Land Pride RBT55120 manual General Operating Instructions

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Section 4: Operating Procedures

General Operating Instructions

Once you have familiarized yourself with the Operator’s Manual, completed the operations checklist, and properly attached your Land Pride Rear Blade to your tractor, you are now almost ready to begin work. The RBT55 Series Rear Blades were designed and built by Land Pride for category lI and lII three-point hitch and Quick Hitch attachment for 90 to 180 hp tractors equipped with remote hydraulic outlets and two wheel drive capability. They are ideal for snow removal as well as dirt leveling, finish grading, and backfilling applications at feedlots, outdoor arenas, building and construction sites, and maintenance operations on farm and ranch lanes or roadways. They are also excellent for soil contouring and construction and maintenance of ditches and waterways.

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. A RBT55 Series 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 4mph 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 when you are in the dirt working mode. Develop a plan to achieve your expected results. Set the blade up at the proper angle or angles to do the job. The hydraulic angling, tilt, and offset capabilities of the RBT55 series will make these adjustments easy utilizing the tractors remote hydraulic controls. This may require some experimentation to achieve the desired results. Lower the 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 the blade set at a 90 degree angle you may need to raise the blade slightly so that the dirt or gravel can flow out evenly under the blade effectively shaving off high spots and filling in potholes or depressions.

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 building foundation, abutment, or raised curb you may want to offset the blade so that the outside edge of the blade is beyond the outer edge of the tractor tire in working position. Back-filling operations may be more easily performed by reversing the blade and operating the tractor in reverse or commonly called the push mode.

If you are performing the 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 operator and consistently achieve the desired results you expect with your Land Pride RBT55 Series Rear Blade.

See “Section 6: Specifications & Capacities” on page

23 and “Section 7: Features & Benefits” on page 24 for additional information and performance enhancing options.

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