I cut and slit a couple more pvc pipes for the bottom of the blade, but no luck trying to drill holes thru the cutting edge to hold it on with bolts. It was way too hard to drill.
Oh well, even if I have to replace the pipes (3) times each winter, they will still save me lots of time raking stones in the spring. It only takes me 10 minutes to cut, slit and install the pipes and I have enough on the pile out back to make about 40 more if I need them.
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I plowed 5 or 6 times with the Cub thru the winter, and twice with my larger tractor (when we got more than 12”). The Cub certainly earned its keep, especially thanks to that PVC pipe under the blade.
For the first time ever, I couldn’t find a single stone in the grass this spring. I was able to cut the lawn without that back-breaking arduous job of picking out all the stones first.
I was going to beef up the plow frame and use it for moving my boat around with a front trailer hitch. Now, I am reluctant to do that because I don’t want to mess with something that works so well for its primary job (light snowplowing).
I’ll either use the rear hitch on the Cub, or the fixed front one on my Ford 8n, for moving the boat around. I just picked up a new 6 volt battery for the Ford.
I did a little tractor rearrangement out in the barn. The Cub is getting the little spot by the back door, Ford is moving up behind the big side door. My JD loader tractor and Bush-hog, formerly there, have new home back in the newly completed “splitter shed”. I had to scrape down the gravel a couple inches so the canopy top on that would clear the new swinging doors.
The Cub fits in that small back spot a lot better than the significantly wider and longer Ford 8n did. It just barely fit in there behind my camper. I took this picture when I had to use the Cub to jump start it last spring. I shouldn’t be needing to do that any more, now that it has a new battery in it.
I know there’s lots of “color blind” folks out there when it comes to tractors. Not me, and the American “big 3” are represented right here. I am just a touch “Country blind” however.
American iron has always and will always get the work done on this farm, as long as I’m on it.