Rear Blade Rear Blade

[Doc_Bob]

I got this rear blade that hooks onto my 3ph for free. I have no experience with any 3 ph blade. Can you tell me what I can do with this thing?

Bob

 

[Jarrett]

You can pack it up and send it to me

 

[KevinFoshee]

Nice freebie!

I've never used a rear blade. Never been to Wisconsin. But, with winter coming, I'd bet you could clear snow off a driveway.

 

[patrick_g]

If you angle it you can scrape the gravel lost at the margins of a gravel drive back out where it is useful. If you have a relatively short wheel base tractor you can create a rollercoaster effect while trying to level a slightly rolling path. ***************** If you leave the blade in contact with the ground and back up you may dig one corner of the blade into the ground and kink the blade so fast you can't react quickly enough to not do it. (Don't ask.)************ You can turn the blade around backwards and use it while backing the tractor and thus have the blade encounter what you want to move before the tires get to it. For example, if you want to move some snow but don't want to run over the snow and pack it with the tires, you can reverse the blade and back up. You can get a kink in your neck doing this but you won't pack the snow and leave icy patches. *********** Pat

 

[dknarnd]

That's what I use for pushing snow but like patrick said you get a kink in the neck. Since I don't have a fel I use it for pushing anything that needs pushing and can be pushed, brush, stones, snow, my brothers truck!!!

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Bob, be very carefull with that blade. It is waaaay to small for your TN70. Your tractor will bend that up before you can count to 2 .

 

[Chuck_Lind]

Cute little thing, isn't it?

Take to the city and convince the city folks they should hire you to get rid of the "snipes" and the "side-hill gougers" so they'll be safe.

You'd make a bundle!!!!

 

[RalphVa]

I use mine to remove snow, driving forward. The rear wheels don't pack it too hard. Run it straight down the middle. Then angle it using those holes to do the sides. Actually, I can usually just do both sides, and the side-dos do the middle as well.

Neighbor has one, too. He angles it down and uses it to pull his gravel back onto his roadway. You angle it by using adjusting your adjustable 3ph arm. You can poke it more out to the side by loosening those bolts at the back and sliding it over and retighten the bolts on yours.

The back blade is better for rooting out a roadway on a slope than the FEL because you can angle it by adjusting the 3ph arm.

Ralph

 

[Doc_Bob]

Bob, be very carefull with that blade. It is waaaay to small for your TN70. Your tractor will bend that up before you can count to 2 .

Yes, I think it is way to light for a TN70 . As I dragged it around for a little while, it would bend (at least I think I saw it bending ) whenever I engaged some dirt. By the time I see it breaking, it will be too late. But I have to use it for something.

I am having 20 tons of 3/4 traffic bond delivered for my driveway (touch up). Do you think it would be up to that job? I really don't want to break it.
Bob

 

[roxynoodle]

I say go for it. Maybe will have to take smaller bites than you would like, but I'm sure it could get the job done. If not, you are welcome to send it to Ohio, as I'm sure it would make a nice snow mover for me and my little Yanmar

 

[Slamfire]

Before tryin' to spread the 3/4 stones, make yourself some kind of gauge wheel. Then with the blade suspended between the tractor and the wheel, you have a road grader imitator.

 

[Doc_Bob]

Before tryin' to spread the 3/4 stones, make yourself some kind of gauge wheel. Then with the blade suspended between the tractor and the wheel, you have a road grader imitator.

A gauge wheel? How?
Bob

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Bob, be careful and go slow and you will probably be alright with the loose stuff. Try to make a cut in packed or hard dirt and it will most likely bend. I bent my Midwest back blade the first time that I used it, and it is the heaviest one that they build and a lot beefier than the one that you have.

Good luck with it.

 

[roxynoodle]

I believe my neighbor's landscape rake has gauge wheels on it. If it is not storming tonight I will try to get a pic of it for you.

But, I am thinking if you have a FEL or box blade, that might be the best tool to use for moving the gravel initially, then spread it level with the rear blade. That sure would put a lot less stress on that blade.

Try not to laugh at me too hard, people, but when I built my pole barn I didn't have a tractor. I put more than 20 tons of gravel in the pole barn with a shovel and wheelbarrow, then spread it level with a rake. I have also done that to fix the driveway. Thankfully not anymore! However, that does make me wonder if a landscape rake would be a good implement to use to level the gravel? Would that be better than a rear blade?

 

[Bedlam]

A few links to gauge wheels.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/88912-another-guage-wheel-question.html#post993848
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...-rear-blade-gauge.html?highlight=gauge+wheels
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/83887-gauge-wheels-rake.html?highlight=gauge+wheels
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/82689-gauge-wheels.html?highlight=gauge+wheels
Hope this helps. I have a blade that looks similar, they are a bit light duty, but if you go slow, and really watch it, you should be OK. I turned mind around and used it for snow. it was 6 foot wide, I added a foot to each end of it, and also some wood rails to the top for height. My drive is stoney, and it catched alot , thus slight bends, and many repair welds.
I last year, slit a piece of metal pipe, and welded it to the bottom, so it would skip over the rocks. That worked good. Yet another idea, found on TBN.
Good lucks with it. I know the price was right.
Al

 

[Thomas]

Morning Bob.
"Can you tell me what I can do with this thing?"...take good care of it and your back well be thanking you in years to come...and once your neighbors find out your list of things will grow...believe me...ditching,leveling,snow removeral,driveways,lawns,farm work etc....