So bought this unit to help out with building roads on our prop...bought it fully outfitted with hyd's on all point of articulation. I then customized it as I only have one open set of couplers on the rear. Cobbled together a 4W subplate, DCV's, re-plumbed lines from hyd cyl. to terminate in the subplate. 3D printed a new handle for the spool valve control lever with push-button to now control each of the blades function from one spool valve. I wanted it to function as economical as a CTL joystick. Works great and can't wait to use it.
Now what did I discover as I cycled all the cyl's to fill/flush them out was when the blade angle and tilt cyl is max retracted, the top of the blade weldment hits on the cyl that controls blade angle...not good. Now one might argue that you're not going to be using the blade in such an extreme case, but a little up front check in the CAD assembly would've revealed this issue to be corrected so no clashes occur.
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Scrap Blade
June 5, 2023
Reviewer:
Bruce Taylor from Birmingham, AL United States
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96 inch blade w/3way hyd.
March 7, 2022
Reviewer:
Kurt Hemker from Hillsboro, MO United States
While this is the first item like this I have purchased, I have used and worked on as a fleet supervisor for a medium sized city. This a quality product, I can highly recommend. Great customer service, everyone I spoke with was friendly and knowledgeable.
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Nice blade
April 28, 2021
Reviewer:
David Wilburn from Roy, UT United States
Estes did their best to damage it in shipping. The bent the parking stand and I could tell they scrapped it on some concrete walls somehow. Other than the stand and a little damaged paint, it was just fine. A quick call and Travis sent me a new stand and the hardware to attach it. A can of kubota orange spray paint and it’s perfect again. Can’t wait to go build some farm access roads.
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Great product
January 6, 2020
Reviewer:
daron smith from Murray, NE United States
I am pleased with this blade. It seems incredibly strong. The only issue I’ve had is that the rear wheel dropped off on the 3 mile drive to my farm. Luckily I recovered the wheel. I’m not sure why it dropped but it looks like all I’m out is a washer and a pin.
Also the pallet that was used was demolished by the time it got to me.
Very nice w/ a quirk 
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