truck plow on a BX

[radioman]

I am in a process of converting a old, beat up truck plow that needs alot of work to my BX. Last winter I was able to obtain a free truck plow from my uncle. I needed to use it right away so I made a quick modification. I took the A frame off the plow and pinned the plow straight to the fel arms after removing the bucket. This worked for the winter, but it acted like a dozer blade. I had to be extra careful with the lawn, couldn't use float over lawn area, only on blacktop. After a couple lawn scalping, I vowed I would make it better this summer. So Basically I did. First step was put the A frame back on and modify it so I could use the trip springs and angle it. These pictures are the "before" pics before modifications that is acting like a dozer blade last winter. Basically I am looking for advice here on my welding skills and metal fabrication. I do not have much to work with, just a simple hobart ez handler wire feed and a handheld grinder, sears battery operated reciprocating saw for cutting metal. I plan on using silver and deming drill bits from harbor freight for drilling my large holes for pinning.

 

[radman1]

I fabed a 84" meyer plow to the front of my JD3720. I still have the angle function. Your BX is going to have a difficult time in wet or deep snow due to the size of the blade. Give it a try. you may have to cut the blade narrower. Still beats a shovel!

 

[bx24]

I say look at the bright side .... If your local snowfalls turn out to be too much, its not a big deal to "shorten" the blade!

 

[redharley]

I would agree with the previous poster's,most likly will be to much to handle in wet snow.ON my Bx I made the kubota blade larger 68" and in 6" of wet snow it will push you sideways if you have the blade turned to either side. With dry snow No problem it will move plenty of snow.

 

[washita]

modified a truck plow for my brother in law on his bx 24 but I welded bar stock into the back of the bucket vertically and placed the pin holes high enough so he had 4'' of float on the snowblade with 2'' of clearance under the buckets front edge when lowered, he rolls the bucket back to raise and lower the plow and there is still enough room to angle the blade he has used it for one winter so far no problems (keep in mind my brother in law can destroy an anvil with a rubber mallet) if I catch him at home I will get some pictures for you

 

[radioman]

Here is what I have done so far for fabbing. Took the A frame, cut all the unnesscary parts off. I was quite surprised aboutr how much wieght i saved doing it like that. I also shorten the back of the A frame so its nearly a foot shorter. I realized due to the single acting cylinders were shot , I didnt want to cut it too short in case I can't find a shorter double acting cyclinders.

 

[Just2quickz28]

I am interested on how this works out. I had a snow plow from a state plow truck it was so big and so heavy that it just was a pain to use, plus it had no float mechanism in the blade mount it utilized all 3 mounting locations on the tractor and even though it kept the A frame for angle it felt more like a dozer blade. I scrapped the entire unit last year and looking for a new idea.

I would like to get my hands on a used Fisher homesteader mold board. I think that would be the perfect plow for setting up on the BX,

Radioman, how do you plan on allowing the front of the plow to pivot and follow the ground. I was thinking of using the Curtis Snow plow idea.

 

[radioman]

Just2quickz28 - the plow I am using is a very, very old meyers plow, very simalar to curtis plow. Some of you feel its too heavy, I feel its very light compared to the fisher plow like you wanted. My father has a fisher plow and it way too heavy for me. The old meyers plow, I can actually lift one corner of the plow whereas my fathers fishers plow is way too heavy for me to lift. He mounted his plow on the 3 pt arms in the back and made it straight. he doesn't care if it doesnt angle. I do. Anyway, I don't want to remove the curl piston. The chain only locks the blade in one position, although it allows it to bounce up if it hits something. The way I plow the snow before with a poorman's wooden snowpusher, I curl the bucket going up at the top downwards and then curl right up to push the snow onto the other side of the pile. This allows me to pack more snow in the same space without switching to bucket and dig it out and move it back more. I beleive that the trip springs on the truck plow will be enough to prevent too much damage to lawn and save BX from jolting.

 

[Just2quickz28]

The fisher Homesteader plow is a full poly plastic plow, i can lift the entire assembly into a truck by myself. Homesteader Personal Plow | by fisher - Home says its around 250lbs.

I was thinking of getting this (since I don't have a blade anymore) SnowSport HD: Truck Snow Plow Attachments and Blades for Residential Snow Removal
I figure with a receiver hitch either in the bucket or on the frame would make do. Plus i could use it on my truck (in reverse of course)

 

[4shorts]

I'm sure it's an easy bit of fabrication. I did the same last year on my Grand L. Here's how I did mine.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/customization/131136-snow-plow-adapted-fel.html

 

[Gizmo2]

Boy does this thread bring back memories.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/126827-2320-snow-blade-almost-done.html
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/127626-snow-plow-now-done.html

 

[jb62901]

I started with this.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/photos/data/539/3-26-07.jpg

and ended up with this.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/photos/data/539/3-26-07_0111.jpg

I have used it on dirt but no snow yet....

 

[radioman]

jb- that looks nice. you can hardly tell it used to be a barrel. tell me- can you angle it ? how do you like it so far ?

 

[radioman]

been busy fabricating and tack welding. I finally got something figured out with the scrap metal I have laying around and make something work. here pictures of work in progress.

 

[radioman]

here are more pics.

 

[radioman]

I finally got the plow setup done for this winter on my BX. I got the metal cut, grinded,welded. I used a wire cup on the grinder to cleanup the rust and dirt off the plow to prep it for paint. I primed it with oil primer from TSC and painted it. I used new kubota orange from TSC and added hardener to it. I painted the back of the plow black to absorb some of the light reflection from the tractor. For now I will be manually angling it, Will be using a hitch pin I got from horrible freight. To manually angle the plow seems easily done,m although My next project in future will be getting a double acting cylinder and mount it on plow. I will need to figure out how to add an additional hyralic port with electric diverter soleniod so I can add a grapple for bucket if I wanted. I figured that this way I will be able to manually angle the plow sideways as well tilting the plow when pushing snow up to the top of snowpile.

 

[Zick]

Looks great (and big!), hopefully you won't have any problems pushing that much snow.

 

[radioman]

Looks great (and big!), hopefully you won't have any problems pushing that much snow.

It might look big, but it feels good. This winter will be a nice test . If worse comes to worse, I can always cut it down.

 

[bx24]

For now I will be manually angling it, Will be using a hitch pin I got from horrible freight. To manually angle the plow seems easily done,m although My next project in future will be getting a double acting cylinder and mount it on plow.

Why not use a length of chain instead of the "tilt cylinder" and then use that hydraulic circuit to swing the plow left and right?

 

[radioman]

Why not use a length of chain instead of the "tilt cylinder" and then use that hydraulic circuit to swing the plow left and right?

There is not enough weight to keep plow down as I move the connection as close as I dare over the A frame. also I need to be able to do one of the 2 things- One tilt the plow to scrape ice If we ever get an ice storm, two I need to break the snow cap on top of the snow pile and then push more snow over the back of the snow bank. make sense ?