Newbie BX25 Delivered Last Friday 5/27

toto55 · May 30, 2011

After 2 years of watching this site and research, finally bought a BX25
Absolutely love it. :thumbsup:
Already ordered BX expanded hooks
will order Extreme metal products thumb (they look better to use for pulling out brush by stream than Bro-tek)
First question :
Best way to scrape up about 3"-4" of sod for large areas ..Backhoe or get teeth for bucket? (general landscaping)
I'm finding a lot of practice is needed for even backhoe sod removal, the bucket is pretty easy to learn, but it doesn't scrape up sod.

Any tips? And Hello!

Muhammad · May 30, 2011

Welcome to TBN.

jwatt51 · May 30, 2011

Try out the Ratchet Rake for scraping sod.I did quite a large area with mine and it does a great job.They have a video of it. Search ratchet rake and it should come up.

radioman · May 30, 2011

welcome to tbn and congrats on bx ! If you only need to pull up sod 3-4 inch worth and have time- slow and steady will do it. If you do it before ground dries up, but not muddy, it should be a piece of cake with BX bucket in float.

I had to scrape about 2 inches or so of sod to clean out a ditch with my bucket. What I did was I put er in low, 4wd, and move an inch at a time with my hand on the FEL control. I would start out in float,curl and uncurl bucket as I go to keep things even. Once I started cutting, I would take it out of float and start lifting a bit without raising the bucket to take weight off ground since wet sod can be heavy and you don't want to cut too much. :thumbsup:

:laughing: the only way to understand what I said is go out and play- err i mean work with your tractor.