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angle blade?

Yukon Digger

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Welcome k45.

Well said. Trails on hillsides up here is what I do a lot of and the angle blade and float makes for quick work. Its handy also to use the angle blade to give a boulder or stump that extra push to get it over the edge and down the hill without creeping too far over the edge.
 

pjdiesel

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I have a 161 with angle blade it is nice, and pushing power isn't a problem I pushed my wheeler dump truck up a grassy hill in the rain no one in the truck with no problem. I hope they put a 6 way blade on them.
 

terratrac300

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ok just to add to this thread we got last week a BRAND NEW kx-121 with the 6 way blade, if you like the angle blade you`ll love the 6 way, it is great and it doesn`t seem to have changed the balance of the machine with the extra weight...
 

k45

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6 way blade does sound nice :) When I bought my KX-121 a few months ago, the dealer said that they had heard that the 6 way was coming, but hadn't seen one yet.

I'm sure it would be extra cost :eek: I'm happy with what I have. Now I'm looking for a skid steer too :D

Ken
 

Orchard Ex

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I played with one at the dealer last week. Seems that Kubota did a nice job on it but it sure is expensive.
 

Yukon Digger

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I can't say enough good about the angle blade on our KX121-3 and can't live without it, but as sexy as the 6-way is I'm not sure how much I would use it for the extra-cost. I would have to use one on a few jobs but I'm sure one would get use to it and miss it if you went to a machine with out it. It would be handy cutting ditches when building roads on slopes I think. Or for fancy landscaping. If anyone was thinking of buying a new machine I'd say go for the 6-way if its available. Depending on what you're doing it shoud pay for itself in few hundred hours. Anyways it just adds to the versitility of the whole mini market. A good thing.
 

245dlc

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Yeah and the machines with the angles blades or six-way blade also come with bolt on blades.
 
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