Nice Job, Steve. That's going to come in real handy. Why do some of the commercial ones have one blade angled?
Looks great, I think you'll love that behind the 749. Just finished working my drive with the 7040 and 6' plane. Purchased the 6' for the 4105 jd and its to small. Working a drive with a 7040 is a bit more tiring, the small landplane tucked down almost under the tractor is hard to see.
looks good!
I would box in the top link plates for extra support and also figure a way to tie in the 2x2 box tube to the side plates other than just a weld. IT looks great, but if there is a weak link, it will be at those welds. Its carrying the weight of the plane, plus material, plus forces from scraping/grading/ and the intial shock when it first engages rocks, hard ground, etc. I would ad some thick 1/4" angle underneath the box tube and weld it to the side of the side tube to help distribute the load and take some of the stress off of the welds.
(just food for thought before you paint it) Looks fantastic!
Gordon, thanks for the reply and interest. There is a little over 4 inches clearance the material seems to flow across the blades well> Just gave it a test run, seems to work okay but I will need to get a hyd top link for it to work the best.
The blades are set flush with the skids for lawn prep work, that said it will still load up with gravel rather easily as in the first pic below. Made a couple of passes up and down the drive and grabbed another pic.