Rear Back Blades...

[Anonymous Poster]

Hey Chip,

Where've you been?

Was looking at Landpride blades the other day... what model do you have (series 05, 15, 25, etc.)?

I think of horse arenas as being "soft"... bark dust, sawdust, fine dirt or something. How about the "newly brushed-out lot" - any rocks or stumps? Any rock/gravel driveway grading?

In other words, I'm wondering if the blade has ever been "tested" for strength by having to survive contact with somrthing that "fought back".

Glad to hear your 4200 has served well. Doesn't sound like many problems for 200 hrs., and you seem to have them taken care of.

Did you ever get my posts about the artesian well?
I've tried to reach you several times... might as well respond, I'm gonna haunt you periodically till you do

Larry

 

[LazyK]

LH...I be carin' fer me Pa down here in Los Angeles fer nigh on to 2 months now. Gonna have him come up to Gig Harbor, Washington to live with Sandee and me. Built him a user friendly wing connected to the mainstream of our house ie: no steps; wide hallways, doorways, allways for possible wheel-chair manuevering.( he'll probably want a small-block V-8 w/B&M Hydro installed in any conveyance he uses!) My wife is "honcha-ing"
the construction of this wing and I'm helping my Dad finish some semi-serious medical procedures here in LA before he gets to shag-tail out of this zoo.
That's a long way to say I've been off the site fer a while. Can't shut the Lazy K up for too long.
Re: LandPride Rear Blade...itsa 72" RB 25 w/a bolt-on root and brush comb that I welded up to rake out clearings, access roads, parking lot and
over-grown bridle paths. The hook I welded to the inside lower center of the blade pulls a 2-mat, 72" wide x 8'long convertible chain harrow/drag.
The whole contraption (back-blade reversed) usually rides just above contact with the ground.
Thus, as I "Zamboni" around the soft surface of riding arenas the harness bar in front of the drag
contacts the blade on a tight turn and stiff-arms the mat through the radius, covering my wheel tracks. As far as heavy work goes, this doo-dah
has bladed hard packed gravel roads, knocked crowns off access roadways, scarified roots/rocks/
brush in 10-tooth comb work. Pee-Hockers! I buckled a top-link when I hit serious hardpan
trying to use the outer edge of the blade with a welded on 14" tooth. Thought I could be a trencher
for water lines! Send me in, Coach, I don't smoke.
The bugger hasn't racked, bent, or broken. I'm
capable of breaking almost anything short of an anvil.
re: artsian water dynamics....how do you determine where the water is coming from? When it may de-artisian? I've got a pond ('bout an acre 'n 1/2) w/deepest mark twine @ 26'. Never goes dry, even in dry summer. I'm told by ol' timers that the puddle is fed by artsian springs. I was considering dredging a canal for more critter habitat, but I've heard you don't want to screw around with the 'seal' that exists in the present bottom surface containment. Hell, a little primacord or DuPont fishing powder would tune my duck condo program to a fine shape. Guess I'd better be cautious. Don't want to turn my(the critters') project into a duster.

Lazy K - Chip

 

[Harv]

Chip -

I understand that part about taking care of your dad.

We've been looking after my mom for over ten years now. It's a 2-1/2 hour drive to her place and she desperately wants to live there until she dies. We used to make the trip once a month just to check in on her. Eventually we had to have her driver's licence taken away (for her own safety as well as others), at which point we started going up every single week to take her grocery shopping.

After 2 years of that, we converted the tractor barn (there's an irony coming up here) into a caretaker's house and hired somebody to watch over mom for us. We still had to go up periodically to take care of the 42 acres (it's in my name now), and even that got to be too much for me.

So then I bought a tractor to help me out, and now we spend a lot more time with good ol' Mom. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

The irony, of course, is that I have to store the tractor in the wood shop 'cuz the tractor barn is now the caretaker's house. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I'm in the market for a 6' rear blade and would like to get some info on a JD model 45. If there are any tractor owners out there that happen to have one of these units, I'd like find out what is the thickness of the steel on the moldboard and whats a ballpark price for this unit. Also, any reviews (good/bad) would be appreciated. Thanks

Russ

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

Chip and Harv,

Been where you guys are. Just spent 9 years watching my wife care for her mother 12 hrs day/7 days, while her brother handled night duty. It's rough, but you guys will come away with something really good, that a LOT of other people will never understand.

My Mom, on the other hand went through a 5 way bypass in March 2000. By July her big complaint was that she couldn't pull start her lawn mower! Tough old bird.

SHF

 

[Harv]

Your mom sounds like a pip, Steven! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

My own is in a slow, steady decline, getting more and more dependent on us and the caretakers. Hardly knows who I am, but always glad to see me, and she's always cheerful. Everything else is fading, but it looks like her spirit is going to go the distance. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

All in all, things could be worse.