Tractor front mounted snow plow

greg oliver · Sep 6, 2019

Anyone have a front mounted snow plow on a manual steer wide front row crop tractor? My son wanted a tractor to plow his driveway and I have an extra tractor sitting around. My Oliver narrow front 77 had a homemade mount on the front but I don?t want him on that one. The wide front steers fairly easy for me but haven?t had a snow plow hanging on the front either. I don?t have any plow yet so just looking for ideas on the mounting.

tim s · Sep 6, 2019

I put this together in the Blizzard of 1976,,mounted on a new 4630,,the blade is off an ols State truck,,the mounting pushes off the front of the draw bar,,it got a work out that year..

Bob Bancroft · Sep 6, 2019

Dad had a V plow on the front of his narrow front JD 2510. It worked well because it was tucked right back in around the tractor. Of course good power steering. The V plow still sets next door, by the road, for sale, I'm sure.

greg oliver · Sep 6, 2019

Tim, That?s a monster! That would build up his arm muscles! My superintendent just bought an old Oshkosh to play with. Came with a V plow and was converted to a 290 Cummins. It doesn?t look to bad and engine looks like it belongs in there.

greg oliver · Sep 6, 2019

Bob, was it a homemade V plow? Thinking about my own driveway now. Just don?t want him in the narrow front he has never been on one. I grew up on JD B,G,50 Farmall M and Oliver 88.can still remember my brother trying to hook a rock out of the ground with the 50 and New Idea loader . She tipped over fast and he went flying.

formerly ny bill · Sep 6, 2019

this is the silage pusher on Earl, my Oliver 2150. I built the subframe from 6" (iirc) channel iron. it has been twisted, reinforced, and rebuilt a couple times. the blade was a snowplow from a F-600 size dump truck. there were plenty of bolt holes on the front and sides to use for mounting it. contrast to my White 2-105 4wd that was going to be Earl's replacement- very few places near the front to bolt and support a subframe, so the 2-105 is still a field tractor. Earl has power steering, but it isn't 4020-easy. I used a hydraulic cylinder with a 10" stroke to be able to get down pressure for digging in the silage. same length as the standard 8" stroke cylinder that I started with.

greg oliver · Sep 6, 2019

Bill do you still use Earl? Oliver guys like those 2150?s . A friend of my family had one in Pleasant Mount P.A. That was 40 years ago and I think it had a cab.

formerly ny bill · Sep 6, 2019

I used Earl for haylage this spring. that will be all- I'm not chopping any corn silage for myself this year, as we are down to 24 bred heifers now and counting, and I can't feed the corn fast enough to keep it from spoiling. first time in the 40 years I have farmed here with no corn silage made.

Mike M · Sep 6, 2019

John Deere's have very good power steering so his arm muscles would not get a work out at all.

Ultradog MN · Sep 6, 2019

When I first got into tractors i built this front plow to go on the 2N I had.
Had the blade formed and made the rest of it. With good tire chains and rear wheel weights it made a marvelous little snow mover. I had to make a "lift amplifier" so i could raise the blade with a 12" cylinder.
It was a fun project. I modified it later. Put trip springs on the plow and a much better turntable on the blade. I sold the blade with the tractor when I moved on to newer Fords.
The weight of the blade had very little effect on the steering.

Bob Bancroft · Sep 6, 2019

Combination, I think. The plow was shaped such that it rolled snow nicely. Someone added some little winglets on the ends. Dad built the push/lift/centering frames. If you have any interest in the plow I can find out about it for you.

stoughtonfarmboy · Sep 6, 2019

Picture of my set up. Meyers plow.
Uses hydraulics from rear of tractor to raise plow. One way cylinder. Need weight on rear to offset plow and FEL.

Ken

old · Sep 6, 2019

I have an 8.5 foot wide V-plow I made years ago that mounts to the loader bucket of a couple of my tractor that have loaders on them. One pass up my mile long driveway is all that I need most of the time to clear it. I have plowed 2 foot deep snow with it

Chilidawg · Sep 6, 2019

I'm curious, old. How much horsepower does it take to push that V-plow?

greg oliver · Sep 6, 2019

Nice ,That is all he would need .

greg oliver · Sep 6, 2019

Thanks Bob I need to get a few more things fixed on her before he can push anything.

Rex Simpkins · Sep 7, 2019

I have a front mount plow on my wide front, with no power steering--once you put the weight on the back your going to need in order for the plow to work effectively with tractor== it steers same as tractor with nothing on the front or behind. What has worked best for me is to put rear blade on there with a couple of suitcase weights on it--then i can use it to back into parking stops and clean them out with back blade then use front blade to shove it where I want to pile it up

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