Building a land plane to maintain my gravel drive way. Using steel I have on hand, I am having a couple plates made where I used to work. They can punch the holes in better than I can cut them out with the torch, too big to drill on my drill press.Land plane build
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Building a land plane to maintain my gravel drive way. Using steel I have on hand, I am having a couple plates made where I used to work. They can punch the holes in better than I can cut them out with the torch, too big to drill on my drill press.
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Looking good sir!
I am also paying attention for my future “Land plane build"
Just gotta finish the 234,789 other projects I have started
Where did you get that blade from?
I am also paying attention for my future “Land plane build"
Just gotta finish the 234,789 other projects I have started
Where did you get that blade from?
I got the blade at auctions a few years ago and was going to put in on a bucket on my 8N Ford, never did, sold it to buy the Kubota. Should work fine for a cutting edge.
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Might go to your local county road and bridge dept. Probably have a dumpster weighted down by them.Looking good sir!
I am also paying attention for my future “Land plane build"
Just gotta finish the 234,789 other projects I have started
Where did you get that blade from?
To Wolfman's point, do some surfing on YouTube to find videos of one of these in use. I think it's common for adjacent blades to have 'opposite' angles. One blade throws material to the right, next blade throws it back to the left. Will be difficult to control if all of the side thrust is in one direction. [Thinking of how much I have to countersteer when I'm pulling a big angle blade full of snow.]
Also, swing by your local township maintenance yard. They might have used grader blades that they'll give you for scrap price (currently very low). When I was a kid, Dad got hold of about 50 of these, and we set them in concrete as fence posts for the feedlot. Was pretty easy to bolt cattle panels to them. They're tempered, you can't cut them with a saw. All of the county roads were gravel, so there was a surplus of these.
-Paul
Also, swing by your local township maintenance yard. They might have used grader blades that they'll give you for scrap price (currently very low). When I was a kid, Dad got hold of about 50 of these, and we set them in concrete as fence posts for the feedlot. Was pretty easy to bolt cattle panels to them. They're tempered, you can't cut them with a saw. All of the county roads were gravel, so there was a surplus of these.
-Paul