JB4310
Super Member
I'm just gonna throw this Frankenstein project out here and see what happens.
I had an old western snow plow that I modded to mount on my 3PT Imatch, angled it with rear remotes. It worked great having a 4 way plow and a loader bucket on at the same time on one machine. That was last year.
This year I wanted to front mount the plow on my JD4310, I've seen all the loader mounted plows and never really warmed up to that approach, but was going to try it anyway. I was all ready to mod my pallet fork carrier to mount the plow to but just couldn't do it after some dry runs with the plow clamped on the fork carrier, it just didn't look right to me with the plow so far out front.
So I went ahead and made a frame mount for the stock piece of undercarriage I had left over from the truck mount, it was fairly easy, just removed the existing spacers between the frame and the hood guard brackets and utilized 4 existing holes in the frame on each side to bolt 1/2" plate to. The new mount doesn't interfere with anything, can still remove the loader etc.
Using the bucket curl circuit to angle the plow, nothing new there. But the real kicker is I'm using the loader to lift the plow!!! As unorthodox as it sounds and looks it seems like it may work out. No risk of damaging anything on the tractor that I can see, pushing the plow with the tractor frame, the loader arms are up out of the fray.
This whole thing cost just $150 in parts and can all be reversed if needed, so I don't mind any criticism anyone may have.
I'm going to build a front lift to mount on the weight bracket for when the loader is removed like I've seen on "Beenthere"s"
For now I'll use it like this to see how the front mounted plow works, have to clean up the hoses and chains, that's a limiter chain attached to the weight bracket to prevent the loader from rising to high.
JB,
I had an old western snow plow that I modded to mount on my 3PT Imatch, angled it with rear remotes. It worked great having a 4 way plow and a loader bucket on at the same time on one machine. That was last year.
This year I wanted to front mount the plow on my JD4310, I've seen all the loader mounted plows and never really warmed up to that approach, but was going to try it anyway. I was all ready to mod my pallet fork carrier to mount the plow to but just couldn't do it after some dry runs with the plow clamped on the fork carrier, it just didn't look right to me with the plow so far out front.
So I went ahead and made a frame mount for the stock piece of undercarriage I had left over from the truck mount, it was fairly easy, just removed the existing spacers between the frame and the hood guard brackets and utilized 4 existing holes in the frame on each side to bolt 1/2" plate to. The new mount doesn't interfere with anything, can still remove the loader etc.
Using the bucket curl circuit to angle the plow, nothing new there. But the real kicker is I'm using the loader to lift the plow!!! As unorthodox as it sounds and looks it seems like it may work out. No risk of damaging anything on the tractor that I can see, pushing the plow with the tractor frame, the loader arms are up out of the fray.
This whole thing cost just $150 in parts and can all be reversed if needed, so I don't mind any criticism anyone may have.
I'm going to build a front lift to mount on the weight bracket for when the loader is removed like I've seen on "Beenthere"s"
For now I'll use it like this to see how the front mounted plow works, have to clean up the hoses and chains, that's a limiter chain attached to the weight bracket to prevent the loader from rising to high.
JB,
