snow depth limit for my tractor

[snowplow1]

I use a 6'6'' blade on the the loader arms, works like a charm, you can scrape with it, and stack it as high as the arms can reach

 

[wade simpson]

That blade looks like it would work great. I went away for the month of Jan and the snow got upto around 2.5 ft while I was gone. I can dig my way out but it would take days. I'll just snowshoe in for the rest of this winter.

If I had been here to get at the snow before it got so deep I could have used a blade to get it outta the way. I have been thinking about buying just the blade then making the mounts.
I saw a real neat idea here. The guy hooked a blade under his bucket and used the bucket to lift the blade.

Lloyd

I had heard you could peel spruce logs in the spring. It worked great, the bark just slides off. The white one is peeled, the darker one is a hemlock that I had to cut down to make the road.

Last summer I had to divide my timwe between kayaking and camp. This year I'm buying a motorcycle so I just have a pretty full summer. I'm not really ready for spring yet..still some fun left in winter

 

[wade simpson]

I use a 6'6'' blade on the the loader arms, works like a charm, you can scrape with it, and stack it as high as the arms can reach

What brand of tractor is that, the only blue I've seen is ford and that tractor looks new.

I like the angle function of that blade.

 

[snowplow1]

Wade the tractor is a LS, formerly the montana brand, LS has gone into making the tractors under their own name, yes its new 26 hours so far. It has the skid steer type mount on the arms for the bucket, so I bought a skid steer mount, had a friend that had an old pickup blade, all I did was shorten the a arms on the push brackets of the plow, add some minor reinforcing on the push arms and the skid steer bracket and put it to work. I have to angle it by hand but it not a pain, the nice thing is by curling it forward some I can scrape the driveway, (blacktop) when I carry the snow from the edge of the blacktop to stack it I curl the blade back as I'm going to let the blade rest on the shoes so it doesn't dig in. Danny

 

[snowplow1]

Wade, another thing that you can do if you can locate an old pickup plow blade is just weld a set of ears in the back or the bucket, pin the plow blade to the ears in the bucket and use the bucket along with the loader arms to lift the blade, that way you have the option of angleing the blade if you don't have a quick disconnect skid steer arrangement to mount the a arms to. Pull two pins and the blade is off. Danny

 

[DK35vince]

snowplow1 ,
Nice looking tractor.

 

[wade simpson]

It looks like it works good and seems to be sturdy. I've thought about adapting a truck blade for my tractor. Could you post a pic of the mounting arrangement? If you don't mind I may outright copy it or adapt it for my smaller tractor(over the summer).
I was really surprised at how my little tractor pushes the snow. I have a back blade that I was going to use as i want to be able to push the snow at an angle but I can think of some other uses for having a blade in front.

 

[snowplow1]

Wade, I'll take a few pictures tomorrow and post them. Danny

 

[snowplow1]

snowplow1 ,
Nice looking tractor.

Thanks

 

[snowplow1]

Wade, here are the pictures of the plow mount. from the basic mount we added a channel along the bottom, a channel verticle, and two angle irons from the plow A frame to the rapid attach plate just for insurance and to help distribute the load. I have a set of heavy springs on the blade for roll incase of hitting something. If you plan on using it as a dozer blade also, remove the springs and use a couple of rods or something to prevent the blade from rotating. The guy I got the blade from had a set of rods made up for this function but he couldn't find them as he was in the process of selling his place and had gotten rid of a bunch of stuff already. Danny

 

[wade simpson]

In pic 3 (from left) is the pin (with the wire on it) in the curved piece what prevents rotation of the blade?

Geez, the frame certainly looks beefy enough to take the loads. Is there much flex when pushing a heavy load or with a load on one side of the blade? You weld like me...not pretty but very solid(smile).

looks good.

Thank you for the pics. I have seen a few plows just like that for sale here and wondered how to adapt them to a tractor. Do you think it could overload your loader arms?

 

[snowplow1]

Wade, yes the pin is what keeps the blade from rotating, I have only pushed snow with it, haven't noticed anything as far as flex. I have pushed some heavy wet snow and had the snow a good 8 feet ahead of the plow moving along with the full blade. As long as the banks aren't frozen I can move them back with no problem. I normally angle the blade and roll all the snow to one side of my driveway, when it gets built up enough I push it all back, done that twice so far this winter. Really shouldn't be any differn't than a full bucket of sand/gravel. Danny

 

[JJT]

A snowblower will cure most of that.

and chains will cure the rest....

 

[k0ua]

Wade, yes the pin is what keeps the blade from rotating, I have only pushed snow with it, haven't noticed anything as far as flex. I have pushed some heavy wet snow and had the snow a good 8 feet ahead of the plow moving along with the full blade. As long as the banks aren't frozen I can move them back with no problem. I normally angle the blade and roll all the snow to one side of my driveway, when it gets built up enough I push it all back, done that twice so far this winter. Really shouldn't be any differn't than a full bucket of sand/gravel. Danny

I like your setup, simple and quick and the results speak for themselves. gotta be better than using the bucket which I did this winter, got the job done, but kinda slow. I am tired of snow.

James K0UA

 

[wade simpson]

I like your setup, simple and quick and the results speak for themselves. gotta be better than using the bucket which I did this winter, got the job done, but kinda slow. I am tired of snow.

I agree with everything you said. I just bought a motorcycle yesterday so I'm now officailly awaiting the disappearance of the snow. It has been a great winter tho.

 

[wade simpson]

Really shouldn't be any differn't than a full bucket of sand/gravel. Danny

I think my bucket is smaller than your's, at 50 inches. I may have to trim some material from the edges of the blade so i don't apply too much load on one of the arms. Nothing a mini grinder can't handle. Angling the blade and rolling the material to the side really takes a big part of the load off the supports.

I think I'll start looking in the spring when the price of the blades will drop or more become available.

Years ago i made a blade from scratch for a lawn tractor I wanted to push snow with. It worked great and was very easy to build. I've got my welding machine back now so i can stick some metal together.

 

[snowplow1]

I agree with everything you said. I just bought a motorcycle yesterday so I'm now officailly awaiting the disappearance of the snow. It has been a great winter tho.

Wade, what motorcycle did you buy? Here's mine 2005 Honda ST1300 80,000 miles on it. Danny

 

[wade simpson]

I bought a 2006 harley sportster. It has 27 000 miles on it but the price was good. I was looking at a 2010 honda shadow rs but the price of the harley was good. I'll leave it at the shop until mid march.
You have a great looking bike and Honda are great bikes, some of the best in the world. It looks like you've done some long trips.
I plan to go to New Brunswick in May and probably all over Nova scotia during the summer. I also really enjoy kayaking so I plan to scope out kayaking spots on the bike.