Huskers86 - here you go

[Rick Kr]

2 inch pipe, the tabs are 1/2" thick by 2" wide. This is my heavy blade. 885lbs.

I have a lighter 7 foot Ford blade. I cut a piece of schedule 40 3" PVC and slid it over the cutting edge. Drilled a few small holes to hold it on the blade with bungees. That only worked twice before the cold cracked and shattered the PVC.

Rick

 

[Huskers86]

That looks good Rick. You have a good set up there. Does it dig or push the gravel bad?

 

[Rick Kr]

Its not bad at all on gravel, most goes right underneath the pipe. After you're done it looks like you have smoothed the driveway.

Occasionally you will get some gravel that maybe got hung up in a snow drift and on the next pass you push in the yard. But that is rare. This usually happens if you dont get the blade perfectly level when you set it up the first time for the year. Then when you tilt it the leading edge or trailing edge will bite.

My drive is 800 feet of 21AA, I also clean the neighbor out, around 400 feet of pea gravel.

Rick

 

[ericlb]

now thats nice! im jealous, what does that blade weigh, and what tractor is that its mounted on?

 

[jm.]

Land Pride has the photos now.. EXPECT to see you improvement at your dealer this coming spring.. LOL. We sell a lot of Land Pride but not much snow to push here in Tennessee. I think you pipe adaption does have some commercial applications.
Maybe dragging horse riding areas where there is sand and other things.. Nice work.

 

[Rick Kr]

Eric,
It weighs 885 lbs according to the manual, probably 900 with the pipe. I have it on a NH 3930 fwd with a front end loader. The rear tires are full of ballast.

Once every couple of years we will get enough snow that it will move the tractor around a little, but not too much.