Snow plow adapted to the FEL

DK35vince · Feb 18, 2012

Nice work.
Nice looking welds.
My welds do not look nearly as nice, but they seems to hold up OK.

DK35vince · Feb 18, 2012

k0ua said:
Paul I am always amazed by your brilliantly conceived and masterfully executed projects. I wonder if some snowplow manufacture right now is eyeing up this project an wondering how much this is going to cost to add to their product line. I always enjoy your posts and projects. Take care up there.

James K0UA

Some snow blades have that feature.
I mounted a Western truck plow to my tractor and it had the shock absorber feature on it.

4shorts · Feb 18, 2012

DK35vince said:
Nice work.
Nice looking welds.
My welds do not look nearly as nice, but they seems to hold up OK.

Thanks. The looks are only a bonus. If the weld isn't pretty and still holds it's great :thumbsup:

DK35vince said:
Some snow blades have that feature.
I mounted a Western truck plow to my tractor and it had the shock absorber feature on it.

So true. Second photo shows the box the new shock came in and it's a Western. Arctic plows like this one never had it. It was time mine did.

mjncad · Feb 18, 2012

Cool! And it wasn't a light either. :laughing:

4shorts · Feb 18, 2012

mjncad said:
Cool! And it wasn't a light either. :laughing:

Wanted to do something different this time :laughing:

High Compression · Feb 19, 2012

Nice Paul! Let us know how that works. I often wandered about a shock on the trip of a plow, but thought it would slow the trip too much an increase the shock load on the machine and operator. But apparently if you got the shock from a plow company, they must have figured out the valving so that didn't happen. Very curious.
Thanks,
Andy

Builder · Feb 19, 2012

4 Shorts,

If you ever wanted to move to the states, you have a job waiting here for you.

First order of business is the forrestry protector for the cab on my M-7040.

Very nice work. I commend you for your design thoughtfullness.

I took the easy way out and bought an Arctic plow for mine.

4shorts · Feb 19, 2012

High Compression said:
Nice Paul! Let us know how that works. I often wandered about a shock on the trip of a plow, but thought it would slow the trip too much an increase the shock load on the machine and operator. But apparently if you got the shock from a plow company, they must have figured out the valving so that didn't happen. Very curious.
Thanks,
Andy

Thanks Andy. I had the tractor out snow clearing this morning and it's a Hugh difference. A couple of times coming off the pavement and hitting the gravel the blade tipped ahead as it should and when it retracted it came back with no snap and just a nice slower manner. I'm happy with it now. It was so bad before that if there was snow on the back of the blade it would flick up on the hood and one time hit the front glass. I posted this latest mod because if there was someone out there with this type of set up they would be aware of the dangers of not having the shock on it. The shock is made for Western plows and as far as I can tell its on all of there plows. My cost on the shock was $125. You can get after market one like it but I can't speak for there quality for half that price.

Builder said:
4 Shorts,

If you ever wanted to move to the states, you have a job waiting here for you. First order of business is the forrestry protector for the cab on my M-7040.

Very nice work. I commend you for your design thoughtfullness.

I took the easy way out and bought an Arctic plow for mine.

Thank you my friend. I dont blame you for taking the easy way out. I would have went that way as well but I already had the plow and might not have got much for it if I sold it. It works well and is set up the way I like it and if some breaks I can repair it easy enough.
That a grat looking machine you have there. I bet you like that blade. I like the fact the snow don't stick to it. Does yours ave the skid steer hook up? I was looking at one from Arctic a few years ago for a skid steer but it didn't have a linear movment in it so I backed away.

I'd love to build a protective unit for your unit. That would be such an interesting job. A few weeks ago I was chatting to a implement builder in Quebec. They are a large company and they asked me if I'd be interested in working for them. Although I was humbled that they asked me i would have had to move to Quebec ad that wasn't going to happen. Not while I still had a pulse anyway :laughing:

Here's the blade I was looking at a few years back. Thanks again for your kind comments on my work.

Arctic Snowplows - Heavy Duty Skid Steer Trip Edge Poly [HDSSTE-P]

Martian · Feb 19, 2012

Nice work Paul,

I found one customized like yours (not as professionally of course:thumbsup

on an online repo auction near my house. Forgot to go on line the day it was up for auction and it sold for like $600. Now I'm kicking myself because it's exactly what I wanted, for about $2000 less than a brand new one. I'm thinking I'm going to have to pick a truck plow up from this auction and then convert it like you've done.

4shorts · Feb 19, 2012

Martian said:
Nice work Paul,

I found one customized like yours (not as professionally of course:thumbsup on an online repo auction near my house. Forgot to go on line the day it was up for auction and it sold for like $600. Now I'm kicking myself because it's exactly what I wanted, for about $2000 less than a brand new one. I'm thinking I'm going to have to pick a truck plow up from this auction and then convert it like you've done.

Oh man. That's a bummer to miss out on that. I've had similar things happen to me as well. I checked on the Arctic poly skid steer plow last year for a buddy and it was $4200. plus shipping. The Arctic poly plow is a nice product.