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Winter project.. home made snowplow
Just thought I would share some pictures of our snow plow we built for my 2006 honda foreman 500, still have all my ground clearance, and did not lose any steering either, and raises higher than store bought, even got a cable so you can change the angle from the seat.. still got some work to do , paint, put on cutting edge and runners, might even rivet some hard plastic from plastic 55 gallon barrel to the front of the plow to help stop snow sticking to it.. it is pretty heavy but not to bad,will add pictures after done doing those things.. the pipe was schedule 40 I believe and the blade was a old propane tank.. if any of you guys know of any other ways to make it stronger or Have any other tips would help too, this was our first try, let me know what you think or if you have any questions.. let me know..
UPDATE..
Added a few more pictures, I see there has been a lot of people looking but no replies, what do you guys think.. it is strong, and i think it should last, we used a 135 millermatic, MiG welder, all the pieces were scrounged from our small town, there are a few things that we could have done different, like round pipe going across frame so the 1 inch round stainless fit better, we used square, it was trial and error, but i think it worked good, lost no clearance, the main cross pipe stays on bike at all times, nothing is welded to the frame, has a lot of lift, can add other attachments if a guy wanted to pretty easy.. the schedule 40 mainframe pipe was a little overkill but that's what was handy, it is a tad heavy, but not as bad as it looks.. now we are talking about building one for my friend that did all the welding and helped with design, he has a Polaris six wheeler with tracks so might be kind of interesting, well let me know what you think, and what might work better or if there might be a flaw in our design? as I'm just a redneck Alaskan..thanks.. John
UPDATE AGAIN.. OK done.. painted and all little quirks fixed.. worked out good, the paint color probably could have been better, but the blade will get wore off after sometime, from what we had to work with i thought we have done pretty darn good, you can see the small shop that we built it out of in the backdrop of some of the new photos.. we did have to add some length to the pin the adjusts your angle, so it would not wobble as bad, put on cutting edge, straightened out the blade, added some lights and gave a little more curve, two of the pictures show one with blade on ground , the next with blade in the air, to show how much the weight drops the front end, not sure how much it weighs but not as bad as it looks.. and I like the weight better anyways, have to give cudo's to Ron, he did all the welding and used all his tools. between the two of use I think we have a pretty good design, well let me know what you think.. John
email me [email protected]
or reply to forum
link to pictures of homemade snow plow.
UPDATE..
Added a few more pictures, I see there has been a lot of people looking but no replies, what do you guys think.. it is strong, and i think it should last, we used a 135 millermatic, MiG welder, all the pieces were scrounged from our small town, there are a few things that we could have done different, like round pipe going across frame so the 1 inch round stainless fit better, we used square, it was trial and error, but i think it worked good, lost no clearance, the main cross pipe stays on bike at all times, nothing is welded to the frame, has a lot of lift, can add other attachments if a guy wanted to pretty easy.. the schedule 40 mainframe pipe was a little overkill but that's what was handy, it is a tad heavy, but not as bad as it looks.. now we are talking about building one for my friend that did all the welding and helped with design, he has a Polaris six wheeler with tracks so might be kind of interesting, well let me know what you think, and what might work better or if there might be a flaw in our design? as I'm just a redneck Alaskan..thanks.. John
UPDATE AGAIN.. OK done.. painted and all little quirks fixed.. worked out good, the paint color probably could have been better, but the blade will get wore off after sometime, from what we had to work with i thought we have done pretty darn good, you can see the small shop that we built it out of in the backdrop of some of the new photos.. we did have to add some length to the pin the adjusts your angle, so it would not wobble as bad, put on cutting edge, straightened out the blade, added some lights and gave a little more curve, two of the pictures show one with blade on ground , the next with blade in the air, to show how much the weight drops the front end, not sure how much it weighs but not as bad as it looks.. and I like the weight better anyways, have to give cudo's to Ron, he did all the welding and used all his tools. between the two of use I think we have a pretty good design, well let me know what you think.. John
email me [email protected]
or reply to forum
link to pictures of homemade snow plow.
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