Box Blade vs Angle Blade

[carpetfarmer]

Just curious. For a long while, an angle blade was the only blade I had and the only blade I had ever used. I didn't believe you could do the same or more with a box blade ... Then I bought a box blade and figured it out how to run it proficiently (for the most part). I use the box blade for everything now, in fact, I haven't even hooked up the angle blade since purchasing the box blade. For those who have both blades, do you still use your angle blade? If so, what jobs do you use it for?

 

[R Geiger]

(quoted from post at 12:46:08 07/02/18) Just curious. For a long while, an angle blade was the only blade I had and the only blade I had ever used. I didn't believe you could do the same or more with a box blade ... Then I bought a box blade and figured it out how to run it proficiently (for the most part). I use the box blade for everything now, in fact, I haven't even hooked up the angle blade since purchasing the box blade. For those who have both blades, do you still use your angle blade? If so, what jobs do you use it for?

I have both and use both, try cleaning out a ditch with a box blade or return gravel onto the road with a box blade. Don't work but with an angle blade you can do both. I like the box blde to rip out potholes or wash boarding that I can't do with an angle blade, so they both are good to have.

 

[carpetfarmer]

Touche. Guess I don't have any ditches to clean out and haven't had enough snow the past several years to have to put gravel back in the drive.

 

[Dean]

Bingo.

Angle blade for snow removal (absent better alternatives (s)), box blade for just about everything else.

I have both.

Dean

 

[HCooke]

I use both. Box blade for leveling and grader blade for contouring and snow removal.

 

[Caryc]

A friend who lives right up the dirt road from me has a nice old heavy angle blade. He made a set of wings for it that bolt onto the ends of the blade that make it into a sort of box blade. He takes them off when he doesn't need them.

With them on, he can at least move a blade full of dirt like a box blade can.

 

[Caryc]

A friend who lives right up the dirt road from me has a nice old heavy angle blade. He made a set of wings for it that bolt onto the ends of the blade that make it into a sort of box blade. He takes them off when he doesn't need them.

With them on, he can at least move a blade full of dirt like a box blade can.[/quote]

His work pretty good so I don't know why angle blades don't come with them.

 

[Tall T]

(quoted from post at 11:46:08 07/02/18) Just curious. For a long while, an angle blade was the only blade I had and the only blade I had ever used. I didn't believe you could do the same or more with a box blade ... Then I bought a box blade and figured it out how to run it proficiently (for the most part). I use the box blade for everything now, in fact, I haven't even hooked up the angle blade since purchasing the box blade. For those who have both blades, do you still use your angle blade? If so, what jobs do you use it for?

I've never had a box blade but I wouldn't think you could do shallow ditching with one like I did here . . .but knowing me, I could be wrong.

 

[Tall T]

Well that went well!

Take 2:

I've never had a box blade but I wouldn't think you could do shallow ditching with one like I did here . . .but knowing me, I could be wrong.

 

[Kirk-NJ]

Have both, use both. Would not sell either one. Can't angle the box blade for snow removal.

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[Caryc]

(quoted from post at 00:33:05 07/03/18) Have both, use both. Would not sell either one. Can't angle the box blade for snow removal.

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That's a simple fix...live where it doesn't snow. :wink: