Tips for 3PT BoxBlade use?

[Renob]

Fish,

As others have eluded to, the use of a box blade is somewhat more art than science. Practice and experimentation with box set-up and technique are all that you can do to master the Zen.

As for your hitch.... It will float UP at whatever height you set it at. Trust the others and me, it does. You can test this by setting the hitch at a given height (no implement connected) and simply lifting on the hitch arms. They should easily lift up.

Now to get rid of the washboard effect try the figure 8 and cutting at 45 degree methods. This takes many passes.

The ultimate may be the gague wheels. With these you can in effect float the box up and down because the wheels won't let the box dig in. What I mean by this is without wheels if you lower you box till it hits the ground then continue to lower you hitch, that box will try to dig until the hitch stops it. With the gague wheels it can't dig deeper than the wheels are set, but can follow ground contour, not hang the box up in the air as you have experienced.

Anyway good luck and know that you are not alone in the lack of BOXBLADE ZEN department.

 

[biker128pedal]

I was experimenting with the box blade the past two evenings building a riding ring. Wiht the scarifiers down about 3 inches and the back of the box tipped up I was able to break up the compacted soil and turf. It took about 2 hours in low with the K B7610. I pushed and pilled some of the soil/grass in the middle. This evening I leveled the box blade and raised the scarifiers all the way up. The box did a pretty good job scrapping up the soil and grass. I tried the FEL It did not do too bad once I made a flat area to push from. I think by the time I am done I will be close to the 50 hour service.

Mike

 

[johnk]

Don't get too good at it or you won't have anything to do. I guess it's like all the rest of the attachments.... Takes time to get used to them. Glad you're gettin r done...

 

[project]

Using the front loader at the correct ange going in reverse can help with leveling in difficult areas. I've been off a tractor for 20 years and it does take a lot of practice. My acreage has tons on rock which makes it even more challenging.

 

[biker128pedal]

I have no rocks but the FEL works great for filling and smoothing out low areas. About 45 degrees to move material and 30 degrees to spread and smooth. I push the control all the way forward so only the weight of the FEL is pushing down and the front tires don't lift.

I have about 75% of the top soil removed from an area 20m by 40m. I have been using the box blade to scrap across 3/4 of the width. Two runs does the job. I have to push the second pill up aginst the first for each run.

I then tried the figure eigth move backwards too smooth out and take down the seams. It works. The box is level. After I move the latest pile of top soil I will finish removing the top soil. Then I have a few high spots to take down an few low spots to fill. Then I figure it is back to the figure eights in reverse until it is smoothed out. If I had a blade I could turn it backwards and do same thing but forward.