Do YOU Really Know How to Use a Box Blade? | Hydraulic Top Link | TYM Tractors

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Awesome video, I can tell you, I have been maintaining a long private road for over twenty years. With a small box blade, land plane, then modified my box blade to set further back and away from the tractor to control the spreading of material. Then I bought a large 6 ft box blade and finally installed a hydraulic top link. It is the best thing I've ever installed on my tractor, except my loader. Lol. The only negative thing I can say is I'm a damn fool for not installing this top link twenty years ago. I drop the box, and control all the material to fill holes with pitching the top link out, then back in to grab more material. I hardly ever lift the box now, unless I'm turning hard. It's just freaking amazing.

As someone who is about to buy his first tractor, this has been a phenomenal instructional video. I learned a Great deal. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this video. It's exactly what I needed to see before I tackle my hard packed field. It's also heartening to know how long I should expect it to take, how many passes it takes, and that the tractor will bog down here and there. So appreciated!

The back cut of the blade is the most important part of the box. If you want something flat or a nice flat grade(up or down hill) it is an absolute must. It keeps the tractor on a flat surface.

You dont know how much you have helped me. Thanks so much for a really great video that showed the many ways to use the box blade and the hot link also.

I am loving my T264. It is the Mighty Mouse of tractors. I just spread and leveled 40 yards of crusher dust to fill in an area of my yard. It was swampy. Now, its hard and dry. Throwing down some loam I'm stealing from one of my fields today.

That hydraulic top link is something I’ve never had but always wanted. I bet I get one now!

The box blade is really the reason I got my tractor...to keep up a mile long hard-pack gravel road. Results so far are good but I've got a lot to learn...I'm currently a YouTube tractor info sponge! This was super helpful, more great stuff Tony. Subscribed. Thanks! 👍👍

That looks really good. I'm a landscaper and I have a little bit of knowledge. Working ball fields once you've cut your high spots Do like you were saying leave your box blade to level, you can do A figure 8 pattern. that will help you also.

Excellent explanations for me. I have not used one in 50 years. I purchased with a top link. You will save me hours on the tractor. Thank you.

I spent many hours running a John Deere 1050 with a box blade for my dad as a teenager. It was always fun with him running his dozer, and me smoothing out the finished product when he had whatever project we were doing shaped. I always used to go in circles, and when the soil I was dragging got too full of trash I would drag it just outside my work area and make a pile. If there was a treeline I could often get away with piling the debris pile inside the trees. We did a ton of landscaping projects, home irrigation, and even built a couple of small golf courses with all Par 3 holes. Our tractor was cool in that we had big Goodyear flotation tires. They prevented marring up the final grade with tire treads.

Getting my box blade today. Thanks for the great video. Huge driveway and road to do here. Have to cut ditches and everything. Fun times lol

The hydraulic top link is like a genie on your tractor with a magic wand. That might be the single biggest value feature I have added to my 3039R. Excellent teach, Brother!

Great video, I have had a box blade for a few months and used it a few times, this will help me immensely.

tony!! I laughed my butt off at that TIK-TOK BIKINI JOKE!! VERY FUNNY!! I'm a new TYM tractor owner but love mine. best tool I have ever bought. just put a thumb on. ordered a tooth bar. have gotten more done in 30 days on my 3 acres than I have on 3 years of man-well labor. keep up the great work on these videos... is NEW-BEEZ are learning a TON!! THANK YOU!!

That was very helpful my friend just got a box blade for his 3520 JD , I’m fired up after watching your video and can’t wait to show him what I have learned

1st! Thank you, excellent demo, great explanation and awesome video. To be honest, I didn't learn anything new (this is just for me) but I did notice that so far of the multitude of "self help box blade videos" I've seen you are the only one that has explained everything I have learned and put together from ALL the videos out there. So cudos to you for a very good, well edited and shot demonstration. In my humble opinion this is "the best all around" box blade video for all the people wanting to learn how to box blade. Woop woop. A++ Lessons learned 1. Hydraulic top link a must 2. Angle of blade makes the difference 3. Rippers are your friend 4. Staying on the tractor makes the work go faster. Now if I may add 1 thing I learned (I hope this is ok)... add some weight to I your bucket or in you case here your grapple. The extra weight will help the 4 wheel drive "front tires" pull you through some of the harder dirt or "more full" box bladed areas instead of bogging down with rear tires and having dump the box just to keep moving, traction is our friend. So about 1/2 a bucket of dirt/rocks or a 2-300 lbs log/rock will do the trick. Keep up the good work.

Very nice job a lot of people don't understand that you could do almost anything with a box blade if you know how to work it properly

My dad and I just got a king Kutter 5ft tiller for our JD. After years of using a 22 inch walk behind front tiller not self propelled, the thing is as old as my father who is almost 71yrs old. We live in Illinois and right now the weather sucks and keeps on sucking which really sucks when you have a brand new toy you want to play with.