What have you done with/to your GC Series 2300, 2400, 1700 Tractor TODAY

[MF RED in MT]

Tried a 1/4" thick piece of UHMWPE for a scraper blade on my 2360. I've only made two passes up & down the paved drive so far, but it worked well. We'll see how long it holds up. (Still looking for an alternative to the $$ OEM piece....)

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Good idea irvingj,

Your 1/4" thick UHMW might be just on the thin side because it's pretty flexible may or may not hold up for you.

If it fails you may want to try a 1/2" or 3/4" thick piece and run it thru the table saw to cut the correct angle for the snowblower to connect at the ground.

KC

 

[irvingj]

Nailed it, KC! Yep, too thin.

Did some more with it yesterday and found it will actually flex upward, allowing snow & ice to get jammed beneath it. Not surprising when I thought about it: I'm using a 3" wide piece of PE, with the same six 5/16" carriage bolts to hold it on. Estimating the head of the carriage bolts at 3/4" diameter, that leaves over an inch of un-supported plastic facing forward -- so yeah, especially when applying down-force to scrape up packed snow, that PE will flex.

Solution I'm now trying is I've put my last, spare OEM steel blade (2-1/2" wide) on top of the plastic to support it. I'll see how that works and how long it lasts.

 

[cdaigle430]

Holy.... How wide is that blade? 7'? The thick and heavy snow where I live would stop my GC dead in its tracks with a blade that size.

My ATV weighs 700 pounds and with a 60 inch plow I can easily plow a foot of snow. GC tractor with BH weighs about 2,700 pounds so you should be good with a 7 foot blade.

 

[cdaigle430]

Where can we get the dozer blade?

 

[cglaser104]

My ATV weighs 700 pounds and with a 60 inch plow I can easily plow a foot of snow. GC tractor with BH weighs about 2,700 pounds so you should be good with a 7 foot blade.

I don't doubt it's power, in doubt it's traction. I have R4 tires and live in a lake effect snow area that produces heavy wet snow. I'm always spinning tires here as I don't use chains.

 

[not2old]

Holy.... How wide is that blade? 7'? The thick and heavy snow where I live would stop my GC dead in its tracks with a blade that size.

I made my own bucket for my GC2610 that is 6' wide and plow with it without a problem. It is also about 6" higher than OEM and when I have a full bucket of wet snow I can tell that I'm getting close to the machine's capacity.

 

[Dmacleo]

getting my road ready for rain. clearing the banks I plowed up to allow for drainage in heavy rain. larger snow boulders already chopped up but many of them were top of hood high.

I had plowed at 15+ mph in heavy heavy snow and created them

 

[MF RED in MT]

Nailed it, KC! Yep, too thin.

Did some more with it yesterday and found it will actually flex upward, allowing snow & ice to get jammed beneath it. Not surprising when I thought about it: I'm using a 3" wide piece of PE, with the same six 5/16" carriage bolts to hold it on. Estimating the head of the carriage bolts at 3/4" diameter, that leaves over an inch of un-supported plastic facing forward -- so yeah, especially when applying down-force to scrape up packed snow, that PE will flex.

Solution I'm now trying is I've put my last, spare OEM steel blade (2-1/2" wide) on top of the plastic to support it. I'll see how that works and how long it lasts.

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Looks like you are moving on to what I call for my projects "Plan B", and that looks like it will take care of the flexing of the UHMW.

I'm impressed with the non-existing wearing of the UHMW and your 1/4" piece should allow you to rotate it and have a new edge if it does some how has any wear issues.

Good job again,

KC

 

[GeneV]

Nailed it, KC! Yep, too thin.

Did some more with it yesterday and found it will actually flex upward, allowing snow & ice to get jammed beneath it. Not surprising when I thought about it: I'm using a 3" wide piece of PE, with the same six 5/16" carriage bolts to hold it on. Estimating the head of the carriage bolts at 3/4" diameter, that leaves over an inch of un-supported plastic facing forward -- so yeah, especially when applying down-force to scrape up packed snow, that PE will flex.

Solution I'm now trying is I've put my last, spare OEM steel blade (2-1/2" wide) on top of the plastic to support it. I'll see how that works and how long it lasts.

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That's how I have it on my plow, 1/2" thick UHMW sandwiched with the sacrificial edge that came with the plow.

 

[GeneV]

This is the blade I use, had float ends which I removed as the snow would stay on the blade and not shift out to the side.
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Was worried it would be too big, but so far it works well in 4WD. Not so well in 2WD. No chains needed so far, but do slide down a bit on sideways bottom of driveway.

Still jealous of you with the snow blowers, but had this plow already and for about $150 adapted to the tractor SSQA, so only takes a minute to swap out to bucket.
Nice not have to lift anything to attach.

Woah nelly! That's one bigazz plow on that thar tractor!