djw250
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Your grader came out very nice. I think you will like it. I use mine quite a bit, and am glad I finally built it. Here's mine.

sandman2234 it appears that you will be using that on a 3 point hitch, right? I have a few questions the angle iron at the bottom of the side rails looks like they are at an angle and on a 3 point hitch that wouldn't matter, but if you was going to tow that behind a utv mule hooked up to pull like a trailer do you believe that would cause the implement to ride sideways or if you was building it to be used like that would you have the angle iron straight across? Does the angle iron extend below the side runners or are they even? Would a box blade be better for leveling out a trail where water has ran across the road washing out little trenches? If you could use the grader to fill in these trenches would you have to put some loose material in it to fill in the low spots or would it cut the high spots and drop off that in the low spots? If you were going to build either the grader or a box blade to do a project such as I mentioned which would be better the box blade or the grader? I haven't used either one so I'm not sure, thanks.
Very nice grader. I noticed that you don't have any extra bracing at the rear of the grader with the exception of the angled blades. I realize that you're using 1/2" side plates, but will the lower blades be enough without a cross brace at the rear of the blade?
Toy,
The blades are a half inch below the side runners or skids. The main reason for the angled blades is so you can put a slight crown in the road by just raising the rear a half inch from level with your top link. Since the blades are at an angle, and the side rails prevent it from dropping into a washout, it fills a washout, unlike a boxblade that drops into the washout and then pulls the far side with it, actually making the canyon wider. There is a learning curve to the grader,as they are sinsutive to adjustments of the top link. I never had to worry much about the boxblade as long as it was cutting, it worked. The grader seems to do a much better job, as the operator improves. David from jax
Your thread is bookmarked for later (when the snow flies and I have the free time to get to fabricating :thumbsupWell, this post with all these pictures sure didn't generate many comments. Guess there were just too many thumbnail pictures to look at.
Smiley,
That is a good idea to keep from having to build one of these graders. Just wish you had mentioned it about two years ago when I started this project, lol.
David from jax