Scrub Basher
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Hello HEF team,
I've bitten the bullet and joined up after spending what seems like years reading posts on HEF, there's so much good information on here, and I appreciate the gurus of earthmoving sharing their knowledge. Anyway, I'm in the process of getting a front tilting dozer blade built for a Series One 12H, which is 2500mm wide and running 14.00 x 24's. There's a lot of scrub where we are, mostly multi stemmed woody shrubs to 12' high, plus the odd dead tree to 20' high (fallen and standing). A front blade is going to save a lot of time by not having to go around the roads with a loader or dozer beforehand, and hopefully prevent a few flat tyres. I can choose any width between 2500mm and 2750mm for the front blade for the same price, or stick with 2500mm and have bolt on extensions made up for $300AUD a side. My question is this: do I stick with a blade width that matches the tyre width (2500mm), or should I go a little wider to prevent scrub, stumps, etc that rolls off the end of the blade damaging the sidewalls of the front tyres?
To confuse the issue further, I'm thinking about maybe fitting 17.5 x 25's one day, as we have a lot of dry sand to negotiate, but I have conflicting advice as to whether underinflated (say 30PSI) 14.00 x 24's or 17.5 x 25's would be better on dry sand. Of course 17.5 x 25's make the width over the tyres higher, but by how much?
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Cheers,
Scrub Basher.
I've bitten the bullet and joined up after spending what seems like years reading posts on HEF, there's so much good information on here, and I appreciate the gurus of earthmoving sharing their knowledge. Anyway, I'm in the process of getting a front tilting dozer blade built for a Series One 12H, which is 2500mm wide and running 14.00 x 24's. There's a lot of scrub where we are, mostly multi stemmed woody shrubs to 12' high, plus the odd dead tree to 20' high (fallen and standing). A front blade is going to save a lot of time by not having to go around the roads with a loader or dozer beforehand, and hopefully prevent a few flat tyres. I can choose any width between 2500mm and 2750mm for the front blade for the same price, or stick with 2500mm and have bolt on extensions made up for $300AUD a side. My question is this: do I stick with a blade width that matches the tyre width (2500mm), or should I go a little wider to prevent scrub, stumps, etc that rolls off the end of the blade damaging the sidewalls of the front tyres?
To confuse the issue further, I'm thinking about maybe fitting 17.5 x 25's one day, as we have a lot of dry sand to negotiate, but I have conflicting advice as to whether underinflated (say 30PSI) 14.00 x 24's or 17.5 x 25's would be better on dry sand. Of course 17.5 x 25's make the width over the tyres higher, but by how much?
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Cheers,
Scrub Basher.