Homemade Snow Plow

[mcq6942]

Check out my vid , type in " Homemade plow using free or inexpensive items "

[kubotaman85]

i got me a 12 volt outlet from walmart and a yellow light. hooked it all up and works really good....i got the same light as you

[07ketnec]

haha there ya go!

[kubotaman85]

got a question....how do you power that yellow light? please reply thanks

[07ketnec]

i got a kit from deere that was a 12v outlet and a fuse, the light is just powered by a 12v outlet

[kubotaman85]

good to know cuz i have the same tractor and people fly up and down our road even if its icy....just out of curiousity how much did everything run you?

[07ketnec]

just about everything was scrap, the actuator was bout 200, and light bout 20, and 12v kit i think was around 10 or 15,

i bout the actuator for many uses, not just a plow

[johndeere3720]

Thats really cool. I almost built a blade for my John Deere L118 but decided to buy a 4wd Yanmar Diesel tractor instead to climb our steep driveway. I have a rear blade and a boxblade along with several other implements. i just need it to snow now.

[johndeere3720]

Oh, how much did you end up spending in the end?

[07ketnec]

about $200 for the actuator and that was it, the rest was scrap

[welderboy14]

you sould make one out of steel

and if bending the steel plate is a problem

just cut a old water heater tank in half and build a mounting frame and your good to go

[07ketnec]

i thought about it, but i dont have the tools to make it out of steel

[welderboy14]

that sucks

[irondagger93]

hey how did you get it to raise and lower like that?

[dcpears53]

those are not donuts, the mini burn out was ok

[bbctschris]

that wood is gonna get very soggy, use a plastic or metal next time

[07ketnec]

actually no it wont get soggy, it's a special type of wood

i change it once every season with no problems at all

i just added a door threshold for the blade part

[bbctschris]

o, nice

[reffup]

paint the wood in waste oil let it bake in teh sun do it like 4 times in the summer and then paint over it with black tremclad.. itll last 2 or 3 seasons..

[07ketnec]

thanks ill be sure to try it

[mrtantin09]

what is that in 0:03 for a black thing and how do you work with it is it a hydraulik pump or is it a elektropump or what else and how do you use this to pull the snow plow up and down

[07ketnec]

its called a linear actuator, i put a switch on the dash that raises it up and down. it is powered off the 12v battery directly