It works.

[daTeacha]

My ungly conversion of a rear blade to a front worked well in the snow here today. This was the first real opportunity to try it out.

All I did was mount the rear blade (only) to a plate that I bolted to a rear carry-all. The carry-all was modified by making up my own QA plates so I could mount it on the FEL. My rear blade is now convertible from rear to front snow blade. Now, as long as I can remember those carry-all forks stick out about 3 feet in front of the blade, I'm all set.

How's everyone else doing with this latest bit of winter? This is our first decent snowfall this year.

 

[jimmy1]

Snow was late coming but it is making up for lost time. Been able to blow for the last 2 weeks but last week in particular we had some where between 4 and 5 inches a day plus the drifts that accumulate from the high winds. Missed 3 days of work last week due to storm. had to stay home and blow snow.

Jim

 

[Thomas]

Could you post some pics?...have fun stay warm.

Yup,all diesel and lube up,snowblower got her wake up call in the basement,stop at the store and got fresh box of donuts plus jar of instant Maxwell House....gotta feeling Thursday I'll be tad ill.

 

[3RRL]

Yeah Rich,
Post some pics for us. It's always nice to see how guys do their conversions.
BTW, I see you changed your avatar. What is that plant there?

 

[daTeacha]

There's a thread on the projects forum with quite a few pics. The title is "front mounting rear blade?" or something close. If I wasn't so computer handicapped I'd post the link here. The pictures show the homemade QA plates and the blade attachment, plus the whole thing hanging on the tractor.

The plant is one of my Hosta's. Living in the woods there are not a whole lot of things I can grow with any degree of success. Mostly, I just need to keep the rabbits, deer, and my wife's sheep from eating them. They take little in the way of care as long as they have shade and the growing season has something close to a normal amount of rainfall.

I tend to favor the big varieties. That particular one is one of the so-called blue giants. That plant is about 3 years old and gets about 2 feet tall and is pushing 4 feet across. The flowering stems are about 3 1/2 feet tall and the flowers are purple, about 2 inches long and 3/4 inches wide. Other varieties only get to be about 5 inches tall and maybe a foot or less across the leaf crown. They come in shades of white, yellow, green and "blue", with lots of mixed colors on the foliage.

As Hosta enthusiasts go, I have relatively few, maybe 15 or 20 varieties and 40 or 50 plants growing in various beds around the yard area of my property.