Box Blade Ballast?

[gwstang]

I need to add some weight, maybe around 200 lbs or so) onto the back of my 6' box blade. My L2501 won't have any trouble with it. When the driveway is a little dry and I need to scrape it, it won't dig in very well. I also scrape my oldest son's drive across from me and he stands on the back and it cuts well into red clay, even when dry. When I do mine by my self, is when I need the extra weight. If it's wet, no problem. The red head complains if it gets a little rough so you know what that means....it's gonna get fixed. I drive a truck so it doesn't bother me. She drives her VW and it will bounce around a little. :laughing:

Any help on this? I figured some of you smart fellows have already addressed this. Thanks.

 

[Deere Dude]

On my 6' box blade I was able to put a weight lifting bar across it with all the weight I could fit on it. I put the big cast iron weights on and also a set of the plastic covered ones. They were laying around anyway and it worked quite well. They can be bought cheap from old guys who are past that phase.

 

[gwstang]

Is there any trouble getting them to stay on? i have tried concrete blocks and they shift around and get busted sometimes.

 

[CincyFlyer]

I laid some sand tubes over the top of mine; the scarifiers keep 'em from falling off. Of course, I scrape at very low speeds, as well, but a couple of bungees could be used.

 

[flusher]

I just used a concrete-filled 5-gallon plastic bucket to add weight to the 4-ft wide box blade on my 2005 Kubota B7510HST. Weight about 100 lb.



Good luck

 

[rd_macgregor]

I had a neighbor weld a bracket on to hold a piece of railroad rail...but I wish I had even more weight than that.

 

[bigtiller]

Your red head complains if it gets a little rough? That's odd:shocked:

 

[gwstang]

I have some old 5 gallon buckets laying around. I'll get some quikrete and fill 'em up. Did it take more than one 40lb bag for each?

 

[gwstang]

I can just imagine what the train did when it hit that missing section of rail...:laughing:

On a serious note, my daddy was on the old GM&O railroad for about 35 years. He had some stories to tell. I miss hearing the old trains pulling up the grade about 1/2 mile from where I grew up. Sometimes late, when laying in bed, I think I can still hear the horn sounding long and low.

 

[gwstang]

Your red head complains if it gets a little rough? That's odd:shocked:

You know how it goes when they get old (61), it's like, Not just "No....But H*ll NO"...lol

 

[ScoutmasterRick]

I have several lengths of 15'-20' logging/towing chain that I wrap around the top frame on the box blade.

 

[skipmarcy]

I welded some very heavy angle iron on the top rear of my 6' boxblade, I estimate about 125 lbs. or a little more. I also cut a hole with the torch and mounted a 2" trailer ball to use on my utility trailer around my place - very, very handy. One of the best things for your boxblade is a hydraulic toplink if you happen to have a rear remote. Even just slight 1/2" to 1" adjustments make a tremendous difference in the way the blade bites and doing it from the seat on the go is the only way to go for me.

 

[Fallon]

I strapped 3 6-7' grader blades to the top of my 6' King Kutter box blade. It worked fine behind my L3200 for dirt work. But later driveway & road work just proved to hard without more weight.

My final upgrade was $1000 for a 5' LandPride LPGS & an old 76" Gannon box blade (missing some springs for the scarfier mechanism & the scarfiers. Haven't used the Gannon yet, but the LPGS is everything it's cracked up to be. Works so much nicer than a box blade for driveway work. The KK box already ran off to a neighbor with a L3901. Really hope the Gannon works out with the new L4060. Not sure what I'm going to do with the grader blades now as the LandPride LPGS torpedoed my plans for building my own.

 

[motoman3b]

I use my box blade mostly as a ballast weight. I cut an old pair of heavy steel forks up and welded them on the backside of the blade added about 300lbs and then i have a 5 gallon bucket between the 3pt braces bungeed in thats filled with log chains!

 

[dadster4]

I found a 55 gal. barrel sits horizontally on the back of my boxblade with a couple ratchet straps to hold it in place. Use the 2" bung hole to fill with a garden hose and installed a 3/4" valve in the lower hole to drain. I needed the extra 400 lbs. when using my forks to move pallets of stone and found it helps a lot when grading also.

 

[gwstang]

Ya'll have given me some good options. Thanks to all.

 

[Deere Dude]

Is there any trouble getting them to stay on? i have tried concrete blocks and they shift around and get busted sometimes.

No. Except for once when I was really bouncing along one side fell off.

The frame on my Frontier allows the weights to sit in a pocket between the frame ends and the bar goes from side to side and just lays in on top of the side ends and the center framing..