Recent content by skarven

Pictures of my new plow and heat treated carbon steel wear bars. These wear bars can be used on both side, so doubling useful lifetime.

I bought the new heat treated carbon steels today. Will get pictures. They were not very expensive at about $260 plus our 25% sales tax. I picked them up on an 800 mile trip to get a new plow. A Tellefsdal K-70 that I got in an auction for about $1500. Will post some pictures in a day or to...

I'm hoping to get maybe 50 hours of snow plowing next winter. That will pay for the insurance and hopefully the diesel, now at about $8 or $9 per gallon. I'm definitley not in your league :)

5030: Thank you for the advice. Your warning about hard rod price is very relevant here. The price here is about 3 times your $170, so it might be better to bite the bullet and buy new ones in heat treated high carbon steel. They should be a bit less expensive than the carbide ones.

Yes. I agree. The best solution would be to replace the wear bars. But the cost of all five of them would be about $900, and I have just bought the tractor, the blade and a snow blower, so funds are thinning out :). The financial aspect of snow removal is also questionable with diesel prices...

I bought a Dalen 2022 rear snow blade and have done some work to get it in shape. Replaced wheel bearings and some paint work. There are 5 two-foot carbide insert wear blades and the middle one is missing some carbide inserts. See picture. They are very expensive and I would probably have to...

Hi, i just bought a wheel loader and found the TractorByNet full of information on many of the things that I wonder about. I bought the loader mainly to clear some snow, but I also plan to buy a work-basket (right term?) to use on the pallet forks to get the snow off the roof of my house. The...