snow depth limit for my tractor

[snowplow1]

I use a 6'6'' blade on the the loader arms, works like a charm, you can scrape with it, and stack it as high as the arms can reach

 

[wade simpson]

That blade looks like it would work great. I went away for the month of Jan and the snow got upto around 2.5 ft while I was gone. I can dig my way out but it would take days. I'll just snowshoe in for the rest of this winter.

If I had been here to get at the snow before it got so deep I could have used a blade to get it outta the way. I have been thinking about buying just the blade then making the mounts.
I saw a real neat idea here. The guy hooked a blade under his bucket and used the bucket to lift the blade.

Lloyd

I had heard you could peel spruce logs in the spring. It worked great, the bark just slides off. The white one is peeled, the darker one is a hemlock that I had to cut down to make the road.

Last summer I had to divide my timwe between kayaking and camp. This year I'm buying a motorcycle so I just have a pretty full summer. I'm not really ready for spring yet..still some fun left in winter

 

[wade simpson]

I use a 6'6'' blade on the the loader arms, works like a charm, you can scrape with it, and stack it as high as the arms can reach

What brand of tractor is that, the only blue I've seen is ford and that tractor looks new.

I like the angle function of that blade.

 

[snowplow1]

Wade the tractor is a LS, formerly the montana brand, LS has gone into making the tractors under their own name, yes its new 26 hours so far. It has the skid steer type mount on the arms for the bucket, so I bought a skid steer mount, had a friend that had an old pickup blade, all I did was shorten the a arms on the push brackets of the plow, add some minor reinforcing on the push arms and the skid steer bracket and put it to work. I have to angle it by hand but it not a pain, the nice thing is by curling it forward some I can scrape the driveway, (blacktop) when I carry the snow from the edge of the blacktop to stack it I curl the blade back as I'm going to let the blade rest on the shoes so it doesn't dig in. Danny

 

[snowplow1]

Wade, another thing that you can do if you can locate an old pickup plow blade is just weld a set of ears in the back or the bucket, pin the plow blade to the ears in the bucket and use the bucket along with the loader arms to lift the blade, that way you have the option of angleing the blade if you don't have a quick disconnect skid steer arrangement to mount the a arms to. Pull two pins and the blade is off. Danny

 

[DK35vince]

snowplow1 ,
Nice looking tractor.

 

[wade simpson]

It looks like it works good and seems to be sturdy. I've thought about adapting a truck blade for my tractor. Could you post a pic of the mounting arrangement? If you don't mind I may outright copy it or adapt it for my smaller tractor(over the summer).
I was really surprised at how my little tractor pushes the snow. I have a back blade that I was going to use as i want to be able to push the snow at an angle but I can think of some other uses for having a blade in front.

 

[snowplow1]

Wade, I'll take a few pictures tomorrow and post them. Danny

 

[snowplow1]

snowplow1 ,
Nice looking tractor.

Thanks

 

[snowplow1]

Wade, here are the pictures of the plow mount. from the basic mount we added a channel along the bottom, a channel verticle, and two angle irons from the plow A frame to the rapid attach plate just for insurance and to help distribute the load. I have a set of heavy springs on the blade for roll incase of hitting something. If you plan on using it as a dozer blade also, remove the springs and use a couple of rods or something to prevent the blade from rotating. The guy I got the blade from had a set of rods made up for this function but he couldn't find them as he was in the process of selling his place and had gotten rid of a bunch of stuff already. Danny