Bx25d Snow plow for the quick attach FEL

[Fallon]

Ugg, just re-read that & I sound like an ***. Also realized you'd already started the build. I hate the lack of context on the Internet at times.

 

[cschulz]

For the plow in float mode I would suggest making it a 3 or 4 point shoe slide. Use the 2 steel shoes on the plow and add a 3rd back at the A frame or QA. This way the weight of the blade rides on the 3 points and wont want to dig in as bad, Take a look at this from 4shorts.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...927d1229869304-snow-plow-adapted-fel-pad2-jpg

Chris

 

[94BULLITT]

Nice job.

I highly suggest you give up on that idea now. Floating the loader arms means all the weight of the arms will be pushing down on the blade causing it to dig into the pavement or gravel. I've yet to hear of anybody being satisfied with that working well. You need to plan on setting the loader height & letting chain or something just float the weight of the blade.

You can see my setup here...
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Chain takes care of vertical float. The blade on the plow frame has about 10 degrees of float side to side as well. Without lateral float if your road isn't level side to side (most roads should have a crown), the blade will only hit the high points or one side of the road & leave an inch or 2 of snow on the other.

While I'm generally happy with the design, I'll likely build another one here in a year or 2. I plan on finding a truck plow with hydraulic angle, which is the feature I want the most. I'll also try to shorten up the design a bit so the plow doesn't stick out so far. Hanging out that far gives the plow a fair bit of leverage to push the tractor around or prevent steering from working. It's not to bad, but if I'm building a new one I might as well shorten it up. I saw somebody use 2 nested pipes instead of chain to give float, but also give down pressure with the pipe bottomed out. Might try doing that as well.

I don't think it will dig in. The loader on a BX is light and his plow is not too heavy. On a bigger tractor he would have problems. The front end will probably still get light at times but he can bump it out float if he needs too.