Too early to be thinking about snow?

   / Too early to be thinking about snow? #1  

SEB92

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Well I have been working on this project now on and off all summer and I just finished up tonight. I started with a 60" blade off a CJ5 from a family friend, and ended with a fully custom made snow plow. The family friend who gave me the plow is a master at fabrication and offered to help design and build the setup. We originally were going to copy how the Kubota quick hitch attaches to the front of the machine decided that we didn't like hanging it off the front of the frame. So we built a frame that goes back and attaches at the loader mounts. From there we had to modify the original A frame of the plow so it was level and would also clear the ramp of my trailer if and when I would need to load it. One of the original skid shoes were missing so we had to modify the mold board to fit bigger one due to the ungodly cost of buying one the same size as the originals. But we finally got it done. This winter will be much better with a fully hydraulic plow compared to my rear blade in the past. My camera died after one final assembled picture so I will take more and get them up soon! Let me know what you guys think! I hope 4shorts approves!
 

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   / Too early to be thinking about snow? #2  
wow. this puts my homebrew plow to some serious shame. beautiful.
 
   / Too early to be thinking about snow? #3  
Nice job! That should make it real easy to swap between plow and loader if you need to knock down snow banks once they get too high for the plow to handle.

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   / Too early to be thinking about snow?
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Thanks! Yes it should switch very easy! You can't see from the picture but it is held on by the same pins as the loader. I put a trailer jack on the right side and crank it up. Balances perfectly, so it's almost like how you take the loader off.
 
   / Too early to be thinking about snow? #5  
Well two words come to mind reading this and looking at the photos. Exceptional & Outstanding. That's a well thought out project that should last a lifetime. Nice welds and an all around clean factory looking setup. Congratulations :thumbsup:
 
   / Too early to be thinking about snow? #6  
great job! according to the old farmer's almanac you are going to use that this winter!
 
   / Too early to be thinking about snow? #7  
Seb,
Nice work.
I dug out a shot to help you think about snow. This was the year that I ran out of places to put plowed snow and had to get a rear blower.
 

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   / Too early to be thinking about snow? #8  
Looks real nice. I tend to like attaching a plow to the loader arms, that way you can stack snow as high as the arms go up.
 
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Problem when hooking to the loader arms is you cannot have power angle without adding another valve. Not something I was wanting to do! Easy enough to switch back to loader
 
   / Too early to be thinking about snow? #10  
Problem when hooking to the loader arms is you cannot have power angle without adding another valve. Not something I was wanting to do! Easy enough to switch back to loader

I think you can hook the left right angle to what would be the bucket curl hoses. The blade would be set at a fixed angle and float. Either way.. You have a nice set up, sure beats the shovel !
 

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