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Thank you Bob. We don’t have a mowing deck for this tractor, just the snowthrower. Very nice how you did yours.thebuildist wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 6:02 am That's very well done in my opinion. It looks plenty strong, it can be removed without a trace. Nice job.
One of my design goals was that I wanted to keep the mower deck installed. That meant that the transverse crossmember, which pretty much has to go underneath the factory frame rails, had to be pretty small/low profile, to make room for the deck to raise and lower and not hit it.
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but to do that, the frame rails themselves had to be strong enough to support the weight and torque of that crossmember. So I took some 1/4" thick 4"x2" angle iron and carefully cut and drilled frame rail "skins" that I bolted and plug-welded "scab style" onto each outer side of the factory rails. That took the factory rails from being about 150 thou. thickness to being over 3/8 thickness. And it gave me a nice beefy horizontal flange that the crossmember bolts are hanging from.
Here's a look at the driver's side frame rail right at the base of the steering tower:
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It preserves the factory look and feel, which was important to me. And like your subframe, the loader structure can be completely removed for maintenance. Which I've already had to do once. Total pain, but doable.
So I took a route that was more involved and more labor intensive. But yours looks great.
Bob
Thanks Dave. I guess I should have bought the sleeve hitch from Eugen when I had the chance. Oh well. Funny how things change. My son and I will make some thing for the rear someday. I’d like to do some tree pulling someday, cut tree down and hook to a type of sleeve hitch and lift the tree up a bit and drag it out.DavidBarkey wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 6:32 am Looking good Noel . Sleeve hitch is a good idea . It would give you a place to hang weight off the back that can be lowered to take weight of machine when not in use or as parking brake . I do that with the weight I put on the 3 point hitch on Frankie .
Me too. If you're hanging very much off of your sleeve hitch or three point hitch, that's a lot of rotational force on that rear transaxle. And the frame is terribly thin where it bolts to the rear transaxle.DavidBarkey wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2024 6:03 amYes they are , but sure are convenient place to mount other stuff . I have torsional rods bolted from there to the frame on Frankie to stabilise the rear axle on the frame under load .MattA wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2024 9:43 pmAlways thought those were to mount a sleeve hitch.DavidBarkey wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2024 8:20 pm It was nice of Case to provide mounting tabs on the rear axle for the subframe .
There not hard to make . I saw plans for one somewhere .propane1 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 9:12 amThanks Dave. I guess I should have bought the sleeve hitch from Eugen when I had the chance. Oh well. Funny how things change. My son and I will make some thing for the rear someday. I’d like to do some tree pulling someday, cut tree down and hook to a type of sleeve hitch and lift the tree up a bit and drag it out.DavidBarkey wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 6:32 am Looking good Noel . Sleeve hitch is a good idea . It would give you a place to hang weight off the back that can be lowered to take weight of machine when not in use or as parking brake . I do that with the weight I put on the 3 point hitch on Frankie .
Noel