Section 4: Operating Procedures
11/27/18
RB3772, RB3784, & RB3796 Rear Blades 301-457M
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General Operating Instructions
Once you have familiarized yourself with the Operator’s
Manual, completed operations checklist, and properly
attached your Land Pride Rear Blade to your tractor, you
are almost ready to begin work. Hopefully you have
checked out your work site for any buried utility cables,
pipelines, sprinkler heads, or other obstacles that you
wouldn’t want to damage or encounter. Grade stakes
should now be in place if you intend to develop a specific
grade, elevation, soil contour, or roadbed crown.
The Rear Blade’s primary purpose is for grading or
leveling of soil, gravel, or aggregate in the warmer
months or snow removal in the colder months. These
functions are best done at an approximate 2 to 4 mph
ground speed. Becoming proficient with a Rear Blade
takes practice.
Tractor horsepower, your personal skill level, soil or
aggregate composition, moisture levels, and compaction
factors will all have a definite impact on how easily and
effectively you get the job done. Develop a plan to
achieve your expected results. Set the blade up at the
proper angle or angles to do the job. This may require
some experimentation to achieve the desired results.
Lower Rear Blade to the ground and proceed forward at
a speed of no more than 2 to 4 mph. The blade should
immediately begin shaving the soil surface and dirt or
aggregate material. Set the tractor’s draft-link height
control in the desired position. With blade angle set at 90
degrees, you may need to raise the blade slightly so that
the dirt or gravel can flow out evenly under the blade
while effectively shaving off high spots and filling in
potholes or depressions. Skid shoes on the
Rear Blade can help maintain a consistent blade height.
If you have the blade set at a horizontal angle, the shaved
or accumulated material will begin to move outward
toward the trailing edge of the blade. The greater the
angle the more quickly the shaved material will be
distributed off to the side. If it is necessary to work up next
to a foundation, abutment, or raised curb, you my want to
offset the blade so that the outside edge is beyond the
outer edge of the tractor tire. Back-filling operations may
be more easily performed by reversing the blade and
operating the tractor in reverse or commonly called the
push mode. Be careful not to overstress the Rear Blade
while back-filling as load forces on the blade and frame
increase while backing-up.
If you are performing construction of soil contours or
waterways, you will probably need to set a tilt angle on
the blade to achieve the desired effect. If you are grading
or cutting a new ditch bank or forming a road crown, you
will probably want to offset the blade in combination with
setting an appropriate tilt angle. This again will likely
require some experimentation to gain desired results.
Snow removal techniques with a blade will be very similar
to dirt working techniques and will require a little
experimentation to become proficient.
With a little practice you should become a very good Rear
Blade operator and consistently achieve the desired
results you expect with your Land Pride RB37 Series
Rear Blade.
See “
Specifications & Capacities”
“Features & Benefits”
on page 20 for additional
information and performance enhancing options.
