Box Blade Without Top and Tilt? Pleasure or Curse?

[dragoneggs]

Jeez, I use my box blade all the time and have never thought I needed a T&T. Not really sure why I would. I use mine for path and road clearing, and usually it's on my tractor 80% of the time. How would a T&T help me?

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It's the tilt that I really need. Have you changed the sideways slope of any of your paths with your box blade?

 

[/pine]

Jeez, I use my box blade all the time and have never thought I needed a T&T. Not really sure why I would. I use mine for path and road clearing, and usually it's on my tractor 80% of the time. How would a T&T help me?

Using a box blade correctly for all its intended purposes and uses with the assistance of hydraulic T&T is night and day difference using a manual 3PH...

Any implement that benefits from or requires the adjustment of the 3PH links (top and side(s)) is exponentially easier to use than if the links have to be adjusted manually...

If a box blade is just being used as counterweight and a dumb drag for clearing paths...if it's not gouging up things no adjustments are required...but if you really want to master the use of a bb and you do not have T&T...you will be spending as much time getting on and off the tractor making adjustments as you will in the seat...!

 

[ovrszd]

Jeez, I use my box blade all the time and have never thought I needed a T&T. Not really sure why I would. I use mine for path and road clearing, and usually it's on my tractor 80% of the time. How would a T&T help me?

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Since you admitedly have never used TnT, I'm not sure we can explain the value to you. You'll just hafta trust us when we say it takes your BB to a whole new level.

 

[oosik]

I have both rear blade and roll over box blade. I also have a hydraulic top link. The top link does not make either the ROBB nor the rear blade WORK BETTER - it makes adjustment of both easier. However - easier adjustment will usually make then work more efficiently. I can state for a fact, in my case, the hydraulic top link made my learning of my rear blade go much faster. Same for the ROBB.

I've seen guys that NEVER make an adjustment on their rear blade. I'm - more or less - the opposite. I will tweak that top link until the rear blade is doing the very best it can.

To each their own.

 

[ovrszd]

I have both rear blade and roll over box blade. I also have a hydraulic top link. The top link does not make either the ROBB nor the rear blade WORK BETTER - it makes adjustment of both easier. However - easier adjustment will usually make then work more efficiently. I can state for a fact, in my case, the hydraulic top link made my learning of my rear blade go much faster. Same for the ROBB.

I've seen guys that NEVER make an adjustment on their rear blade. I'm - more or less - the opposite. I will tweak that top link until the rear blade is doing the very best it can.

To each their own.

Yep. With the rear blade set at an angle changing the length of the top link will actually give the blade side tilt.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

It's the tilt that I really need. Have you changed the sideways slope of any of your paths with your box blade?

Not really. I use my mini ex to cut the trails and rough out, then trim and level with the box blade, and for a nice finish I run over the path a few times with the landscape rake. The mini ex sure makes the difference .

 

[dragoneggs]

Not really. I use my mini ex to cut the trails and rough out, then trim and level with the box blade, and for a nice finish I run over the path a few times with the landscape rake. The mini ex sure makes the difference .

Yeah a mini would be great? I assume you have a blade on the back of it? I use my back hoe when making trails but turning around to use the FEL bucket and then turning back around isn't possible unless I back way up the trail each time and that is not practical. I can't turn around on the side hill without rolling my tractor!

 

[Whitbread]

Since adding top and tilt to my 1620, it's night and day compared to manual links as others have said. My driveway is twisty and hilly with lots of slope changes to direct water. It is infinitely faster in my case having the hydraulics than getting on/off every few minutes.

 

[dragoneggs]

Since adding top and tilt to my 1620, it's night and day compared to manual links as others have said. My driveway is twisty and hilly with lots of slope changes to direct water. It is infinitely faster in my case having the hydraulics than getting on/off every few minutes.

Can't wait for my TnT!

 

[millsan1]

AT some point I will add a TnT, but I still use my BB for a lot of work. You just have to adjust it manually and gradually. WHen I first started using it, I would make major adjustments and wonder why the results were so different. It really is a matter of 1/4" increments in top link length that can make a big change at the blade level.