Rear-Mount Blade Bolts To Garden Tractor

Rear-Mount Blade Bolts To Garden Tractor FARM HOME Miscellaneous 19-6-10 "It does a good job scraping and leveling dirt and also works great for clearing snow," says Calvin Nordberg, South Haven, Minn., about the rear-mounted 4-ft. blade he made for his International Cub Cadet garden tractor. Nordberg has been doing custom fabricating in his shop since retiring from his former job as a millwright. "This blade is simple but it works," he says. He built it for a church camp that wanted to clear snow off a skating rink. Nordberg tried using the snowblower on his Cub Cadet, but it couldn't get down to bare ice. To make the blade, he bent a 4-ft. long, 1-ft. high, 3/16-in. thick steel plate into a curve, then welded on a 3-in. high, 3/8-in. thick steel plate along the bottom to form the cutting edge. He used 11 gauge, 1-in. sq. steel tubing to make a frame and bolted it onto the rear of the tractor using existing holes in the tractor frame. The blade is also supported by a chain fitted with a load binder. The blade can be rotated to either side by removing two bolts. There are two angle settings for each side. Nordberg raises the blade by pulling the lever on the load binder, which raises the blade up. The blade rotates 180 degrees so it can be used in forward or reverse. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Calvin Nordberg, 7985 Osborn Ave. N.W., South Haven, Minn. 55382.

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