How to Use a Box Blade

[Music] I'm tips and everything attachments we're to show you how to use the united hhd box blade as you can tell this one's well used it's mine i keep it at home all the time it's a tool i'd never be without cuz it's just good for almost everything it seems like you've got your Ripper shanks here that are adjustable they're in their highest position now they do have replaceable points and one of the most important things about a box plate if you if you just want to level dirt or gravel it didn't really going to matter but if you actually want to cut a ditch or move some dirt this curved cutting edge is very important a lot of the cheap blades just have a flat piece of steel and there's about ten times the price difference in a flat piece of steel and then this hardened curved edge here so that curved edge is just essential to be able to actually cut the dirt and fill your box blade up with the dirt that you want to move to another area so loose stuff you can move with a flat edge but that's about all they're good for I recommend always getting one with a curved edge good replaceable tips with a forged shank so we're going to knock down this pile of dirt spread it out real quick and then we're gonna angle our drop our arms really steep show you how you can cut a ditch for drainage adjusting the top link is gonna have a big big effect on whether it's digging in or floating over the top when you're when you're backing up and pulling forward right there was a low spot already just got filled in [Music] I always try to get a box later as many implements as you can with a clevis hitch instead of a pin hitch it's going to be twice as strong and be easier to hook up on your drawbar arms [Music] so with that curved edge it cuts right into the dirt collects a big pile of it and you're able to spread it like you want to [Applause] [Music] so like a cheap box blade doesn't have replaceable Ripper shanks or replaceable edges when they're worn out you basically throw away your whole tool where this one can be continually rebuilt for years and years of use [Music] so do some really deep River action we're gonna shorten this top link up let down peanut I picked up so we're tilting up the back of this blade and we're angling these teeth down we're truly going to get its most ripping effect [Applause] [Applause] if you're doing it if you need to box plate on top of grass without the Ripper's you're not going to do anything here all the way one direction as far as we can lift up just a little bit so that we can cut a ditch or a drainage way or just an angle on the side of the road all right hey cabin getting this direction here and go that way a little bit [Applause] so now with the rippers fully down with a lot of angle on it [Applause] you can see how he's able to cut a ditch and then by the time he turns around and comes back with another angle on it or does this twice and puts another angle you could really have a big ditch so if you've got drainage problems and you need it to go this is the way to do it [Applause] so you can have a one-sided dish or a big V ditch if you decide to come back down to the other direction [Music] all right so a little bit of cleanup work you'd have a perfect ditch and get rid of that water that's been standing so now we're gonna level it back out and cover up this ditch just so I won't have to mow over it later now we put our Ripper teat back up we're smoothing our ditch back out that we cut we're just going to clean this area up here where we can plant some grass so me [Music] [Applause] [Music] pushing backwards with that back edge is probably one of the best and most important things to be able to do well with a box blade having that curved cutting edge on the back is just a must to really be able to do anything besides scrape over it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so how to use a box blade even though it's a simple device that's probably one of the most asked questions I get on a daily basis [Music] in less than 15 minutes we've leveled that big pile of dirt we've cut a ditch if you needed a drain line we've done some rip and if you were going to move a lot of hard dirt where you could rip it up good and move it we've totally smoothed it back out so that is the most universal tool that I know of is a box blade we're fixing the hook for some pallet boards next and the Box laid is always your best tool to have all the backs to give you so give you a little counter way [Music] [Applause]

Channel: EverythingAttachments

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Keywords: box blade, how to use a box blade, Everything Attachments, tractor boxblade, 3 point box blade, tractor attachments

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Length: 9min 14sec (554 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 28 2009