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implement suggestion for dirt work?

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I am looking for an implement for dirt work. I have a heavy dozer blade that does a fair job with my Deere 329E compact track loader but it tends to not dig smoothly. In other words I am dozing and when the tracks start slipping i have to raise it up to keep moving. This leaves dips and hollows in my work. I try to go back later and fill them but not easy.

I have hard black gumbo and red clay so digging is tough anyway. With my farm tractor I would put on the chisel plow or disc to break the ground up first and then use the bucket and grader blade. What can I use with the compact track loader?
Does somebody make a chisel plow or disk for use on a CTL or skid steer? Or maybe a tiller to break up the soil and then use the dozer blade or bucket? Any other ideas?

I am mainly doing some terracing type work to fix some drainage issues and all of the waves and dips just hold water

Thanks
 

Delmer

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I've made chisel plows that go in the top of the bucket so when you back up and dump the bucket, you can lower the chisels into the ground. Another thread here showed a bucket that had swing down shanks on the lower back of the bucket to do the same thing, that was a track loader or dozer blade maybe.
 

KSSS

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I have one of those and it works really well.
 

dirtmonkey

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I have the bobcat ripper attachment as well. Toss the skid shoes and add rippers in its place. Worth every penny
 

KSSS

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I have the bobcat ripper attachment as well. Toss the skid shoes and add rippers in its place. Worth every penny


I did the same thing, ditched the skid shoes and replaced with rippers. Saves a ton of time and easy to bring along on a job.
 

dirtmonkey

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Another option is to buy a three point attachment plate and use a standard box blade and ripper. If you have tractor implements already such as an angle blade and small disk ,this may be a good alternative, its just a little slow to swap them out. I have two plates. One stays hooked to a box blade and the other is free to use on other implements. Add a tilt attachment plate and you’re cooking with gas !
 
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Do you mean that you were able to add two more rippers by installing them where the shoes go? Did you buy two more from Bobcat like the others or use something else?

Thanks
 

CANNONMAN1

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Another option is to buy a three point attachment plate and use a standard box blade and ripper. If you have tractor implements already such as an angle blade and small disk ,this may be a good alternative, its just a little slow to swap them out. I have two plates. One stays hooked to a box blade and the other is free to use on other implements. Add a tilt attachment plate and you’re cooking with gas !
Who makes or has a tilt attachment plate for the 3pt. Adapter to a box scraper. I use mine all the time & have often wished it would tilt a little side to side
 

dirtmonkey

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The tilt attachment is a separate attachment itself. The tilt attachment has a skid steer attachment plate on the other side. So... the sequence of hooking up would be..hook the tilt tach to the loader and then hook the three point adapter to that. Hope that makes sense lol
 
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Couple more questions if you don't mind.
Do the shanks have any kind of shear bolt protection? If not how much HP can it take without breaking something. my CTL is 85 HP and weighs 11000 lbs.

Are the shanks reversible? Or do you always work in reverse? Have you found that it's easier to push an implement or drag it backwards?
Thanks
 
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