Best Rear Blade made for Massey 135 Tractor

Ypu know when they build equipment for Arctic use they use special steels this is for work at -40 I foyur like I am I have had alot of -10 weather so the cold could have some effect on the brittleness of your steel too.

The Massey 135 Orchard uses a 165 Rear end so the Lower Link arms are real strong. They are over 3/4" thick and the arms supporting them are BIG! Picture does not do the justis but I don't think they would break very easy. The point the upper link hooks into is also over sized also. The top link that broke was Cat II but it broke on the end not on the tractor cause the blade swung around and worked like a lever on it. Mark H.

The Massey 135 Orchard uses a 165 Rear end so the Lower Link arms are real strong. They are over 3/4" thick and the arms supporting them are BIG! Picture does not do the justis but I don't think they would break very easy. The point the upper link hooks into is also over sized also. The top link that broke was Cat II but it broke on the end not on the tractor cause the blade swung around and worked like a lever on it. Mark H.

Have you given any serious consideration to a CAT II hitch? That'll put the whoa to that cow pie problem of yours. :>)

Allan

Joe

CAT II is just a beefier outfit.

I don't ever remember seeing a CAT II pin snap. I think they are 1 1/8" diameter or something like that.

Allan

I broke a cat 2 pin off a JD plow. Have I mentioned we have rocks? :)

I too would be concerned with the cat 1 stuff, if you get a heavy enough blade & yoke that it never breaks, the cat 1 hitch on the tractor is likely the next to go! I have a rather flimsy cat 1 blade that we've used on the Ford 960 for years, I bowed the blade slightly on cow pies.

This fall I got an IHC cat 2 blade for my bigger tractors, we will see, I have not taken the opertunity to use it yet. We have only had an inch of snow & ice here with the sub-zero temps. Surprised the water keeps working, there are 4" wide cracks in our drier than average & un-insulated soil that go a couple feet deep....

The switching point on tractors seems to be about 65-75 hp - those above are cat 2 to take more hp; those below are cat 1 which is the Ford N standard. Both are equally common, just depends on the size of your toys. :) It is possible to cross-use them, not always at the easiest or the wisest.

--->Paul

It seems the Cow Pies are the only thing that has realy gave it trouble or frozen in rocks. The blade has never bent yet and is very strong. I probley should use my new welder to make a new 3/point mount for it. Not sure these new pins will snap now they have 1 3/4" nuts on them and are case harden ones. Same as a Cat II Mounting hole but the pin is a little smaller that goes into the link arms. They also have a sholder which the other pin was just a bar that went across the blades support. Mark H.

My cat 1 is a little 6', no backbone to it. It held up amazingly well for the abuse it got, clearing snow & some of the cattle yard for decades. I have on crack in my feeding platform that the frost heaves, have to go _real_ slow in that spot every time....

The big one I got I plan to use with dirt a bit more, need more oomph for that.

--->Paul