DonT-B7500
Bronze Member
I recently purchased a used FEL mounted Curtis snowplow for my Kubota B7500. I have it all hooked up and did a little testing, granted it was on my dry asphalt driveway, but I am a little concerned. When I was pushing along I got a lot of chatter from the blade, made the whole tractor shake. Not sure if this behavior will go away once I have the weight of pushing snow and also the lubricating factor of the snow. Also with the plow weighing around 400lb and the weight of the loader arms when in the float position I have to be close to 1000lb pushing down on the blade. I'm considering building a ladder sub-frame that would either attach to the MMM pins on the FEL frame and a bracket that would be fabricated off the front frame of the tractor and then attached similarly to how it would be mounted on a pickup, or should I stay with the FEL mounted setup? If I go with the ladder on the FEL frame would you use the MMM mounts which are welded on behind the FEL frame or would you weld new ears to the front of the frame, the existing MMM ears look pretty stout but I don't want to bend or break them. Let me know your comments for either setup, I don't want to be going through my first snow storm and be unhappy with my setup and start fabricating the frame in the middle of December.