Horse Mat for Soft Snow Blade Edge

[Anonymous Poster]

Bought a 6ft by 4ft horse stall mat at Orschelens (very heavy thing), cut it about the same width size as my existing metal cutting edge on my rear 6ft blade, removed metal edge, drilled holes, then used stainless steel 1/2 inch nuts, bolts, and washers to finish install.

First time I plowed snow with it lastnight was with 5 inches of snow. It was super quiet, no more scratching the road, or concrete (or worrying about gouching). It cut into the snow with no problems, I was pretty surprised. Never had to make two passes.

As you notice the edge, its barely worn, thats after 45 minutes of concrete plowing, and asphalt. Pretty strong stuff.
I figure with the edge, I could turn it around if one side gets worn, then cut another strip when its all gone. /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

Pretty cool for $40, and $10 in nuts and bolts...
It does flex back if you run over an edge, hit ice.
But with 400lb blade it holds up rather nicely.

I've heard about the poly edges, couldn't find anyone locally. So I tried with 1inch pre hard-rubber edges, no luck either

Enjoy /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

John

 

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view from backside

 

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view of mat

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

Pretty slick idea. I may try that with the 8' Western on my dump truck.

 

[MikePA]

<font color=blue>cut it about the same width size as my existing metal cutting edge on my rear 6ft blade...drilled holes,...</font color=blue>
What did you use to cut and drill the mat? The horse mats we have were pretty much impervious to anything I tried to use.

 

[Thomas]

Good idea /w3tcompact/icons/clever.gif saving one cement or tar driveway from heavy scratches.

 

[DocHeb]

Good idea.

You might be able to use that material on a FEL bucket - if you reverse the bolts and put the longer end with the nut projecting into the bucket, you would still be able to use the FEL to scoop without gouging the driveway.