Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Heres how I clear snow

[OTHill]

Shop built mini truck dozer.

 

[Thomas]

:thumbsup:

 

[ruffdog]

The issue I see with this design is the steep angle of the pivot arms during plowing. Most plows have the framework straight back to the vehicles frame during plowing and angled up during transport. The OP has the framework highly angled during plowing and more straight when transporting. When hitting an object or pushing heavy snow, the plow will be forced down and the vehicle up. If the OP has these issues during plowing, the fix should be fairly easy to remedy.

 

[LouNY]

Shop built mini truck dozer.View attachment 629533View attachment 629534

Looks nice, good for small paved parking lots and such,
as mentioned the mounting angles are not conductive to heavy pushing.

 

[PILOON]

The issue I see with this design is the steep angle of the pivot arms during plowing. Most plows have the framework straight back to the vehicles frame during plowing and angled up during transport. The OP has the framework highly angled during plowing and more straight when transporting. When hitting an object or pushing heavy snow, the plow will be forced down and the vehicle up. If the OP has these issues during plowing, the fix should be fairly easy to remedy.

Having DIY'd my plows I soon learned that you want the push arms parallel to the ground.
Down angle creats lift or hopping while up leaves lots of snow behind as the plow 'climbs'.

Actually I'd suspect the best rig would be with the push arms anchored on the rear differential as I've seen on some old tractors.

 

[ovrszd]

Shop built mini truck dozer.

Clever idea!!! Can't tell for sure if the lower links swivel at the box end? Also can't tell for sure how they control sideways movement??

 

[radios1]

this is good too!.

 

[LouNY]

A lot of the old Jeeps and Scouts and even the old pickups had the push part of the mount well to the rear of the frame.
Most dozer type blades for the larger tractors still run the main push bar back under the tractor to the drawbar mounts.

 

[shovelmike]

Wow, I like that V8 snow blower.

 

[George2615]

Seems like a poor example for a big block as the snow was bogging it down.