Snow Attachments Help with snow plowing and the FEL

[JB4310]

JD4310-


I went online and found that wet snow weighs approx 20lbs per cu ft..I went with a 50% increase and used 30lbs per cu ft and then converted that to a 1 cu yd bucket and my math comes up with approx 1020lbs plus the weight of the bucket (400 lbs)..Basically less than 1500lbs...max height at the pin I can lift 1955lbs and forward of pin 1550lbs...again I am NEVER going to be lifting it near that high..more than likely 2-3 feet max just to get it off the berm. What do ya think?

So are we talking about an 8' bucket?
Is that 1 cu yd you referred to a level bucket, cause you will heap it on with snow, but if your loader can lift 1 ton you should be OK,
you will lift the bucket higher than 2-3 feet once you get into it, there's no reason you shouldn't if the loader will lift it, that's how you make big piles

JB.

 

[radioman]

travelin- take a look at your fel arms where it connects to your bucket. chances are there would be no little or no modifcation to be made when attaching a old truck plow to your tractor. I recently got a old meyers plow, removed the A frame. It was a simple job of removing the bolts from plow. I drove up to the plow and connected it to the fel arms using trailer hitch pins from TSC. connected the curl pistion to the bottom center with 2 pieces of scrap steel and hitch pin as well. I couldnt believe how easy it was after I was done.

 

[George2615]

Travlin,
You need to find some friends that have a welder if you don't want to take a course and buy your own. If you can't make a welder friend it wouldn't take a welding shop long or cost too much to fab up some quick connect brackets to an old plow blade.