Making a dozer blade for my 100........

Posted by Patrick Martin on December 04, 2006 at 21:02:09 from (64.154.26.250):

Got a question.

I'm in the process of making a dozer blade for my 100 and am curious as to how big I can make it to where it's not too much to where it overcomes the tractor.

I'm running 2 pieces of 3" heavyweight tubing from the forward implement lugs on the inside of the final drives extending out past the front axle. I cut out two brackets that bolt up to the inside of the final drives and hinged them with a bolt to a plate I welded on the ends of the two 3" pieces of tubing.

Now I have these two long pieces of pipe running under my tractor that extend past the front axle about 2'. The plan is to attach them via U-bolts to the lift bars so that I can pick my blade up and down. I'm thinking of attaching nylon limiting straps to the front axle that loop around the bars so the blade can't dig any deeper than what I set it at.

Anyway, that's the setup so far. I'm to the part of splitting the section of casing in half for my blade and I have two choices to choose from but I'm wondering if the width and length I have planned is too much for the little 100.
I have two 8' sections of 13 3/8" and 20" heavyweight casing to make the blade from. The 20" seems right but I've been seeing these itsy bitsy blades on cubs and Super A's that just don't seem to look like they would be very effective in moving much soil at all.
Are these blades designed this size to prevent excessive strain on the tractor?

How large of a blade is too much?

I'm building this attachment to use with landscaping some property I have. I'm not going to be pushing up much topsoil but instead will be spreading dirt from some big piles of fill soil that I have on my land. I may scrape a little of the land but I doubt much. Just need to fill some holes plus I want to push up a mound to put the foundation of my shop on. I want a good square elevated mound to plant my 40X60 shop on. That's basically all of what I'll be doing.

Here is a illustration of the setup I've built so far. This is an old pic of my machine that I paint shopped because I don't have an actual image yet. Sorry :(

• Illustration

Replies:

• Re: Making a dozer blade for my 100........ Dan Robertson 05:11:38 12/05/06 (0)
• Re: Making a dozer blade for my 100........ scotty 05:08:10 12/05/06 (1)
  • Re: Making a dozer blade for my 100........ Hugh MacKay 03:51:14 12/06/06 (0)
• Re: Making a dozer blade for my 100........ Jim Broughton 22:06:05 12/04/06 (1)
  • Re: Making a dozer blade for my 100........ Hugh MacKay 04:15:49 12/05/06 (0)
• Re: Making a dozer blade for my 100........ Hugh MacKay 21:56:05 12/04/06 (2)
  • Re: Making a dozer blade for my 100........ Patrick Martin 22:11:53 12/04/06 (1)
    • Re: Making a dozer blade for my 100........ gene bender 04:18:11 12/05/06 (0)

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