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Plowiing the farm road to the sugarbush with my Case 440

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Well after clearing my driveway from the first major snow storm here in central NY, (about 16"), I went up and opened up the farm road to the sugarbush yesterday. Kinda tough pushing up hill as the rear tires on the 440 are dry. I need to get my stash of Case nose weights mounted on the rear.
The shop built cab was warm and toasty, and after I got all the acoustical padding installed it is relativly quiet. The new REI radio that I bought at Runnings drounds out the engine/tranny noise, but the plow still makes a lot of noise.
I had the unit out a week ago for a shakedown trial. (last pic.) The plow is a 1957 vintage Myers SP72 that was originally mounted to a Case 300. I totally rebuilt the frame to tuck it back and up and tied it back to the tranny. The cab frame started as a Cub Cadet 4 post ROPS off of a side-by-side. Last year I finished off my shop last year with plenty of heat, lighting and tool and parts storage and have really enjoyed it (My Man Cave),this winter.
Loren, the Acg.
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Beautiful job on that tractor Loren!!!

You would be an interesting neighbor, and I mean that as a compliment.
 
Loren, we have more snow on the way tonight. Real sharp Case and farm. Did you ever do a Big Jim conversion on a Harvestor, seeing those blue silo's brought back a Jamesway memory. Vanley the dealer I worked for was wanting to do one but never did. I wasn't to exited about mounting the pulley's on the roof any way! Greg
 
Looks Good, a warm cab makes pushing snow much nicer. Do you have your wood cut for the sugar bush? Spring is coming and sap will be flowin...John
 
That looks like a fun afternoon to me. Cab and plow setup looks real good. I put a home made cab on the 300u international a few yrs ago wish I had done it long before that once I had iWhat did you use for sound in side the cab mine is not tolerable without ear muffs
 
That looks like a fun afternoon to me. Cab and plow setup looks real good. I put a home made cab on the 300u international a few yrs ago wish I had done it long before that once I had iWhat did you use for sound in side the cab mine is not tolerable without ear muffs
 
After living in FL for ten years I didn't know there was anything but a black horse fence. They use a combination of black oil base paint, creosote, and motor oil Makes nice shiny black fence and horses won't crib on it.I have about 1000 ft of it now on the place and expand a little every spring.
 
Very glad to hear you are opening up a sugar road. One of the first signs that spring may actually be thinking about approaching. Nice Case, too.
 
Great to see it out working, at least the slopes don't appear to be substantial or a problem, looks like you got enough traction to get through it.

I've not plowed with a front blade on a tractor in a very long time, we had an IH 460 with a front blade, with 2 large cylinders for down pressure, it was more like a dozer blade so much heavier than a regular snow blade which is all you really need, I never saw anything like it since. It had a cab, and did a pretty good job in the snow, seeing yours reminded me of that one and the '64 4000 ford we had with a hydraulic lift front blade, manual tilt. We used to sell meyers and I think I have a photo of the little sign that was mounted on the old shop exterior.

The color scheme looks great, I'll bet we will see this one doing this work for years to come !
 
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