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<blockquote data-quote="Earthwerks Unlimited" data-source="post: 25780" data-attributes="member: 1300"><p>Been there, done that. I modified a 6' 3-pt box blade to go forward on my skid steer. No hydraulics or wheels required---simply use the bucket controls and the loader controls.</p><p>I made a 3-pt carry plate that fit the ss. The ideas was to use 3-pt attcments on the ss. Wrong idea. 3-pt stuff will not stand up to the abuse of the ss as testified by a York (rock/root/landscape) rake I twisted up. The box blade held up but only because the machine was relatively small, and I was easy on it.</p><p>Bigger IS better. </p><p>This is the poorman's set up and was inadequate once I found it just wasn't suited to fine grading.</p><p>I scrapped the whole project.</p><p>1. A skid steer is not nimble enough--it is hard to see backward and up against something.</p><p>2. It leaves tire marks, and or ruts.</p><p>What I did:</p><p>1. Bought a New Holland TC33D 4x4 33hp hydrostatic tractor and made a hydraulic top link for the 3-point. The hydraulic top link allows me to tip the blade backward and doze with it.</p><p>2. Bought a bigger skid steer (New Holland Ls185.b--the one in my avatar). I use the ss to do the rough and heavy work--but not all the time. I've moved 2-300 yards of clay with only the tractor and the blade and Harley rake with excellent results.</p><p>3. Kept the box blade on the tractor---it is nimble, fast, and only weighs 3,500 lb. versus the ss which is close to 8,000.</p><p>4. Bought a 6', 3-pt Harley rake. There is no job I can't do now. A friend talked me out of a ss Harely rake for the same reasons not to use a ss with a box blade.</p><p>Note: I have the hydraulic QA mount on my ss and love it. Since I change-out implements on a job many times, I made a quick-attach mount for the 3-point that looks and performs just like a ss QA---complete with hydraulic locking pins operated from the driver seat. My system has a though-way or archway in the QA plate where the PTO shaft goes--for mowers, and the Harley rake. All my attachments have the QA plates on them. When I'm not using the tractor attchments, I can still use the tractor's vacant QA as I welded a trailer hitch reciever tube to the bottom brace of the QA.</p><p>Just for kicks I loosely set just the forks from my ss pallet forks on the QA. Even though there was only the top of the forks hanging on the top of the QA, I still had over a 1,300 lb. of limestone blocks on them for a water fall I was building, and then moved a 1,800 lb. concrete commercial track parking bumper with ease.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Earthwerks Unlimited, post: 25780, member: 1300"] Been there, done that. I modified a 6' 3-pt box blade to go forward on my skid steer. No hydraulics or wheels required---simply use the bucket controls and the loader controls. I made a 3-pt carry plate that fit the ss. The ideas was to use 3-pt attcments on the ss. Wrong idea. 3-pt stuff will not stand up to the abuse of the ss as testified by a York (rock/root/landscape) rake I twisted up. The box blade held up but only because the machine was relatively small, and I was easy on it. Bigger IS better. This is the poorman's set up and was inadequate once I found it just wasn't suited to fine grading. I scrapped the whole project. 1. A skid steer is not nimble enough--it is hard to see backward and up against something. 2. It leaves tire marks, and or ruts. What I did: 1. Bought a New Holland TC33D 4x4 33hp hydrostatic tractor and made a hydraulic top link for the 3-point. The hydraulic top link allows me to tip the blade backward and doze with it. 2. Bought a bigger skid steer (New Holland Ls185.b--the one in my avatar). I use the ss to do the rough and heavy work--but not all the time. I've moved 2-300 yards of clay with only the tractor and the blade and Harley rake with excellent results. 3. Kept the box blade on the tractor---it is nimble, fast, and only weighs 3,500 lb. versus the ss which is close to 8,000. 4. Bought a 6', 3-pt Harley rake. There is no job I can't do now. A friend talked me out of a ss Harely rake for the same reasons not to use a ss with a box blade. Note: I have the hydraulic QA mount on my ss and love it. Since I change-out implements on a job many times, I made a quick-attach mount for the 3-point that looks and performs just like a ss QA---complete with hydraulic locking pins operated from the driver seat. My system has a though-way or archway in the QA plate where the PTO shaft goes--for mowers, and the Harley rake. All my attachments have the QA plates on them. When I'm not using the tractor attchments, I can still use the tractor's vacant QA as I welded a trailer hitch reciever tube to the bottom brace of the QA. Just for kicks I loosely set just the forks from my ss pallet forks on the QA. Even though there was only the top of the forks hanging on the top of the QA, I still had over a 1,300 lb. of limestone blocks on them for a water fall I was building, and then moved a 1,800 lb. concrete commercial track parking bumper with ease. [/QUOTE]
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