Re: 3-point Scoop...what features?

Posted by Larry 8N75381 on March 13, 2000 at 17:15:45 from (208.58.195.124):

In Reply to: 3-point Scoop...what features? posted by Steve Warfle on March 13, 2000 at 05:32:31:

I'll offer a differing opinion. Unless the pile of dirt is somewhere much different than the field you are trying to fill so you would be pulling dirt over ground that is not part of the field, I'd use my back blade. My back blade is a seven footer so I can pull as much dirt as you can put in a typical scoop.

Yes, dirt spills out the sides. BUT after a few trips, you have a channel that most of the dirt stays in. The spill over is why how far and over what you have to go is a critical factor. I like the back blade because it eliminates the backing up to fill the scoop - if that is the case. And it is VERY easily dumped by lifting the control lever.

I use draft control doing this. You start out with a "heavy" setting to grab a load and then adjust up to a "light" setting to hold the load as you move along. I built up a pile of dirt as high as my N, wide as the blade at the top and about three times the length of the N. About as high, wide and short as I felt safe driving up and over. I have some picts I will post.

MOST important!! is as one said, is the time you get to spend on the tractor "playing" in the dirt!! So don't try to make it go faster, would be my advise - "too far to scrape" is better in that view. :-)

As we here on the board say,
N-JOY!!

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