Steve C
Platinum Member
Thank you all for your responses to date, I appreciate the input and ideas. I am feeling with the projects on the to do list the BB would be a better attachment at this junction given the rough grading and since most of it is covered in weeds, grasses and stuff.
I am thinking the 5' BB might be alright for the 31HP tractor, the 4' will just be under by a few inches the wheel base width.
Again, thanks for the responses to date, it makes placing down the $'s a bit easier knowing more from the tractor community.
The 5 foot BB is quickly becoming one of my favorite tools. I have finally figured out how to get very smooth results with very little skill of operation. I just lower the rippers a little when pulling the blade to move a lot of material, the mistake I was making in the past was I was raising them back up when trying to smooth the final grade. It was very hard to get a flat surface. I discovered that if I leave the rippers down and push the box in reverse, the rippers act like gauge wheels and the blade just floats along and does a great job. These are some pictures of my latest project. I recontured the parking area, about 60 x 60 in front of my new pole barn and stacked up about 10 cubic yards of compacted the recycled asphalt to build a future drive to my other barn. I only spent about 2 hours doing this with my little 25hp tractor. The parking area came out very smooth.
the last picture shows a 12 cubic yard pile of sand I had delivered a couple days ago to use under the new concrete in the new barn, the pile on the right is what I stacked up during my regrading project.
