How to make a snowplow on a single axle tractor

Snow thrower for power tiller with his own hands

Snowplow for a power tiller with his own hands is easy enough to construct at home. It is based on the engine from a chainsaw. You will also need a metal body with skids, an auger mechanism and a pipe for snow removal.

• Design and principle of operation of a snow thrower for power tiller
• single axle tractor with adapter
• Snowplow on a single–axle tractor
• Fan (rotary) snowplow
• Auger-fan (combined) snow blower
• Homemade snowplow for your own hands
• Materials and tools needed
• Blueprints snowblower to power tiller
• Step by step instructions for making
• Useful tips
• Conclusion

Self-made snow thrower for power tiller, description and principle of the robot

Consider the features and operating principles of a rotary snow blower. After all, we have to make it later! Why rotary?? Because rotary snow throwers are the most powerful when it comes to throwing distance. Rotary snow throwers throw loosened snow up to 10-12 meters. Snowthrower is a welded metal carcass with an auger shaft inside. The shaft is the main working organ of this device. Also consider that you’ll need a steering device, a hitch, and drive parts.

So, through a system of adapters, the rotary snowthrower for the power tiller is driven by the rear PTO shaft of the power tiller. Adapters are always included when you buy a snow blower, but since you will be making the snow blower yourself, you need to buy them separately.

the principle of the device is to move the snow masses into the cavity of the device by means of an auger-rotor mechanism. The work of this mechanism is carried out through the connection of the shaft of the snow blower to the shaft of the power tiller by means of a belt.

Also, you will need an impeller. impeller is a mechanism inside the equipment, which rotates and throws the snow through a specially adapted cavity to the outside at a distance of 10 meters (at least).

Homemade snow blower working principle video

The shaft is the tube around which the toothed, spiral-shaped mechanism, the auger, rotates. Fasten the shaft to bearings to reduce torque losses on the shaft. Metal toothed auger must be made with multi-directional helical impellers for effective cleaning. At the bottom of the bucket is attached a scraper plate for snow.

A standard “store” snow blower with an auger, shaft and impellers underneath for your study:

Assembling a screw snowblower

Snow blowers based on an auger are the most powerful and can even handle icy snow. The auger is most often used in self-propelled snow plows.

On the base of a chainsaw

Made this snowplow with their own hands is simple enough. Since it will run on a chainsaw engine, you will need a few additional parts for the chain drive. For this purpose, you can use the front and rear sprockets from a motorcycle, as well as the chain from it.

How the frame and auger are made was described above. The long handle is attached to the frame. On the shaft of the auger on the right side is set a large sprocket from a motorcycle, and on the shaft of the chainsaw engine. a small one. Next, the chainsaw is mounted on the frame, and then the chain is put on the sprockets and tensioned. To control the engine, the throttle cable is led to the handle attached to the frame.

Below are the drawings samodelka on the chassis, where a chainsaw is used as the main part of the drive.

On the basis of a trimmer for grass

To make a snow blower from an electric grass trimmer or from a lawn mower, you will need to install a gearbox: it will serve to transfer the rotational motion from the grass trimmer shaft to the auger shaft.

But there is a nuance here. Gearbox for this type of units is quite expensive, and it is not advisable to buy it for making an attachment to the trimmer. Therefore, on the basis of the latter, snow plows of the rotary type are made, which will be discussed below.

On the basis of a power tiller (power tiller)

The simplest addition to a power tiller is a snow blade.

Homemade snowplow attachment (shovel) on a single–axle tractor is screwed to the frame of the unit, after which it turns into a small bulldozer.

Advice! Instead of a blade, you can attach an auger to the front of the frame of your power tiller or power tiller, resulting in a self-propelled snow blower. The snow blower attachment is easily detached from the main attachment when not in use.

Below is a diagram that clearly shows the design of the snow blower based on the cultivator.

Here is a schematic diagram.

• The drive unit that connects the engine and auger.
• Crawler drive.
• Power transmission belt.
• Roller (tail pulley) for reverse travel.
• Intermediate shaft.
• Roller for tightening the belt. This is the belt tensioning pulley which allows the machine to travel forwards.

Self-propelled snow thrower greatly facilitates snow removal, especially in large areas where the use of the device on skis, pushed by the operator, requires a lot of physical effort of the latter.

How it works

The snowplow plows through thick snow and clears the road with little effort. It can process 12 m3 of snow in one minute. Discharge speed of 70 km/h. At this speed, the snow ejected from the disposal pipe lays very far from the cleared road.

Getting down to work, the novice inventor must solve several organizational issues:

It is not difficult to decide on the engine. The main thing is to clearly understand for what purposes will be used a single-axis tractor-snowplow. If the scope of his work is limited to the yard, clearing the paths from the house to the garage, it is quite suitable electric motor.

But if you plan to use the snowplow in all parts of the community, you need to choose a gasoline engine.

To choose a snowplow, you need to know what types exist and what they are used for:

• Snowmobile bulldozer. Powered by the front blade. Convenient for clearing stale and slushy snow.
• Fan snowmobile. Flips the snow mass by blades (with their work, the snow rises and falls into an inclined tube, from which it flies out and spreads far from the cleared area).
• Snow auger snowmobile.The snow is picked up by the auger and falls into the hole in the pipe, where it is thrown.
• Snowmobile vacuum or air blower. It works on the principle of sucking up the stuck snow and quickly ejecting it from the sweeper on the opposite side.

It is best to use an auger attachment. The rotary mechanism copes well with light snow, and with a well-compacted surface.

Mini-tractors can also be used for snow removal. Read about it here.

If it is difficult for you to make a minitractor yourself, then read about Belarus-made minitractors.

Snowplow for a motorblock with their own hands and snowplow from a gas cylinder. drawings

A single-axle tractor is an indispensable household helper. This special equipment is multifunctional in its use and can: plow and hill the land, and even chop firewood. Folk craftsmen have come up with a new way to use a power tiller in household activities. and this is the function of the snow blower. But how to make a snowplow from a power tiller with your own hands according to the drawing?

A single–axle tractor for land work is needed in the summer. With the appearance of snow, it gathers dust in the shed.

In winter time you can use the engine of a power tiller to create a snowplow.

This idea arose because of the lack of snowplows in remote villages. In such places there are frequent cases of winter snow drifts, and to avoid this happened, the single-axle tractor-snowplow was invented.

Buy a ready-made model snowplow expensive. It will cost many times cheaper to make an industrial prototype with your own hands (see here. here).

But it is not easy to create it at home.

How to make a snowplow with your own hands for your power tiller

For this we need an engine, say from a power tiller. Well, agree, not everyone has a superfluous pair of tens of thousands to acquire the technique, which will happen to use once 5-10, and perhaps even less. The power of the engine of our snowblower is described below. it is. 6.5 hp (4.8 kW), but sometimes it is not enough. But there is a similar design in the proprietary model of power, which is. 3 l / s (2.2 kW), it is because of the smaller load on the auger.

If you plan to use an air-cooled electric motor, then you should provide for mandatory protection against snow (air intake), as during operation, there will be enough snow in the air.

Capture in the width of our design. 50 cm, this is enough to clean the paths of the garden and, therefore, the use of our snowblower will be simple. If the overall width of the snowthrower will be up to 65 cm, it can easily be removed into the garage or shed straight through the door without opening the gate.

Snowplow construction

Let’s take a closer look at the snow blower design:

• auger body do from roof iron,
• sides. made of plywood with a thickness of 10 mm,
• frame. made of 5050 mm metal angle,
• handle-holder. made of ½ inch pipe,
• The auger shaft. from ¾” pipe,

In the middle of this pipe a through cut is made in which it is necessary to insert a metal plate (shovel) with the size. 120270 mm. When the shaft will rotate, the shovel will throw the snow. Rubber rings. there are four of them, they are attached to special plates.

If the inside diameter is smaller than the outside diameter of the tube, then the bearings are put directly on the tube, it is possible to grind a little. On the lower drawing we see how it is made on the lathe.

To make the screw, we take the conveyor belt 1,5 long and 10 mm thick, cut out of it 4 rings (diameter 28 cm). This can be done using two screws that are screwed into the board, turn it in a circle or use an electric jigsaw.

The self-aligning closed bearings rotate the auger. A very important point, so that the bearings do not get snow, they must be closed.

The auger is driven by a chain or belt, if you use an engine from a power tiller, it has a pulley. Also all pulleys, bearings, belts you need can be bought at any auto shop. At idle speed auger rotation frequency is approximately. 800 rpm.

When using a home-made snow blower sometimes gets into the auger ice, then in this case it is necessary to make a safety pin, which at the time of wedging the auger is cut. If you use a belt drive, because of the slippage of the belt it plays the role of a safety device.

The width of the body. more than an auger by 2 cm, so that the gap between the auger and the body was small, that the auger is not trapped behind the body.

Fasteners to the snow blower are quick-removable, so you can move it from the snow blower to any other machine in a few minutes without using any tools. When the snowblower is removed from the tiller, it is much easier to remove snow from the snow and put it away in the garage.

Skis. their base are wooden bars. Plastic plates are attached to them, as they are adapted boxes from the electrical wiring.

Plastic sewer pipe diameter of 160 mm. this is the main part of the turntable to throw the snow. To this pipe is attached a chute, which throws the snow, and the pipe is dressed on the exact same tube, which is attached to the auger body. The chute must be larger in diameter than the width of the auger blade, with the help of which the snow is thrown.

Of metal angles of 50x50mm. the frame of the homemade snowblower is made. Angles 25×25 welded to the cross angles, the motor platform is attached to them, which is quickly removed. Cross brackets and a handle are fixed on the longitudinal corners of the frame with the bolts M8.

How to make a snowplow with your own hands for a power tiller

For this we need an engine, say from a power tiller. Well, agree, not everyone has an extra couple of tens of thousands to buy equipment, which will happen to use 5-10 times, and perhaps even less. Power of the engine of our snowplow is described below. it is 6.5 liters / sec (4.8 kW), but sometimes it is not enough. But there is a similar design in the proprietary model of power, which is. 3 l / s (2.2 kW), it is because of the smaller load on the auger. If you plan to use an electric motor with air cooling, then you should provide mandatory protection against snow (air intake), as during operation, there will be enough snow in the air.

Capture the width of our design. 50 cm, this is quite enough to clean the paths garden and so the use of our snowplow will be simple. If the overall width of the snowplow will be up to 65 cm, then it can easily be stowed in a garage or a shed straight through the door without opening the gate.

Snowplow construction

Let us consider in detail the construction of the snowblower:

• We make the auger body from roofing iron,
• Sidewalls. from plywood with thickness of 10 mm,
• Frame. the angle 5050mm metal,
• handle-holder. made of ½ inch pipe,
• auger shaft. made of ¾ inch pipe,

in the middle of this pipe is made a through cut, in which you need to insert a metal plate (blade) of size. 120270 mm. When the shaft will rotate, the shovel will flip the snow. Rubber rings. there are four of them, they are attached to special plates.

If the inside diameter is smaller than the outside diameter of the tube, the bearings are put directly on the tube, it is possible to grind a little. In the lower drawing we see how it is made on the lathe.

To make the auger, we take the conveyor belt 1,5 long and 10 mm thick, cut out of it 4 rings, (diameter 28 cm). This can be done with two screws that are screwed into the board, turn it in a circle or use an electric jigsaw.

In self-aligning closed bearings the auger rotates. A very important point, so that the bearings do not get snow, they must be necessarily closed.

The drive of the auger is reproduced by a chain or belt, if you use an engine from a power tiller, it has a pulley. You can buy all the pulleys, bearings and belts you need in any auto shop. At idle speed auger rotation speed of about 800 rpm.

When using a home-made snowblower, sometimes ice gets into the auger, then in this case it is necessary to make a safety pin, which is cut off at the moment of wedging the auger.

If you use a belt drive, because of the slippage of the belt, it plays the role of a fuse.

The width of the body is more than the auger by 2 cm, so that the gap between the auger and the body was small, so that the auger does not catch the body. The fastener to the snowblower is made quickly removable, it is made for convenience, so you can move it in minutes from the snowblower to any other equipment without using tools. When the snowblower is removed from the moteblock then it is much easier to clean the snow, removing it from the garage.

The skis. their base are wooden bars. Plastic covers are attached to them, as they are adapted boxes from the electrical wiring.

Plastic sewer pipe with a diameter of 160 mm. this is the main part of the turning recess for throwing snow. A chute is attached to this pipe, which throws the snow, and the pipe is dressed on exactly the same pipe that is attached to the auger body. Chute must be larger in diameter than the width of the auger blade, it is used to throw the snow.

Metal angle bars 50h50mm. made the frame of self-made snowplow. Angles 25×25 welded to the cross brackets, to which the engine platform is attached, which is quickly removed. Bolts M 8, on the longitudinal corners of our frame are fixed transverse corners and a handle.

What snow ploughs are made of?

There are several types of snow plows. In this article we will discuss rotary, i.e.к. They are the most popular and easier to make. Rotary snow blowers come in:

Screw-rotor snowblower

The snow plow is suitable for work on large areas, and is effective for clearing snow from compacted snow. They can also eliminate snow mounds, which appeared after the work of other equipment.

This snow blower cleans in two ways:

An auger snow blower can also be made at home. The design of a snowplow includes so-called augers, through which the machine breaks and collects the snow. The auger rotor unit is mounted on a machine, tractor or special chassis.

Plow-Rotor

Plough-rotor snowplow has a fairly simple design. Most often it is used to clean the rails on the railroad tracks.

This type of snow removal equipment is placed on a tractor, mini loader, chassis. It is equipped with a special plow, with built-in two or one rotor. The rotors have blades that are mounted in opposite directions and are screw shaped.

Milling and rotary

A snow blower is designed for the same purpose as an auger snow blower. to de-burrow snow and throw or load it. Such a machine can overcome drifts of up to 3 m and throw snow to a distance of up to 20 m.

Mounted on a loader, chassis, crane arm or tractor. Special frame brackets are used in the case of the tractor.

This snowblower has feeder cutters located on top of each other at the front of the unit. It also includes a rotor sweeper mounted behind the cutter. Thanks to it, the snow is thrown to the side.

Description and construction of a snow thrower for a power tiller

The base of the skis is made of wooden bars, to which the plastic plates are attached. In this case, boxes from the electrical wiring are used.

As the main part of the turning chute, which throws the snow is a piece of plastic pipe with a diameter of 160 mm. A chute, which throws snow, is attached to this pipe. The width of the auger blade should be less than the diameter of the trough, so it will be thrown snow.

To construct the frame we use metal angles 50×50 mm. Cross bars 25×25 mm are welded to them. A quick-release engine platform is mounted on them. Cross brackets and handle are attached with M8 bolts to the frame’s longitudinal brackets.

In this case, we used this principle of snow thrower operation. It doesn’t need wheels, only for moving around the barn. Therefore, instead of the wheels, skis are installed, which allow you to sweep snow from the tracks when the snowblower tilts forward. If you tilt it back, the snow can be shoveled off in stages, in case of a small snow cover. In the future, you can upgrade to a self-propelled snow thrower with one wide track without having to redo anything.

After painting, the made snowblower will look like a brand-name snowblower.