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CraftsMAN Member
Age : 38 Join date : 2010-06-01 Points : 5798 Posts : 364 Location : NY
| | | | Jamus Established Member
Age : 45 Join date : 2010-06-28 Points : 5817 Posts : 511 Location : Southern WV
| Subject: Re: New tractor with scraper blade May 10th 2011, 6:08 pm | |
| Bring on the pics and more video. I'm wanting to do the same thing. I wonder how close to a garden tractor you can push a lawn tractor? I want to build a blade like that and also a cherry picker type of attachment that would use a rear mounted winch also. | |
| | | dangeroustoys56 Veteran Member
Age : 54 Join date : 2010-02-10 Points : 7087 Posts : 1726 Location : Florida, USA
| Subject: Re: New tractor with scraper blade May 11th 2011, 4:45 pm | |
| In the long run itd be cheeper to buy a GT or heavy duty tractor- but if you want a project....
First thing would be to strip the tractor- pick something with a c channel frame ( strongest chassis) like on murrays-or build a square tube chassis. reinforce the heck out of it, either beef up stock components or upgrade to GT stuff ( heavier front axle, heavy duty trans ) direct steer would be the best upgrade for steering- eliminates all gears in the steering rack.
Ive seen some pics of a new craftsman GT where someone bent the whole front part of the frame about 4" down pounding it into a dirt pile ( with a plow) - if some serious work is needed from any type of tractor- id reinforce the heck out of it first.
LT's can take some pretty good abuse , hauled quite a bit of weight with my MTD's, murrays and dynamarks - ive either broken the trailer or the hitch on the tractor - but not the tractor. | |
| | | CraftsMAN Member
Age : 38 Join date : 2010-06-01 Points : 5798 Posts : 364 Location : NY
| Subject: Re: New tractor with scraper blade May 12th 2011, 11:27 pm | |
| I dont know if I would call this a lawn tractor. The hitch and blade were made for this tractor. Perhaps it is because it does not have a HI/Lo range? What makes a garden tractor a garden tractor? | |
| | | Jamus Established Member
Age : 45 Join date : 2010-06-28 Points : 5817 Posts : 511 Location : Southern WV
| Subject: Re: New tractor with scraper blade May 13th 2011, 6:43 am | |
| Like Dangeroustoy said, pretty much beefier everything. They have heavy duty transaxles, beefy frames, stronger frontends and steering. Also many of them run a horizontal shaft engine with the crank parallel to the frame, like on a car/truck. | |
| | | CraftsMAN Member
Age : 38 Join date : 2010-06-01 Points : 5798 Posts : 364 Location : NY
| | | | dangeroustoys56 Veteran Member
Age : 54 Join date : 2010-02-10 Points : 7087 Posts : 1726 Location : Florida, USA
| Subject: Re: New tractor with scraper blade May 13th 2011, 3:24 pm | |
| You can tell differences in a GT and a LT - first off, the GT is alot bigger - when i drive mine around- it feels like a car - my GT's have 5 bolt rims on the back as well - not all GT's have the bolt on rims tho - newer ones are a the regular slotted axle. You could hook up a disc or tiller to it and plow a garden. GT's also come with larger then normal mowing decks. | |
| | | CraftsMAN Member
Age : 38 Join date : 2010-06-01 Points : 5798 Posts : 364 Location : NY
| | | | CraftsMAN Member
Age : 38 Join date : 2010-06-01 Points : 5798 Posts : 364 Location : NY
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