Caster Project for Blizzard Plows (easier moving around the shop)

[snowplowjay]

For anyone who owns a Blizzard we all know how heavy they actually are. Well Bill and I got sick of moving the plows around the shop pushing and pulling and dragging. Here is what we came up with. The are swivle casters with black pipe welded to them. They simply slide into the shoe holes on the plow and have a hole drilled out at the top in which a pin is inserted to lock them in. As for the A frame foot we have used a tri pedestal roller pad to keep that part of the blade mobile.

Here are a few pics...

[snowplowjay]

Here are a few more. One of the front of the blade with the castors installed and one from the rear with the castors installed....

[EZSnow]

How well does that tri-roller stay put? I've been planning on doing the casters on the blade, but I've been working on what to do for the kickstand. I was thinking of something like that with a little more defined cradle. I was also thinking of fabbing another kickstand (the adjustable half) that has a wheel on it. Nuts- for that matter, you could just zap a caster on the bottom of the kickstand.

[snowplowjay]

EZ they all work well BUT being as heavy as the plow is the main castors that go in the SHOE plates do have some trouble in that sometimes they dont want to swivle that quickly. As far as what we need them for they work well since we arent moving the plows more than say 5 or 10 feet at a shot around the shop.

PS the edge is a commin' :)


Jay

[hhfco]

I used a standard plow dolly that I had for my old fisher. They are the ones that are about 8"x12" pieces of steel with four caster. I attached a pic (first time with a pic - hope it works). I unbolted the stand from the third one so it looks like the other two. Two under the edge and the third under the kick-stand. I use a vicegrip to clamp the kick-stand pad to the dolly because everthing is smooth enough that you can push it off the dolly - learned that the hard way. Works great on the shop floor, wheels are probably to small for outside in the snow or a really rough surface. I'll post a couple pics when I put the blade away.

[Snowboy]

EZ they all work well BUT being as heavy as the plow is the main castors that go in the SHOE plates do have some trouble in that sometimes they dont want to swivle that quickly. As far as what we need them for they work well since we arent moving the plows more than say 5 or 10 feet at a shot around the shop.

PS the edge is a commin' :)


Jay

Jay how well are those working for you? Got a set made for my fisher last year and the weight of the blade makes it extrely hard to move the blade around. The casters dont want to swivel.

P.S. A word to the wise dont use the snowmobile dollies for the blade. Dont use the China made princess auto ones. Had the blade 4 inches adove the dollie as soon as I droped the blade all the casters broke off. *L* Piece of crap that was.

Dave.

[hhfco]

As promissed - pics of the 810 on a standard dolly