I bought my six foot Land Pride box blade because I was told how handy it was. The one implement that you cannot live without.
I spent dozens of hours using it, and the more I used it, the more I realized that for every job I used it for, I had something that would do the same thing, but better.
I don't believe in dragging and smoothing a gravle road with a box blade. All that does is thin out the rock and ruin the road. If you have a low spot, fill it in with new rock. Never cut down the good rock down to the lower level.
If you want to smooth dirt, then a drag is much smoother and easier.
For digging ditches or dirt, just about anything is better.
For breaking hard packed clay, I found it's actually faster to use my disks on the ground without breaking it up with the scarfacers. Granted, the scarfacers will break up the ground, but the amount of time it takes to change implements and then break up the ground with them, then change over the disk to finish it off isn't any faster then just putting on the disk and doing it all with that.
My brother will be moving out here sometime in the future and will be buying a tractor. I'm gonna give him my box blade as it's been sitting for three years and is just yard art.
Eddie
