Box Blade Width Recommendation

[schmism]

if one of your main activities you plan to do is road maintenance, a box blade is perhaps the last item i would choose to do this with.

A rear blade is much prefered over a box blade to do road maintenance. Being able to roll the material to mix fines and larger material is key in maintenance as well as being able to reclaim material from the edge of the road and windrow it in the center for mixing and spreading.

you can not windrow material with a box blade, you can only recover short sections of material before the BB fills up then you have to "dump" a hump of material somewhere which then has to be spread back out.... its really an extremely poor tool to choose when trying to maintain roads.

as for maintaining roads, i really like this PDF. http://water.epa.gov/polwaste/nps/upload/2003_07_24_NPS_gravelroads_gravelroads.pdf

 

[coolnature]

I am aware that the BB is not the ideal implement for road maintenance. But it will be used for other purposes besides maintaining the road. Presently I do not have an implement for moving material, grading and shaping. The BB will be the starting point and later on I may acquire an LPGS. Thanks for the input.