Re: (ET) dozer blade and driveway maintenance

[Tim Humphrey <hump evgrin com>]

As I started reading this thread I was thinking... "Whats he meaning? When 
the blade is down the ttilt would be the opposite and form a crown" Then I 
read a little further and it dawned on me. My I-5 has very large front 
tires, so my blade does in fact tilt down when it is down.

I do have problems with it scissoring also. This may be in part because 
I've drilled a hole through the blade and bolted it to the mount to defeat 
the foldover springs. Yes I know that there was a bar that would do that, 
but even the bar gave me more play than I wanted. Know I can REALLY rip up 
rocks and roots and stuff that the blade previously would have jumped 
over. It needs more weight, I'm seriously considering mounting a linear 
actruator or hydraulics to get some more downforce. Of course, that would 
make the scissoring even worse. Go slow.


Stay Charged
Hump





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-----Original Message-----
From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
[mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu] On Behalf Of steves
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:16 AM
To: et
Subject: Re: (ET) dozer blade and driveway maintenance

I also find dragging the blade backwards helps in smoothing, but do you 
have
to move gravel back in the driveway from the sides? In that instance, with
the blade angled, the side-to-side tilt is opposite what is needed to keep
the driveway crowned.

BTW, I bought a box scraper blade that does a good job of moving the gravel
around and smoothing it out. It just isn't enough though to cut ditches.

- Steve

Klein Robert W NPRI wrote:

> I use my C-185 (E-20) dozer blade all the time to work the gravel in my
driveway.  I have found that it's much better to drag the blade backward 
for
a real nice level finished surface.  I use the fwd action to remove high
spots AND snow.  As for moving the pivot point, you are right to be weary 
of
digging the blade in and scissoring up. I would think that the lower the
pivot point to the ground the better off you are.
>
> Robert W. Klein II
> SSGN Deputy Technical Manager AWS/AWSS
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
> [mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu] On Behalf Of steves
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:30 PM
> To: et
> Subject: Re: (ET) dozer blade and driveway maintenance
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>
> Thanks all for the replies and ideas. Changing the angle of the mount
> through modifying the bracket, the mounting 'ears', or tire size would
> seem to correct the problem, but I'm wondering if it may cause other
> problems. Because the mount angles slightly upwards, it does tend to
> keep the tires on the ground and perhaps helps to keep the blade from
> digging in. Changing the geometry may tend to make the front end of
> the tractor to scissor up.
>
> The ideas of the rubber blade tip is good for the snow. For moving
> gravel and cutting ditches I'm thinking now of making a bolt-on or
> replacement blade tip that hangs lower on the ditch side when the
> blade is angled towards the center of the driveway. 'Course I'll have
> to take it off when I need a straight blade or plow snow.
>
> This requires more thought......
>
> - SteveS
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