I clear our driveway, about 150', of snow with my loader (as opposed to a front blade or blower)...for only one reason, to build a sledding hill for our kids. They absolutely love it!
That being said, the loader is obviously not intended to do a great job "plowing snow". I enjoy getting the bulk of the snow with the loader but I must admit that cleaning up all the long lines of "spill over" from the loader gets a little old after a while. Takes longer to do this than get the bulk of the snow.
I enjoy welding A LOT and do it as a hobby. I've built a bunch of attachments for my BX1500 and have been wanting to build a back blade to quicken up the clean up of the spill over from the loader. Time is always tough to come by and by the time I bought all the steel and scrounged a blade, nuts, bolts, washers, pins, paint, etc I was figuring I could build one for around $200.
The other day I get the Agri Supply catalog in the mail. 5' back blade for $169. WOW. I go to their web site to order and the price is $300 something. Sooo I call to place the order....and yep get it for the catalog price of $169 (no shipping costs
).
Well got it yesterday and put it together. Seems like a nice blade. Weather sucks here...40 degrees and no snow (can ya tell I like winter and A LOT of snow).
Since there is no snow on the driveway I, of course, went out into the yard and tried it out...I like it. I'll probably slit a piece of PVC pipe to fit over the cutting edge for the driveway.
I've also seen a lot of threads about cutting edge "protection" on a loader. I also attached a couple pictures of how I did this for my loader. (Loader doubles as a "paint booth" so there's some pretty pink on some of it)
That being said, the loader is obviously not intended to do a great job "plowing snow". I enjoy getting the bulk of the snow with the loader but I must admit that cleaning up all the long lines of "spill over" from the loader gets a little old after a while. Takes longer to do this than get the bulk of the snow.
I enjoy welding A LOT and do it as a hobby. I've built a bunch of attachments for my BX1500 and have been wanting to build a back blade to quicken up the clean up of the spill over from the loader. Time is always tough to come by and by the time I bought all the steel and scrounged a blade, nuts, bolts, washers, pins, paint, etc I was figuring I could build one for around $200.
The other day I get the Agri Supply catalog in the mail. 5' back blade for $169. WOW. I go to their web site to order and the price is $300 something. Sooo I call to place the order....and yep get it for the catalog price of $169 (no shipping costs
).Well got it yesterday and put it together. Seems like a nice blade. Weather sucks here...40 degrees and no snow (can ya tell I like winter and A LOT of snow).
Since there is no snow on the driveway I, of course, went out into the yard and tried it out...I like it. I'll probably slit a piece of PVC pipe to fit over the cutting edge for the driveway.
I've also seen a lot of threads about cutting edge "protection" on a loader. I also attached a couple pictures of how I did this for my loader. (Loader doubles as a "paint booth" so there's some pretty pink on some of it
)
