How to make a bigger snowplow?

jCarroll

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mid-Ohio
My brother lives in mid-Michigan, sees 10" snows, has a Super A on chains, with a 5'Cub front blade. He thinks he could plow more snow if his blade were "higher". Thinking of ways to add something to the top of his blade.

What ideas do you have to offer? He has shop tools, welder, torch, etc ...
 
Pick up a piece of flat bar, the length of the blade and weld or bolt it on. Might want to consider adding to the length of it also.
 
Find another old blade and weld it on top of the one he already has. Or find an old boiler tank or some such thing and use it to make his blade taller. Years back when I made my V plow I made it about 2.5 foot tall so it would be over kill. It is also 8.5 foot wide so one pass and I am done
 
Sometimes bigger isn't better. I made too big of a plow and My Farmall C can only push so much SNOW. Then I have to push the SNOW sideways off the drive.
Same with my Kubota which I use the front bucket and rear plow at an angle at the same time. Eventually I have to push the SNOW sideways. A few times the angled blade slides the rear sideways.

He might make 2 pass and not do it all in one pass. I remove about half the SNOW with front bucket and the rest with rear blade.
George
 
Old
I don't let my blade drag on the gravel drive so I don't find gravel in the yard when the snow melts.

Putting something heavier on the front blade will remove weight from rear tires. George
 
My V plow mounts to the loader bucket of my tractors. I also keep something heavy on the 3 point so to off set the weight problem up front
 
I welded one ft extensions on the either side of my snow plow--also drilled a new bolt hole so i could get more of an angle so the snow will role off to the side better
 
You see my point. Need more rear ballast if you add more to the front.
I've thought about V mount.. What happens when you are only pushing snow on one side? How bad does that push your front end sideways? George
 
On my truck plow, I used a piece of angle iron, and a piece of heavy duty belting to make a flap that hangs downward over the front of blade. Helps keep the snow rolling instead of balling up in front of blade. Some truck blades have more curvature and different angle of attack, both of which are important if rolling the snow is needed. My Meyers plow comes up short on both counts.
 
When I have to plow snow I make 1 pass down the center and if I need it wider I do a half pass and never have any problem with it trying to push the front end sideways. I think part of that is because the other half of the V is still pushing to oppose the side pushing the most snow. I've pushed 2 foot of snow in 3rd gear with my Ford 841S and I keep a heavy back blade on it with 6 85lbs suit case weights on the blade and a 150lbs wheel weight on the center ling part of the blade.
 
If it were me, I'd probably add on some heavier expanded metal. It'll still offer more capacity while still allowing some visibility through the expanded metal.
 
Years ago I wanted to add to the top of mine, just so happened at that time we were removing all the in ground hoists at work and each hoist had a six foot piece of diamond plate destined for the scrap pile.
It does move more regular snow better but wet snow is a hard push.
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yes just use a 2x what ever height you want and a couple pieces of angle. Light and enough to push the top layer of snow, bottom does all the work.
 
This 'snowplough monument' is in a local town in the Scottish Borders. Accredited as being the best design (and an 'easy push' for heavily drifted snow within high banks, it was designed here in Scotland to be fitted to some of the wartime surplus US army trucks left over from W.W.2., and together they 'saved' the country from the blizzards of 1947. Any of you guys up for trying to fabricate something like this??
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If his blade angles, put a rubber flap on it like RayP suggested earlier. It helps keep the snow rolling out the side of the blade instead of over the top.
 
If you make a 1-2 inch skid a foot from each end about 2 ft long you can put down pressure on loader or blade and never worry about digging gravel. You also don't lose the weight on the rear tires that way.
 

Looks like a piece of rubber belting bolted on to the top of the plow. Not too expensive.
 

That high lift V plow looks like the ones the railroad used 150 plus years ago. Not a new concept.

I like Old's idea of a couple 2x12's bolted as extensions on the sides. Double them for a V or find some old bridge planks. County used to sell them for 5 bux each but not anymore. Wood 2x12's won't dig up the gravel drive so bad and will tend to glide over like taking a piece of 2" pvc pipe and cutting a slice in it to slide along the bottom of a blade to stop digging in. A couple of 10' 2x12's in a V on the front of a loader should be wide enough to clear a drive in one pass.
 
I've inspected and certified a lot of Gas Turbines....never on a Fuel Truck....

In Russia, Snow blower Mig-15 Jets

Bob..
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