My Daughter and I finally got it out of the truck and blocked up in the yard. As said earlier, other then the surface rust, it's in remarkable shape! The blade doesn't even look it had been drug at all, and the tines have no wear. I'm gonna bring it back to Pretty here in the near future! This was a lucky find for me. I have 350ft of gravel/stone/hard pack in my driveway in NH.
My woods 72” looks to be in similar shape; it 10 years old and I have used that piece of equipment a lot
This one is only 50" but it'll do for what I need. I'm sure after I clean it up, I can sell it down the road.
Good on you for not letting that box blade go to the scrap heap! I don’t even need it but I’d be all over picking it up Just because….. I had a scrape blade 3 pt hitch and sold it as I could take care of our gravel lane well with bucket on my tractor. Besides my oldest son is in the business and has skid steer(s) and excavator
Thank you! I thought it out for a bit and realized this thing wasn't in bad shape at all. I worked with rusted metal for years and years, heck I've seen commercial fishingboats a lot worse then this and had to board them, it was almost scary for some of them. It's easy to clean it up. I'll make her look pretty again.
Dave keep on mind that it should be as wide as your tractor. It'll still work but if might be aggravating.
That's the advise I've been getting, I currently have a Old IH with a backhoe on it but I'm looking at something "Shiney and new" Which is 6ft/72" across. For now, I currently don't need one, (But) down the road I will.
Have used a box blade to 'till' woods food plots before. Tines at around 4" work pretty well. Great tool for leveling ground.
I missed the part about weather this was free or just cheap. But that "economy" Gill is probably much heavier built than today's stuff. That's an easy grinding and painting project in the future and you'll sell it easily.
I got it Free. Was to be junked. I'll keep it, and it's heavy as hell, the sidewalls are 3/16". It took 3 of us to lift it in the truck. I'm guessing 300lbs
