Mostly scrap built (but still awesome) land plane

   / Mostly scrap built (but still awesome) land plane
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#31  
If you are serious about someone really riding on it at least put a deck on it and something in the front to hold onto and keep from falling into the path. That way it would be a bit more difficult to be hurt or killed.

Why did you decide to run the blade straight across when most are at an angle?

He'll be going backwards, so in the extremely unlikely event he does fall off, he wouldn't get run over by anything.

I don't think more are at an angle... I decided to run mine straight for simplicity, and as far as I can tell it will work just as well as angled.
 
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#32  
If you are serious about someone really riding on it at least put a deck on it and something in the front to hold onto and keep from falling into the path.

After some thought; yes if for whatever reason he did fall off his leg(s) could get caught under the rear pipe... so I scored some free expanded steel from work the other day. I'll cover the rear half... basicly from the rear legs of the seat to the back of the rig.

Just wrapping up the Tracker build, and bought a tarp so it can get out of the garage while I get back on this. Stay tuned!
 
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He'll be going backwards, so in the extremely unlikely event he does fall off, he wouldn't get run over by anything.

I don't think more are at an angle... I decided to run mine straight for simplicity, and as far as I can tell it will work just as well as angled.

A friend of mine built one. He angled the front cutter one direction and the rear cutter the other direction. He primarily uses it to fill holes in a graveled truck parking lot. It works very well. Although all the boughten ones I've saw were angled the same direction.
 
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ovrszd said:
A friend of mine built one. He angled the front cutter one direction and the rear cutter the other direction. He primarily uses it to fill holes in a graveled truck parking lot. It works very well. Although all the boughten ones I've saw were angled the same direction.

Boughten? Haven't heard that word in a while. I think it's from Maine.
 
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The angled blades allow for better control when cutting, levelling or planing. Try pushing a wood plane straight when planning wood and then at a slight angle... the difference is subtle but makes planning easier. The material in a box blade will build at the sides leaving a line of gravel depending on the depth setting. The angled plane will feather the gravel more...

Nice build.
 
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#39  
Nice build.

Thanks! If I end up using this on my trail, it'll see alot of steep ups and downs, so in that sence I figgure straight across will work better as an angled blade would lift one end as the other was still cuttting... this is also the reason I kept it rather short... so it didn't fill in valleys and cut off the peaks as the trail rolls.

I'm firmiliar with the term "boughten". Alot of the mud truck guys around here use it to refer to parts that are store bought as opposed to home made.; "that truck's got a boughten lift".
 

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