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<blockquote data-quote="TriHonu" data-source="post: 11744" data-attributes="member: 897"><p>A buddy of mine gave me a plow off one of his old trucks after he sold his plowing business.</p><p>I looked at plows at the Bobcat Dealer, in parking lots and a number of truck plow conversions. Everything I looked at 5 years ago was a fixed mount. I ASSuMEd that was the way to go since everyone was building them that way.</p><p>So out to the shop, I did a quick figure on the angles I wanted and burned it together. The first winter I tried different approaches to using it and it didn't work as well as I thought it could. I starting talking to the plow operators asking what they liked and disliked about the equipment they were using. The float issue came up over and over. </p><p>I happened across a plow at a local rental place that had float built in with pivots, a pair of arms coming down from the Quicktach that would press on the plow frame when you tilted the Quicktach forward and a chain to limit the plow drop. This really got me thinking.</p><p>I like things to work properly. I sketched a couple of designs that would do what I wanted but were over "designed". I just wanted the bare essentials. A new sketch, some cardboard templates to determine proper hole locations and it looked like a plan. It took me almost as long to cut the old setup apart as it took to build the new setup. <img src="https://www.skidsteerforum.com/DesktopModules/AdverForums/ImageGallery/emotion-9.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (The first time I welded it like I never wanted it to come apart!) I've got to get a gouging tip for the torch. Grinding out welds is a pain!</p><p>This sharing of ideas is what this forum is all about. I'm sure someone will come up with a better solution than mine. I just hope they take the time to share their ideas. <img src="https://www.skidsteerforum.com/DesktopModules/AdverForums/ImageGallery/emotion-5.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> I have learned much from reading this forum. Sometime just reading the discussions will get me thinking from a different point of view. I have always believed the best designs were created from people who have to USE the product. <img src="https://www.skidsteerforum.com/DesktopModules/AdverForums/ImageGallery/emotion-2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>A friend of my brothers gave him a near new Wolf Plow for the Bobcat . His friend bought it new and got disgusted with the performance and put it in the shed and quit using it. Went back to using the plow truck. A couple years later the plow migrated out to my brothers place. He is now thinking about cutting it up and building some float into it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TriHonu, post: 11744, member: 897"] A buddy of mine gave me a plow off one of his old trucks after he sold his plowing business. I looked at plows at the Bobcat Dealer, in parking lots and a number of truck plow conversions. Everything I looked at 5 years ago was a fixed mount. I ASSuMEd that was the way to go since everyone was building them that way. So out to the shop, I did a quick figure on the angles I wanted and burned it together. The first winter I tried different approaches to using it and it didn't work as well as I thought it could. I starting talking to the plow operators asking what they liked and disliked about the equipment they were using. The float issue came up over and over. I happened across a plow at a local rental place that had float built in with pivots, a pair of arms coming down from the Quicktach that would press on the plow frame when you tilted the Quicktach forward and a chain to limit the plow drop. This really got me thinking. I like things to work properly. I sketched a couple of designs that would do what I wanted but were over “designed”. I just wanted the bare essentials. A new sketch, some cardboard templates to determine proper hole locations and it looked like a plan. It took me almost as long to cut the old setup apart as it took to build the new setup. [IMG]https://www.skidsteerforum.com/DesktopModules/AdverForums/ImageGallery/emotion-9.gif[/IMG] (The first time I welded it like I never wanted it to come apart!) I've got to get a gouging tip for the torch. Grinding out welds is a pain! This sharing of ideas is what this forum is all about. I'm sure someone will come up with a better solution than mine. I just hope they take the time to share their ideas. [IMG]https://www.skidsteerforum.com/DesktopModules/AdverForums/ImageGallery/emotion-5.gif[/IMG] I have learned much from reading this forum. Sometime just reading the discussions will get me thinking from a different point of view. I have always believed the best designs were created from people who have to USE the product. [IMG]https://www.skidsteerforum.com/DesktopModules/AdverForums/ImageGallery/emotion-2.gif[/IMG] A friend of my brothers gave him a near new Wolf Plow for the Bobcat . His friend bought it new and got disgusted with the performance and put it in the shed and quit using it. Went back to using the plow truck. A couple years later the plow migrated out to my brothers place. He is now thinking about cutting it up and building some float into it. [/QUOTE]
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