glennmac
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Pete, with your LP3572 backblade, can you hydraulically angle it, or offset it, or both? Do you use the valve port(s) from your tnt set up to do this?
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Angle is set manually, but the offset is rigged to the hydraulics. So what I do is manually angle it a few degrees to one side, and put the hydro cylinder on the other side. That way when the cylinder is fully retracted the blade angles to the left, and when it's fully extended the blade angles and offsets significantly to the other side. Great for clearing ditches, pulling snow away from the old stone walls, etc. And yes, I plug right into the standard Kubota ports.
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glennmac
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Pete, I am still confused. Maybe its terminology; more likely, my shrinking cerebrum. Let me use the terminology I understand to be appropriate. I also assume you have the Kubota installed 3-way valve set-up: top cylinder, tilt cylinder, and "extra" outlet.
--Pitch. This is tipping the top of the blade toward the front or rear of the tractor by shortening or lengthening the toplink. Nothing we are discussing involves this.
--Tilt. This is rotating the the blade in the vertical plane so one end of the blade is higher off the ground than the other. (To dig a ditch, eg.) I assume you cant do this hydraulically with a cylinder on the blade, but that you can do it to a degree hydraulically with your tilt cylinder on the 3ph. Otherwise, it has to be done manually. In any event, it's not what I have been asking about.
--Angle. This is rotating the blade in the horizontal plane so that one end is closer the front of the tractor and the other end is further way. (So snow or soil flows off the end pointed away from the tractor, eg.) Can you do this hydraulically with a cylinder on the blade? If so, do you use your extra port?
--Offset. This is sliding the blade horizontally through its housing so that, when viewed from the rear, one side of the blade is longer than the other. (To reach further to that side or further into a trench, eg). Can you do this hydraulically? If so, what port do you use?
Can you both angle and offset hydraulically? That's what I would like to do. If it is possible, then I assume you would have to use the extra port and maybe the tilt port to accomplish this.
--Pitch. This is tipping the top of the blade toward the front or rear of the tractor by shortening or lengthening the toplink. Nothing we are discussing involves this.
--Tilt. This is rotating the the blade in the vertical plane so one end of the blade is higher off the ground than the other. (To dig a ditch, eg.) I assume you cant do this hydraulically with a cylinder on the blade, but that you can do it to a degree hydraulically with your tilt cylinder on the 3ph. Otherwise, it has to be done manually. In any event, it's not what I have been asking about.
--Angle. This is rotating the blade in the horizontal plane so that one end is closer the front of the tractor and the other end is further way. (So snow or soil flows off the end pointed away from the tractor, eg.) Can you do this hydraulically with a cylinder on the blade? If so, do you use your extra port?
--Offset. This is sliding the blade horizontally through its housing so that, when viewed from the rear, one side of the blade is longer than the other. (To reach further to that side or further into a trench, eg). Can you do this hydraulically? If so, what port do you use?
Can you both angle and offset hydraulically? That's what I would like to do. If it is possible, then I assume you would have to use the extra port and maybe the tilt port to accomplish this.
ronjhall
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Glenn
Offset allows the RB35_ _ series Land pride rear blades to pivot off a bar attached to the cross bar attached to the lower 3PH links./w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif As always a picture is worth all those words./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif Boondox has a picture that he posted last winter showing his blade. Hope these help.
Offset allows the RB35_ _ series Land pride rear blades to pivot off a bar attached to the cross bar attached to the lower 3PH links./w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif As always a picture is worth all those words./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif Boondox has a picture that he posted last winter showing his blade. Hope these help.
glennmac
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Ah, so. There is more than one kind of offset. Thanks, Ron. I was thinking of the way I have to manually offset my Woods blade: unbolting it from the central housing and shifting it sideways to another set of boltholes. I now see how the hydraulic offset works. It must necessarily pull the blade closer to the wheels as it offsets, not that I can think of anything bad about that.
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Yeah, what Ron said!
I had a less than stellar experience with a Woods blade not because of quality, but because of the offset bolts getting so covered with ice in winter that I had to wait till May to make any changes. The LandPride's pivot point solved that problem nicely.
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I had a less than stellar experience with a Woods blade not because of quality, but because of the offset bolts getting so covered with ice in winter that I had to wait till May to make any changes. The LandPride's pivot point solved that problem nicely.
Pete
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