C-125 snow blade mods for easier lifting

[Jeff-C175 7,199]

2 hours ago, Snoopy11 said:

Agri Fab plow

 

Looks too light duty for my taste.

[ebinmaine 67,320]

4 hours ago, Jeff-C175 said:

 

That's me!  Six years old... With sixty two years of experience!  Can you say 'arrested development' ?

I'm 51 by the calendar. 5 by heart and mind. 

I tried being a "grown up" for a couple decades. 

It sucked. 

 

I feel instead of arrested development we are more situationally and socially aware of our own tendencies and emotions. 

[Snoopy11 5,714]

11 hours ago, Jeff-C175 said:

 

Looks too light duty for my taste.

 

You haven't seen all the things I have done with mine... have you? 

 

 

 

Don

[tractorbeast 27]

16 hours ago, Jeff-C175 said:

 

Looks too light duty for my taste.

I'd like to thank @Jeff-C175 for helping to get these idea's flowing and thank everyone for all the posts that have been submitted, WOW never expected this. One thing I have learned is I should have worked on my C195 instead of the free 267H I got this summer, but it has been in the family since new in 1996.

[Handy Don 12,174]

4 minutes ago, tractorbeast said:

I'd like to thank @Jeff-C175 for helping to get these idea's flowing and thank everyone for all the posts that have been submitted, WOW never expected this. One thing I have learned is I should have worked on my C195 instead of the free 267H I got this summer, but it has been in the family since new in 1996.

Working on family history is never time wasted, IMHO. You can start making history on the C195, right?

[Snoopy11 5,714]

10 minutes ago, tractorbeast said:

WOW never expected this

When you get a bunch of guys together... @Jeff-C175, @ebinmaine, @Snoopy11... and many others... and we exchange ideas... this is what you get.  

 

Pretty awesome aye?

 

Don

[Jeff-C175 7,199]

56 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

Working on family history is never time wasted

 

Not exactly the same kind of family history, but my Daddy told me not to shake the family tree too hard because I might not like what falls out!   Yep, he was right, there were some ROTTEN APPLES up there!

[Snoopy11 5,714]

1 minute ago, Jeff-C175 said:

 

Not exactly the same kind of family history, but my Daddy told me not to shake the family tree too hard because I might not like what falls out!   Yep, he was right, there were some ROTTEN APPLES up there!

Same here... seriously... 

 

Don

[Snoopy11 5,714]

Check this out boys, special note on the gas spring cylinder... maybe relevant for someone:

 

 

Don

[Snoopy11 5,714]

4 minutes ago, Jeff-C175 said:

ROTTEN APPLES

Was that, rotten apples, or road apples...?

 

 

Don

[Jeff-C175 7,199]

7 minutes ago, Snoopy11 said:

relevant for someone:

 

ME!  I love that idea!  Nice engineering... very nice!

 

 

[Jeff-C175 7,199]

OK... I want one of these!

 

 

 

[Jeff-C175 7,199]

12 minutes ago, Snoopy11 said:

rotten apples, or road apples

 

BOTH!

 

[Gregor 4,846]

I have one of these.

 

[Jeff-C175 7,199]

Just now, Gregor said:

one of these

 

The crazy landscaper guy up end of our dirt road used to do mine, but he's an ANIMAL!  All he cares about is getting the snow out of the way, doesn't care how much gravel he pushes up into piles on the lawn, garbage cans get covered, christmas decorations and shrubberies get ruined.  I only call him if we get 2 feet or more and I can't deal, ESPECIALLY with my new asphalt.

 

 

[Gregor 4,846]

To be honest he makes a bigger mess than anything else. I try to have it done before he gets here. All I have is a 60' driveway. He shows up with a big honkin' 4 wheel drive John Deere with a blade on the back, and just packs everything down. If it's a really BIG snow, I let him do it.

[Handy Don 12,174]

1 hour ago, Jeff-C175 said:

 

Not exactly the same kind of family history, but my Daddy told me not to shake the family tree too hard because I might not like what falls out!   Yep, he was right, there were some ROTTEN APPLES up there!

True not the same! But in your case, think of the stories you can tell now! 

[Gregor 4,846]

1 hour ago, Jeff-C175 said:

there were some ROTTEN APPLES up there!

I have a nephew with the same name as me. Gregory ******* **********. Same Birthday 9/**. He was born on my birthday, so my brother graciously named him after me. Lets just say he has not been a pillar of the community. To make matters worse, when dad moved to a retirement home, my brother bought the house we all grew up in. So now we share an address. I use to get calls.

 

Is This Gregory *******  ************ ? Yes.

Were you born 9/** ? yes.

Did you use to live in M********** Iowa? Yes.

Did you live at ****  L**** Street? Yes. 

Well you owe us.............  NO!

 

Apparently the year of your birth meant little to them. On the upside I haven't received any calls in quite some time. On the down side, he has been in the Iowa State Penitentiary for quite some time. And will be for quite some time to come. No violent crimes. Mostly theft, drugs, and firearms. Anybody wanna trade?

[Snoopy11 5,714]

10 minutes ago, Gregor said:

I have a nephew with the same name as me. Gregory ******* **********. Same Birthday 9/**. He was born on my birthday, so my brother graciously named him after me. Lets just say he has not been a pillar of the community. To make matters worse, when dad moved to a retirement home, my brother bought the house we all grew up in. So now we share an address. I use to get calls.

 

Is This Gregory *******  ************ ? Yes.

Were you born 9/** ? yes.

Did you use to live in M********** Iowa? Yes.

Did you live at ****  L**** Street? Yes. 

Well you owe us.............  NO!

 

Apparently the year of your birth meant little to them. On the upside I haven't received any calls in quite some time. On the down side, he has been in the Iowa State Penitentiary for quite some time. And will be for quite some time to come. No violent crimes. Mostly theft, drugs, and firearms. Anybody wanna trade?

Anybody who calls my house, and asks for Don ******... has got the wrong number...

 

 

Don

[ebinmaine 67,320]

3 hours ago, Jeff-C175 said:

  I only call him if we get 2 feet or more and I can't deal

We move our own no matter how much. 

Up to 6 or 8 inches the Horses plow snow. Above that, the snowblower does it's job.  

It snows more than 15 or 20 inches we just move snow twice.  

[Gregor 4,846]

All this talk of snow plows, winches and lift mechanisms got me to thinking. Bad idea, I know. If I could rig up a winch system to lift this entire unit off the ground, the tractor could actually turn. Maybe. This whole thing weighs in @ 150lbs. With that much weight n the front axle, could I turn it?

As it is now, I am simply tilting the snowblowers back on their own wheels with my lift handle. Whadda ya think?

[pfrederi 17,685]

I think you have to much time on your hands

[Jeff-C175 7,199]

10 minutes ago, Gregor said:

Whadda ya think

 

If it's half as hard to steer as my 175 with one blower mounted you'll have Popeye arms halfway through the snowstorm!  

[Gregor 4,846]

I got to thinking about end loaders on tractors with a bucket of gravel. There has to be some weight to that.

17 minutes ago, pfrederi said:

I think you have to much time on your hands

You are right. I am out of projects. Gotta do sumpthin'

[Snoopy11 5,714]

6 hours ago, Gregor said:

All this talk of snow plows, winches and lift mechanisms got me to thinking. Bad idea, I know. If I could rig up a winch system to lift this entire unit off the ground, the tractor could actually turn. Maybe. This whole thing weighs in @ 150lbs. With that much weight n the front axle, could I turn it?

 

6 hours ago, Gregor said:

their own wheels with my lift handle. Whadda ya think?

I LIKE IT!!! 

 

I think you should be able to steer it... just make sure you have good wheel bearings in the front end! 

 

Don