[Mayorchuck]

Hello folks. After researching the 1811 on this forum, I picked on up locally a few years ago. It needed a few minor repairs, a dying starter chief among them. Again, with the help of this forum, I was able to get it up and running.

My current issue is with the snow plow set up it came with. Hopefully I will be able to add photos to explain. The main issue is the subframe arms that slip on the bar under the seat. I would say someone over the years has hit the plow pretty hard and one of those arms were bent. The subframe also had some play that allowed the arms to flow side to side. This is probably due to the forward arms that go up to hooks onto the front of the tractor frame. The welds had broken and someone had drilled holes and used nut/bolt to attach them back on the frame (blue circle in photo). I plan to have those welded back soon. Is there any reason I cannot put a cross piece when I have this done, as shown in similar set up (red circle)? I had to heat the bent arm to straighten it last winter, otherwise it would slip off the bar. Hope this makes sense. The full plow photo is from Google but is the set up I have. It seems pretty straight forward to me that the subframe should be without a great deal of play and a cross piece welded as shown in the red circle would help solidify it in doing so.

Thanks for any input. I love this machine.

Chuck