Rear Blade King Kutter vs Land Pride rear blade

[PineRidge]

Jerry I did look at a LandPride rear blade today. It had a hydraulic cylinder for angle from side to side seemed heavily made and had a parking foot so you didn't have to lift it to attach to your 3-point lift arms. I was impressed with the quality overall.

 

[JerryG]

That group of blades are all well made no matter who's paints on them. The swing angle on the cylinder works great for dirt, but falls a little short for snow. When doing snow, I twist the blade as well as use the cylinder.

 

[DK35vince]

If you go with a King Kutter rear blade I recommend going with the "professional series" rear blade (7' profesional series blade around $415) vs the $200 light duty blade.
The Profesional series is much better built than the light duty, and can be offset.

 

[GerardC]

Here's my KK rear blade. Won't know how well it works as this will be the first time using it to remove the snow when it flies. Gerard

 

[Dargo]

DK35Vince, that is not KK's "professional series" or "heavy duty" 7' blade. That is their "medium" duty blade. Their 7' professional series blade weighs over 700 pounds and costs just under $1100.00 I know this well because I was the guy who mistakenly thought that all KK blades were junk because all I'd seen was their lightweight $200 blades. I was certainly wrong in thinking all KK blades were junk. Their heavy duty, or professional series blades are really tough. Unfortunately, you will definitely not get one for $415. After seeing one and their quality, I'd take 10 of the heavy duty ones at that price. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif Having said that, their medium duty blade like you have definitely competes with all other medium duty blades I saw.

 

[gcrabb]

I would not recommend a KK read blade.

This broke within the warranty period and sent in the pictures to KK and they said I misused it.

I do have other KK implements, but never had any warranty issues and their parts department is pretty good.

JD4600 with 460FEL with pallet fork and 7'6" Meyers Snow Plow, JD LX279, 84" KK finishing mower, 84" KK Landscape Box, 84" KK Landscape Rake, 84" KK Blade, and 72" KK Bush Hog, 7' Northern Tool Backhoe, 1956 GMC 10 Yard Dump Truck

Greg

 

[gcrabb]

Another picture.

Anybody got a better way to post pictures under 100K?

Greg

 

[gcrabb]

This is what I use for plowing snow.

Greg

 

[bandit67]

I don't really think they are focusing at all on internet sales. They are focusing more on setting up a dealer network.

As to the comment regarding Midwest not being interested in selling a product to someone, I did not find that to be the case. I was unable to find a local dealer, and called Midwest directly to see if they could beat the delivered price of some of their dealers out on the east coast that were willing to sell to me. Midwest was more than willing to help out, and got my rear blade and rake to me sooner than it was promised. I'm getting ready to order the gauge wheels for the rake from Midwest, as I've found that I need them.

Anyway, I was simply making a recommendation based on my experience with the company and my satisfaction with the product, after having the Midwest products recommended to me and doing quite a bit of shopping around.

 

[plaindave]

Thanks for the ideas. I never thought about the curvature of the blade, but I should have. I used to work for Caterpillar. Blade design means a lot when moving dirt.

I am headed to my dealer this weekend to pick up a LandPride blade. I went by TSC and looked at the KK blades and they really are pretty cheap. The moldboard is fairly flat which would be a lot like my box blade when it came to moving snow.

I like the idea of the Midwest blade with a "no tool" adjustment, but I'll take the money I save and buy a Pat's easy change. I have air tools - anything can come apart fast for an adjustment, but they don't help me a bit when I am switching implements.