Dirt Moving Box Scraper Purchase for Kubota M59

[TWD]

Well the driveway is about 6 years old now and it's time to do some repairs and add some more drainage.


How does the m59 do with a 7ft box? I was really hoping a 76-78" would work but then my tire is still in what I'm cutting when tilted :/

I need the box scraper mainly to move gravel on my driveway, using it in reverse tilted for edge work was a bonus... so if that's not a good idea I can go with a 6' box or ideally 76-78" and use a smooth bucket or a swale bucket (v bucket) on backhoe for the drainage\trench.

A couple years ago I planned on getting the EA Super HD box scraper, but they've gone out of business and I'm not risking it with them... land pride looks like toy at almost half the weight... what brand box scraper will be around to pass down to the kids? What about favorite swale bucket?

 

[Ed ke6bnl]

I was happy with ignite attachments, when I called the salesman went out and took pictures of the landscape rake I was interested and was cheaper than others, just my experience, but might want to check them out Compact Equipment Attachments & Implements | Ignite Attachments

 

[RedNeckGeek]

In 2020 I purchased an EA Severe XTreme Box Blade Category I & II V2.0, 84”, solid back, black in color, with Wicked Ripper shanks. Still have it and haven't managed to do anything to it but scratch the paint. Really rocky ground here, so the blade and box have hit plenty of immovable stone hard enough to stop the Kubota M62 I use it with. If it was gonna break or bend, it would have done it by now. Even if EA was out of business, any decent welding shop should be able to repair bent/broken parts if you can't do it yourself. But EA is showing signs of life, so if I needed another implement, I'd not avoid one made by them.

I later purchased an 84" EA Land Leveler to maintain a 1/4 mile gravel driveway. It's a lot easier to use than the box blade for leveling the gravel and evenly filling ruts. But the box blade is much better for putting in a driveway to begin with, along with lots of other tasks that involve moving dirt.

 

[jyoutz]

These aren’t cheap but they are about the most robust blades made. I have their 8’ rear angle blade and it’s a brute compared to other brands.

Southwest Distributing Co. / Catalog / Bison / Hydraulic Box Blade

Hydraulic Box Blade: Bison BB210-1 7 ft Box Blade, Heavy Duty, with Hydraulic Ripper Teeth. Bison BB210-1 (Bison, Part Number: BB210-1) Southwest Distributing Co. Farm-Industrial Equipment Sales and Distribution

www.swdistributing.com

 

[M59]

TWD, I can't help with who makes a good box blade since I bought mine from EA years before they went out of business. I purchased a Severe XTreme Box Blade Category I & II V2.0, 96” wide so I can grade the entire driveway width in one pass and blade path cleans a width wider than my dualie. I also use a top n tilt kit which makes leveling and pitching the driveway a breeze. Top n tilt gets the work done at least 10 times faster since I can change depth, blade angle, and slew from side to side as needed from operator's seat. I will NEVER go back to getting off the machine to make changes to 3 pt arms.

My driveway, 3/8 of a mile long with 700 feet of elevation change, is constant work in progress since prior owner just layed pea stone over dirt ( mostly hard clay ) and existing rocks that they found too hard to remove. I run the M59 at 1800 rpm in low gear and shift between "rabbit" and "turtle" mode depending on load in box and whether traveling up or down grade. Occasionally the ripper teeth will hit one of these large rocks and it usually comes out of the ground without causing the tractor to work hard. Ive never had any issues with bending or breakage of box or rippers.

 

[IndyIan]

I have an old 7' gannon box blade off skip loader, I think the end plates are 1/2". Someone had wore maybe a 1/2-3/4" off the bottom of the end plates over the decades? Anyways it looks a bit ugly, but its the best $900 I ever spent, and unbreakable with my tractor and probably yours too.
I would go 7.5 or 8' with your tractor, and try to find an old construction grade one at used equipment/wrecker. I often use 1 ripper to pick out a big rock that will stop the tractor.

For the driveway, to get my ditches working and get the proper crown profile back, what I do is tilt the box and ditch and grade edges the driveway at the same time, as when the gravel is dry, it will move into the middle of the driveway, and 99% of the grass/dirt from ditch will stay on that side of the box. When the dirt side fills, I stop and just push the gravel side of the box to the middle with the rear blade and scoop the grass/dirt up with the loader and just dump into the long grass and back drag so its not a pile.

 

[docone]

I have a Land Pride 84" I pull with my MX5100 HST.
It will stall me out with a full box in hard clay, but otherwise it does great.
I wish I had Top n Tilt!!

 

[M59]

I have a Land Pride 84" I pull with my MX5100 HST.
It will stall me out with a full box in hard clay, but otherwise it does great.
I wish I had Top n Tilt!!

Not to deviate from original thread, but the top n tilt was bought after acquiring the box blade and then a 72" wide power rake ( Harley rake) and I got really tired and annoyed with having to constantly get off tractor to adjust something on 3 pt. The finished jobs look so much nicer and take a tenth of the time with the top n tilt.

 

[TWD]

In 2020 I purchased an EA Severe XTreme Box Blade Category I & II V2.0, 84”, solid back, black in color, with Wicked Ripper shanks. Still have it and haven't managed to do anything to it but scratch the paint. Really rocky ground here, so the blade and box have hit plenty of immovable stone hard enough to stop the Kubota M62 I use it with. If it was gonna break or bend, it would have done it by now. Even if EA was out of business, any decent welding shop should be able to repair bent/broken parts if you can't do it yourself. But EA is showing signs of life, so if I needed another implement, I'd not avoid one made by them.

I later purchased an 84" EA Land Leveler to maintain a 1/4 mile gravel driveway. It's a lot easier to use than the box blade for leveling the gravel and evenly filling ruts. But the box blade is much better for putting in a driveway to begin with, along with lots of other tasks that involve moving dirt.

I actually was about to pull the trigger on the most HD (sounds like it was the Xtreme) EA before they went away \ started having issues I should have done it a few months earlier!

Sounds like 84" is what I'll get from everyone's input, thanks!

These aren’t cheap but they are about the most robust blades made. I have their 8’ rear angle blade and it’s a brute compared to other brands.

Southwest Distributing Co. / Catalog / Bison / Hydraulic Box Blade

Hydraulic Box Blade: Bison BB210-1 7 ft Box Blade, Heavy Duty, with Hydraulic Ripper Teeth. Bison BB210-1 (Bison, Part Number: BB210-1) Southwest Distributing Co. Farm-Industrial Equipment Sales and Distribution

www.swdistributing.com

WOW! That is a beast. Here I thought 850lb was heavy and that's almost 1500.

 

[jyoutz]

I actually was about to pull the trigger on the most HD (sounds like it was the Xtreme) EA before they went away \ started having issues I should have done it a few months earlier!

Sounds like 84" is what I'll get from everyone's input, thanks!




WOW! That is a beast. Here I thought 850lb was heavy and that's almost 1500.

My 8’ rear 6 way blade is 1025#. The Bison implements are definitely the stoutest ones I’ve seen.