snowplow for a bx ideas

[149owner]

Seymourbota- who manufactures the snow plow you have and what is the cost? Thanks.

 

[Barryh]

I like the paynesforks model asylum posted. I am facing the same issue with mine but I am taking the plunge and going to town with a plasma cutter and welder to turn my FEL bucket into a quick release bucket. Once completed, the next two projects are to fabricate a set of forks and customize a 6.5 meyer plow to fit the new quick connect setup.

For the plow, I am him-hawing back and forth whether or not I should cut down the plow so it is only 5 or 5.5 ft wide instead of 6.5. I would not be able to plow effectively with the full width with deeper snow, but in IN we only get one or two big snows a year and if I plowed multiple times, the extra width would help get things done faster for smaller storms.

For the forks, I hope to save a bunch of weight and thereby increase the forks lifting capacity if I don't have to lift the bucket as well as the forks.

I had this same idea some sort of quick attach / detach system for my BX 1500. I don't have a welder just yet but, I'd be very interested in seeing how this turns out. I would like to adapt a set of forks for my tractor without the weight of the bucket loading it down, as in clamp on style. I hope we get to see some pictures when this is done...

 

[LBrown59]

FWIW, Curtis is coming out with a plow blade that will attach directly to the loader arms of a BX. It's suppose to go on sale in early December. I'm guessing it won't be cheap.

The problem with this deal is with my luck I would always have the wrong thing on the loader arms.
I like my idea better .
A FEL on my BX23 and A front blade on my BX1500-Never the problem of the wrong implement attached.

 

[bigdad]

If I were to do my setup again, I wouldn't put an angle on the wooden "blade". Just straight. Normally I pull the snow away from the garages/outbuildings with an RB angled then just use the FEL pusher to do LIGHT cleanup of what's left. My kids call it Dad's "Snow-Dozer".

I used wood to keep it light, cheap and also to minimze surface abrasion. This will be the third winter, hopefully with no problems. The stuborn stuff gets the RB.

 

[escavader]

If I were to do my setup again, I wouldn't put an angle on the wooden "blade". Just straight. Normally I pull the snow away from the garages/outbuildings with an RB angled then just use the FEL pusher to do LIGHT cleanup of what's left. My kids call it Dad's "Snow-Dozer".

I used wood to keep it light, cheap and also to minimze surface abrasion. This will be the third winter, hopefully with no problems. The stuborn stuff gets the RB.

THat looks like a great idea!! WOULD a frozen icey banking break it or do you use float on the stick?

 

[LBrown59]

For the plow, I am him-hawing back and forth whether or not I should cut down the plow so it is only 5 or 5.5 ft wide instead of 6.5. I would not be able to plow effectively with the full width with deeper snow, but in IN we only get one or two big snows a year and if I plowed multiple times, the extra width would help get things done faster for smaller storms.

For the forks, I hope to save a bunch of weight and thereby increase the forks lifting capacity if I don't have to lift the bucket as well as the forks.
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6.5 is a foot and a half 2 wide which is way over Kubotas recommended Max. of 5.0.
Cut it down.
If you wanted to go a little wider you might go 5.5 .
I would not go any wider than that.
Forks
I would just get a set of paynes forks.
I very seldom run across something The BX23 won't lift.
To me it would not be worth the effort to rig up the bucket for removal to install forks on the loader arms.
It's much more handy to install/remove clamp on forks than it is to keep switching back and forth between forks and bucket on the loader arms. In my case going to loader forks is to much added inconvenience for little or no extra gain.

 

[LBrown59]

I had this same idea some sort of quick attach / detach system for my BX 1500. I don't have a welder just yet but, I'd be very interested in seeing how this turns out.

1*I would like to adapt a set of forks for my tractor without the weight of the bucket loading it down, as in clamp on style.

I hope we get to see some pictures when this is done...

I don't have an issue of bucket weight with my clamp ons for the BX23.
I would not trade the handy on off feature of the clamp ons for the inconvenience of having to always swap bucket and forks back and forth.
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[LBrown59]

1*As for the PaynesForks, at least the price includes shipping!
2*I've been budgeting $1000 for a used Kubota plow kit for my BX1500 if one came along. Rare indeed.
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1*My Paynes bucket forks for my BX23 are great.
What I'd like is a set of lite duty forks that could be easly attached to the front blade of my 2003 BX1500.
I've seen plenty of bucket forks but no such thing as blade forks.
2*It may be tought to come by a used front blade for your BX1500 for $1000.
The used one I found was $1500 and was no good .
I got lucky and got a brand new $1900 60'' Hyd lift & angle front blade for $1500.

 

[Page2]

bigdad, looks like a nice simple solution. Just wondering, how far below edge of bucket are the 2x's ?

 

[bigdad]

Page2,

The 2X's extend about three inches below the lip of the FEL. I did that to keep the pressure applied to the center of the bottom 2X. That three inches can help if you want to back drag a little like say away from a structure.

I do use the float feature all of the time on this pusher. Down pressure isn't really needed for such a light duty situation and by floating it the blade automatically falls off of edges of concrete/asphalt and skids over grass.

It's handy for crumbing those little ridges of snow and pushing the tops of snow piles farther away. Not made for any type of momentum snow removal. (Disclaimer..Ha!)

bigdad, looks like a nice simple solution. Just wondering, how far below edge of bucket are the 2x's ?