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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.

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.

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!

Great instructional vid!!! I've added a hydraulic lift link to work with my hydraulic top link. The combination gives excellent blade control when handling material and shaping the ground.

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

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

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.

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 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.

Just bought a new tractor box blade and this was awesome...THANKS!

Awesome job Tony! Thanks for sharing! ☺

Another fantastic video, and I have been thinking about putting a hydraulic top link on my Kubota, and I think you have convinced me to do it. It looked like it really worked great on the box blade. Thanks for sharing!

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

Great demo …. And I love that hydro drag link!

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 RU-vid tractor info sponge! This was super helpful, more great stuff Tony. Subscribed. Thanks! 👍👍

Wow The top link hydraulic is amazing!! Great job !!!

Hydraulic top link now on my wish list! Already have the rear remote on my RK 24. May as well use it!

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.

Great video, guys! Love the process. It's amazing the amount of work you can do with a 20 hp tractor. My 1964 Yanmar 2000 isn't nearly as capable, what with no hyd remotes!!

Thanks. I used my box blade this afternoon to level a spot behind my shop building 😎

Great demo. Thought about a hydraulic top link for a long time. I think it'll save me lots of time.

Nice for landscaping. My cat III with an 8 ft. boxblade does it all. My category II with the 6 ft. blade is nice for most projects like foundation clearing and I have a plate that attaches that can excavate a foot trench all the way around.

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

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 demos and explanations. Thanks!

Thank you for doing this really helpful!❤

You are a great instructor!

Excellent video!

I really enjoy your videos I dream about soil like that you make it look so easy I'm going to follow all of your videos and try to make my desert land as pretty as your areas without all that green stuff keep up the great videos thank you!

Very informative, I'll have to utilize those tips.

Thanks for this video - some good tips.

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.

Very informative. Thank you

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

Great demonstration

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!!

Great tutorial. Thanks

Good Info, Thank you !

Great tips i can't wait to get back on my tractor and move some dirt/graval

great video! thank you for making this. Subbed!!

Thanks! Big help

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

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.

Great Video. Thanks.

That was a great demo of the box blade, probably the best I’ve seen. That property is beautiful. Is that a river or lake in the background?

I bought a hydraulic top link when I bought my tractor. It was about 400 bucks I think. Best money I ever spent. So easy to play around with box scraper and fine tune everything.

Thank you for this video! Helped me out a lot! Can’t wait for the next video!!

Good Job!

Good video, thank you!

Great video Thanks

Great job

Love it thanks much :)

I just put the valve assembly on my Ford 3000, I can't wait to get the cylinder on there & go play in the dirt. I don't have a front bucket but got a scoop & the top-link is going to help big time , thanks for the pointers Tony on box blade

Good evening Sir ( thank you very kindly for your very nice words on last night live stream with Ed, My Cluttered Garage )👍😉 That is a great video description and great tips about Your Box Blade 😉🧐👍 Keep up your great sence of humor Sir 👍😉 Great Job from your camera lady 👍😉 Keep up the great Job and have a blessed Sunday 😉👍

that looks real nice.

I have a small BX tractor. It’s not as easy as one thinks when dealing with uneven ground surfaces. Takes some time and patiences.

Good job thanks

Excellent Video

Awesome video! Thank you. I'm on the verge of getting a sub compact tractor to level our new yard and this was just the instruction/explanation I needed. It looks like the box blade with a hydro top-link may be all I need besides the loader/backhoe. Also planning to install a beach volleyball court with drianage. Compared to contracting it all out the tractor will pay for itself the first year. God willing.

That’s some great guidance of how to use a box blade! Man I’d like to get me a hydraulic top link too!

I like it!!!

Informative. Now add an hydraulic side link, so you can tilt one side up and down. 😁

YOU ARE AN AWESOME TEACHER! THANKS. YER SAVING ME A LOT OF TIME.

excellent .... I learned so much from this video

Nice tractor!

Thank you Tony, I have dual rear remotes and two detent valves on my tractor so all I need is a hydraulic cylinder for the Too Link, right? Can you buy these? Or do I just buy a hydraulic cylinder and have the ends fabricated to fit my tractor? Thanks buddy. You did a great job leveling up the yard.

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.

Awesome work, ive got a new tractor a kubota l2502. Nice and compact vut big enough to get the job done. - One thing im struggling with is getting the healthy green weeds all the way out! It seems like the more i drag i just collect a bunch of dirt in the gannon and have a pile of dirt and weeds. Is it just not yet ready to try and drag these green ones? Im assuming i should wait till summer and the sun dries them out. I can make 4 passes on my 5acres and it looks like i did nothing cause the weeds are still standing :(

Those Hardee's are made in my home town. Related to the Hardee's on my grandmother's side.

I been operating skip loaders with a gannon box preferably JD 210 for about 25 years in construction and i recently bought my first tractor and heard for the first time a gannon box which i know is just a brand name called a box blade. I had the the hydraulics installed and got a box wiith hydraulic rippers. Its basically the same as a skippy or fergy in construction only the 3 point hitch isnt as solid but i was able to do all the same stuff on my tractor i just had to baby it a little but piece of cake works awesome. One thing though you said using the back of the box isnt really for cutting but actually thats how you cut when you need to cut. Pitch it back roll it forward and back her in. Good video though itll help beginners no doubt

Box blades work very for some things, but I found that a land plane, can do most things that the box scraper can do, and do it better and easier, usually.

This would be a great video for drone recording. That way you could show the directions a lot better.

Very informative video sir you did a good job on this one. My balls where I work got physically angry with me today when I told him that I did not buy a John Deere 80 horse power tractor off of his friend at me tractor period about an LS tractor like the other LS tractor that I have and my daughter bought a Branson at the Branson tymlos dealer in Corbin

Great video it explained a lot! Also noticed you have the Pats quick hitch. Wanted to get your thoughts on those please when you have time. I almost bought a speco quick hitch which requires the width to hook up to the implement pins to be between 27-29.25” . Problem is all my implements are different and not one of them fall in these ranges which means I cant use the speco. Any help and advice is appreciated. Also about the hydraulic top link. Thank you

OMG, this what i need

Nice video. I don’t know how anyone runs a box blade without the hydraulic top link. I am continually adjusting it like I adjust the height of the lift arms, depending on conditions. A box blade is not a box blade without the rear blade. The rear blade is not there to cut or push backwards. It can be, but it is not designed for that reason. You clearly showed what it is used for in the video. It is used to smooth the dirt if the top link is extended. The front blade is for cutting if you shorten the top link. The rippers are used to loosen up hard dirt or break up grass. After you break up the grass or loosen hard dirt you should remove the rippers. If the rippers are down, the top link is extended and the lift arms are raised, and you go forward, you can puncture your tires. I did and it cost me $450.

Oh yeah Tony. Now that I have a hydraulic top link, I would never go back to manual.

Great presentation if you are on flat land. How do you deal with uneven ground?

There’s no better explanation on RU-vid on how to use a box blade and I’ve watched a lot of videos...haha

We would use two old box springs with two cedar poles tied to each and pull them behind a drag to level ground.

Cute little lawnmower! lol

Hi Tony, Great vid on the box blade & the Hydro top link is a winner :). Do these little tractor have a draft feature for the 3PL, if so, is it possible to show how this feature works?? Keep up the great work, Cheers from Aus ;)

I thinking about smoothing out an area but it has slope and a lot of mature trees was thinking of using the landscape rake to keep from hanging on roots as much, unfortunately I don't have rear remotes for a top and tilt also thinking about taking out every other tine. What would be your opinion. May be tight in some spots for L3901 and 6 foot rake.

Hey Tony, do you like the Pat's quick hitch or the more traditional quick hitch better? I see you the Pats's on here.

First time tractor owner here - bought a 25 hp to maintain 11 acres and so far the box blade has been awesome. Now that I know about hydraulic top links, my 51 year old back will thank both me and you. I see that Tractor Supply carries a bunch of different brands/models, but what’s a good brand and length to shoot for? Are hydraulic lines and fittings usually included?

@11:25 when you begin leveling, do you have the 3 point in float mode with the box tilted slightly up so the teeth don't engage? That back blade at a slight angle looks like it would feather in nicely.

Hey Tony, I noticed that your 3pt lower arms have an additional part on it. They look so much easier to use than a BIG U yoke QH other companies want you to use. Who makes those Quick Hitch attachments?? Kim S

Hydraulic top link is terrific, but make sure you get the right length so you get the full range of motion both ways

Can you pass along any info on the metal tube frame building behind you at the beginning of the video. Thanks

Hi Tony,,,, some good info there, for sure. I didn't read all of the feedback, yet, so forgive me if I'm rehashing thoughts. I'm busting up new sod ground,,, & would love to see you 'rip' that up,,, start to finish. With the top hydraulic cylinder the way you have it,, do you no longer have a 'FLOAT' position? My SIL has a Simplicity tractor, with a SUB-COMPACT class 1, 3pt. I just built a drag box for it. Problem is, there's no down pressure on the box or cutting edges. The turn buckle that goes to the trailing arm lift linkage, does not have a backup nut on it so it just free floats after dropping an implement completely down!? Is that right? Shouldn't a plow or box blade have down pressure on it??? FWIW,,, another thought,,, wouldn't it be handy to be able to hinge up or take off the back of your box blade,, specially when ripping? (Like a rear tine tiller has?) And something else that I'm considering building,,,, I'm going to take a 6' or 8' long, 8" or 10" wide H beam & attach a 3 pt class 1 tractor linkage to it. I'm thinking of using it as a WIDE leveling drag blade. Front edge, grader blade,,, back edge, ripper bolts every 6". i got the idea while watching a guy level a hard packed baseball field with a drag box,,,, WAY too narrow,,,, & WAY too slow & time consuming! What's your thoughts?

Hey Tony, I purchased my T264 in large part to watching your videos. The hydraulic top link with the box blade seems the only way to go. I did run into 1 issue though. With a 3 point boom on my top link got smashed into the back of the fuel tank on the tractor. This bent the tubing that runs to and from the the check valve box. Apparently after a couple of bangs against the back of the tractor, it was enough that adjusting the top link just sent hydraulic fluid spraying everywhere. Anyway, I installed it with the box up as it was in your video, would the little box down be a better orientation to prevent crushing the top link? Or this something else I should be considering? I obviously can't see the top link when it is being mashed up in that space. Thanks for your feedback.

Good video. Where is a good place to look for a HTL for a Mahindra 1526?

You did a excellent job. Great finished product. But you rarely, if ever see any box blade/ tractor combinations around my area. Everyone around here would bring in a D3 sized Dozer for a job like this. Better? Worse? Who knows? It must be a regional thing. I'm a Hoe guy actually. I'm horrible on a Dozer.

Nice information. I have the 394 myself but didn't spring for the rear remotes. Any advice/guidance on adding these? Also wondering if a float function would work on a 3 point implement like a box cutter?

I have a ton of pavers, bricks, football size rocks in my field soil. Landscaper owned the property prior to me and made a mess of it. I have a 25hp Kubota tractor. What kind of implement will help me gather all of the pavers up? Some folks suggest I use a moldboard plow to flip the soil and pick up each paver by hand down each pass of the plow. It’s an option especially if I hire help. Could this also do that?

I went to the TYM dealer on saturday and looked at the 574, not sure if I should get a shuttle or hydrostat? It looks so handy watching you run that hydryo, I was just under the impression the shuttle offered more power to the ground? In any case that top link is going to be on it when I get it, very nice.

I think one of the keys is that the dirt/material has to be loose and dry enough to be moved around. Hard packed and wet dirt will not move around and level out.

outstanding video!!! Can you tell me how to determine what size of hydrolic top link that I would need. I have a LS 68 HP. Thanks

In the day we called that setup a skip loader..Now every one has a skid loader.