snow pusher size

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one last thought, of buying another bucket and splitting it in half idea.... this idea may fail rather quickly.

if you had a regular snow blade/pusher blade. the goal of the round blade shape. is to allow the snow to "roll up" like rolling up a piece of scrap carpet. this rolling of snow over top of itself, i am going to assume reduces some forces needed to keep the tractor / truck moving.

other words with a good snow pusher blade, you are "NOT DIGGING THE SNOW" but you are rolling the snow up (as if rolling a scrap piece of carpet up,) as you drive along. this rolling of snow up, would more likely reduce how much snow compaction there is on the ground, and perhaps allow more snow to be pushed and kept in front of the blade, before loosing traction.

with above, think about how you might be able to use your current manure tines. and adding a peice of sheet metal to the bottom of them. to perhaps create a snow pusher blade, that allows the snow to "roll up" as you are pushing it along.

and one last thing, see how much it would cost to buy a wider bucket, and just modify mounts to fit the FEL arms. and turn the wider bucket into a snow pusher blade. by cutting down the new bucket by cutting off the cutting edge of the bucket so the snow rolls up better vs filling up the bucket. *shrugs*

 

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one last thought, of buying another bucket and splitting it in half idea.... this idea may fail rather quickly.

if you had a regular snow blade/pusher blade. the goal of the round blade shape. is to allow the snow to "roll up" like rolling up a piece of scrap carpet. this rolling of snow over top of itself, i am going to assume reduces some forces needed to keep the tractor / truck moving.

other words with a good snow pusher blade, you are "NOT DIGGING THE SNOW" but you are rolling the snow up (as if rolling a scrap piece of carpet up,) as you drive along. this rolling of snow up, would more likely reduce how much snow compaction there is on the ground, and perhaps allow more snow to be pushed and kept in front of the blade, before loosing traction.

with above, think about how you might be able to use your current manure tines. and adding a peice of sheet metal to the bottom of them. to perhaps create a snow pusher blade, that allows the snow to "roll up" as you are pushing it along.

and one last thing, see how much it would cost to buy a wider bucket, and just modify mounts to fit the FEL arms. and turn the wider bucket into a snow pusher blade. by cutting down the new bucket by cutting off the cutting edge of the bucket so the snow rolls up better vs filling up the bucket. *shrugs*

On the graphic note: I have a Mac but the only thing I can find is in their iphoto used to touch up photos. Cannot find a "paint" like scheme to actually draw on existing ones.


LOL I gotta give you credit Ryan, you are thinking about this as if it is yours and I really appreciate that. i think you are correct and the starting point should be a regular "snowplow". On this , I can fabricate something to 1. widen or narrow as needed. 2. use the narrowed version to lift and pile logs with a tine design of some sort. There was a poster once on TBN who I think called himself "Magiceater" or the such. He has a colorful 4 color avatar shaped as a star. At any rate, he had a front bucket/blade that as I think of it, might be utilized as a platform. I cannot find this guy on TBN as when i type his cyber name, nothing comes up in "search".

 

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Actually I did find the guy. His attachment is called the Loader Buddy"

 

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sorry not a mac person. just word of mouth of mac's having like program, is about all i know. Fry's Home Electronics | Computer Parts & Accessories, Software, Games, TVs, Cameras - Frys.com just had a large 0.01 after rebate on a bunch of software, they still might have something on some sort of graphic software. or you might try searching for something for free on internet.

print picture out, get some different color markers, mark things up, and take a picture of it, or scan it back into computer.

some office programs, i think www.openoffice.org has a very generic circle, lines, type of doing built into it.

get a piece of paper, and color markers or crayons for that part. and draw like a 2yr old. and take a picture or scan it into computer and post it. the goal is not making it all nice and 3D, but get idea across. and go from there. other words, more about getting idea down and across than worrying about how it is presented. leave that presentation looking stuff to marketing department, and trying to sell something.

seriously, 2yr old chicken scratch drawing with some dimensions (length, width, diameter) and like dimensions. can really get an idea across. dimensions help remove the ugly circles and shapes free hand drawing ((chicken scratches)) and gives folks better perspective of things. *been there done that a few to many times*

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hit craigslist.org or local newspaper ads. see if you can find 2 small size snow pushing blades for riding lawn mowers for cheap. cut off all the garbage on the rear side of blade for hookup to a riding mower. and figure out a way to attach to what you currently have. actually i take that idea back quickly. dad long ago built a blade from riding lawn mower, then i switched it over to fit the old 1950 allis chalmers CA i think 15 to 20HP tractor. to turn the blade into a 3pt hitch style rear blade. it is a sturdier than regular manufacture blade, but i have bent the blade up pretty badly, more so when i added some wings onto it. (to many backing up, and then getting a running start and slamming into piles of snow to push the snow that last couple inches, for a drivable path in driveway)

so what about hitting craigslist.org or tractorhouse.com and picking up some good old 3pt hitch rear blades. you can normally pick used ones up fairly cheap. and cut everything off of them but the blade, and weld one on top of another one. (to obtain a taller blade that allows snow to roll up like a carpet better)

expanding on idea. perhaps buy another 2 rear blades, so you can cut them in half. and use as extensions. WARNING. extensions and having some sort of "bolt up" type of thing. can easily result in bolts bending, or shearing in half. to everything twisting and bending. *been there done that* so what ever you do use, you might want to "extra beef things up" by the time you extra beef things up for extensions, you will be looking at a ridicules amount of weight possibly, could possibly destroy any benefit you obtain from a wider path you might get.

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i googled

loader buddy site:tractorbynet.com

clicked search
and then clicked over images. i did not see any platform.

i did come across
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/258466-subsoiling-manure-fork.html
post number 5 that might work for ya. right side up with tines at bottom = lumber. then flip it upside down. so tines are at top, and have a good snow plow. granted this means messing around with 4 bolts. and muscling the thing upside down and getting things to be aligned. but *shrugs*