1811 Snow plow

Mayorchuck · #1 10-26-2022, 10:46 PM

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

R Bedell · #2 10-27-2022, 08:39 AM

First, welcome to OCC.........

My Son-in-Law has a 782 (same as the 1811 but older) and he had the same issues.

I took his Sub Frame and bent & pounded it back into shape. I added a brace at the end of the arms (near where it mounts to the foot peg) for more stability. I also cut out the 1/2" pins, on the uprights, and ran a solid 1/2" rod between the uprights for again, more stability. Some of the weld joints looked "sketchy" so I re-welded those areas.

The Sub Frame was on OK design, but there was certainly room for improvements.

I think I have a picture of the modifications I done. I'll dig around and see if I can post them here.

Mayorchuck · #3 10-27-2022, 01:04 PM

Thanks for the welcome and reply.

I never thought about running a bar across the forward area. That would stabilize it a great deal because those uprights are under a great deal of stress. A photo would be great. I was hoping someone had done this but also wanted to make sure it would not cause an issue that I could not think of.

Thanks again for your input.

Gary C · #4 10-28-2022, 07:50 PM

The one I had on my 1440 came with that plate you circled in red. I believe it was factory installed. I used that for 6 yrs with few problems, it would slip out of the quick mount from time to time, I remedied that by installing washers and "hair pin " cotter pins . IMG_0843.jpg

Mayorchuck · #5 10-28-2022, 08:55 PM

Thanks for the reply. I took it to a shop this afternoon to put a support plate across as yours is shown. The forward arm pins go out on mine and I do use a washer/pin. The welds on those were broken so they drilled a single hole on each side. No way that was doing to keep it from moving. Anyway, they will clean them up and weld them back so hoping that will do the trick.