Thread: FEL Carry-All
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Old 06-21-2008, 02:57 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Default Re: FEL Carry-All

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Originally Posted by LBrown59
Been thinking about building a set of these http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/k...9/100_2478.jpg
for the front blade of this tractor

but haven't came up with a way to hang them off the top of the blade as yet.
Well that's a horse of a different color entirely. For one, you don't have a bucket bottom to utilize.

You could take a piece of 3/4" ply, maybe 16"-24" wide and higher than the blade and cut an arc slot, toward the tractor side, that fits over the top of the blade. Leave as much in front of the blade but also keep a healthy portion behind. From the bottom edge that extends forward you could screw through the ply into you 2x fork. Beefier would be a pair of these hangers for each side of each fork and through bolt ply, fork, ply and have the 2x4 (2x6)oriented with the tall width vertically. Stagger the bolts. Skip block between the ply hangers to tie them together. The weak point would be the "U" on the notch so maybe if you use a pair of hangers for each fork block this section solid with a pair of ply "U" and use const adhesive and screws. The two ply "U" blocks together would equal the 2x stock and it would be about as strong as you could make it with common wood construction.


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