Rear Blade Land leveler

[Mallard1]

Thank you both for the help. It looks like I probably won't make my blade height adjustable for simplicity sake.

Mtn view, how much below the frame do your scrapers hang? Also I like the idea of the thicker angle. I've got a bunch of 2x4x.25 tubing that I plan on using for the 3pt mount and cross bracing

Gordon, it looks like you made a swing gate for the back of yours, how do you like that?

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Thank you both for the help. It looks like I probably won't make my blade height adjustable for simplicity sake.

Mtn view, how much below the frame do your scrapers hang? Also I like the idea of the thicker angle. I've got a bunch of 2x4x.25 tubing that I plan on using for the 3pt mount and cross bracing

Gordon, it looks like you made a swing gate for the back of yours, how do you like that?

My cutting edges are 1" below the runners. The idea of the tail gate is a GREAT idea in my opinion, and hope to put one on my 7 footer some day when I have some extra time. People say that a LPGS is a single purpose implement. They are wrong, but by having a tail gate, it sure would make moving 3+ yards of dirt at a time much easier for me and not so dependent on ground moisture content. For me to easily move that much ground with it now, moisture content has to be just right. The only improvement to Gordon's tail gate is it needs a hydraulic to open and close it.

As far as thick angle, I have run across 4" brush before and it shaves it clean with barely a hiccup and has bent nothing.


Keep us informed, and we like pictures.

 

[Mallard1]

Thanks again for the help, I'll sit down this weekend and come up with what all lengths of everything I need to get started

Maybe I'm missing something on his tail gate but it looks like it's just hinged, not lockable, but that that would be easy to add. I only have 1 rear remote so hyd for the tail gate will have to stay a dream for now.

I got a price this afternoon for a 20' stick of channel for the sides. 3" flanges x 12" x 1/4" (I don't remember the weight) and its around $320 delivered. So don't know if I will do that or just 12"x either 3/8 or 1/2 for the sides and cap with flat plate. I have a brake so bending the plate to make the bends is easy.

Glad I waited until we started hitting 100 degrees here to do this! As I get going I will post pictures as I go.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Gordon, it looks like you made a swing gate for the back of yours, how do you like that?

I find it quite useful. It was my attempt to make my land plane act a little like a box blade since I don't have one. If I am grading a clean gravel road the tail gate does almost nothing. The gravel comes off over the rear blade as smooth as it is going to get. But if you have sod or leaves or other debris in the road the gate will hold it and allow the heavier gravel to pass thru under the debris. I have a set off pin stops that the bottom of the tail gate will hit or rest against. I can hang the gate behind the stops like this to collect sod



I can get a lot of sod dressing the edges of my rough country road. I let it accumulate in the box then take the pressure off the blades and let the gravel run out. Then I just lift the LPGS and have a pile of mostly sod in the road. Then I use the tail gate as a crude blade to push the sod off the road . The gate hits against the stops when backing into the pile.





If I swing the tail gate up and over forward so it hangs in front of the stops the box will accumulate dirt and gravel just like a box blade. With the long box it is easy to evenly level and spread new material on a road when you have applied it a bucketful at a time and have a series of flatish piles. Even after I have tailgated new gravel onto a road with my little dump truck, which comes out pretty even, I go over it with the LPGS in the box blade mode to get it just about perfect before I pack it.



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[Mallard1]

Well suffered a small setback today, pulling the Belarus home on the gooseneck today I split the plastic cac tube going from the intercooler to the intake manifold, sounded like a shotgun going off when it blew. With no boost I couldn't top 40 and blew enough smoke to move the mosquitoes a county over for the last 15 miles home. Hope to get it fixed by Wednesday. I did stop by the mahindra dealer and looked at their lpgs and it seemed somewhat light weight, I think ~600lbs for 6ft so would like to make it a little heavier than that one but still good to see other ideas

 

[jenkinsph]

Good advice so far, Gordon has a nice lpgs with the flip over tailgate.
Here are pictures of two that I have made. Notice the smaller blade has box tubing skids which don't hold the rocks to drop on the grass. The next large lpgs I build will use much taller rectangular tubing for more clearance as Gordon mentions causing clogging. Both of these work well in clean dirt but I do have to watch for grass build up in field work. My blades are straight and set flush with the skids.

 

[Mallard1]

I've been working on getting the A/C back running in the Belarus tractor and looking at plans for my build. I plan to build one similar to Gordons but having a hard time getting the weight higher.

using 1/2"x12"x5' for the sides and 1/2"x12"x7' for rear gate I get appx. 350 lbs
using 2x4x.25 tube for 2 cross braces and 3pt frame I get appx 175 lbs
1/2"x3" flat for skids comes to 35lbs
4"x4"x.25 angle for attaching blades to I get 100lbs
2 7ft blades guessing another 100 lbs.
misc parts 75lbs

this puts me a little over 800lbs, this just seems significantly lower than the 1200+ I see people talking about? am I missing some part of the build?

 

[MtnViewRanch]

I've been working on getting the A/C back running in the Belarus tractor and looking at plans for my build. I plan to build one similar to Gordons but having a hard time getting the weight higher.

using 1/2"x12"x5' for the sides and 1/2"x12"x7' for rear gate I get appx. 350 lbs
using 2x4x.25 tube for 2 cross braces and 3pt frame I get appx 175 lbs
1/2"x3" flat for skids comes to 35lbs
4"x4"x.25 angle for attaching blades to I get 100lbs
2 7ft blades guessing another 100 lbs.
misc parts 75lbs

this puts me a little over 800lbs, this just seems significantly lower than the 1200+ I see people talking about? am I missing some part of the build?

So forget about that 1/4" wall tubing and go to 1/2", that adds another 175lbs, your angle for the cutting edges should be 1/2" minimum and should be 4x6. There now you are around 1200lbs. You want some weight, everything should be 3/8" minimum and a lot of 1/2" and even 5/8" material.

 

[ishiboo]

IF it's strong enough as designed, put a weight box on top and add concrete, water barrels, or whatever to get the weight you need.

 

[JerryK]

Don't ask the wife to sit back there while you grade. Nothing good could come from bringing it up..........