
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Well durn, that really sucks! Knowing all you wanted to do was hook to it and go grade some roads. I wouldn’t be worried much about the bend since you have the rear blade to catch and spread the material again, but from one picture it looks like the blade is bent down as well. That could cause it to dig a trench. If it is, I would repair it first. Bummer it’s bent, but a little welding and it will serve you a long long time.