Think this thing is tough enough to work a little??

Anonymous-0 · Jan 12, 2010

6ft and advertises for up to 40 hp tractor. Blade is 5mm thick with another 5mm replaceable reinforcement. Hardest work would be smoothing out ruts after things dry out in summer. Price is reasonable for here and has me a little suspicious, but the store is pretty upstanding.

Dave

Mike Groom · Jan 12, 2010

It looks a little lite for my use,a good used blade goes for $100,$150 around here,and their 1/4 inch thick,not 3/16.Just my 2 cents

Walt Davies · Jan 12, 2010

With no braces on the back of the blade it won't last 5 minutes on hard soil 10 minutes on soft soil.
Maybe 30 minutes moving sawdust around in the horse barn.
Walt

Leland2 · Jan 12, 2010

run do not walk away from that flimisly excuse of a blade . I have a farm pride or something like that in a 5' blade and the tractor will break in half before the blade will

Anonymous-0 · Jan 12, 2010

Not what I wanted to hear, but what I needed to. I'll keep looking for something used, there's one a couple hundred yards from the house, just gotta catch the guy at the right time and convince him he don't need it anymore.

Dave

GordoSD · Jan 12, 2010

ROTFLMAO Could use it in a bar to push the peanut shells in a pile?

Gordo

Anonymous-0 · Jan 12, 2010

Moldboard on my Allis blade is somewhere between 3/4" and 7/8" thick. It has lasted over 50 years. Wanna take bets on how long that little shaving of metal will last?

Mike (WA) · Jan 12, 2010

Very little. I'm pretty easy on equipment, but I'd give it 15 minutes, tops, at combat speed.

RayP(MI) · Jan 12, 2010

Looks pretty light duty to me. suggest you find something heavier built.

BCnT · Jan 12, 2010

Dave...trick is to get a blade that will be as wide as your tractors foot print when its angled...i use a 7 footer on a Ford 2000 thats 5' wide and it barely covers tracks.
i agree on blade in picture being pretty much useless...3 point and top frame look ok,but blade will fold up first time you hit anything harder than feathers.

msb · Jan 12, 2010

With those small blades ,its best to see if it can be turned around when mounted on the tractor. Some time ago we sold a brand that the 6 footer would not clear the rear tires. The 5 footer would.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 12, 2010

There must have been a typo. That blade might be OK on a garden tractor but not much else. 40 HP would probably turn it into a V plow. Dave

Mark - IN. · Jan 12, 2010

Don't you have maybe a used tractor and or implement boneyard place near by you? What you said about finding a used one is probably the best bet. This time of year though, might be harder to come by, maybe not. They get used all year round. Thing is, a good old used one can fetch nearly the cost of a new one, but is more often better and proven quality and performance. Get yourself a used one that you can rustolium, or in my case, not. Course though, takin some of that rust off would make it easier to pivot. One of these days I'm going to break my boot, then my foot. Then again, as they say, if it aint broke don't fix it...until next year, and next year, and...its still rusty, and works very well I might add.

Good luck.

Mark

2510Paul · Jan 12, 2010

A 24 hp would bend that up real quick. Believe me, I have done it with a blade that looked much stonger than that. Paul

Moline_guy · Jan 12, 2010

If it is priced reasonable, you could weld a 2" or 3", 1/4" thick anlgle iron right at that angle towards the bottom on the back side of the blade across the full length. Weld the angle iron on so the open ends of the angle iron are welded to the blade and the closed end of the angle is pointing back. This would strengthen it up good enough for what you want to use it for. Just a thought.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 12, 2010

just to digress a little.. how is the love bite coming on???

Anonymous-0 · Jan 13, 2010

(quoted from post at 22:46:41 01/12/10) just to digress a little.. how is the love bite coming on???

Ugly...But going away.

Thanks for asking.

kyplowboy · Jan 13, 2010

Glad the bite is heal'n.

Speaking of bites, I would not take too big a bite of dirt or gravel with that thing. Might be ok for the drive way, smooth'n up some ruts and such. (Don't try to knock out any stumps with it.)

Dave

Gun guru · Jan 13, 2010

Looks like a Chessy Tractor supply grader blade, I have a Frontier blade that cost me $430 and is medium duty.

rustyj14 · Jan 13, 2010

It seems that most of the things for sale at the new tractor places, are designed for the newly rich, local "Gentleman Farmer." Those folks have no common sense about adaptability to hard heavy work to be done with their machines. That one with the fancy paint job probably attracts more looks than one with an ordinary appearance.
It is called "Marketing". Bright colors, fancy looks, etc., all sell. Mundane things languish on the store floor and shelves! Any way to direct your gaze to those things is now the norm.

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