Cdash
Silver Member
Been reading here for the last couple days, gleening tons of good information and figured I'd return the favor by showing off my projects.
So far, I have built a set (actually 2 sets, trying to sell the first one) of forks and a loader plow for my 4100 with 410 loader. These came out of the desire to have the items without paying top dollar for the JD brand. I have built 2 fork carriages. The first one used 4"x42" forks from a forklift on a homemade angle iron frame. I welded up attachment points that work with the 410 quick tach feature. These worked good, but the rather large forks used up too much of my meager lifting capacity, so I went back to the scrap yard and found smaller forks for version 2, which is what you see in the pictures. These work perfectly for what my needs are. They are 3"x27" forks from a hand operated (hydraulic jack style) lift truck and cost me $10. I broke down and bought the steel for it and have $70 total in this set up. Works good. I have lifted as much as my 4100 will lift. All thats left to do is a paint job.
Project #2 is a loader plow. Again, I found pre-owned items to start from. This blade was originally made to clamp on a road grader blade to throw the snow out rather than creating a windrow. It's a 6' blade, cut down to 5'-6". I paid $70 for the blade, $20 in scrap steel, $30 for the skid shoes, and $10 for the springs. It works pretty good, I just need to make a weight for my 3pt. The rear blade just doesn't have enough weight to help. I made the blade so it can trip if I hit something hard and set it for right angle. I was thinking about adding a cylinder for angling the blade, but after using it, I am not so sure it would be worth the effort and cost. The only change I may make is to add a bracket to lock the blade in a straight position.
Here is a link to my pictures:
<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.cdashxj.rockcrawler.com/images/Projects/>http://www.cdashxj.rockcrawler.com/images/Projects/</A>
Thanks for all of the good ideas!!
Craig
So far, I have built a set (actually 2 sets, trying to sell the first one) of forks and a loader plow for my 4100 with 410 loader. These came out of the desire to have the items without paying top dollar for the JD brand. I have built 2 fork carriages. The first one used 4"x42" forks from a forklift on a homemade angle iron frame. I welded up attachment points that work with the 410 quick tach feature. These worked good, but the rather large forks used up too much of my meager lifting capacity, so I went back to the scrap yard and found smaller forks for version 2, which is what you see in the pictures. These work perfectly for what my needs are. They are 3"x27" forks from a hand operated (hydraulic jack style) lift truck and cost me $10. I broke down and bought the steel for it and have $70 total in this set up. Works good. I have lifted as much as my 4100 will lift. All thats left to do is a paint job.
Project #2 is a loader plow. Again, I found pre-owned items to start from. This blade was originally made to clamp on a road grader blade to throw the snow out rather than creating a windrow. It's a 6' blade, cut down to 5'-6". I paid $70 for the blade, $20 in scrap steel, $30 for the skid shoes, and $10 for the springs. It works pretty good, I just need to make a weight for my 3pt. The rear blade just doesn't have enough weight to help. I made the blade so it can trip if I hit something hard and set it for right angle. I was thinking about adding a cylinder for angling the blade, but after using it, I am not so sure it would be worth the effort and cost. The only change I may make is to add a bracket to lock the blade in a straight position.
Here is a link to my pictures:
<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.cdashxj.rockcrawler.com/images/Projects/>http://www.cdashxj.rockcrawler.com/images/Projects/</A>
Thanks for all of the good ideas!!
Craig
