Homemade Snow Plow and trailer

[rgs03833]

thanks your images help a lot. do you have any ideas for wheel weights and chains. how could i make them cheaper than buying them (WW's are $60 for each wheel and chains are like $50) thinking about making something to hang of the back, this summer i made a bracket it hold the baggier i got for $20 i have some pics. i am 150 lbs and can jump up and down on the brackets with the 2 holes in them no problem. 12 half inch bolts go all the way through. It may be overkill idk. 1st pic is before i put it on. 2nd is with half of it on. 3rd is me standing on it. 4th is what it looks like now, i added a second piece for balance. I also think i will be using the plow just to move snow in to a pile and send it flying with the snow blower LOL, will use it for anything under 5 inches. i can use the blower for anything deeper. it would be faster anyway.

Sorry for the long paragraph
Liam

Yea, what you did will help you, better than sitting back and do nothing like most folks... Just talk but nothing done, LOL. or break their back shoveling because they are too busy talking crap, LOL.... So be proud of it

On your other questions...

Tire Chains: I tried going the cheap way, no can do on that one . but I got mine $39.99 a set / back tires on Ebay. I wne tto Loews, HD and few stores... Calculate everything, not Cheap than buying... Ebay item 280792053820

Snow Weights: My next project... LOL. 2 Cinder Blocks filled with Concrete. Drill holes in them, place 2 - 6" Bolts, 1 top 1 bottom, where your brackets are, make sure you aligned them. Then connect them both together with bolts and make sure they are tight. Pour in Concrete where the empty space in the Cinder Block to make them solid, leave it about 4 days. Then once they are aok, connect them with the bolts that is sticking out (the 2 - 6" Bolts) to the back of you Tractor, Project cost would be around $15 this will look better, and you can paint it black to blend in. I have some heavy free Granites, but cant drill them, lol but it won't be a Clean Look . The ++++ side, you can unbolt them in the summer

I will do my Weights next week, I'll email you the link to it when done. Since the Weather is cold... Might take at least 10 days to dry even with Quikrete.

 

[liammulloy]

Yea, what you did will help you, better than sitting back and do nothing like most folks... Just talk but nothing done, LOL. or break their back shoveling because they are too busy talking crap, LOL.... So be proud of it

On your other questions...

Tire Chains: I tried going the cheap way, no can do on that one . but I got mine $39.99 a set / back tires on Ebay. I wne tto Loews, HD and few stores... Calculate everything, not Cheap than buying... Ebay item 280792053820

Snow Weights: My next project... LOL. 2 Cinder Blocks filled with Concrete. Drill holes in them, place 2 - 6" Bolts, 1 top 1 bottom, where your brackets are, make sure you aligned them. Then connect them both together with bolts and make sure they are tight. Pour in Concrete where the empty space in the Cinder Block to make them solid, leave it about 4 days. Then once they are aok, connect them with the bolts that is sticking out (the 2 - 6" Bolts) to the back of you Tractor, Project cost would be around $15 this will look better, and you can paint it black to blend in. I have some heavy free Granites, but cant drill them, lol but it won't be a Clean Look . The ++++ side, you can unbolt them in the summer

I will do my Weights next week, I'll email you the link to it when done. Since the Weather is cold... Might take at least 10 days to dry even with Quikrete.

yea i was just thinking to just buy the chains, that is a grate idea for the weights just wondering how heavy they need to be. the ones you can buy are about 60 lbs. idk if concrete is that heavy or is the store trying to over sell people and you don't need that much weight?

 

[rgs03833]

yea i was just thinking to just buy the chains, that is a grate idea for the weights just wondering how heavy they need to be. the ones you can buy are about 60 lbs. idk if concrete is that heavy or is the store trying to over sell people and you don't need that much weight?

Anything is better than none right?

At Home depot, the 8x8x16 Block is 35lbs and with 2 is 70lbs and fill it in would be at least 20 more lbs, since there are 4 empty holes @ 5lbs each perhaps?

The people who sell the Weights are for dummies.... or the 1 that sit there and talk crap and then go buy $$$$

You want to save money? Use your Brain, its FREE

There are tons of things you can do for free, you just have to use the free Brain you got to get more free things

The Cinder Blocks is $1.27 each at HD, 2 of them is how much? I counted the Bolts and the concrete bag and maybe left you some money for at leat 3 - $1.00 Burger at BK too =$15.00 LMAO :laughing:

 

[liammulloy]

Anything is better than none right?

At Home depot, the 8x8x16 Block is 35lbs and with 2 is 70lbs and fill it in would be at least 20 more lbs, since there are 4 empty holes @ 5lbs each perhaps?

The people who sell the Weights are for dummies.... or the 1 that sit there and talk crap and then go buy $$$$

You want to save money? Use your Brain, its FREE

There are tons of things you can do for free, you just have to use the free Brain you got to get more free things

The Cinder Blocks is $1.27 each at HD, 2 of them is how much? I counted the Bolts and the concrete bag and maybe left you some money for at leat 3 - $1.00 Burger at BK too =$15.00 LMAO :laughing:

you have very good points, people these days do not know how to think for them selves they go to the store and buy it.

90lbs plus what ever else i decide to put up there should be good, i hope

other things i thought of
1. make something so you can lock the trip springs in case you need to ram a large snow bank to push it all back
2. could go to a local fabricator shop and have them cut you some weights to exact size you need
3. my neighbor said that he had 2 old coat hangers at his work and said that he could take the bottom off and put a threaded rod through them and if you look on the tires there should be 2 holes on the rim that are there to put on the WWs that you can buy. maybe 30lbs each = 60llbs + 90 = 150 more than enough. Plus the coat hangers are round and wont stick out too much. You could check Craigslist/E bay for some.

thanks for all the help, will try to get pics up when do do something else the plow.

 

[liammulloy]

what can i run off a a car battery (12v 650cc) to raise and lower the plow other than a piston the blade weights about 40lbs

 

[FELMOW2320]

A good source for weights is an old exercise weight machine that has the steel plates.They have a hole already that you could use for mounting.You could probably find them at a metal scrap yard.

 

[Marveltone]

what can i run off a a car battery (12v 650cc) to raise and lower the plow other than a piston the blade weights about 40lbs

An automotive window crank motor should lift that easily. I got a brand new one at a surplus store for $15.00. You should be able to get one cheap from a salvage yard also. I'm going to use mine to rotate the chute on my snow blower. I hooked it up to see how strong it was and I couldn't stall it out with my bare hands in the slightest. They're very low RPM motors, about 45rpm I'm guessing, so you don't even have to gear it down. Mount a drum or pulley on the shaft, add a cable and you're set.

Joe