Boxblade add ons

[ericher69]

Pics would be nice. I'm confused how they work. Does anyone know how to load pics from the app with the iPhone

Yes,

Reply to thread and hit + sign. You will have multiple options one being attach photo's from camera and one from camera roll

Hope this helps

 

[jmc]

I went ahead and added two weights on my BB. Not sure how much they weigh, but would guess about 60lbs each. They bolted onto the rear part of it very nicely.

You can calculate their weight easily if you ignore the slots and corner radii:

width X height X thickness X .283(for steel) Measurements are in inches, answer is in pounds.

 

[kebo]

Thanks for the info, I'll try that formula this weekend when I head up to where my tractor is.

 

[catdozer]

You all inspired me to add these elevator weights to my BB they are 150 lbs a piece so a total of 300 extra lbs. Painting will come next year but I do notice a big difference. If I need more I will just stack them on each other. Only took about 2 hours start to finish.

 

[smiley]

This was something I did several years ago to spread free blacktop down my 350 ft driveway.
I Just made 2 ft sides to bolt on my rear scraper blade effectively turning it into a boxblade, then bolted the angle iron skids about 3 ft long near the bottom front of the sides and welded another 8" piece of angle near the blade at 90 degrees, with a torch cut slot and bolted through near the blade, to allow up and down adjustment. This is a crude version of the blacktop spreader boxes we used. it worked OK but of course left skid marks in the blacktop that had to be touched up by hand. It was much better than trying to do it with a blade as the skids eliminated the dips and dives. It does require good judgement in placing somewhere near the right amount of material on the ground or dumping in small piles, driving over them and pulling them along then touching up where need be.
I saw one of the sides in the garage this year so if I can find it will take a photo and post it.
This could be done with any blade such as snowplow or loader bucket as all it does is hold the blade a given distance above the ground to give a consistent depth.

My computer has been down so couldn't post the photo's before, so here it is. Not pretty but worked