[jgibb150]

Is there anyway to add a third spring to a 7'6" western standard duty plow

 

[linckeil]

with a little bit of thought, some angle iron, and a welder you can add as many trip springs as you want.

attached is a pic of my western. the blade is from the 1970's and started life as a 2 spring plow. Using an A frame from an '80's western pro plow i was able to add the center trip spring and shock absorber. i later added the two outside springs. its a lot easier to add additional springs to the late '80's and newer westerns.

 

[KGRlandscapeing]

what about just bigger ones? y add more if it has exsessive tripping then ur attack angle is probably wrong

 

[linckeil]

it has nothing to do with the attack angle. 2 trip springs will do just fine in a foot or 2 of powder. its the 2-5 inches of the wet, heavy, frozen snow/sleet mix that will make the blade trip - regardless of the angle. hitting that stuff is like hitting a curb. additional springs help keep the blade from tripping as often thus increasing the scrapping effect necesary to get down to pavement/gravel.

from my experience i can say that adding the additional springs has made a big difference.

 

[jgibb150]

Hey linckeil thanks for your help, but do you have any idea what the easiest way to add springs to my plow.

 

[schuitb]

Springs

Hello, I was wanting to to the same thing to my standard plow... i have the spring already...

My idea is to get a new quadrant for a pro plus or other plow that has three spring mounts.... I haven't checked on the sizes yet though.

 

[B&B]

My idea is to get a new quadrant for a pro plus or other plow that has three spring mounts.... I haven't checked on the sizes yet though.

The quadrants for the standard, pro, and pro plus don't interchange... Adding an additional spring isn't hard to do to your existing quadrant though... a little fab work and a bit of welding to add a bracket to the quadrant and one on the mold board is all you need..

 

[Philbilly2]

This is one of my old plows that started its life a a 7.5ft standard. All i did was weld two angle pieces to hook the spring to and drilled two holes in the top of the molbard.

Presto.... 4 springs now.

 

[jgibb150]

Philbilly2 thanks for pic that makes it look easy. Can you send me a pic of it closer down by where it pivots. you can just email it to me if you would at [email protected] thanks

 

[Philbilly2]

I will try. I will have to zoom in on the picture that I have. I sold that plow a while ago and only have a few pictures. I'll give it hell though! :salute:

 

[jgibb150]

I made some brackets for it tonight and got two more springs. Hopefully have it done by tomorrow. thanks again for the help.

 

[jgibb150]

O by the way philbilly2 your email was perfect. thanks

 

[Philbilly2]

Great, glad that I could help!

 

[Philbilly2]

I got good pictures!

Last night I had about 2 hours to kill so I threw a couple of springs on my plow.

Sorry for the buggered welds, ran out of gas on my mig welder so I had to use Flux-Cored wire.

I wasn't thinking stright when I started as you can see in the pictures, I had to cut away the back of my brackets to give the spring somwhere to go when the plow trips

But hopefully this helps!

 

[Philbilly2]

here are the rest of the pictures