Box scraper help needed
Mike1819
Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 56 OHIO Pics |
2004-10-23 99101
I had purchased a ford tractor(1910 and now have a JD 4700) that came with a box scraper. How do you use a box scraper? Do you always set them level with the ground? What can you do with them?
Any help would sure be aappreciated.
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Iowafun
Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 955 Central Iowa Pics |
2004-10-23 99104
Mike,
There are many threads in this section and the landscape board that discuss the use of the box scraper. It's been very helpful to me. Do some digging around and you'll find them. ....
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tractorbrad
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 55 northeast ohio |
2004-10-24 99182
For grading driveways and landscaping a box scraper with a hydraulic top link is one of the greatest tools to have for a tractor.
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Iowafun
Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 955 Central Iowa Pics |
2004-10-25 99232
Mike, have you had any luck in finding the posts about using a box scraper? Let me know. If you haven't, then I'll post with the doc links. I've found them to be quite helpful. ....
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Mike1819
Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 56 OHIO Pics |
2004-10-25 99239
I really haven't found too many that explained how to use a box scraper yet. Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Is that a new electronic part on the circuit board in your pictures? Good lookin dogs though. ....
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Iowafun
Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 955 Central Iowa Pics |
2004-10-26 99289
That's a pic of an over 18" bull snake some of our techs found when taking apart a test unit that had been in someone's home. It had stopped working. So they brought it in to work to figure out what happened. They found the snake when they pulled the cover off the circuit board. It was rather dead (fortunately) due to shorting across a high voltage section of the board. What a 18" bull snake was doing in someone's house and crawling into their appliance is beyond me. I think it was looking for a warm place to hide.
It scared the hell out of the techs when they found it. I've got another pic that shows it stretched out along a yardstick. ....
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Iowafun
Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 955 Central Iowa Pics |
2004-10-26 99291
Mike,
Give the below link a shot. It goes on and on, but has info on setting the top link to get good results.
I'll keep looking for more.
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Link: to a yard/message post
 
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Iowafun
Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 955 Central Iowa Pics |
2004-10-26 99292
Try this link below as well. Murf does a nice job of explaining the top link and lengthening it/shortening it to get desired results for driveway maintenance with a box blade. ....
Link: driveway maintenance
 
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Iowafun
Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 955 Central Iowa Pics |
2004-10-26 99293
Tyr the link below for some more. I had to search the topics going way back (
Link: more
 
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Mike1819
Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 56 OHIO Pics |
2004-10-26 99294
Thanks for taking the time to look these threads up. I really appreciate it. It seems there's a lot of good equipment out there to make a job easier once you figure out how to use them.
I think I may check into adding a hydraulic setup on the back for various things like down pressure with a box blade, log splitter, back hoe, etc.
Is there a rule of thumb as to how wide a box blade should be and can you get one too big other than a weight limit? ....
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Murf
Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 7249 Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada Pics |
2004-10-26 99300
Iowa, thank you for the kind words.
Mike, you cannot add 'down-pressure' to a standard 3pth, some tractors, mostly Russian and eastern European models have it but the 'normal' 3pth we have on the vast majority of tractors is incapable of exerting down-pressure because the lift arms can rise above the hydraulics that lift them freely.
A box blade, or most other implements are best if they are just wider than the rear tires so as to cover your tracks.
As for weight, the 3pth has lift capacities, and the front end will come up off the ground if you exceed the ballast at the other end.
Best of luck. ....
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Iowafun
Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 955 Central Iowa Pics |
2004-10-27 99349
You're welcome murf. As for the width of the box blade, the wider you go, the mroe material the blade can hold. I've got a 5 ft box blade that I use on my JD 4310. Wehn it's full of rock, I run the risk of bogging the machine down and spinning the tires. So that's another factor to consider. You don't have infinite traction. ....
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