AC-B Snow plow DIY

I've got a Cockshutt30 here that someone removed the trip bucket and mounted a snow plow blade.HaAs a Charr-Lynn pumpsetup to raise/lower the loader. Supposed to work well but i bought it for the Buda 153 gas engine to rpelace the tired dieel in my A-C forklift.
Good thing about the setup is the abilty to push snow 'up and back' further than say a pickup and plow.

Jay

its possable to attack anything with a welder. but not the best idea. we attached a truck plow to the front of dads WD loader for one storm. adding a blade out front of the loader gave it so much leverage you could only push with the blade straight and you had no steering control. lifting it took to much wieght off the tires for it to push much snow anyway. after the storm we cut the blade up and made mounts to connect it directly to the loader frame inplace of the bucket. did away with the angleing portion so the blade was up close to the loader frame and it worked great that way. I made a blade for my C that worked great . just run push arms out from the lower plow mounts to directly iI used a piece of boiler plate for the blade and grader blade for the cutting edege. welded angled cross pieces between the front and rear tires and used a cable lift to raise and lower.  if you put a 12' extension arm on the rockshaft and run a cable down to the drawbar foward to the cultivator front mount bar and down to the push arms the hydraulics will lift the blade very nicely. use pretty heavy pulleys. you realy need wheel weights and tire chains if you get alot of snow. I lived in upper michigan at that time and we averaged 180" of snow i moved it all with my C.

You would never dream how good this works for deep snow, not having to drive thru it to drag it with the back blade. I can pile it as high as the loader will go too, by just lifting the loader as I push. The "live" hydraulics is real handy so if I were to do it with a B, I might think of an electric over hydraulic or a 12 volt winch to lift it.

Great idea Charles! Guess I'll go out to the shop and fire up the wood burner. We're supposed to get 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 feet of snow by Tuesday here. I think I have everything needed for your solution. If the grandkids can't get up the hill today, could get this done by tomorrow afternoon. If they do make it, Bonus! It can wait. This is Colorado so, will possibly be melted by middle of next week anyways 

That is basic Jay. Simple, simple solution for now. The loader is hydraulic and lifts as you plow? Thanks for the pics guys. 

How about mounting a receiver to the front of your tractor and use a plow like this: https://youtu.be/NH7_cO8v0xk?  My cousin bought a JD that came with one but they used a clamp-on receiver on the loader bucket.  He says it works great

Edited by DanC911 - 01 Feb 2016 at 8:39pm

yes, the load needs to be transferred to the rear axle area by means of a loader frame, or c-channels run under the tractor to the rear end.

Interesting plow design ( for maybe my Scout ). A little pricey for a po boy like me. Agreed 100% on the possible torque tube, front end and what have you breakage. Way too much bling for my $100 tractor.  Still a fan of Jay's loader - plow concept.

I have been tossing the idea around for a while of buying a plow for a truck, but without the full mount (sorta like this) and making a mount for it like this 

Edited by BenGiBoy - 02 Feb 2016 at 10:01am

TOO much engineering going on when he already has a front end loader on the tractor 

Saw in a catalog an electric jack to plug in outlet on a car. Had a 1ton and a 2ton .Two ton 89 dollars. Looked liked it could home shopped to make a lift for something like a snow blade . No hyd . I have a B also. It was in a heartland catalog ,not familiar with them.

CTuckerNWIL wrote: TOO much engineering going on when he already has a front end loader on the tractor

Charlie, does your snow rig/loader have the kind of frame that connects to the rear end?  Got any pics of that?  Thanks!

Thanks for the info Charlie.  I know what I'm gonna do now!!!

That's too bad about your puter and laptop both going at the same time...  I hope you kept the old PC?  You can take the HD out of it and put it into another PC or buy a separate piece that then makes it a portable drive.  You can get your stuff off it that way.

I tell everyone I know to use a PORTABLE drive along with their PC.  If you put something on your PC today, it should also go onto the portable HD.  That way you have everything backed up.  THEN, I have another protable HD that I 'copy' one portable to another.  MY BUTT IS COVERED!!  I use Western Digital Passport 2TB

Wish I knew more about laptops.......  then maybe I could help.
MUST be some others on here who can help you out!?!?  Some of these young guys should have the smarts that we are lacking...