Rear Blade size

[MechanicalGuy]

This thread is similar to mine. It's at the bottom of the page in this forum. You can look at the 8+ pages of responses that I got. I ended up getting an 8' Land Pride rbt4096.

 

[oosik]

My Rhino 950 is Cat 2 - 96" @ 1050#. I need a heavy blade because my mile long gravel driveway turns to concrete in the summer. I had a Land Pride - 96" @ 760#. It was, simply, too light. It drug along the driveway and made sparks.

I do have to keep watch when using the Rhino. It can "take hold" and go deeper & deeper. A tap on either the hydraulic top link or the 3-point controls will correct this.

 

[Mallard1]

Well I heard back from modern ag on the blade weight, they couldn稚 find any of the old info on the blade as they have discontinued it but estimates it weighs 2,000 lbs. sounds like they didn稚 have a clue because it is not that heavy. I guess I値l have to put it on a scale

 

[rScotty]

My Rhino 950 is Cat 2 - 96" @ 1050#. I need a heavy blade because my mile long gravel driveway turns to concrete in the summer. I had a Land Pride - 96" @ 760#. It was, simply, too light. It drug along the driveway and made sparks.

I do have to keep watch when using the Rhino. It can "take hold" and go deeper & deeper. A tap on either the hydraulic top link or the 3-point controls will correct this.

I have an old Servis Big Rhino model WM3. 8 foot blade, real heavily built. tilt/angle/offset All manual. We pull it with our JD 530 - about a 5500 lb typical Ag tractor somewhere between an old JD B or A in power & size. It has end caps to act like a box blade when needed. Or more often like a one-sided box blade with angle. I'm going to guess 1000 lbs. - but would like to really know someday.
It's not likely to bend....
I couldn't pull it in damp dirt, but can in gravel and crushed rock - but not clear full. It is all the tractor can handle.
The reason it can handle it at all is simple: Draft Control. The JD has really nice draft control. I set the draft control for how hard to pull and the tractor 3pt automatically raises and lowers it.
rScotty

 

[Gator6x4]

I have a JD 4320 that is 47hp with r4 loaded tires and 4x4 with the ehydro transmission. with the loader I believe it weighs around 5700 lbs. I would like to add a 6 way hydraulic rear blade but don't know what size to get and what would be to big. My FIL has a 8' I believe modern ag but it is cat 2 and my tractor is only cat 1 so there is not a good way to test. the primary function of this will be to clean out ditches. most of the time it will be spent swung out to the side and angled down. the soil type will vary between sand and some clay. all of the gravel is red clay gravel. I do have a land plane for smoothing the top of the road. were lucky if we get 2" of snow a year so that is not a use for it.

anyone have any ideas of what I should be looking for. I don't want a blade that will bend the first time it hangs a root and also don't want a 10' blade that will stall the tractor if i set it down on the ground.

When in school in the summers I worked for a Large Nursery. The Nursery had miles of dirt roads to maintain. I have spent many hours riding on a Leaning Wheel Grader being pulled by a Farmall M. If you could find a Leaning Wheel Grader for sale it would fit your needs perfectly.

Farmall H Tractor & Adams Adjustable Leaning Wheel Grader Fixing The Road - YouTube

 

[oosik]

OK, guys - here is how I weigh things. Within a twelve mile range I have two options. The State Highway Dept. Weigh scales - I go there, wait until they are not busy - buzz onto the scales - do my thing.

OR - I can head into Cheney - go to the ADM( Archer Daniels Midland ) grain scales.

Drive onto the scales with the new implement attached to the tractor. Get the total weight. Pull off the scales - drop the implement - reweigh the tractor w/o the implement.

The reason I don't weigh any new implement alone & by itself. Both of these scales are "large vehicle" weight scales. They are far more accurate at heavier weights ( my tractor - 10,010#) than at the lighter weights of just an implement ( my Rhino 950 - 1050#).