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Posted October 14, 2013 - 09:11 AM
@IamSherwood
Thank you very much for the suggestion .You just gave me an ideea . I wasn't happy at all with toolbox cutting . I will make a kind of support in the upper side of the 3PH.
Thank you again .
Edited by cheluIS, October 14, 2013 - 09:19 AM.
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Posted October 20, 2013 - 02:16 PM
News !
First I have to thank again to @IamSherwood . I have to buy you a beer (if I ever go to USA) .
Keep in touch .
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Elf guardian
Posted October 20, 2013 - 06:00 PM
Well done, you saved the fender from the saw. It looks plenty strong. 
As for that Beer, sure I'll take you up on that, but you'll need to visit Canada.
Looking forward to the next update.
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Posted October 21, 2013 - 02:22 PM
My mistake . I'm sorry . Put another beer in my account .
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Posted October 21, 2013 - 03:54 PM
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FORDoholic
Posted October 21, 2013 - 04:33 PM
That looks very good! Glad you got it figured out!
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Posted October 23, 2013 - 02:22 PM
Not over yet ....
I have to figure out how to push the 3PH with the tractor lever .
Keep in touch .
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Posted October 25, 2013 - 01:35 PM
...
... waiting for the paint to dry ...
Keep in touch .
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Posted October 25, 2013 - 02:36 PM
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Posted October 25, 2013 - 10:59 PM
Not tied yet . I have to put all the parts of the 3PH and fine tune it and after this to calculate the lever I need to lift the 3PH. It's no simple operation becouse you have to correlate the movement of the tractor lever (lenght of the distance made by lever) with the hight of the 3PH .I hope I can do it today . I want to put the plow and go for a run !
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Posted October 25, 2013 - 11:50 PM
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Posted October 26, 2013 - 11:10 AM
For now I connect the tractor lever for manual lift.In the future I'll put a heavy duty 12V actuator (1000 lbs push/pull ) directly to 3PH , without connecting to manual linkage . Thank you anyway for warning .
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Posted October 27, 2013 - 03:07 PM
Almost ready ...
First the piece tight to tractor lever :
The middle link and the upper lever (pair):
Linked together
Down :
Up :
Middle :
The upper lever is not welded yet .It's just tighten between 2 nuts .The lift is working very well.
A lot of try and error.For middle and upper levers first I made levers with bolt holes from 15 in 15 mm and tried different combination of lever lenght in order to have lift from bottom to higher point.After I found the right combination I made the levers with the right dimension.
To be continued ...
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Posted October 28, 2013 - 06:36 AM
Looks good!
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Posted October 28, 2013 - 04:57 PM
Last piece of the puzzle ready :
I was thinking about what MH81 told me :"I will warn you of one thing. On more than one machine, I have seen the lift handle bent at the bottom and some even kinked. Just so you know."
My 3PH is working well and the effort to push/pull the tractor lever is not very big but is not easy .When the plow attached the weight is bigger .I'm thinking adding a pair of springs like in the drawing below :
The springs should take some of the weight of the lower part of 3PH and the weight of the plow .
Any suggestions , opinions ?
