mattinmason
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We bought a 54" front blade a few years ago to plow our driveway with our 4115. The first year it worked OK. At the end of the second winter, I slid on some ice at speed and slammed the right side of the plow into a frozen pile of snow and bent several pieces of it badly - the first piece on the tractor was fine, but the piece that mates to it (with the horizontal bar) was all twisted and wouldn't mate any more. The front part that mates with the blade and the mating surfaces on the back of the blade were also bent.
I brought it to my local dealer to see if it was repairable, and they managed to bend it back into shape (though that was a nightmare in and of itself - they never called me with an estimate and they initially wanted to charge me more than the cost of a new plow setup for the repair! Thankfully because of their error they dropped the price to only 2/3rd the new cost of the plow )
It worked OK for most of this past winter, except at the end of the season we broke one of the pins that holds the blade onto the main piece. I managed to get the broken piece out and replace it (luckily they're only $9).
This season, the blade kept falling off the front, I broke another pin, and now the central piece is bent badly and won't mate any more - but we haven't hit anything else.
Is this blade just too small for snow plowing with a 4115 or did I get the tissue paper model by accident?
I brought it to my local dealer to see if it was repairable, and they managed to bend it back into shape (though that was a nightmare in and of itself - they never called me with an estimate and they initially wanted to charge me more than the cost of a new plow setup for the repair! Thankfully because of their error they dropped the price to only 2/3rd the new cost of the plow )
It worked OK for most of this past winter, except at the end of the season we broke one of the pins that holds the blade onto the main piece. I managed to get the broken piece out and replace it (luckily they're only $9).
This season, the blade kept falling off the front, I broke another pin, and now the central piece is bent badly and won't mate any more - but we haven't hit anything else.
Is this blade just too small for snow plowing with a 4115 or did I get the tissue paper model by accident?