{"id":1975,"date":"2021-08-27T09:10:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T14:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2021-09-09T10:40:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T15:40:36","slug":"my-first-implement-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?p=1975","title":{"rendered":"My first implement purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally was able to track down the box blade I decided on at a Rural King store in Jeffersonville, Indiana.\u00a0 I chose this one because of the weight and the way the top link frame was built and welded.\u00a0 It is made by King Kutter and is 5 feet wide.\u00a0 It&#8217;s painted red, but I&#8217;ll live with the color disparity.\u00a0 The welds are good and the way the scarifiers are attached is very solid.\u00a0 The cutting edges are reversible and replaceable as well.<\/p>\n<p>The first chore was to unload it from the truck bed.\u00a0 I have a good 3\/8&#8243; logging chain to use and my cousin is going to stop by to help mitigate the process so that I don&#8217;t bang it into the truck or do something else stupid while I&#8217;m unloading it.\u00a0 He also has some pallets I can use to set it and the bush hog on so that I don&#8217;t have to set them on the ground.\u00a0 The pallets will make it easier to hitch them up as well.<\/p>\n<p>Unloaded the box blade using the loader and a chain.\u00a0 Lifted it up and then drove the truck out from under it.\u00a0 Set it down on the concrete and that&#8217;s done.\u00a0 I did order 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boltonhooks.com\/product\/bolt-on-grab-hook-with-hardware\/\">Bolt On grab hooks<\/a> for the bucket.\u00a0 That will make it a lot easier and safer to load\/unload things from the truck bed.<\/p>\n<p>Now to see how badly I can tear up the gravel driveway with the box blade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally was able to track down the box blade I decided on at a Rural King store in Jeffersonville, Indiana.\u00a0 I chose this one because of the weight and the way the top link frame was built and welded.\u00a0 It is made by King Kutter and is 5 feet wide.\u00a0 It&#8217;s painted red, but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?p=1975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My first implement purchase&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tractor","category-woodsmor-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}