Why is Hydraulic Tilt Useful?

[bgott]

I was screwing around with my tractor the other day and thought about this thread. I have found that the simplest way to do something is usually the best way. About the easiest way to level the box blade with the tractor seems to me to just count the bars on the tires on each side. You're in the ditch at an angle, want the blade at the same angle, raise it up a ways, 6 bars on the left, 6 on the right, you're level. It would be a pain with turf tires but what the hell, it's a start! If you're tires are too muddy to see the bars you'd probably be making too much of a mess to be grading anyway.
Another idea is to get some flexible plastic or something like that and mount a couple of "feelers" off of the fenders. You could mount them with the tractor level and even degree them before you start. PVC pipe is cheap!

 

[fractal]

Ten miles away? Try 50 miles away. You could smell the gilroy garlic festival in Mountain View if the wind was blowing up the valley. The garlic smell wasn't the reason I left. Land prices was.

Anyway, I had the mechanic I bought my b7200 add tilt and lift on the tractor before I bought it because of what I have read on various tractor boards. I bought the machine primarily to do grading due to the problems of finding people who want to do physical labor in my area (people who don't live in Santa Barbara can not imagine how hard it is to find someone to do something as simple as level a patch of ground). To be honest, given my level of skill with a box blade (novice/beginner/newbie/clueless at best), I never use the tilt. I played with it a few times and find that it works best for me all the way retracted. I tried playing with the tilt a few times when I was trying to cut a level path along a slanted side and had .. well, let's just say that having two of the four scarifiers extended was more useful than tilting the blade. Maybe (probably) it is my lack of knowlege/training/experience with the equipment, but so far I have not been impressed with the extra money I spent having tilt and lift installed. There may be places that having tilt and lift are essential, but leveling the ground to have good drainage so you can install your kids playset doesn't seem to be one of them.

 

[hill]

Re: Three valves?

You're covered - use a joystick to control two adjacent spools just like your loader (probably) does.

Fore and aft movement of the stick for top link cylinder, side to side movement for the tilting cylinder, perhaps.

There'd be some detail work to figure out, but I'm pretty sure that the Surplus Center has all the hardware you'd need.

Just think....your two fender holes could provide the place to add FOUR new functions.

 

[JerryG]

I don't know if you noticed it or not but this thread is from 2001.

 

[jinman]

I don't know if you noticed it or not but this thread is from 2001.

Procrastination?

 

[hill]

I don't know if you noticed it or not but this thread is from 2001.

I wanted to be sure of my facts, Jerry.





LOL! No, I didn't notice and I wasn't using search. Guess I DID wander a little far through the pages while reading thread titles.

apologies to all!