Will this plow fit a Wheelhorse ?

[ebinmaine 67,376]

[pfrederi 17,693]

Haven't seen one of those in use in years.  Several townships around here have one out front of their garage with the Twp name on it...

[ebinmaine 67,376]

6 minutes ago, pfrederi said:

Haven't seen one of those in use in years.  Several townships around here have one out front of their garage with the Twp name on it...

Yep. 

Same here. There's a few collectors or dealers that still sell them once in a while but I don't know of any municipality or even private party that uses one on the road anymore.

 

[MainelyWheelhorse 419]

47 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

@ebinmaine It could be done, you have the skills. A new plow for your plow tractor? You could plow your drive way in 1-2 passes.You’ll need a hell of a counter weight though…

[ri702bill 8,305]

I'm a-thinkin' a D250 could work.....

[8ntruck 6,996]

@ebinmaine You ought to acquire a plow like that for your big tractor project -  what was the name?  Giganto?  Maximus? Mega Horse?

[CCW 1,292]

As long as you put enough weight on the rearend.

[MainelyWheelhorse 419]

Hey, @ebinmaine scale up and mod Wheel Horse decals to a an old IH tractor big enough to push that then you have a “Clydesdale”😁

[Bar Nuthin 189]

Would be a nice mod but the price of red paint for that much surface area makes it impractical.

[ebinmaine 67,376]

27 minutes ago, Bar Nuthin said:

Would be a nice mod but the price of red paint for that much surface area makes it impractical.

 

The price of the paint is the deal breaker ????

 

Not the fact that it's like 8 feet in every direction??

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,376]

4 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

@ebinmaine You ought to acquire a plow like that for your big tractor project -  what was the name?  Giganto?  Maximus? Mega Horse?

 

Interesting names!!!

[Bar Nuthin 189]

13 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

Not the fact that it's like 8 feet in every direction??

 

Well, you might need some wheel weights. 

 

And a camera on front to see what you're plowing.

 

Edited November 14 by Bar Nuthin

[c-series don 8,677]

Since we’re on the subject, do we think we can mount up this one? 

[ebinmaine 67,376]

18 minutes ago, c-series don said:

Since we’re on the subject, do we think we can mount up this one? 

 

 

 

WHY NOT??!!

[Pullstart 62,825]

With the use of an A-dapter kit, I bet we can make it work!  

[adsm08 2,043]

19 hours ago, MainelyWheelhorse said:

You’ll need a hell of a counter weight though…

 

And a hefty reduction gear.

[ebinmaine 67,376]

1 hour ago, adsm08 said:

 

And a hefty reduction gear.

 

So put an 8-speed in front of an 8-speed in front of an 8-speed?

[MainelyWheelhorse 419]

49 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

 

So put an 8-speed in front of an 8-speed in front of an 8-speed?

So a 24 speed? Hey, you drive big trucks, just another day at the office. 😁

[ebinmaine 67,376]

12 minutes ago, MainelyWheelhorse said:

So a 24 speed? Hey, you drive big trucks, just another day at the office. 😁

 

I've only gotten up to 13 or 15 gears but my father drove a 24 many many moons ago on rare occasion.

 

The trucks that were built to move these giant plows originally would have had anywhere between 16 and 24 gears.

[Handy Don 12,200]

4 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

 

I've only gotten up to 13 or 15 gears but my father drove a 24 many many moons ago on rare occasion.

 

The trucks that were built to move these giant plows originally would have had anywhere between 16 and 24 gears.

At the time I was working there, Case IH was selling a tractor with 40 gears. Rode it at their proving ground but wasn’t allowed to drive it. Kinda seemed like overkill to me but the demonstrator explained how important being able to match speed/power to each implement and conditions was critical to efficient farming.

[c-series don 8,677]

That’s how I learned how to drive a 10-wheeler. A 1970 L9000 with a Caterpillar and a 5+4 speed. Yes two sticks,20 gears, but you really didn’t need all of them. Maybe if the truck was loaded with dirt and we were pulling the bulldozer on the tag trailer. I learned how to skip gears in that truck when it was empty. I was only 18 years old doing that, don’t see any 18 year old kids doing that anymore!! 

[Handy Don 12,200]

1 hour ago, c-series don said:

don’t see any 18 year old kids doing that anymore

A college buddy started driving quarry trucks for his Dad at 16. He thought it was fun for at least the first couple of weeks. 

Edited Friday at 10:26 PM by Handy Don

[ebinmaine 67,376]

I have rare occasion that I miss "runnin up through the gears"  but I have to admit I'm getting a tad wee bit spoiled by the modern fully automatic trucks. 

[ebinmaine 67,376]

1 hour ago, c-series don said:

That’s how I learned how to drive a 10-wheeler. A 1970 L9000 with a Caterpillar and a 5+4 speed. Yes two sticks,20 gears, but you really didn’t need all of them. Maybe if the truck was loaded with dirt and we were pulling the bulldozer on the tag trailer. I learned how to skip gears in that truck when it was empty. I was only 18 years old doing that, don’t see any 18 year old kids doing that anymore!! 

 

I've never driven a Twin stick. Love to.  But never tried.  

I've seen several Twins that had an extra lever with it like a splitter or an Overdrive.  

 

 

Up at Owl's Head Transportation Museum one year there was a Land Roverish SUV that had a couple auxiliary transmissions along with the original and a four wheel drive transfer case. 

Low/ Low/ Low/ Low/ Low/ Low/ Low/ Low/  blah blah blah what ever it was had a division so steep the owner didn't use the clutch to put it in gear. 

5 sticks?  Maybe 6?

 

 

And then there's a Unimog......

😬

[Brockport Bill 1,661]

1 hour ago, c-series don said:

That’s how I learned how to drive a 10-wheeler. A 1970 L9000 with a Caterpillar and a 5+4 speed. Yes two sticks,20 gears, but you really didn’t need all of them. Maybe if the truck was loaded with dirt and we were pulling the bulldozer on the tag trailer. I learned how to skip gears in that truck when it was empty. I was only 18 years old doing that, don’t see any 18 year old kids doing that anymore!! 

friend of mine owns an excavating business and ordered a large item - so an 18 wheeler recently pulled the truck into his property with the item and out climbed from the tractor a young girl in her 20s -- so my friend had chat with her -- she's making over $100,000 per yr while many of her friends and former school mates who went to college make half that annual $$ and have huge college debt -- Amazing how the world turns?????????