Boxblade or Scraper Blade?

[babzog]

Wondering what the difference is between the two? Why choose one over the other?

 

[greg_g]

My first three point implement was a rear scraper blade. Given the tasks I needed done, I found it to be rather useless. Got rid of it in favor of a box blade and a landscape rake. Never regretted the decision

//greg//

 

[magicheater]

Wondering what the difference is between the two? Why choose one over the other?

A scraper blade can generally be angled while a box blade cannot. A scraper blade can divert material to one side or the other which may be useful if you need this. A box blade is better at moving quantities of material from one location to another. A box blade usually has scarifiers also in addition to a rear cutting edge and an angle blade does not. Hope this helps.

 

[bullbreaker]

Of course each one is designed for different uses,but what I like about the boxblade is I also use mine for some rear ballast.
Boxblade and bushhog are attachments I most have on my tractor.
Different areas of world different attachments of course.

Boone

 

[beppington]

Best of all: Grading scraper! (see my signature)

IMHO of course.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Welcome to TBN !!!

You are opening a can of worms. But that is OK, that is what TBNers like. You will get many opinions of which one is best.

I think the difference between the two depends a great deal on the operator and their skill with either or both impliments. There is a lot of overlap in the functionality of both impliments.

My take on it is that a scraper blade moves the cut material across or along the blade distributing material in low spots under the blade and piling the excess in a berm as it comes of the end of the blade in typical road grader fashion. So if you hold the blade in a fixed plane as you travel forward you will cut and fill to get a flat surface with the excess material piled on the side. The hard part is holding the blade in a fixed plane. It takes practice. So the scraper moves material across the line of travel.

The box blade also cuts and distributes material along and under the blade in the low spots but the excess material is trapped in the box. This allows you to drag it long distances. You can lift the blade and let it out where you want it. It is harder to cut a flat plane because of the trapped material but it is easier to use than a rear blade if you just want to follow the contour you already have. This is because you can let it ride on the reversed second blade along the existing contour. So the box blade moves material along the line of travel as opposed to across.

This is an over simplification as there are loads of things you can do with each or either.

For the road work I do I prefer the rear blade for the most part.

 

[boggen]

i can't think anything different than what others have already said.

so will take a different approach.

what are your projects / goals to have done?

rock / gravel drive way?
plowing snow?
landscaping (leveling out the yard?)
many other uses....

below website, has a good amount of attachments and details about them along with videos for a good amount of attachments.
everythingattachments
Everything Attachments | Skid Steer Attachments, Tractor Attachments, 3 Point Hitch Attachments, and Farm Tractor Implements.

 

[Redneck in training]

My first three point implement was a rear scraper blade. Given the tasks I needed done, I found it to be rather useless. Got rid of it in favor of a box blade and a landscape rake. Never regretted the decision

//greg//

That is my combo too.

 

[babzog]

A scraper blade can generally be angled while a box blade cannot. A scraper blade can divert material to one side or the other which may be useful if you need this. A box blade is better at moving quantities of material from one location to another. A box blade usually has scarifiers also in addition to a rear cutting edge and an angle blade does not. Hope this helps.

Okay, so if what I want to do is move gravel that's blown off to the side of the driveway or cut down the center hump in the driveway and re-contour the surface, fill in the odd pothole, then a scraper blade sounds like the tool I'd want.

 

[KU Gator]

When I was as the same stage as you, I initially bought a box blade because the project I needed to work on was to dig some sediment out of a dried up pond. I use the box blade for several things including ballast, but the main thing I use it for is working on the gravel drive way. For pot hole repair, you really need to put the scarficers down and loosen the rock up some and then smooth it back out. If you just pull some rock onto the pot hole, you will soon have the pot hole back again. You can crown the driveway by lowering one side of the box blade and go down one side and back up the other and it will move the rock toward the center of the drive. The key to using it is understanding that if you lenthen the top link it will not dig as much and will tend to smooth it out. Shortening the top link causes it to dig down so you can move more material.

The first year I had it, I tried using it with the FEL to clear snow. Fortunately we did not get much snow that year as it was not very effective for that. The next summer I found a dealer going out of business who had some rear blades (scrapers) he was getting rid of. I bought one that will angle and tilt. I use it to dig trenches to bury the drain pipe from the down spouts, push the dirt back into the trenches, but mainly to plow snow. This weekend I will probably put it on the back of the tractor an it will stay there all winter.

Unfortunately they are two different tools. Each can somewhat substitute for the other, but not entirely. If we got no snow, I wouldn't have bought the rear blade but to each their own.