Custom John Deere Cutting Edge for 48" Blade for JD320

[moresnow]

After many hours of pondering how to create a cutting edge for my blade or to create skids that will allow for little to no damage of my drive way I have decided on a rubber edge solution.

Looking back at my contacts and referencing some airport snow blade solutions from a friend of mine at Oshkosh I started searching and found a company called Rubber Cal that sells many different rubber products ranging from super think to custom thin and in all sizes shapes etc...

First thing was to remove the bolts that held the cutting edge on the blade off and to measure the rubber that i ordered. I ordered enough so that I could have 4 cutting edges that would last many years.

While cutting things got crazy because all the bolts were rusted on. I decided to switch to a galvanized bolt for the winter and put the high tensile bolts (OEM) on in the spring when i switch it back to the normal cutting edge. After getting the blad off I lined it up in the middle and then marked and drilled holes in the rubber. The rubber is heavy and dense.

After lining things up it looks great. The peice of rubber is 6"x1"x48"

Here is a sideprofile shot

The finished Product

 

[moresnow]

Here she is with a clean cut.

 

[KubotaSam]

Before I bought my Chevy truck I had a Nissan 4x4 with a 6' Fisher minute mount plow for snow removal. That plow had a plastic cutting edge that worked great.
I plowed for 10 years with it and never replaced the plastic cutting edge.

 

[blueone]

Moresnow, good job and it will serve you well.

I also want to do something like that to my 7' Meyer as the old cutting edge is pretty worn from the previous owners use. I'm thinking 1" thick UHMW as I have access to scrap from work.

 

[killdozerd11]

Dang that looks like it works great

I seen a cat 950 loader at the dump using a rubber cutting edge on the bottom of the bucket that was similar

 

[locknut]

Moresnow, good job and it will serve you well.

I also want to do something like that to my 7' Meyer as the old cutting edge is pretty worn from the previous owners use. I'm thinking 1" thick UHMW as I have access to scrap from work.

Just recently switched over to a piece of UHMW from rubber.Seems to be wearing better.It's 9/16" x 4" x 48". Another thing I've tried is using ArmorAll on the blade,just slop it on and not buff it.Works great.

 

[JB4310]

Never had a need for rubber edge, but I did have to upgrade my JD 48" blade's cutting edge to thicker steel. I couldn't believe how fast (1 season) the stock edge wore down.

JB.