Homemade Plow
Well after digging out for the umpteenth time I’ve decided to take the bull by the horns and make myself a homemade plow for the front of my garden tractor. I had all the scrap lumber in the garage so with a vision and a circular saw I got to work.
The blade is two pieces of plywood with a piece of hardboard on the front. I attached a piece of angle aluminum to the bottom of the blade so it would glide along the driveway and not tear up the bottom of the wood.
The plow is attached to the tractor with two 2×4’s that are attached to the frame with a threaded rod. When the plow is lowered the 2×4’s face straight out into the back of the blade so the load is transferred to the tractor frame for maximum strength. The 2×4’s are also reinforced at the plow blade with four steel angle brackets.
There is also a manual tilt feature consisting of a 2×4 and a string. No expense was spared in this operation I assure you. Below is the finished product.
Now the big question….will it work? Of course it will. As you can see above I sprang for two cans of yellow spray paint to set this thing off as an official John Deere accessory. I expect orders for this thing to come flooding in any minute.
As you can see in the video below the thing worked fine and turned out to be really sturdy. After plowing the entire driveway I did a quick inspection and found nothing broken or fatigued.
Homemade Snow Plow from Chris Clark on Vimeo.
Epic Win!!
I have watched this over and over, and still can’t stop laughing. Have you thought of sending this to John Deere?