your idea Old, 3 years later

Rick Kr · Feb 3, 2010

I was sick of ripping up the stone in my driveway when plowing snow, so Old gave me an idea to weld a pipe on my blade so it would skip over the rocks in the driveway. Here's the pictures of version 2. 2" black pipe and a few 1/2 steel tabs.

BTW. Version 1, I took a piece of 3" schedule 40, cut it lengthwise and put it on a lighter 7 foot blade. It worked about 2 passes before the weight and cold shattered it. After that I knew the concept worked, so I went to ver. 2 with steel pipe.

Hopefully the link to photobucket works too, 3 pix there.

Rick

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old · Feb 3, 2010

Happy that I could help you with that. Don't remember doing so but I have slept a few nights and had a few beers since LOL

ryanwheelock · Feb 4, 2010

I did that on one of my plows a few years ago and had a problem with the snow building up on the driveway. Without the tube the blade scrapes the snow and the level never rises, with the tube the level would rise just a little each time I would plow.
You notice that problem at all???
Ryan

Rick Kr · Feb 4, 2010

Ryan,
On the first try with the PVC pipe and a "light" 7 foot blade I did notice a little snow buildup. Not a lot though.

That landpride blade is somewhere around 850-900lbs if I remember. That tends to put it right down on the drive pretty good. Second season of using it and have noticed any real buildup. It does leave the driveway glass smooth, so some times a little sun will make it slick. Driving over it once with the car will break up that crust. Maybe 1/2" of crust/snow was the most I got last year. This year, we haven't had enough snow to only plow twice.

If you look at the pic above, you can see it scrapes the concrete pad pretty good. I am wondering how many years I'll get out of the pipe before I have to replace it.

Rick

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