RE: (ET) You should get a Plow

["Elie, Larry (L.D.)" <lelie ford com>]

The sleve hitch is used for 'farm' equipment; molboard plow, disc, drag, 
cultivator, dirt-box.  It's usually black.  It 
can't be used at the same time as the tiller hitch, which is essentially a 
toolbar.  Bill should have them.  It allows you 
to 'pick-up' the implements (with another strap lift-- same as the tiller) 
but allows them to swing.

The Snow-plow blade lever mounts on one of the two pins that hold the 
mower shocks.  I think you can switch the sides.  It 
has a hard-to-adjust cable that unlocks the blade at which point the lever 
can pivot the blade (if it's up).

Larry Elie


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave & Debbie Barden [mailto:daveb seanet com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:17 AM
To: ssawtelle fcc net; elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: Re: (ET) You should get a Plow


I have a pile of gravel sitting in the drive left over from fencing.  I'll 
have 
to get that blade installed and see about pushing it around where it'll be 
useful.

where does one get a sleeve hitch adaptor??  Does Bill have those??


> I recently graded my driveway with mine - like any plow on a gravel drive
> it's easiest when the ground is soft (after rain, before freeze). My
> neighbor usually helps me with his John Deere farm tractor with a rear
> blade. He can certainly pull a bigger load of gravel, but I was surprise 
> at
> how well mine did. (And then I get to drive) I kinda wish I could tilt 
> (one
> side higher than the other) the blade to help in the ditches, but 
> actually
> it works well if one set of wheels is in the ditch as it tilts the blade
> just about right. I angle the blade toward the drive so it pushes the 
> gravel
> out of the ditch and into the road. As mentioned with snow, if the load 
> gets
> big, the front end looses traction and won't track straight. You can 
> feather
> the blade with the lift to control the depositing of gravel. This is all 
> on
> an 800 foot driveway.
> 
> I also have a little box scraper (Tractor Supply, Home Depot, etc) that 
> I've
> used. It doesn't do much on the ditches and I have to put a lot of 
> weight on
> one side to do that. It then gets hard to turn, etc. It's pretty good at
> spreading and leveling though. You need a sleeve hitch adapter and rear 
> lift
> (manual or electric) to use it.
> 
> - SteveS
> E20
> 
> 
> 
> > thanks.   out here in Seattle we don't get much snow.  What other uses 
> > do
> y'all
> > put these plows/blades to?  does it work well for grading a drive or
> spreading
> > gravel.  I've not had occasion to even mount mine yet.
> >
> 
> 
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