The Cara-Bota blade

[Bombero]

Well, actually it is just another boxblade! Here in the Philippines the beast of burden is the carabao, or water buffalo, so if you combine the strength of the carabao and the power of the Kubota into a boxblade….just use your imagination.

We fabricated this with about $80 in steel, a welder, cutting torch, hand grinder and the SAE manual. The blade was formed by hand with a heavy hammer for 500 pesos, about $10. Shortly after taking this picture we put the boxblade to work. I learned a lot about setting the pitch and staying away from large surface roots. I twisted one of the scarifiers into a pretzel. I reluctantly reinforced all the scarifiers with a diagonal strut even though I tempered the steel. With the power of the B7500HST I am not sure where the weak point needs to be on an implement like this.

This was a fun project and it works better than I expected. The next project is already on the drawing board.

 

[Thomas]

Were the ROPS remove for a special reason??
Nice setup..so give us a clue whats on the drawing board. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Bombero]

Thomas,
Sorry for the delay. We have about 10 sets of clothes lines on the center so the ROPs were removed. I am going to hinge the top section when I can find a good way to do it and get them re-installed.

The next project is to make a 3 point lift to carry appliances, mainly refrigerators. But I also want this platform to be a small bucket with a dump feature for loose sand and small stones. Not sure how all this will come together but I have materials in hand and a drawing. I am not sure about the catch mechanism for the bucket. Got any ideas?

 

[Thomas]

I don't have any ideas of the moment /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif but I'll get my crayons and who knows. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Kodiak]

Thomas you should join the rest of us high teck genesises and graduate up to an Etch-A-Sketch.


Disclaimer: This post was made in a pure and unadulterated attempt to create humor and humor only. Any resemeblence to any nonhumorus person place or thing was merely coincidental.

 

[Thomas]

/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif...My better got me Etch-A-Sketch but ended up taking it away and gave me back my crayons,for I kept getting dizzy and falling out of the chair when twisting those knobs. /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif/w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Taylortractornut]

On some mini crawlers like magnatrac they have a low lift bucket called a slip scoop. it has a gravity dump by a hook shaped latch that catches a 1 inch latch pin. iusually taper the hooklatch so in time it automatically takes up the slack. try to find an old trip style manure bucket to look at like a Dearborn for ford, there fron loaders had a mechanical trip ive copied them for my trip latches.

 

[cchoate]

I am trying to combine a dirt scoop and a pallet carrier to do just what your looking for. Probably end up with both seperate though.

That box blade looks like it came off the showroom floor, very sharp.

 

[karmakanic]

That's a first class job of fabrication. Congratulations!

Two things is particular in your description interested me. You mentioned the rear blade was hand hammered. Is this type of forming due often in the Phillipines? Do they use heat, or just form it cold. Do they use a form to work against, or free hand?

And you mentioned tempering the scarifiers. What process did you use?

I'm just loking for some hints of how jobs like this are done
with low tech methods.

Dave

 

[Bombero]

Dave,
Where we are located metal forming equipment is not available. Most everything here is done by hand. The average worker here makes about 200 pesos a day, $4.00.
The metal was formed in a small jig and hammered cold. It looks like it came from a press in the US, it is hard to find a hammer mark anywhere on the metal.
The tempering was done by heating the metal and submerging it into oil. Be careful, it makes a real nice fire!