Snow blade on a backhoe project

Rick Kr · Oct 30, 2012

I have seen one or two backhoes on here that people have mounted a Western or Meyer snowblade to the bucket.

Have a backhoe and an older Meyer plow, I figure it will make a nice fall project. Does anyone have a picture or two of how you mount it to the bucket?

Thanks in advance,
Rick

old · Oct 30, 2012

I could give you a few ideas of how I would do it. I built a 8.5 foot wide V plow for my loader tractor that works just fine and have an old truck mounted plow like what your talking about. My self I would make it so the blade mount slide into the bucket and had a U shaped part that hooked to the lip of the bucket and then a way to fasten it down in the back of the bucket. Fast and easy to hook up and fast an easy to remove and that is how my V plow is sort of set up

chevytaHOE5674 · Oct 30, 2012

As old said the easiest way is with some sort of U that goes under and in the bucket, with the cutting edge of the bucket pushing against the framework of the plow. Then a chain and a binder around the bucket to hold it in place.

One downside of this is that the blade won't really float like it does on a truck when hanging loose from the lift chain.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 30, 2012

I would suggest removing bucket, as blade and bucket are each pretty heavy. Once you have bucket removed, see how you can alter plow's A frame to match loader. You'll also need to figure a way to secure the a frame from vertical movement as well. Let the loader do the up and down. Do you have an auxillary cylinder port on the tractor to tilt the plow? Hydraulic tilt is a very useful feature. Also note, the tractor may not have enough weight and traction on the front wheels, In a tilt situation, the tractor front may slide all over. My old truck mounted plow sometimes has trouble with that, in spite of a heavy old diesel up front, and 4 wd as well. A 2 wd tractor may be even less workable.

old · Oct 30, 2012

I use my bucket to much so the mount I use works far better. I have it set up for a V-Plow. a boom pole for that extra lift and a bale spike and each can be on at any given time or swapped out some time all in the same day

old · Oct 30, 2012

A lot depends on the blade it self. The straight blade I have off a truck has 2 pivot points so even if mounted as I said it does in fact float all be it not as much as it does on a truck but it still does. I have that blade setup for my A/C C but it is to big for the tractor it hooks to

Geo-TH,In · Oct 30, 2012

Rick,
About 4 years ago I made an 8 ft snow blade using an 8 ft 2x12 and put metal on the bottom edge. My intentions were to use this as a prototype and make a better one out of metal. WELLLL this has worked so well, haven't made a metal one yet.

Only use a few times each winter, last winter didn't have enough snow to use it.

My idea was to make the mounting brackets go unside the bucket and attach to bucket with a bolt on each side.

Hope this gives you an idea how to make a quick connect blade for your hoe.

George

buickanddeere · Oct 30, 2012

If there is any regular drifting or deep accumulation. The blade runs out of room to push the snow. Worse yet the banked up snow makes the drifting worse.
A two stage snow blower is the only way to get rid of the white stuff.

Rick Kr · Oct 30, 2012

I will fab up U shaped mounts for the cutting then use a chain. For the little use it will see, I won"t remove the bucket.

Last year I didnt even need to put the blade on the tractor due to our mild winter. Now that I have a backhoe with a cab, I figure I might as well plow in comfort.

Just need to figure how how to make it float without digging into the gravel drive. The skids are gone off the blade.

Rick

Royse · Oct 30, 2012

When I get mine back on I can send you a pic, but just I bolted two pieces of angle iron
in the bucket and pinned the old truck blade to them as I would have under the truck.
Lifting or tilting the bucket lifts the blade and leaves it free to float up.
I then ran a chain from the corners of the blade back to hooks on the bucket.
That leaves it as manual angle at the moment, but as someone else mentioned
on my light weight two wheel drive an angled blade pushes my tractor sideways.
If we have that much snow I take the blade off and use the bucket.
You can bolt a couple pieces of strap iron to the bolts that hold the snow plow
cutting edge on and weld a piece of pipe to the straps to keep it from digging in.
Works better than shoes because being full width it isn't as susceptible
to digging in on uneven ground or holes.

chevytaHOE5674 · Oct 30, 2012

(quoted from post at 17:36:17 10/30/12)A two stage snow blower is the only way to get rid of the white stuff.

Yeah, if you have your entire day to devote to moving snow. A blade is much faster and more effective when plowing large areas and long distances.

buickanddeere · Oct 30, 2012

Does not take all day with the blower.
Takes longer re and re-re-ploughing the same road that has
drifted in extra because of the drifts. Than is does to make a
pass with the blower that stays clear.

JMS./MN · Oct 30, 2012

A lot depends on how much snow you need to push. Anything mounted on or in front of the bucket will be harder to handle since it takes weight off of the rear drive wheels. With a backhoe, that may not be an issue. In real snow country, like MN, we want a snow BLOWER, not a plow. Blowers move the snow 50 feet or more away from the driveway, while a plow just shoves it to the side, and the next wind blows it back into the driveway. I had a farmstead renter on a second farm who wanted to buy an M Farmall with a loader. I told him, the rental agreement was that I keep the driveway open....it is not the renter's job. I didn't want him screwing up the driveway with nearby piles. I'd go over there before AM milking, just to blow that driveway out, so he could get to work 60 miles away.

chevytaHOE5674 · Oct 31, 2012

You guys that use a blower for everything must not plow much snow very often. I usually plow 4-5 days EVERY week ALL winter and live in the 3rd snowiest area of the US (Behind Valdez Alaska and someplace in the Rockies) and we use plows. If I had to snowblow my 1/2+ miles driveway multiple times a day at 2mph in reverse on a tractor I would go insane. I hop in the pickup and drive forward at 20+ mph and have the job done in just a few minutes.

Plow the snow downwind and in the early winter push it far off the drive and I rarely have trouble with drifting. Usually about twice a winter I will go through with a loader or my dozer and knock the snowbanks down and widen everything back out to make room for more snow. The time spent doing that once or twice is much less than snowblowing each time it snows.

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