[AT] Need advice on 3pt Tractor

[Larry D Goss]

There are certain tractors that had really usable blades for road and 
driveway maintenance.  One of the best I ever owned myself was a Farmall Cub 
with its standard mid-mount blade.  Adjusting it for grading slopes 
(side-to-side) is inconvenient, but it can be done.  Any blade that is 
mounted between the front and back wheels that support it will do a good 
job.  The greater the distance between front and back support wheels, the 
better control you have over it.

I have a home movie from 1940 or 1941 showing the final grading of a lawn at 
new construction.  The piece of equipment being used is a John Deere L or LA 
with a mid-mount blade.  It had all the controls of a standard horse-drawn 
road maintainer of that era -- big wheels on either side that the operator 
used for controlling depth, offset, angle of cut, etc.  I've thought many 
times over the years of pulling that footage out (it's now on VHS) and 
uploading it somewhere for the enjoyment of members on this forum, but I've 
never gotten around to it.

Most of the time, I find myself wanting to fill potholes and get the 
landscape level and even rather than to shape it, so next weekend I'm 
picking up a gill (AKA soil pulverizer) for that purpose.  One of those 
pieces of equipment turns the whole process into a "no-brainer".  It takes 
such a small amount of talent to operate that any teenager can do it even if 
his only evident skill is to say, "You want fries with that?"  BTW, your 
name came up in the discussions about this piece of equipment, Herb. 
Apparently you and I have some friends and acquaintances in common on other 
Internet forums.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herbert Metz" <metz-h.b at mindspring.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Need advice on 3pt Tractor


> Tom
> How about a WFE that is also a HiCrop, and locate the blade between front
> and rear wheels,   It may not provide adequate clearance?
> Herb
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Len Rugen <rugenl at yahoo.com>
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Date: 8/15/2007 6:09:06 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Need advice on 3pt Tractor
>>
>> My Landpride blade came with things that look like upside down mushrooms
> that can be set behind the blade for depth control.  It was a lot cheaper
> than a tail wheel, but not as good.  However, I can turn the blade around
> and push backwards with them in place.  They work good for pushing snow
> without getting as much gravel.  It is handy to put one on and leave the
> other off when grading gravel off the sholders back onto the road.
>>
>> I know it's not antique, but I acquired a Kubota L3130 for something that
> we could haul to worksites.  The MFWD and front end loader helps.  What 
> you
> can't get with a blade, you can with the loader.  (It had a Bush Hog brand
> loader, looks heaver than the Kubota brand)
>>
>> A local Same dealer had a new crawler w/ 3 pt. a few years ago.  New
> Holland also has them in their glossies, but I've never seen one locally.
> The Same dealer is HIGH DOLLAR on everything he has, so I don't know what 
> a
> reasonable price might have been.  I asked because it had a blade, I think
> was about 70 hp, and would be a good bush hog tractor on my thorn tree
> farm.  He had Hurliman (sp?) tractors also, one had something like 30 fwd
> speeds at about $1000 each...
>>
>> Len Rugen
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