Rear Blade rear blade w/skid shoes

[HD03King]

I'm looking at getting a 6' rear blade for my JD855 to assist me in maintaining (leveling and snow removal) my 900' gravel driveway. Does anyone know if the rear blades that TSC carries has skid shoes or can skid shoes be added to it?

If not is there a rear blade that comes with skid shoes or grade wheels.

thanks

HD03King

 

[GreenWannabe]

Frontier (JD), Rhino and Worksaver have optional skid shoes. Woods and LandPride offer an optional guage wheel in addition to skid shoes on many models. There are probably many others as well.

Good luck in your search.

 

[KevPH1]

I have a 6' Woods rear blade purchased from the same JD dealer as my 4115. I did order the mushroom style, bolt on, skid shoes. After mounting the skid shoes I found the skids would dig
in any unfrozen surface. I fabed a set of castered gauge wheels to follow the rear blade.
I noticed a big improvement. I now use the blade set about 3/4" higher than casters, carry the full weight of the blade with the wheels. My driveway stone stays on the drive, not scraped off to the edge. (as before.)

I would not waste the time & money on mushroom type skid shoes.

I welded a bumper mount type 2" receiver to the tail end of the large square tube of the blade pivot support. Next, I fabed the castered gauge wheels to pin into the 2" receiver. I can remove the gauge wheels from the rear blade by removing one 5/8" dia. pin.
Note: the 2" receiver works great as a optional trailer ball hitch. I love multi-tasking!!
I hope this helps. Good luck.

 

[bigdad]

I have a 6' Woods rear blade purchased from the same JD dealer as my 4115. I did order the mushroom style, bolt on, skid shoes. After mounting the skid shoes I found the skids would dig
in any unfrozen surface. I fabed a set of castered gauge wheels to follow the rear blade.
I noticed a big improvement. I now use the blade set about 3/4" higher than casters, carry the full weight of the blade with the wheels. My driveway stone stays on the drive, not scraped off to the edge. (as before.)

I would not waste the time & money on mushroom type skid shoes.

I welded a bumper mount type 2" receiver to the tail end of the large square tube of the blade pivot support. Next, I fabed the castered gauge wheels to pin into the 2" receiver. I can remove the gauge wheels from the rear blade by removing one 5/8" dia. pin.
Note: the 2" receiver works great as a optional trailer ball hitch. I love multi-tasking!!
I hope this helps. Good luck.

Got any pictures?

 

[JDeerekid]

I'm looking at getting a 6' rear blade for my JD855 to assist me in maintaining (leveling and snow removal) my 900' gravel driveway. Does anyone know if the rear blades that TSC carries has skid shoes or can skid shoes be added to it?

If not is there a rear blade that comes with skid shoes or grade wheels.

thanks

HD03King

I know many years ago I bought a 7ft TSC rear blade and tehy have an optional skid shoe kit. They arent shoes they were more like skis, bent flat stock, would be easy to make I would think. They worked well. I would take a picture for you but sold it a few years back and bought a wood 7ft medium duty blade. The skid shoes are the mushroom type and work well but like KevPH1 said they did dig in slightly in unfrozen ground. This didn't bother me much.

I dont think there is a rear blade out there that actually comes standard with skid shoes, all are optional.