This winch mount is dead. We can rebuild it, better, stronger, faster.

So I bought a new cultivator from a nice fellow up near Bergen. Thank you Greg, I appreciate it.



I wasn't happy with the format of that winch mount I made. When I was putting it together, I didn't have any better material to work with. So the other day I bought this rectangular tubing, spent a couple hours drilling the mount holes, and today I welded the roller guild support to it. This will be much better, because I'll have many more bolts holding the mount to the transmission case, and I can actually get my hand in there to thread the bolts.


The frame for the snowplow is coming along. I got it cleaned up and trimmed down today, but I wasn't able to weld it. It got too cold and dark to try it this evening. No matter, it's ready to go for next time.





Here are a couple pictures to show the tractor in its current form in decent light, because I haven't been able to get any good shots lately.

Punch it, Chewie.

My awesome neighbour gave me a used snowplow blade a few days ago, so I have to build a 3 point hitch frame for it so I can use it on the tractor.


I started with some crop steel and some 2.5" x 3/8ths flat bar.


Cut to size and trimmed that one bit as I need it to make a 2" gap.


I used my forge to punch the holes, drift them out, and bend them to shape.


Used the middle buster as a guide. I got the bends pretty close to it, but it doesn't have to be exactly the same.


Sorry for the bad angle, but I was holding this all together loose and still trying to get a picture.



Basically, I made a triangular frame out of the flat bar that I will weld to a 3" angle iron cross member, and weld a piece of square tubing to the cross member. Then, a brace goes from the top of the triangular frame down to the tubing.