Homemade Snowblade

[jb62901]

Got to love those homemade blades. Like your build...

 

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I knew there was a reason my camp is 300 KM north of Toronto. I hate the big city. By the way we only have a dusting of snow so far this winter in the city and it will all be gone by Saturday with +9C (48F) on Saturday. Better be some snow up at camp to try the blade out.

I just got back from Canukaland. We have about 4" on the ground where I live near Utica NY and 2 miles from my house there is almost no snow, all the way through the Adirondacks on 87 until one 2 mile stretch near Keesville, then none again all the way through Montreal until my sister in laws in Laval, where they've got about a foot.
My place in Fla has been in the 20's and 30's almost every night for a month now. Last month when we were Montreal, I was watching the news one night and the temperature was the same in Tampa and Montreal.
No sense in going south yet, until it warms up.
So much for global warming!!!

 

[wvpolekat]

So much for global warming!!!

Didn't you hear, it's not "global warming" anymore? It's "climate change" so they can't be wrong. They did that when almost everything they predicted didn't happen.

 

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Didn't you hear, it's not "global warming" anymore? It's "climate change" so they can't be wrong. They did that when almost everything they predicted didn't happen.

Yeah, Al and his cronies just need an excuse to keep ripping off their millions for carbon tax, credits etc., especially hypocritical to talk about carbon footprint, when his gas/electric bill for 2006 was $30,000. verified by snopes.com
Wow did we get off the subject of snowblades!!

 

[David Devuono]

We have an environmental dude up in canada, can't recall his name. There was a series of articles in the paper about wintering in the bush in Northern Ontario, Canada. Lots of references about living off the land and if more people moved into the bush yada yada. I was amused at the though of a million people flocking to the bush and burning 8 cords of wood each, as he did, to keep his family warm.

 

[David Devuono]

So my wife and I went up to camp in the rain on New Years day. It rained most of the day and with 24 hours of 50F weather the snow pack went down. The road was about 4 inches of slush. I had to get my plow blade together that night before every thing froze up. I had brought a twin 500 watt light, welder and generator. My generator has a 13hp motor and claims 7,500 Watts peak and 6250 running. It has 4x20 amp outlets, 1x30 amp 120v and 1x30 amp 220v. My welder calls for a 120volt 25 amp circuit. At home I have never blown the 20 amp breaker on the circuit using the welder on its highest setting.

Anyway I could only weld for about 15 seconds and the main breaker on the generator would blow, not the individual 20amp breaker on the outlet. As I did not have a three prong 30 amp plug, I wired up 1/2 of the four prong 30am 220 plug. Still would blow the main fuse, even with the 500 watt light off (using a flashlight to see). I ended up turning the welder down to a lower heat setting and making multiple passes. I was dissapointed that this generator did no better then my 4k generator. I will try it again once I get a 3 prong plug on the 30 amp 120 outlet, but not holding up much hope as its the main breaker that goes and not the smaller breaker on the branch circuit.

Well I got the job done and managed to clear the road, man I have to get a rear light on the Massey, plowing by flashlight is tiring. Here are a couple of pictures and I will try and post a day time video. As the real work was done at night I did not take any videos.

 

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The blade looks good. I see you rigged your chains almost exactly the same way I did. I have a 5 gal bucket of extra crosslinks so just ran some of them them back and forth over the tread to keep them on top. Those few warm days we had caused a bear to stir up and walk across my son's lawn to the burning pit in search of a meal.

 

[David Devuono]

I see you rigged your chains almost exactly the same way I did. I have a 5 gal bucket of extra crosslinks so just ran some of them them back and forth over the tread to keep them on top. QUOTE]

I had my Bear Banger handy during our walk. Problem with a good melt, a wolf track can look like a bear track.

While I made the chains for my Kubota, truck and everything else, these chains came with the tractor for an extra hundred bucks and are manufactured. (by someone else)

 

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I get the chains from our town highway dept. in the spring and make them for everything.
Bears are scarce in our area and wolves supposedly are extinct in NY but coming down 87 near Elizabethtown, I said to my wife, look at the scrawney bear crossing up ahead, as we got closer, the bear had a tail about 2 ft long. The following spring we saw another in the same area with 2 young'uns. Encon says it's just coyotes. A couple years later near Wells, one crossed the 2 lane 100 ft in front of us so I slowed down and watched it trot along the side of the road within 50 ft of us and it's shoulder was as high as the box beam guard rail. Biggest coyote I've ever seen. The locals say the conservation dept secretly released several of them but Encon absolutely denys it.