allen in texas
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- Joined
- Oct 26, 2007
- Messages
- 916
- Location
- Levelland, TX
- Tractor
- Kubota Grand L 5740, loaded R1's w/640 lbs cast weight, 854 loader
The RBT3584... all hydraulic.
Backed up to it and picked it up, quick hitch worked great, hooked up 6 hydraulic lines, bled the air out of the cylinders and I'm ready to go.
My first project was to scrape off the spot where I keep all my other toys, er implements, and kill the weeds. I made a heck of a mess. took me about 8 passes to fix what I messed up. I dug holes, made piles of dirt, all kinds of silly stuff. But I finally got the hang of it and it looked pretty good. Next thing was to clean out my bar ditches. Weeds again ya know. Now I've got some distance to run and going slow I was able to set the blade where it did a pretty good job. Now all my bar ditches are clean. I gotta find something else to play in now.
I'm glad I got the 7 footer. I had strongly considered the 8 footer but this 7 footer will shove my 5740 sideways real nice if I get too big a bite.
I didn't get the gauge wheel ($$$) but I think I'm going to build one. I think it would make it easy to scrape dirt roads.
I also need to get a couple of selector valves for my remotes. I have three so I had to disconnect my hydraulic top link to hook up all the hydraulics on the blade. I need to split two of my remotes in order to use everything...top link, swing, angle, tilt and gauge wheel. I need to take some pictures.
Pros on the blade
Well built,
heavy,
tight.
whole bunch of stuff
Cons on the blade.
It was ordered orange,
it showed up Landprides normal color.
Oh well, I wasn't going to send it back.
Backed up to it and picked it up, quick hitch worked great, hooked up 6 hydraulic lines, bled the air out of the cylinders and I'm ready to go.
My first project was to scrape off the spot where I keep all my other toys, er implements, and kill the weeds. I made a heck of a mess. took me about 8 passes to fix what I messed up. I dug holes, made piles of dirt, all kinds of silly stuff. But I finally got the hang of it and it looked pretty good. Next thing was to clean out my bar ditches. Weeds again ya know. Now I've got some distance to run and going slow I was able to set the blade where it did a pretty good job. Now all my bar ditches are clean. I gotta find something else to play in now.
I'm glad I got the 7 footer. I had strongly considered the 8 footer but this 7 footer will shove my 5740 sideways real nice if I get too big a bite.
I didn't get the gauge wheel ($$$) but I think I'm going to build one. I think it would make it easy to scrape dirt roads.
I also need to get a couple of selector valves for my remotes. I have three so I had to disconnect my hydraulic top link to hook up all the hydraulics on the blade. I need to split two of my remotes in order to use everything...top link, swing, angle, tilt and gauge wheel. I need to take some pictures.
Pros on the blade
Well built,
heavy,
tight.
whole bunch of stuff
Cons on the blade.
It was ordered orange,
it showed up Landprides normal color.
Oh well, I wasn't going to send it back.