Scaper MFG

MtnViewRanch · Dec 1, 2014

xrsrfn said:
Brian
Thank you for the advise I will hopefully work on some of the setup today. The road way is a bit muddy but i will be packing a bunch of dirt to cover pipe over ditch and will need to strike off the new roadway. The extent of my daft control experience has been on the Ford 3000 while plowing and it was flip lever under seat up or down then set depth start plowing. On the new tractor I have a depth and a draft control lever and from what I see when I play with the draft lever it seems to just slow the rate of lift or fall on the arms. I will say I did not have the lock flipped so the top link you talked about was not actually sensing (discovered yesterday). I have three pin locations for the top link to go in on the tractor and looking at the setup it seems that the pivot is on bottom with the sense at top. so if I understand you correctly to get the most sensitive draft I would move to the top hole or least sensitive leave in bottom. I will play with it and see how it improves control of implement.

The LS XU5065 comes with two remotes like all of LS tractor so what I was thinking about doing was to put the tilt and offset on the same output with a 12 Vdc solenoid to switch between tilt and offset. The blade came with the angle cylinder only so I need both tilt and offset cylinders and ability to switch from one to the other as third output seems to be difficult.

Specs on needs.

Tilt cylinder is a 3.5" x 8" X 1.5" 1" pins $121 + shipping costs
Offset cylinder is 4" x 18" x 1.5" 1" pins $186 + shipping costs

Hose length for tilt 144" These hoses seem extremely long for what you have. Might want to check first.
Hose length for offset is 120"

Let me know what you figure out with the hoses.

xrsrfn · Dec 1, 2014

The difference in control is simply amazing with a heavy blade. I moved dirt with maintaining grade with so much less effort it was such a pleasure to operate, the draft control operated like advertised (thanks Brian). The extra 20 hp was very noticible as well with the power shuttle icing on the cake. I dont know what people pay to go to physcologists but I had the best therapy I have had in long time, best 7 hours of seat time I can remember besides the night plowing when I was alot younger. Thanks TBN for such a great forum to share the joy, experience and brotherhood of rolling dirt over! :thumbsup:

Will pm you as soon as i save up some extra dineros Brian. Boss thinks I need to live on a budget, too bad she doesnt run country we would probably be in pretty good shape. Haha

MtnViewRanch · Dec 2, 2014

xrsrfn said:
The difference in control is simply amazing with a heavy blade. I moved dirt with maintaining grade with so much less effort it was such a pleasure to operate, the draft control operated like advertised (thanks Brian). The extra 20 hp was very noticible as well with the power shuttle icing on the cake. I dont know what people pay to go to physcologists but I had the best therapy I have had in long time, best 7 hours of seat time I can remember besides the night plowing when I was alot younger. Thanks TBN for such a great forum to share the joy, experience and brotherhood of rolling dirt over! :thumbsup:

Will pm you as soon as i save up some extra dineros Brian. Boss thinks I need to live on a budget, too bad she doesnt run country we would probably be in pretty good shape. Haha

GREAT feedback, there is nothing like Tractor Therapy.

Always nice to work with equipment that can get the job done.