New snow plow

[Gregor 4,846]

@ebinmaineA while ago you challenged me to build a real plow for my  656. I thought I had a real plow. It plowed real snow. Never the less I love a good challenge. So I started thinking on it. I think I thunk too much.  I had some trouble locating just the right parts I wanted, but I finally got them. The new plow is in the works. Here is just a part of it. I have a few bugs to iron out, but I think it will come out ok. With my luck, it won't snow anymore. All I want is one more 2 - 3" snow. Stay tuned !

[ebinmaine 67,310]

Very nice very nice very nice

[SylvanLakeWH 25,495]

50 minutes ago, Gregor said:

 I had some trouble locating just the right parts I wanted, but I finally got them. Stay tuned !

There a construction site around you missing some pipe...? 

 

 

Lookin’ good! 

[Gregor 4,846]

The pipe was easy. It was the almost 60 year old plow material that was hard to come by, but I found it. Facebook comes through again.

 

On a sadder note, I may not be around here much longer. I'm gonna miss this place. I think my wife is having me committed. Can she do that? Anyone know a good , but cheap, lawyer?

[ebinmaine 67,310]

6 minutes ago, Gregor said:

The pipe was easy. It was the almost 60 year old plow material that was hard to come by, but I found it. Facebook comes through again.

 

On a sadder note, I may not be around here much longer. I'm gonna miss this place. I think my wife is having me committed. Can she do that? Anyone know a good , but cheap, lawyer?

Just throw some extra clothes in a plastic bag normally procured while shopping at a big box store. 

Hang it on a stick and hitch to Maine. 

We'll put you up out in the workshop shed. 

Gets chilly but we have blankets. 

 

And bring the plow tractor...

[SylvanLakeWH 25,495]

2 hours ago, Gregor said:

Can she do that?     Um...YES

 

Anyone know a good    , but cheap,    lawyer?   

 

[Gregor 4,846]

The new snow plow is finished, at least until the next modification I dream up. Thats assuming of course I am still a free man. There is no snow in the forecast for the next 10 days. so I thought I would go ahead and share now.

I thought about going to my local fabrication shop, and having all my parts made of steel, rather than plastic, but I have a REAL steel plow for my brand X red tractor. After thinking a while, I thought I could do better. Whats better than a snow plow? A snow blower! I don't have the equipment to build a snow blower, or the smarts for that matter, but I do have a snow blower. A 1964 Lawn Boy, 15", 2 cycle, 2 1/2 Hp, Model 1819 snowblower.

I bought this and refurbished it last year. Went completely through it mechanically, and gave it a paint job. It runs great. Of course you can't put a 15" snow blower in front of a 30" tractor. That just wouldn't work well. I needed another 1964 Lawn Boy, 15", Model 1819 snow blower. That shouldn't be too tough. I called Wal Mart. Nope. Checked the Dollar store. The girl laughed at me. I thought That was rude. Amazon? "Out Of Stock" If you look long and hard enough on the internet, you can find just about anything. Even things you don't want to find, but I found one!

Can you tell where this is going? I picked up the NEW Lawn Boy Model 1819 snow blower on Saturday. Went completely through it mechanically, and cleaned it up the best I could, considering it's cold outside, and now It also runs like a top. With a little more pipe, some chain and turnbuckles, a chunk of wood, rope, and other bits of this and that, I have a hybrid, Wheel Horse/Lawn Boy snow re-location device. Or as my wife calls it, "a contraption". I think it's one-of-a-kind.  At least I am not aware of another one. If you see another, let me know. 

Of course there is no way my little DC actuator motor could lift this much weight, so it's back to the rope clamped to the lift handle. On the up-side, with the duct tape covering the clamp, I am once again, Red Green compliant. You cannot turn this thing on a dime, but my driveway is straight, so not a problem. "Give me 40 acres and I'll turn this rig around".  I want to stress that no Wheel Horse tractor, or Lawn Boy snow blower, was hurt during this build. A little embarrassed maybe, but not hurt. MOVING AIR IS NOT AS IMPRESSIVE AS MOVING SNOW, BUT IT'S ALL I GOT. THE SNOW IN THE YARD IS MORE LIKE AN ICE BERG THAN SNOW. SORRY FOR THE SHOUTING, IT'S A LITTLE NOISY IN HERE !

 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,495]

Simply outstanding! 

 

Red Green would be proud...

 

[Handy Don 12,163]

I've often wondered what the duct tape budget was like for the Red Green show. Probably coulda fed a family of four for a couple of years!

The sheer outside-the-box inventiveness of the shows kept me laughing each time I watched, though!

And if anyone suggests I used any of those ideas, well, I'm categorically denying it. 

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,296]

@Gregor If your wife buys you a white coat with very long arms and leather straps on the back "don't be surprised " . too bad you live so far away , I have 1/2 a case of duct tape and all kinds of crap laying around. 

[ebinmaine 67,310]

Absolutely excellent

[Rusty Tinsnips 477]

oh man, yah, maybe your wife is on to something .

[DennisThornton 4,769]

The only tractor mount snow blower that I've ever seen that blows both ways!

[DennisThornton 4,769]

Earlier, I looked at that wonderful creation and while I really didn't quite know what to say, I still commented, one of the first thoughts that came to mind.

But, now, I've had a chance to review, think about it, look at the pictures a couple of time and consider it...     I still don't know what to say...

[JoeM 7,871]

synchronized snow blowing!

 

Might be the next big thing? 

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,310]

1 hour ago, JoeM said:

synchronized snow blowing!

 

Might be the next big thing? 

That could be interesting

[Handy Don 12,163]

5 hours ago, DennisThornton said:

The only tractor mount snow blower that I've ever seen that blows both ways!

I'm still visualizing this! It'd look like a fast ship throwing up a white foamy bow wave.

And the noise of three engines (two of 'em those two-cycle moaners)!

Need video of this, not just pictures.

[R Scheer 502]

Gives a whole new meaning to "Duallies"

[Gregor 4,846]

5 hours ago, Handy Don said:

Need video of this, not just pictures.

Did the video not load?

[ebinmaine 67,310]

33 minutes ago, Gregor said:

Did the video not load?

Yeah it's there. 

 

@Handy Don scroll up a bit and there's a video. 

 

@Gregor

YOU NEED SNOW!!!!

[Gregor 4,846]

This could get really ugly.  I found another snow blower.

[ebinmaine 67,310]

4 minutes ago, Gregor said:

This could get really ugly.  I found another snow blower.

Well first things first, you just need to go buy it.

 

 

I suppose ugly is in the eye of the beholder just like beauty. And overkill.

 

 

The biggest question I have if, hypothetically, you were to put three snow blowers across the front of a tractor... What is going to be the decision making process involved and deciding which direction any given chute is going to point.....??

So many variables.

[Gregor 4,846]

Pretty simple Away from my trucks.

[ebinmaine 67,310]

Just now, Gregor said:

Pretty simple Away from my trucks.

That's fair. That's fair.

 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,495]

Al Gore and John Kerry are watching... ain’t happy with your carbon footprint...  now youz gotta file on youz in DC... big trouble...