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No problem, really. Plan to weld them all together and make a stretch mower.......great for long, flat, straight yards.

Mark
 
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Sunday project. Needed to move some cleachie to leval yard. Used 10" I beam, halve truck springs, 3/4"and 5/16" rod, some pipe and plate.
 

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A side view showing manual linkage.
 

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Here's a shot of a David Bradly turning plow reworked to 3ph. I have been using this several years to break up the cleachie for leaveling and trenches.
 

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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Here's a shot of a David Bradly turning plow reworked to 3ph. I have been using this several years to break up the cleachie for leaveling and trenches. )</font>

OK, I admit I have no idea what "Cleachie" is. Still, you are cleaver at using the materials at hand to do the work you need to do.
 
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cleachie ????

Like the plow.

When I was young, my job was to shovel the snow in our drive.
I decided that a plow was 'de rigeur', so I took a 3/4" ply (about 16" X 60", I guess) added vertically 2 pcs of 2 x 4 X 16" lined up with the bumper over riders on my old VW beetle, extended short 2 x 8 from the 2 x 4's that butted onto the bumper inside of the overriders.
The 2 x 8's were curve cut to match the bumper.
I attached 2 flat steel 'hooks' that sort of clipped onto the backside of the bumper.
A length of bed spring angle well bolted made up my 'cutting edge'.
A 3" piece of hockey stick bolted vertically on the left side with a suitable length of rope was the lifting mechanism.
Problem was that I had to drive with the driver's window open to operate the 'lift' LOL.

In actual fact, that simple 'kiss' plow really did a remarkable job.
I plowed up to 10" snow falls from our 7-800 ft drive that whole winter! With a plywood plow!

But then the old beetles (with snow tires) were virtual tractors as all the weight was over the wheels.
 
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It worked well, moved about 3yds before 2 welds broke loose from the springs. Forgot springs are tempered and brittle. Oh, well time for 3/8 plate.
 
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Cleachie, even if spelled wrong, it what gravel around here are made of. It happens that my yard is comprized of this in it's natural state with some soil. Very little soil.
 
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Cleatus on your blad on the I beam in the bottom cornerof the blade to make spreading and grading easier try mounding a peic of 1/4 to 3/ths by 2 flat bar on an ange from the bottom of the flange on you Ibeam blade. to the web. It will help peel and roll the material like a big dozer. I had a smalljob onecewhere the busness owner had a small walkway /alley between 2 stores. They had a commonroof theouh. To lay down the stoen Id haul it in from the street in a homemade dump cart behind a garden tractor down a the 36 inchwide alley then I made a blade similar to yours but i made my blade with a cutting edge like I described. Took all day but faster and cooler than the alternative.
 
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Taylor I had been thinking the same thing. Also in the above explanation of cleachie, I ment to say it's what gravel roads are made of.
 

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