Posted by Bob in SD on October 06, 2016 at 07:52:54 from (137.216.208.116):
Thanks for all of the feedback earlier. I still have a couple of questions.
1) Would it be a bad idea to have a 6 foot box scraper behind a tractor with the rear wheels 7 feet apart? Seems like it wouldn't work right, but...
2) My driveway is about 12 feet wide, so if I maintain it at 12 feet (that is, just make it 12 feet wide) would that be easier with a 6 foot box blade? Seems like it would be hard to keep a crown it if the blade when past the middle and spilled product on the other side? Or do I want some overlap (blade wider than half the drive).
3) Is 6 foot too small to do the barnyard? I guess bigger is better out there, but I'd rather not spend more than I need to for the driveway, which is the priority or have to store a bigger blade than I need.
4) If I can't find anything used, the one I linked before a reasonable price for new? They don't seem to make them any wider than 6 feet, so that depends on your answers above.
2 1/2) Regarding the crown mentioned in #2, somebody on the another thread stated they'd rather have a plain rear blade so that they could do a crown. Can I not do a mild crown with the box blade? I guess the material ends up on the low side? Once I dig out the potholes I could put the regular blade on and re-crown? I guess I can google and find a youtube of the process.
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