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[Bird]

That tiller hasn't done much lately, but it'll get busy in about two months./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif I'll start planting a garden about the first of February.

 

[crown]

I have a 4 ft. rotary cutter the price was right and it has done everything asked of it. Howse doesn't have the prestige of a Woods or Bush Hog but they are a good price value implement.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

On most of Howse implements they seem to use the right amount of steel to build them for a very good price...

But... they seem to stop there... they are so inconsistent with their quality control... they could use 1/2" steel plate but if it's not welded properly... it's gonna fall apart.../w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

If you can look over the unit closely before purchase, it will give you half a chance to save some money... but set aside some time to tighten up gearbox and rotary cutter blade fasteners..

I felt one time, maybe they had a bad batch or bad week... I really tried hard to give them the benefit of doubt...

But they have bad quality control.../w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

 

[DAP]

Bird ... what and how do you use your box blade for exactly? (sheepish grin)

Doug

 

[Bird]

Hmm, let's see, Doug. I'm not sure I could remember what all I use the box blade for. Sometimes, for nothing more than a counter weight when I'm using the front end loader. Then I've added a little gravel and smoothed my driveway, spread and smoothed a lot of road base for a circle drive at my brother's place, a couple of years later, let him use it to spread and smooth about 5 dump truck loads of recycled asphalt, dug a few drainage ditches, filled and smoothed a few low spots around the place, tore down the dam and filled in a 15' deep pond that wouldn't hold water, cleaned out the bottom of my brother's pond when it was dry, used the scarifiers to dig and pull roots and small stumps, and a few things like that. When I want to dig a bucket full of dirt to move it somewhere and smooth it out, I could just dig it up with the front end loader, but that sometimes leaves some big clods in the bucket, so it works better to lower the scarifiers and drag the dirt up into a pile before picking it up in the bucket because it breaks it up better. Oh yeah, we used it to finish digging the basement for my brother's house when he didn't get finished in the one day he had the dozer rented. Then I used the box blade and front end loader both to backfill around the foundation. And since I'm living in a double wide mobile home, I used it to spread and smooth 36 yards of road base for a "pad" before we moved this new mobile home in. And I dug up a crushed rock abandoned driveway for my brother-in-law, moved the rock to his current driveway and spread it. And right now, I don't remember what else./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[DAP]

Umm ... thanks ... I think. I've never seen one up close before and the net images don't show much.
Doug

 

[RJohnson]

Hey Bird
Can I get you to be my bother too/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif?

Randy

 

[Harv]

<font color=blue>what and how do you use your box blade for exactly?</font color=blue>

As usual, Bird covered it pretty well. A box blade is ideally suited for leveling and smoothing loose soil, and scarifiers expand its capability considerably. Of course, as with most tractor stuff, you will quickly find other uses for it.

Attached are some photos of just some of the ways I applied my box blade in my first year with the tractor. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[TonyC]

Nice photos, Harv, and some great examples. As a bonus you also proved that there is more than one way to shorten a cat!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[ddl]

Nice pictures and thank you for attaching them instead of inserting them, those of us with modems and phone lines that creep thank you.

Dan l