snow plow how to?

[Spike]

anyone got tips on making a plow and the mechanism for it? my friend wants to make a work truck with a plow on it. he's gonna be using one of the F-150 kits, the square style, not the round body style

[MikeMc]

anyone got tips on making a plow and the mechanism for it? my friend wants to make a work truck with a plow on it. he's gonna be using one of the F-150 kits, the square style, not the round body style

Whats a SNOWPLOW????????

[dptydawg]

Hi Spike

I would recommend that you check out some plow manufacters websites such as Meyers, Arctic and others to get design ideas and specs. In your part of the world there should be lots of plows to measure for dementions. The easiest conversion to scale is measure in inches and build in millimetres. This will give you 1/25.4 scale. Build your plow as a series of small models. Buy some suitably sized evergreen stock for the job

The plow mount

The plow frame

The angleing rams

The lift ram and pump

the plow blade

Then put all the sub assemblies togeather for the final package.

here are a couple shots of a Meyers wanabe that I built for a Jeep. Everything was scratch built using ther above method.

The turn circle was made from the bottom of a perscription pill bottle. The trip springs are finw wire which was wrapped arround a finishing nail. To get the curve on the blade I wrapped it around a glass jar then immersed it in very hot water, hile the angle iron suports were shaped by draging them over a sharp edge (like curling paper)

I hope this is of some help to you. I look forward to seeing your work

Thanks

Carl