Rear Blade Rear Blade JD 990

[brandon07]

I have a 05 990 FWD and I need help deciding which rear blade to buy. Right now I have all frontier equipment and I like to keep the color's matching /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif but I have seen some nice blades. I would appreciate some help on my decision, I am looking to spend up to about $700 maybe more just depends. Also what size blade? I thought 7 ft? as long as when I tilt and angle it it is still as wide as the tractor I am happy.
Thanks
Brandon

 

[Barnboy]

I would go with a 7' blade. I bought a LP 72" for my B3030 and when I angle it it is almost to short to stick out past the rear tire.

 

[brandon07]

Thats what I was thinking thanks. What about what brand? I know someone on here has some input /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Barnboy]

My landpride rake is RB1572. The 15 is the duty series. It works great for snow or loose dirt but I wouldnt recomend that light of blade for moving hard soil. I'm not sure of other brands but if I were going to be grading hard soil I would be looking for a heavy duty series. Landpride makes quality implaments just very $$. King kutter makes good stuff. Not very pretty but effective. King kutter makes std duty and heavy duty. Good luck.

 

[BGL990]

I think 7' would be perfect. I have a 990 and built this blade for it. It's just a tiny bit under 7' and has proved to be a perfect size for me. Much larger and I wouldn't be able to pull a full load of wet snow with it. Any smaller and I'd be wishing for a bigger one.

Definitely do get the heaviest duty blade you can. It's not hard to put a HUGE amount of force on everything if you hook a corner of the blade on something. Mine has held up very well to my abuse but I imagine a light duty blade would get bent up before long.

 

[brandon07]

Yeah I certainly need a good heavy duty blade. I have about a 1500 ft drive of gravel which isn't a big deal and then my neighbor has like 3500 ft of dirt and I need to drag the ditches and level it out. Same thing on some of my back roads and the roads on my hunting lease. I think I am going to go look at the frontier 7 foot blades. I will buy the heaviest duty blade my tractor can pull just wondering which brand /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif