Backblade upgrade!

[Aquamoose]

Well, that was a catchy title eh?

Anyhow, I was tired of jumping on & off my tractor to make angle adjustments on my backblade so I went and added a hydraulic cylinder! I had to cut off a portion of the bracket up front (at the base)so the 10” stroke cylinder would sit in the optimum position. It’s configured so if I need to rotate the blade 180°, I can just unhitch the rod end, swing both the blade & cylinder to the opposite side and refasten. Took it out today to plow snow and it worked very well but when adjusting the angle, I had to be light on the valve or it’ll jerk around so I’m planning to add an adjustable restricting valve to slow it down.

Bolts are 3/4”, spacers are brass to position the cylinder higher to allow free movement in full travel. Cleaned it up & repainted to make it nice again.

 

[oosik]

Nice, clean job - Aquamoose. Did you actually get enough snow there in DP to try out the blade?? I got a skinny inch here yesterday.

 

[MAX-24-Dean]

Good job, i will be using your idea for my back blade.

 

[John0829]

I'm stealing this idea

 

[cqaigy2]

That's neat looking.

 

[WranglerX]

Very good...

 

[Aquamoose]

Nice, clean job - Aquamoose. Did you actually get enough snow there in DP to try out the blade?? I got a skinny inch here yesterday.

Yessir, about 4”.

 

[Buggs67]

Nice job. Very clean and professional looking.

Tilt was more important to me so I used my available hydulics for an adjustable tilt.

 

[ning]

I'm starting to get the notion that having 3 remotes would be a good idea.
Could one steal a loader connection for this? Perhaps even a loader 3rd function to keep the bucket useable for gravel/dirt?

 

[Doughknob]

Yep, nice. But where did u have to go to add that?