mike69440
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- Joined
- Jun 2, 2005
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- Central NH (God's Country)
- Tractor
- 1984 Kubota B7200D (Sold 2015,) 2005 L39 Kubota, 2006 RTV 900 1997 Komatsu PC75UU2E w/ Thumb & Blade, 2013 Mahindra Max28XL Shuttle
Pictures of your snow weapons. Re: My $50 snow plow now is maybe my $2000 plow?
Over the several years I've had this plow,an old Fisher commercial duty 8' hunk of steel I picked up for $50. I bet i have near $2000 in it now.
I've replaced and reinforced the QA plate, installed all new hydraulics & hoses, rebuilt the trip edge and springs, added 8" HD skid shoes and weld repaired the thing more time than I want to think about. Plowing boulders, catching ledge, stumps, and frozen ice banks is kind of tough on equipment. I figure I plow entire acre if I do all areas of the property from a storm.
I bet it has 100 lbs or more weld rod in the plow.
Latest fail were the upper and lower brackets at the rod end of the right side SA tilt cylinder failed finally after hitting several frozen boulders partially buried along my driveway.
A great guy done our road has a nice little machine, weld and repair side gig in a heated workshop.
His rates are about 1/3 of a regular business and his cost to repair stuff is about 1/5 to 1/10 of the local Kubota dealership.
Working along side him fabricating all new brackets and welding on the grill guard I have been meaning to do for years took 4 hours.
I'm ready for the next storm coming this week!
Over the several years I've had this plow,an old Fisher commercial duty 8' hunk of steel I picked up for $50. I bet i have near $2000 in it now.
I've replaced and reinforced the QA plate, installed all new hydraulics & hoses, rebuilt the trip edge and springs, added 8" HD skid shoes and weld repaired the thing more time than I want to think about. Plowing boulders, catching ledge, stumps, and frozen ice banks is kind of tough on equipment. I figure I plow entire acre if I do all areas of the property from a storm.
I bet it has 100 lbs or more weld rod in the plow.
Latest fail were the upper and lower brackets at the rod end of the right side SA tilt cylinder failed finally after hitting several frozen boulders partially buried along my driveway.
A great guy done our road has a nice little machine, weld and repair side gig in a heated workshop.
His rates are about 1/3 of a regular business and his cost to repair stuff is about 1/5 to 1/10 of the local Kubota dealership.
Working along side him fabricating all new brackets and welding on the grill guard I have been meaning to do for years took 4 hours.
I'm ready for the next storm coming this week!
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