Garden Tractor Fitted With Tractor Blade

Garden Tractor Fitted With Tractor Blade SNOWBLOWERS 22-1-10 "It lets me do much better job of clearing snow," says Harlan Larkin, Brookings, S. Dak., who mounted a blade on the rear of his garden tractor which is fitted with a snowblower on front. The blade is a 7-in. wide, 48-in. length of cutting edge off a highway maintainer blade. It mounts on a frame that Larkin designed and built for his Allis-Chalmers 416 garden tractor equipped with a 16 hp motor. He used 1/4-in. angle iron to build the lift brackets and 7/8 by 1 3/4-in. steel bars to make the pull arms. The arms are 22 in. long with an 8-in. length of steel bar connecting them. A pipe swivel mounts horizontally between the arms, which allows the blade to be tilted to either side. Larkin raises and lowers the blade with a lever on the left side of the driver's seat. "If snow is deeper than 6 in., I use the snowblower to clear snow in one direction, then come back with the blade in the opposite direction," he says. "It's fast and convenient and works well.I also use the blade for leveling dirt and gravel around my yard. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Harlan Larkin, 713 Main Ave., Brookings, S. Dak. 57006-1426 (ph 605 692-2053).

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