THKS for the compliments.
I've only used it twice. Job 1 was to till a steep bank and push the dirt UP the hill to fill the gulleys and plant grass. It did great with the loosened soil. It's 6ft wide, so I could see what was going on by looking at the ends of the blade. It worked well back dragging also.
Second time I used it on snow clearing driveways. It was marginal at best. I was worried about hooking a landscape rock or something, so I was going slow. And it needed to be taller to push much snow. I suppose if we got more snow, I could extend the top and put a rubber lip on the bottom.............. What I use to move the little snow we get is to bolt a 4ft 2x12 on the bottom of the FEL so as not to scratch the driveways and just use the FEL.
I've considered mounting a rear blade on the front, but really don't have a need. And if you designed it to pivot, you'd have a lot of weight way out front. And it would EASIER to swing the FEL into stuff! (I'm good at that with the FEL alone!)
The thing that would scare me about a pivoting blade out front is when you hook something solid, it would put some real stress on your FEL.
If you guys want to build a front blade, you might want to incorporate something I just did to my grill guard: I welded in a receiver hitch to carry a homemade weight box. If you did that, along with some other mounting hardware up higher for lifting, etc, you might have something that could handle the blade, and handle the stress of hitting a solid object without tearing up your tractor. See the pic of what I did.
Ron
I've only used it twice. Job 1 was to till a steep bank and push the dirt UP the hill to fill the gulleys and plant grass. It did great with the loosened soil. It's 6ft wide, so I could see what was going on by looking at the ends of the blade. It worked well back dragging also.
Second time I used it on snow clearing driveways. It was marginal at best. I was worried about hooking a landscape rock or something, so I was going slow. And it needed to be taller to push much snow. I suppose if we got more snow, I could extend the top and put a rubber lip on the bottom.............. What I use to move the little snow we get is to bolt a 4ft 2x12 on the bottom of the FEL so as not to scratch the driveways and just use the FEL.
I've considered mounting a rear blade on the front, but really don't have a need. And if you designed it to pivot, you'd have a lot of weight way out front. And it would EASIER to swing the FEL into stuff! (I'm good at that with the FEL alone!)
The thing that would scare me about a pivoting blade out front is when you hook something solid, it would put some real stress on your FEL.
If you guys want to build a front blade, you might want to incorporate something I just did to my grill guard: I welded in a receiver hitch to carry a homemade weight box. If you did that, along with some other mounting hardware up higher for lifting, etc, you might have something that could handle the blade, and handle the stress of hitting a solid object without tearing up your tractor. See the pic of what I did.
Ron
