BX "Boulder Holder"

RPM · Jul 15, 2001

Re: BX \"Boulder Holder\"

I agree it's no match for a FEL - but for a guy like me with lots of A to B type moving of stuff in the yard, it strikes me as an interesting possibility. I don't have any need to raise anything up other than just to get it off the ground to move it!! Literally 10x cheaper too. Scoop is around $200 and FEL is around $2000!!

I'll look forward to JimBinMi's response if he reads this though - thanks for letting us know.

Patrick

Anonymous Poster · Jul 15, 2001

Re: BX \"Boulder Holder\"

Not with the rock as no one is going to try to lift that by hand, but a lot of things you do attempt to move by hand can be so easily done with the loader, sooner or later many of us visit the doctor for the twinger or worse and find out all those "small" things we have lifted or tugged on in our lifetime have done serious damage to our meek frame (back).

Get a loader, you'll never be sorry, and if by small chance you are, with something like the BX there's probably a few out there that would want the loader or the tractor and loader!

del

sandalwood · Jul 15, 2001

Re: BX \"Boulder Holder\"

I have gone through the same process and decided to go with the rear dirt scoop rather than a FEL initially because it was 1/10 of the cost (put money to other things for first year or so). So far I have used the scoop for light landscape work including removal of an old & crumbling brick firepit at my shore property. I am happy with how it works but there is no doubt that it is not as easy or near as fast as a FEL. For now it is a compromise that works for me but would have preferred to go straight to FEL had money (or lack there of) not been an issue.

Lyle

r0GuE · Jul 15, 2001

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I think for my small plot of land, I will try to forrage through the summer without the loader. The scoop seems to have limited usability. Easy to fill it but it looks tough to dump.
I am really intrigues by the landpride blade.
Does that bolt right up to the BX?
When you say you are getting the skids, is that a rubber strip accross the bottom?

Rogue

RPM · Jul 15, 2001

Re: BX \"Boulder Holder\"

The LandPride blade just hooks up to the 3pt hitch - pretty simple (but takes a bit of persuasion). From what I'm told, it will clear 6-9" of snow just driving forward with 4wd - and will clear a good deal more if backing up.

You can get a Kubota blade for the front but it is more like $700-$800 if I remember rightly. That's almost half way to a loader for me!!

Patrick

TresCrows · Jul 15, 2001

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In my limited tractor experience, I would get the rear blade before a front blade. I just do not have any difffuculty working in reverse. It is not uncomfortable to me at all and I could work that way all day. I just turn around in the seat and hold to the ROP's or fender handle for support. Worked that way yesterday spreading and leveling another pile of soil for several hours working mostly in reverse with my boxblade. J

glennmac · Jul 15, 2001

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I also have a 3ph dump box that is distributed by Walco. You cant scoop with it but it does dump. When it is lowered, it is flat on the ground, and of course you can lift it. It's about 3'x3'x1'. Many people in these parts, including me, use them for ballast instead of a functionally useless weight box or concrete block. I keep several 70 lb. sand tubes, and I can load as many as I want into the dump box for removable and adjustable ballast. The dump box is very useful for lugging garbage cans to the end of the driveway. I have also pried rocks into it and carted them away. The 3ph has a higher lift capacity than a FEL. Sorry, I dont have a camera.

Charliebrn · Jul 15, 2001

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Rogue,

I feel your pain. Er, actually, I felt your pain. IMHO, you should just pick up the FEL. You may not think you have many jobs for it ( I didn't think I had enough jobs to justify it, but I bought it anyway), but it's amazing the things you do that are so much easier with the FEL. Now I don't know how I lived without it.... and my back feels so much better because of it...

RPM · Jul 15, 2001

Re: BX "Boulder Holder"

Forgot to answer the question about the skids ... perhaps the best way to describe them is upside-down mushrooms /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif. You can see them if you download the parts manual for the blade from LandPride (I like a company that does this) ... I'd post the picture here but the manuals are on the computer at work /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif and I only have a slow connection at home ...

You can set their height - they bolt on to each end of the blade - and the 'mushroom' part prevents the blade from gouging. Leaves an inch or so behind on a hard surface - but gets most of the material out of the way.

Because of the constant wind where I live (top of a hill) I'm not too worried about the last inch of snow as it will just blow over again anyway. Will be starting the windbreak this fall ...

Patrick