not all front blades made equal?

[Diesel_Boy]

i've read on the forum that plowing the snow with a front blade on a tractor can be a risky thing because supposedly if the blade strikes something solid and immovable, it might bend the frame or something on the tractor. a friend of mine told me plows for trucks have a spring loaded strip at the bottom that will bend backward if it hits something. sometimes the whole plow will tilt backward. two part question:
is it true about bending something on the tractor with a front blade?
if so, is there any way to still plow with a tractor, with a third party blade made specially for this, or to modify the blade?
thanks,
diesel boy.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Lots of people modify truck mounted blades to fit a tractor. This gives you the spring protection you want. Curtis makes this style blade to hook up to your loader. The biggest problem is when people hook up a stationary blade to the loader then ram it into something that is footed rather well. This puts a lot of stress on the loader arms and can bend the loader arms themselves. As for the frame of a tractor. I would think the blade frame would bend before the tractor frame would but most tractors that I am around don't use frames anymore. The plow would bolt into holes designed into the tractors castings.

 

[bigpete]

My JD front blade is a spring trip blade that can be either made stationary with pins or trip(hinge forward from the top) against the tension of springs when it strikes something. It a pretty standard design that should be copied if building your own.