Front blade

[arctic003]

Hi Folks

Yesterday I went to the local scrapyard to look for materials for building a simple bale lifter to go on the 3-point hitch.

As is the way with these things, I came away with... the blade part of a grader blade. It's 2m wide and 50cm deep.

It's almost exactly like the red part of this:
http://www.laaksonmetalli.fi/lana_kauha.htm
only a little smaller.

Now, I'll probably make a 3 point mounting for this (I was going to put the links directly on the blade but a friend said that it would be too close to the rear wheels and I'd probably end up in a ditch before long )
BUT if at some point in the future I were to mount it on the FRONT of the tractor, would it be sufficient to use the 8 bolts on each side of the front casting? Would that be strong enough and give enough support for pushing snow?

I was thinking that with that kind of blade on the front, lifted by a single cylinder, and the snow blower on the back, I'd have quite a useful machine for snow work come the winter...

What do you lot think?

Cheers,
J-P

 

[treaney]

Arctic,

It will be interesting to see how you pick up sliage bales with this blade

I have one of these levelling bladed on a 3 pt hitch. I believe that it was originally used on the railway for levelling out the chips that go under the railway lines in pre-continuous welded rail days. It is great for levelling but is very heavy - I reckon 700kg.

However, since my 2m hydraulic transport arrived it has become redundant as this has a levelling blade built in.

BTW the simplest way to lift bales is a bale spike but these puncture the plastic.

Re the mounting, I don't know if the 6945 has a seperate frame like on the Crystal's which are two 13mm x 250mm flat steel plates running either side of the engine in which holes are drilled. This is strong enough to mount an implement.

TomZ
Tom

 

[arctic003]

Arctic,

It will be interesting to see how you pick up sliage bales with this blade

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Yeah that's life isn't it! Although the bale lifter is the priority at the moment, that blade wouldn't have stayed in the scrapyard for more than a day, and after 10 years living in Finland I have learnt the signs that the winter really is coming!

It was 12 euros well spent even if it does distract me from the true path...[/]
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I have one of these levelling bladed on a 3 pt hitch. I believe that it was originally used on the railway for levelling out the chips that go under the railway lines in pre-continuous welded rail days. It is great for levelling but is very heavy - I reckon 700kg.

However, since my 2m hydraulic transport arrived it has become redundant as this has a levelling blade built in.

BTW the simplest way to lift bales is a bale spike but these puncture the plastic.

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Yeah - I was going to go the way of making simple round forks like on the website that you MSN'd me the other day. Of course there might be problems - the field is very soggy as are the bales - time will tell if I can get forks under them once they are on their sides. The clamping version would be better but to say finances are strained would be an understatement .[/]
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Re the mounting, I don't know if the 6945 has a seperate frame like on the Crystal's which are two 13mm x 250mm flat steel plates running either side of the engine in which holes are drilled. This is strong enough to mount an implement.

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Ok, check your email - I have sent you a photo of my tractor where you can see the holes I describe. I believe this may be where a plate like that was mounted - BUT it is in front of, rather than alongside the engine.

Thanks,
J-P[/]
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TomZ
Tom

 

[darylat8750ft]

Hi JP,
A snow-blower on the back with a blade up front to clean up heavier snow and windrow the light stuff so you can through it down wind is, IMHO, almost the perfict set-up. I would rather have the blower on the front, blade in back, but that is a much more expensive set-up, and the front 3 point would require the loader frame to be removed every time I switched back and forth. If you have rocks in your road, some way for the blade to "trip" or relieve the pressure would allow you to blade faster. My blade is solid, and I hooked a rock while going no faster than I can walk, and it stopped me so hard that I hit my chest on the steering wheel and the fuel slopped so hard in the fuel tank that it bent the float arm on the sending unit.
Don't you just love it when you are the first one to spot a good deal? I usually get there just as someone else is leavine with it.
Good luck. Daryl in Wy.