Odd Parts Machine
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Cliff_Johns
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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.
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.
PILOON
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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.
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.
Taylortractornut
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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.