box blade uses

I have a box blade with scarifer teeth and really have not used it.

What do others find they are best suited for ?

Are they much good for bringing up gravel in a drive that is sunken in the ground ? Like reclaiming ? old stone.

Or are they just for loosening and leveling.

they break the ground up for easier excavating ,

//// they can also do a near fatal number on a cows ribs ,// not to hi jac thread, but i got a story ////the cow survived ,, she was a brahma momma that we called the HEMONIE!,, Me and the boys and were culling calves in the old corral and backed the 430 case with box blade in a corner that needed shoring up , had the scarifier teeth mounted upside down as a scare tactic,, that HEMONI maniac jumped thru rite there , and bellered as the spear went intoher belly ,,and i heard her ribs crack as she struggled to get free ,, i lowered the box blade slowly , and that silly cow wiggled free and jumped off the contraption , and walked out of her pridicament,,she was not bleeding much but clearly she was stabbed and was not well ,the boys and i were certain it was a fatal wound ,,i went in to call a friend to help me butcher the cow ,the hEMONIE was now in the deepest part of pond nearly totally submerged exceptfor her head ,,after 5 minuts watching she came to more shallow water ,, at which time our minature JAK RUSSEL startin givin it the awful fuss to force it fromthe water ,,which she did , when she got on the bank she snorted and caughed up blood and water ,,then went up to the barn slowly,, we got her in the headgate easily and gave her 50 ccof penicillan and 30ccs of tylon200 ,, turned her loose and the next day that HEMONIE Brama was her normal ornery self

Just about anything from plowin snow to tearin up your drive. If you do pull all but one or two shanks out. When I plow snow, I usually pull the snow with the blade. After a half dozen pulls, just turn around and shove it in a pile
Used mine this fall putting underground wire in for the electric fence. Only put one shank down all the way and made an attachment to hook the wire end to, worked like a charm and set the wire about 14" deep with a bare minimum of hand work.

As a kid I used to go along and help load cattle.
My uncle had a meat market. Sometimes you would see certain cattle do CRAZY things ! Seem to remember charlois and holstein steers both with crazy streaks in their blood.

Well since you mentioned it. The box blade I have now back when the neighbor owned it I borrowed it and plowed in an electric line to my building.
Since I bought the tractor and attachments from him I have not used it.

Would think they would make excellent rear blade for a 4wd snowplow truck. Course you'd have to fabricate a 3pt hitch and lift for the truck, but would probably do a great job of snow removal, probably better than the commercially available units.

Mine gets used mostly for my dirt/gravel roads. However my fields were very rough when I bought the place, after discing they were still very rough. Not having a land leveler, I used the box blade. I set it on the ground in "draft control" and tilted the front up a little and dragged it around cutting off the high points and filling the low places, worked very good.

I used to have a box blade that had a trailer ball mounted on the top of the box. It made moving trailers around a breeze.

It is the right tool for stone driveway makeovers , when running your scarifiers , before you make that turn lift the box up or you will bend the scarifiers and knock off the tips , I do about 50 drive a year with mine, people ask me did you bring me new stone? after finishing up a 200 ft drive the old man comes out and asks me if I could grade off a spot for his new pole barn, which was a little high, got the sod off for him ok and he brings out a transit and had me grade it to a .32 of an in. grader box my favorite tool

I've had a rear blade for fourteen years and a box blade for three years. The rear blade hasn't been on the tractor since I got the box blade.