cglaser104
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Side note: I see you have a ranchex QH that doesn't require the bushings like other QH's. How have you enjoyed it?
Back blade won't dig
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stuckmotor
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I have had good luck with a pond scoop in fairly damp unplowed ground. pond scoop - Yahoo Image Search Results
jjp8182
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I'm going to concur with the recommendation of using something else to start ripping the sod/grass.
Sod/grass is a bit like fabric since all the roots tend to intertwine and create a pretty resilient mesh, and since a rear blade (or even the blade on a box blade) is a bit like a safety/cartridge razor in how it works ....well, you're seeing the issue. So something to tear-through or otherwise cut the roots is needed. Scarficers, rippers, middlebusters, coulters -- really just about anything that primarily shears vertically along a path parallel to the tractor's path should work.
Of course on the flip side once you get the blade under the sod's root layer it'll likely stick together and roll like a fabric as well...
Actually that's how a nearby sod-farm harvests the sod -they have an implement that uses a pair of coulters/disks to cut the width of the strip, combined with a blade sliding under the roots which creates a roll of sod (that looks like a large roll/bale of carpet/paper). That role is then transported and sold as is, or further sliced into shorter lengths.
Sod/grass is a bit like fabric since all the roots tend to intertwine and create a pretty resilient mesh, and since a rear blade (or even the blade on a box blade) is a bit like a safety/cartridge razor in how it works ....well, you're seeing the issue. So something to tear-through or otherwise cut the roots is needed. Scarficers, rippers, middlebusters, coulters -- really just about anything that primarily shears vertically along a path parallel to the tractor's path should work.
Of course on the flip side once you get the blade under the sod's root layer it'll likely stick together and roll like a fabric as well...
Actually that's how a nearby sod-farm harvests the sod -they have an implement that uses a pair of coulters/disks to cut the width of the strip, combined with a blade sliding under the roots which creates a roll of sod (that looks like a large roll/bale of carpet/paper). That role is then transported and sold as is, or further sliced into shorter lengths.
old and tired
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Not my photo, EverythingAttachment's photo, just wanted to show what I was talking about.
cglaser104
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Ah ok.
k0ua
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OR "Ghost Rider, the pattern is full"... Not that it mattered to Tom Cruise.
k0ua
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And I can't imagine anything ever going "wrong" with that scenario. We read about dead guys on here fairly often...Just saying..
