Works for me

I thought of that last night myself I ended up turning that 3/4” shaft down to 0.74” to give myself extra wiggle room in the bushings for the mounting plates, but I can easily bore out a piece of steel tubing to make a sleeve that’s a thousandth or two slip fit on the shaft.

 

I didn’t measure but I’m guessing that we got about 8-9” of snow so far and it’s still coming down. I went outside at 8 o’clock this morning excited to try the plow. Reality hit me hard. Despite having wheel weights, 150 pounds of weight on the back, plus my close to 200 pound fat body sitting on the seat, the tires just spun and spun. I need chains obviously. 4 and a half hours of shoveling and I just got back inside. Better get those chains so we won’t see any more snow

 

What was I thinking? It just occurred to me that they’re freaking turf tires on there Made for chugging along on the grass on gentle summer days without tearing up your lawn, not for any real off-road work. All this work designing and fabricating and everything to get to this point just so I could overlook something so simple Anyway I have a $60 set of chains on order that’ll be here between January 10th-12th.

 

So that means no more snow! WOOHOO! I like the way you think Eric!

 

We had about an inch this morning but it’s since melted off. Does it look like yours is gonna be around for a while?

 

Rain and temperatures around 50 on Tuesday, then Wednesday is warm too. By then most of the snow should be gone minus the bigger piles.

 

WE gonna get bitch slapped all the rest of this week around my parts and then the highs will be around 12F thrn subtract the wind chill factor

 

Not for some years, but there was a time when I did a whole lot with a 3 speed cub cadet and a trailer just like that one. Later, I found the limits of such a trailer when I killed one hauling a 55 gallon barrel of water in it. Was trying to get water to a remote food plot. Rigged the barrel up with a valve and water bar about 5' wide. Would back the trailer down the sandbar into the river to fill it (cut a large hole in top of barrel). It lasted about 8 trips up the hill before the wheel bearings went on strike. The plot did grow well. lol

 

Ready to rock and roll now!

 

Do those get traction in mud too?

 

LOL maybe… But I do plan on buying some knobby tires for it next month anyway. Kind of like this:


I’ve *heard* they won’t tear up the grass as long as I’m not being stupid…

 

I should make some larger heavier wheel weights for it too. I think I have some extra steel that’s been sitting around long enough.

 

Just got some new shoes for the old Cub. More aggressive than the turf tires but not too crazy. They’re supposed to be “all season” tires.

 

I put a set of those on the ole Z turn mower a couple years ago...big difference! Haven't been stuck since...they'll dig a big hole in a hurry once you start spinning though...no experience with them on snow/ice, but I'm sure they'll do a lot better in snow, ice will probably still require chains...

 

Where did you find those at? Should get some for the Hydro 185 with blower on it.

 

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Thanks Eric, I will have to look into them.

 

I got the Ag tires mounted a couple months ago, but we haven’t gotten much snow (Murphy’s Law) Still I put the plow on and chains on the tires. I took the factory wheel weights off and drilled/tapped a couple 1/2-13 holes, then made a mounting bracket for these weights. I’ll have to turn up a couple discs with a hole in the center for a 1/2 bolt, for end caps to keep the weights on. This is the gist of things anyway. Two 45’s and 2 25’s plus the mounting brackets should add over 160 pounds to the back end, which is better than nothing. It looks a little wonky but should work.