figure 8 with box blade

[txdon]

The below picture is the reason not to make sharp turns while dragging a full box blade.
I broke the sway bar connector bolt bracket.
Kubota Part # TC050-71352
$51

 

[George2615]

Is it the pin that goes thru the lift arm that broke off. If so, I'd have welded on a new pin before spending $51 or drilled it out and used a grade 8 bolt and nut.

 

[breadtrk]

Lessons learned!

 

[drizler]

Weld that pup back up and it'll be better than new. When I break something like that which is fairly often it usually just costs me an hour of my time and a nickles worth of 6011. In some cases you can remake the whole piece and have a better job of it than the factory. :thumbsup: It's things like this that prove you need a stick welder. Cheap to buy, cheap to run and versatile and they are all over Craigs List for 100 to 400 bucks.

 

[txdon]

The head of the bolt is welded on so it would have to be drilled out, or angle grind the head off and knock it out . . . maybe . . . Thanks.
This is what it is suppose to look like. Thanks Messicks parts.
Kubota BRACKET, STABILI Part #TC050-71352

 

[k0ua]

I believe I would fix that one with grinder, and new bolt and welder.. Buying and learning how to use a stick welder is the best money and time you will ever spend in your life.

 

[woodchipper]

Weld that pup back up and it'll be better than new. When I break something like that which is fairly often it usually just costs me an hour of my time and a nickles worth of 6011. In some cases you can remake the whole piece and have a better job of it than the factory. :thumbsup: It's things like this that prove you need a stick welder. Cheap to buy, cheap to run and versatile and they are all over Craigs List for 100 to 400 bucks.

Make sure to buy an AC/DC machine, so you could weld using 7014 and 7018 electrodes.

 

[txdon]

I already have a mig.

 

[SIMassey]

The below picture is the reason not to make sharp turns while dragging a full box blade.
I broke the sway bar connector bolt bracket.
Kubota Part # TC050-71352
$51

Don't take this wrong but I don't know how to word this any other way. Why do you have the sway bar locked in the first place. You have the sides plates of the box blade sliced in to the soil, the rippers buried, how would expect to turn in the first place? When I first started farming and mold board plowed with a Farmall with fast hitch, we always pulled the sway control pin so the plow would sway side to side and allowed you to make small adjustments if you couldn't plow a straight furrow. I have read other threads where posters have stated they have the sway bar locked and I wondered why. I don't use one with any implement except for a backblade especially when angled.

 

[drizler]

Make sure to buy an AC/DC machine, so you could weld using 7014 and 7018 electrodes.

Yea and that's what i have and use for almost everything. Still that good old Lincoln Tombstone will last as long as you do and you can get em cheap on Craigs List for around 100 (because guys like me and you like to weld DC:thumbsup: better). Those AC buzz boxes still serve to do most anything you can't do with a 12o Volt mig.

TxDON, that mig will do fine if it's a 22o machine but if you got a little 12o:thumbdown: like my Hobart you better get it sticked.

 

[john_bud]

The below picture is the reason not to make sharp turns while dragging a full box blade.
I broke the sway bar connector bolt bracket.
Kubota Part # TC050-71352
$51

It's not just box blades, any ground engaging implement needs to come up before turning tightly. on the whole, at 50 bucks you got off cheap. could have hurt more expensive stuff.

But, don't feel bad, you're in good company.

 

[txdon]

Don't take this wrong but I don't know how to word this any other way. Why do you have the sway bar locked in the first place.

The sway bars are locked to the 3point so they won't sway into the rear wheels. The rippers were up and the box blade was set so just the second blade would smooth out the ground but I still caught too much sand (and or a root) and the turn shaped the bolt/bracket.

TxDON, that mig will do fine if it's a 22o machine but if you got a little 12o:thumbdown: like my Hobart you better get it sticked.

it's a 110/220 Miller.

 

[txdon]

It's not just box blades, any ground engaging implement needs to come up before turning tightly. on the whole, at 50 bucks you got off cheap. . . .

:thumbsup: