lantxinNETX
Bronze Member
I can only buy one of these this year - and I have to make the decision in the next 72 hours. (Has to do with delivery to my remote property . . . .)
I have a Mahindra 4035HST. I do have a second hand rear blade that I bought last year from a friend for $100. Snagged one corner of it on a stump and bent it! Straightened it against a tree a little, but it ain't perfect! Didn't do it any good when I hit it with the FEL Saturday evening at dusk either.
I have about 600 feet of gravel driveway to maintain. About 1500 feet of very slightly improved dirt trails (more like just double-tracks from 4-wheelers) that I want to level out and top with gravel at some point. And I have another 1000 feet or so of a trail that I cut through my woods last year with the tractor and a chain saw. Need to grade this a little better for use as a walking trail and a UTV trail. I have a virtually limitless supply of chips from my PTO chipper (thank you, December ice storm) that I want to spread on the trail thru the woods.
On the drawing board for future (like next year) is another 2000 feet or so of gravel road to prepare from scratch. And then further down the road is a house building project.
By that point I will probably own both, but for right now, if you could only buy one (rear blade or box blade) which would it be? (I'd get a 72" box or an 84" rear for my 72" wide tractor).
Thanks!
Martin
I have a Mahindra 4035HST. I do have a second hand rear blade that I bought last year from a friend for $100. Snagged one corner of it on a stump and bent it! Straightened it against a tree a little, but it ain't perfect! Didn't do it any good when I hit it with the FEL Saturday evening at dusk either.
I have about 600 feet of gravel driveway to maintain. About 1500 feet of very slightly improved dirt trails (more like just double-tracks from 4-wheelers) that I want to level out and top with gravel at some point. And I have another 1000 feet or so of a trail that I cut through my woods last year with the tractor and a chain saw. Need to grade this a little better for use as a walking trail and a UTV trail. I have a virtually limitless supply of chips from my PTO chipper (thank you, December ice storm) that I want to spread on the trail thru the woods.
On the drawing board for future (like next year) is another 2000 feet or so of gravel road to prepare from scratch. And then further down the road is a house building project.
By that point I will probably own both, but for right now, if you could only buy one (rear blade or box blade) which would it be? (I'd get a 72" box or an 84" rear for my 72" wide tractor).
Thanks!
Martin