Grading BX2760 Blade with skid shoes

[magnatic]

I just installed a front blade and tried it out for the first time. It seems to me that the skid shoes do a pretty good job of tearing up my stone driveway. Is it naive to think that I could cause less damage without them on? I'm sure they would do a better if the ground was frozen but we are seldom that fortunate.

 

[TheFlatlander]

If you think it tore up the drive way with the shoes, try it with out. Now you'll really tear the place up.

I have Blacktop, Gravel and Sand to plow over. With the exception of the blacktop, Things go a little better after frozen and having some compacted snow when plowing. On the earlier snow falls in the non-paved if there isn't much snow just drive on it and compact it to start the base that will make plowing it a little easier with out moving all your gravel.

I still like to clean up the blacktop with out the shoes on.

 

[LBrown59]

I just installed a front blade and tried it out for the first time. It seems to me that the skid shoes do a pretty good job of tearing up my stone driveway. Is it naive to think that I could cause less damage without them on? I'm sure they would do a better if the ground was frozen but we are seldom that fortunate.

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I bought this used tractor with this new front blade on it.
The blade didn't have skid shoes .
The corners of the blade were quite good at tearing up my slag drive way .
Adding the skid shoes made things a lot better.
The shoes still will leave lines in the slag but nothing like the blade did.

 

[LQPAPPY]

Not sure how it would work for you but you might want to take a look. The post was on this forum and it has worked fairly well for my snow removal on
gravel. Difference is I use a rear blade. Take a 3" sch 40 pvc pipe and cut a slit long ways. Slide the pipe on your blade and it will not dig the gravel. It has worked on a 4" snow fairly well. Only have a couple of neighbors with gravel, so I slide the pipe on and do theirs last. I have a pipe for the fel bucket but haven't tried that yet.

 

[dirtworksequip]

Magnatic, your best bet with a stone driveway is to use a front blade and landscape rake combination. High blade the snow off the drive without touching the ground, then finish up with the landscape rake. Take the shoes off the blade. If you only have a couple of inches of snow the rake will work by itself. The adv advantage of the rake is it will pop up some stone to give you good vehicle traction with out blading the stone off the road. It will give more of a groomed look than actually getting it down to bare stone. The landscape rake is the most overlooked implement there is for snow removal.

Sincerely, Dirt

 

[magnatic]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

 

[LBrown59]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Are you sure it's not a 2763 blade

 

[magnatic]

The manual and receipt indicate it is a BX2760A blade.

 

[Firefighter Kubota]

Like many of you I have a mix of hot top, a compressed nit pack parking area and pea stone in another.

Recently installed a plow on my bucket of my 7510, and until the ground freezes, (the pea stone never really freezes) I just use the plow to back drag the stone area to keep from tearing it up.

Might try the same with your new plow.

good luck