What Size Box Scraper - B2400

[OhioKubota]

Long time lurker, first time poster!!

New to me B2400 HSD (less than 500 hrs, 1998 Model). I'm looking to get an appropriate sized box scraper and am looking for suggestions. I'm leaning toward a 54" land pride (BB1554), but want to be sure this isn't too big.

 

[Ed Hill]

I have a 48" Land Pride box blade and use it on my 20 HP B1750 to good effect. My primary use is gravel driveway maintenance. One pass down on the side, return pass on the other side and a final run down the center and the drive looks great. I hope this information helps.

 

[Randyj]

I have a 48" Land Pride box blade and use it on my 20 HP B1750 to good effect. My primary use is gravel driveway maintenance. One pass down on the side, return pass on the other side and a final run down the center and the drive looks great. I hope this information helps.

Sounds like it works good.

I just bought a Land Pride Grading Scraper 1548. I'm planning on going with
the same approach. I just need to get my 3-point to work first! Bummer.
I've got a long gravel drive going back to my barn, and it's covered with weeds.

 

[NC Bota]

I have a B7610 and use a 48" box blade for maintaining my gravel driveway. Works well and not sure I would want anything bigger.

Hope this helps.

 

[Blkvoodoo]

Long time lurker, first time poster!!

New to me B2400 HSD (less than 500 hrs, 1998 Model). I'm looking to get an appropriate sized box scraper and am looking for suggestions. I'm leaning toward a 54" land pride (BB1554), but want to be sure this isn't too big.

I have a 60" Cammond W/ 4 rip shanks, forward and back cutting edges.

That I'm cutting clay makes anything a task, I just take it slow and easy, and she gets the job done.

It is a little big but definitely workable. I do like that it wider than the track of the machine.



also makes a nice counter weight for the loader !!!

 

[Eric McCarthy]

A good rule of thumb is have the attatchment a little bit wider then the width of the rear tires on the tractor. I have a B6100 and have a 4ft box and works flawlessly. On a rare occasion I've used my dads 6ft box but that was to move light weight bulk material such as gravel.

 

[Bulldog]

Eric, you have me curious. If you consider gravel light material what in the world do you move that is heavy? I have never moved iron ore but it would take a mineral like that or something in that class to be heavier than the lime stone and granite we have down here in Georgia.

 

[Eric McCarthy]

Apples to Oranges, gravel spreads out in a grading box a helluva lot easier then dirt does. Well for me anyway. If I have 10 tons of gravel and 10 yards of dirt in a pile it seems like I can move gravel alot faster and efficent then I can dirt.

 

[Bulldog]

I could see that. Of course 10 yards of dirt is quite a bit more material than 10 tons of gravel.

 

[Eric McCarthy]

Roughly about the same. A yard of dirt and a ton of gravel are close in weight.

 

[Bulldog]

I was a loader operator for 16 yrs and 15 of that on a yard loader at a rock quarry. It wasn't a very big quarry but between moving stock piles and sales I would load over 2 million tons per year. With a 7.5 yd loader it was normal to get 12 - 14 tons in the bucket depending on the moisture content of the rock. Loading dirt it was hard to get 10 tons in the same bucket and even then it was piled up higher than the rock would be. If you equalled the pile hight in the bucket it would be more like 9 tons of dirt. There is more difference between the 2 than you think.

 

[Eric McCarthy]

WOW thats really odd. When I was driving a dump truck 2 years ago for a local landscape product supplier, 14 tons of gravel would fill up the tandem dump truck and 14 yards of dirt filled the same dump truck up to legal weight capacity. Thats what I was judging my info on. I know when I was taking the tandem dump to the rock quarry to refill our stock pile two scoops from the quarry loader filled the dump with 14 tons of stone. So I'm guessing the buckets on those loaders would be a 7 yard bucket.

 

[Bulldog]

It very well could be the specific gravity of the rock. Some rock is lighter than others. Depending on which type of rock you are dealing with it can make a huge difference in weight. I bet the rock in your area is just a lighter product than what is down here.

 

[Eric McCarthy]

HUMM I dont know. It was 57's or 21a's crushed granite

 

[Jimmysal]

Assume density is the same or similar in both materials for the time being. The larger the gravel, the more void space will be in a pile/truck/bucket of material.