3 pt blade

[Shorty]

Found a blade on CL today and brought it home tonight. Looks homemade, but has a number of little things that say machine shop. A number of bolted connections where it is tapped instead of using a nut. 2 places it is 3/4 inch that is tapped. The pivot area is all half inch plates. And the blade itself is half inch.

 

[Shorty]

This hopefully does a good job of grading the stone driveway. Definitely better designed for it than a snow plow. My plow is all broke up from using too hard. Paid less for this than what I think the repairs will cost on the snow plow.

 

[KennyP]

Nice score. Have fun!

 

[Kster526]

Looks like the driveway will be now match for the new plow.
Congrats on the new edition.

 

[Shorty]

It will take a little bit of work to use. Flat tires and the pivot is close to being rusted fast. Planning to grease it and use it. To see if it loosens up.

 

[Kster526]

Take a video would love to see it’s operation with it being a three point should work out great for u . Agree for snow it would be a bit worthless

 

[Shorty]

I am hoping to get some video of it in action.

 

[KennyP]

I have thought about making one of those!

 

[Shorty]

Got it hooked up and tried it out a bit. I need to lower the linkage a little yet and replace the tube in one tire.

 

[Kster526]

Looks cool gonna have to watch the swing when turning though

 

[Shorty]

A close of the wheel assembly. One of the spots that scream machinist.


The inch and a quarter nuts look small on top of a 3/8 thick washer.

A precision cut upright for the top link.

 

[KennyP]

Looks well built!

 

[Kster526]

Have to agree on the build it’s well done and not cobbled together

 

[Shorty]

electronics fight

 

[Shorty]

continued electronics fight

 

[Shorty]

Cutting out the edge where the grass was growing out. I dug down about 3" to get the roots cut and then rolled it back in. It pulled hard through the grass roots. Was going to load a video, but I keep getting the wrong embed url.

 

[Shorty]

 

[Kster526]

Looks like it’ll work real well for you. Gettin good use out of those weights!!!

 

[Shorty]

I am enjoying using the bar weights. I can easily add as needed. The extra 90 pounds on the blade made it work a lot better.

 

[Shorty]

I drilled another spot for the pin for the angle. This gave a much sharper angle which also gave a narrower cut, maybe a 36" cut. With this setting it would slide the tractor sideways when cutting through thick grass roots. Using this blade Got me to thinking how cool an electric actuator would be on one arm of the 3pt. Adjust the side to side from the seat would be neat. Another idea on the dream list.