plow carts

[jbutch83]

Can anyone post some pictures of dollys or carts that you have made for your plows. I don't want to spend the money to buy one, if I can reasonablely make one myself.

Thanks,

John

[Plow Dak]

Hi jbutch83
I don't think 30 bucks is a big deal. That's what mine cost and the time to scrounge up the stuff i needed far outwieghed the cost of them.
Unless you need something fancy i'm sure it would be a lot easier
just to purchase them..
Just my opinion.
:p

[Lawn Lad]

I think I saw it on ******** a while back, but someone, can't remember who, welded casters onto the plow shoes making dollies. Seemed really slick - and found a use for otherwise useless plowshoes that we all have lying around.

We bought casters from HD and built a small frame out of 2x4's. Simple enough.

[BWhite]

I bought 2 sets of snowmobile dollies from Northern for $ 20 ea with shipping it was about $ 50 . just buying the 24 casters is going to be $$ . They work well and have a groove to accept the bottom edge

[BWhite]

I found this style on the net

[Chuck Smith]

Western has wheels as an option. THey attach to the side of the shoe mounts. They should go a step further, and add some type of a clamp on wheel for the back of the assembly.

I have seen people use scaffold wheels in the sleeves for the shoes....

~Chuck

[festerw]

I've got the bottom half of an old shopping cart, it puts the plow at just the right height for my truck.

[Roger Dodger]

BWhite, I was thinking of that very design just last week when I had to move mine the hard way.... a floor jack and planks! That's easy and quick to whip together from what I see of it. Just some channel iron, good quality casters, get out the chop saw, and my trusty Lincoln crackerbox! Looks like a winter project for me so I have it come Spring.

Chuck, scaffold wheels in thew shoe sleeves? Clever... hmmm, that would let us trip-edge owners have more access to the blade's edge as well for painting, etc.

[Roger Dodger]

If you ever buy one new, do yourself a favor and get the ac/dc model. I didn't and I wished I did. I've got a diode conversion arrangement I could add to the AC box but more fiddling and fabricating than worth, likely. Forget those cruddy Century brand welders. At least get a good brand like the Lincolns or a Miller. Some Hobarts arent too bad.

[Roger Dodger]

Originally posted by festerw
I've got the bottom half of an old shopping cart, it puts the plow at just the right height for my truck.
You prolly got the same cart I whipped across the K-Mart lot after it hit my truck from some bonehead that let it take a stroll in the wind! Then the dork has the nerve to say to me, "don't worry, it didn't do any damage from what I can see". He was 3 spaces away! What was he looking for, a completely caved in door?

[festerw]

I'm not sure where it came from the guy I bought the plow from gave it to me, I hear what your saying about the carts though, I used to work at kohl's on the weekends and came out one morning to find that a wally world cart had smashed the turn signal light on my Talon, only 35 bucks but it's the principle of the thing you know.

[Roger Dodger]

That's got to be the worst WalMart I've ever visited!

[JohnnyU]

There are good Walmarts??? I think they're all about the same.... Free enterprise as it's best, er worst. :headwall