Mostly scrap built (but still awesome) land plane

[jwmorris]

He only has one blade, so they are at the rear. To crown he would need to angle the "spoils" to one side by putting the blade at an angle and running on one side going down and the opposite side comming back.

At that point wheels or tires (that can go flat) are not needed, just the skids on each side.

Lifting tires would be usefull to travel over ground you didn't want to touch though.

And for the " in motion adjust" he has a "friend" that is going to ride on it and crank the jacks while going over all the bumps, in the dust.

 

[NS Gearhead]

Not to in any way trash your design, but. As material flows over your cutting blade it will fall in front of your castor wheel, thus raising blade off road surface. If you need the wheels for transport they need to be in the rear. To try to adjust on the fly for building a crown, your blade would have to be adjustable in motion.

Tires are set 1" above the skids when they're all the way up. The cutting blade is 3/8" lower then the skids. If I lower one tire 1 3/8" then that side of the blade won't touch the ground and the other will.

May not work to build a crown... we'll see!

 

[GManBart]

I have a deal now where I am getting scrap steel for .15/lb with a decent assortment of sizes and shapes. I pick through the 2 acre pile whenever I can for useful stuff. That makes building a new implement a lot cheaper than it has been in the past.

Wow...I wish! It's running .30/lb here last I knew.

I don't need a land plane (yet) but this makes me want to build one

 

[NS Gearhead]

I payed for one of the channel irons and the angle iron. $45 & $15. The Jacks; $50 and the tongue; $15. Everything else was free; pipe, channel, casters, blade, chair. The 2" square was all left overs I had kicking around... So all in all, $125 ain't bad. I'll be grabbing a link sometime soon... that'll be $40ish.

 

[NS Gearhead]

I also weighed what I've got so far in an attempt to know how much this will weigh once done.

Channel iron; 43Lbs x 2= 86lbs
Pipe; 40lbs x 2=80lbs
Angle iron/ blade/ bolts; 47lbs
Caster & Jack; 19lbs x 2=38lbs

251lbs so far!

Still have sand, tongue, bracing, chair, expanded steel... should reach 300lbs.

Tongue with gussets was 25lbs, so 251+25=276lbs

 

[jenkinsph]

He only has one blade, so they are at the rear. To crown he would need to angle the "spoils" to one side by putting the blade at an angle and running on one side going down and the opposite side comming back.

At that point wheels or tires (that can go flat) are not needed, just the skids on each side.

Lifting tires would be usefull to travel over ground you didn't want to touch though.

And for the " in motion adjust" he has a "friend" that is going to ride on it and crank the jacks while going over all the bumps, in the dust.

We will see how this works out, I suspect the little casters will have a tough go of it off pavement.
I am currently building a set of casters for my box blade and the tires are 20 10 10 slicks, I found it difficult to find ready made casters this size so I am fabricating my own.

 

[zing]

Haven't seen any updates to this for a while, so maybe you have already solved the problem of the extra movement in the casters but if not, could you just weld about an inch of tube to the jack's mounting tube (if you can find the same size pipe) and then add a vertical pin?

 

[NS Gearhead]

I'm just about to start back up on this soon. I do have a solution for the casters, so stay tuned!

 

[kneedeep]

Its been a while, wonder what's up :confused3:

 

[NS Gearhead]

Yeah, got side tracked with getting ready for winter and the dump trailer.... nothing new although I only really have a day left of work to finish it. LOL The thing is the garage is full... we'll see. I'd love to get it done and stored in the shed for the winter.

The funny thing is; I took an extra heavy duty pallet (prob rough cut hard wood 2x4s), threw a 40" TSL (tire) on for weight and drug it around with a cable sling... and it did a great job! Turned up two fist sized rocks... re-distributed the loose stuff. Heck, I did mine and the two neighbors! The bottom boards did get chewed up a bit... but I think I'll bolt on some channel iron side to side... maybe three lengths... finish this one and sell it in the spring. Need cash to fund the next project.