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About Blades & Box Scrapers

With a variety of working widths, tilt angles, and even optional cutting edges, blades and box scrapers—along with drag scrapers and grading scrapers—are among the most-used attachments on a farm or ranch. Blades and box scrapers help with moving, ripping, leveling, finish grading, or backfilling soil, gravel, or other material. Box scrapers and blades are both commonly found on building sites, feedlots, and farms and can often be used for the same or similar tasks. But a blade, as the name suggests, features a single heavy-metal blade, while a box scraper is a three-sided box with an open front, top, and bottom that’s often equipped with retractable scarifiers.

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Woods BSS72 Box Scraper

Blades

Available in both front- and back-mounted varieties, blades are often called “scraper blades” because scraping surfaces is one of the most common applications. Modern blades feature tilt and angle adjustment capabilities to push dirt, sand, snow, and other excess materials in the direction you want. To further fit a blade to the intended application, manufacturers typically offer additional cutting edges (such as rubber deflector kits for snow or a solid, sharp metal edge for cutting textured surfaces) to improve performance. Some high-end blades also feature hydraulic cylinder kits to let operators adjust the blade angle and height on the fly from the tractor seat.

Box Scrapers

Scraping and smoothing jobs are ideal for a box blade, and on a farm, box blades are commonly used to create a given soil grade, to fill in holes, or to remove excess soil or snow. The three-sided box design serves as a way to contain scraped-up material, which can then be spread to a new area matching the level and width of the box scraper. Some box scrapers can be tilted to raise or lower a side when creating a grade to allow for drainage. Models with a scarifier can help break up the tough or uneven ground, after which the box scraper can work over the area to flatten or level the loose material.

Working Range

Depending on your needs, you’ll find a variety of box scrapers and blades with working widths from 4 to 14 feet (1.2 to 4.2 meters) or more. Wider models tend to feature heavy-duty plates and often include mechanisms to adjust their tilt, angle, and precision.

Find The Right Blades & Scrapers

You’ll find a wide array of new and used blades and box scrapers for sale every day on TractorHouse.com from manufacturers such as Bush Hog, Degelman, Frontier, Industrias America, John Deere, Land Pride, Rhino, Titan Implement, and Woods.