is it Blade or Plow?

[deepNdirt]

Not trying to be difficult here But why do some folks call their Scrape blade a Plow? a person advertized having a "plow" with pictures plain as day it being a rear scrape blade, I emailed an inquiry asking what size the scrape blade is? replied back it is a 4ft plow, so again I email if we were talking about the same ad? that perhaps he has 2 ads one with a scrape blade and one with a plow? and might have got the pictures backwards?
ya know i have seen this done before, he said Nope only has 1 ad and is the plow, OK i wasn't going to argue this point, Instead I thought I'd bring it here to hear what ya'll call these things? Plow? or Scrape Blades?

 

[Diamondpilot]

We call them Grader Blades around these parts.

Chris

 

[bpattie]

we just call it a rear blade

 

[whistlepig]

Blade or scraper blade. Around here plow means something mounted in the front unless one is turning ground.

 

[radioman]

I'm gonna throw my hands up in the air and chalk it up to one of those interchangable english terms

 

[bigtiller]

In my neighborhood a plow turns the ground and a blade scrapes the ground no mater what end of the machine it is on.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

It's a rear grader blade that plows the snow. My question is, how does it grade dirt, but is able to plow snow?

 

[jenkinsph]

Maybe that fella bought it to plow with and got real poor results, offer him 50 bucks for it.


Steve

 

[masscity]

My Dad called it a terracer.

 

[Thomas]

When Purchase my Woods,on the sales slip also inventory slip show rear grading blade..guess it depends on what your doing w/the attachment.

 

[Greenmountain Farmer]

In my neck of the woods we call it a "back blade"

Tom in Vermont

 

[GPintheMitten]

I too call it a back blade, but when I'm using it I'm plowing snow or blading the driveway... go figure.

 

[deepNdirt]

Yeah I'm thinking the same as most of you, If it has a blade its purpose is to scrape or dig, if it has a tooth,spade,disc, it is for plowing although I have used my Box scrape as a plow, by bolting a plowing spade on each side of the outer bottom lip at the rear of the box so they will hang down 10-12" worked great for busting up this Ga, red clay, also makes perfect 3 1/2 ft layout row
Note: that was 10 or more years ago when I had to improvise, I do have a real plow now,

 

[Baby Grand]

'Tis but a name that is thy enemy;
... O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rear blade
By any other name would plow the snow as sweet ...

 

[scarlo101]

I would call a blade mounted on the front a plow and a blade mounted on the back a scraper. My 2 cents.