Box Scraper Rear Blade or Box Blade for project, size?

[Steve C]

I don't understand how a box blade can crown a road. Also, some angle blades have extensions allowing you to carve a ditch without driving the tractor in it. How could you do that with a box blade?

To crown a road with a box blade you just have to shorten one of your lower link arms so it digs deeper on one side than it does on the other. The best way would be to use the box blade with the rippers down and the cutting edge just above the surface to loosen the material, then put on the scraper blade, angle it and use it to move the material to the center of the road. You can't do the ditch carving thing without driving the tractor into it with a box blade though. A box blade can move a lot of material a pretty good distance in a very short amount of time. A person should have both a box blade and a standard scraper blade.

This is the what a little 25 hp tractor and a 5 foot box blade can do. If the material is loose (and it will be after the rippers get through with it) you can push and stack it in reverse. I had no idea I had stacked it this high untill I got off the tractor to take the pictures, I was concentrating on the base of the pile as I was pushing it trying to minimize the strain on the lower links. This was compacted recycled asphalt. It was packed almost as hard as a road from being driven on for the past 6 years.

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