Pictures of front weight project

November 24, 2009

I recently took a welding course and had to come up with a project to work on. So I decided to come up with a front weight carrier for the front of my C-85. Since I added my heavy duty rear weight box, the front has been a little light, so I wanted to add some additional weight to the front of it. My goal was to make a weight carrier that would clip into the front tach-a-matic with no tools and be large enough to carry a selection of weights and not interfere with the plow and this unit just clears all angles of the plow. This also rests on the tach-a-matic's frame, not the rods that go across it for extra strength. Most of this is made of 1/4" rectangle steel tubing, a piece of 5/8" rebar, and a piece of channel iron, plus an old Ariens 1" snoblowers front rotor shaft.

The shaft or bar that's holding the weights in place is just sitting in a 1" hole. I left it this way so I can quickly remove it and some of the weights if I need to tilt the hood up all the way.

It was a fun project and I wanted to share it with all you folks!