Blade Pics part 2

ItBmine

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Finished fixing the hill on my bushroad. I did find one downfall to the little B2620. I tilted my blade and tried to cut a ditch, but it just pulled the back of the tractor around. Not enough weight to muscle the blade around. But still suprised it worked up and down this hill with the blade.
So I'll have to keep fixing washouts until I get an excavator home to ditch it.
 

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kc8fbl

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These little machines amaze me too what they are capable of doing. Plus doing more than what we think they will do! ;)
 

Woody Martin

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Finished fixing the hill on my bushroad. I did find one downfall to the little B2620. I tilted my blade and tried to cut a ditch, but it just pulled the back of the tractor around. Not enough weight to muscle the blade around. But still suprised it worked up and down this hill with the blade.
So I'll have to keep fixing washouts until I get an excavator home to ditch it.
Does your tractor have fluid in the rear tires? If you don't, fluid will help give you some weight.
 

ItBmine

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No, no fluid. I wanted to keep it light for mowing.

No problem pulling the blade angled while grading, but it didn't like it when I tilted it full angle and tried to take a deep cut. I can probably do it if I took my time and just did a little at a time.
 

North Idaho Wolfman

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It really won't hurt that much to load the tires with fluid to get better traction.
If your only using the road part time you could use a cover crop to help it from washing out, that's what I do on my service road.
 

ItBmine

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Yes, I only use it to harvest my firewood, then haul it down with the atv and trailer. And walk the dog.
We have a 750 Deere dozer, but don't want to bring it home because I want to keep my footprint in the bush as small as I can. Once you get to the top of the hill that road in the pics just turns into atv size trails.
 

gpreuss

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Take off the FEL, and try it again. I imagine the FEL with bucket weighs about 1000lbs, with its CG well forward of the front axle. It is probably making the rear axle light by 600-700lbs. So most of the traction is in the front wheels. The rear end will slide around and spin quite easily. The gain in traction from having the rear blade disappears as soon as it rests on the ground.

Much of my property is a hill, with parts of it 20 degrees and more. My L3200, if I am in 2WD with the loader, the rears spin a bit frequently uphill, and the brakes are quite iffy going downhill. I have to use diff-lock a lot. And I have filled rears plus 140lbs/rear wheel weights!

When I dismount the loader I take a quantum shift in traction to the rear. About a day/night difference.

My old L185DT - shown in my avatar - weighed 1800+ lbs bare. I had 2 of the rears tires filled, plus dualies, plus that roll cage (over 200 lbs), plus either 140 or 210 lbs/side rear wheel weights Total weight was up to about 2800lbs before the loader. I used it to cut my driveway, and a lot of run-off ditches for myself and several neighbors. It was pretty much like a tank, but had enough surface in the dualies that it didn't tear up the lawn.
 
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ItBmine

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That's a thought gpreuss. Thanks. Makes sense. Worth a shot.