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When I was in the USAF, temporarily stationed in Alaska, we landed our KC-135A in -60 degree weather. The parking ramp was about a foot thick in packed snow. They only removed all the snow off the runway. In the parking areas, they just leveled off the snow and parked the aircraft on top of the snow. They even painted new taxi lines on the snow.
Tangential to your video which purpose is to keep gravel put, I've come up with another method to do so. I use an ATV with a winch operated snow plow. To keep from plowing gravel I use a length of rubber for the bottom edge of the plow. In practice I adjust the plow to just touch down, and then the added rubber folds backward which keeps the plow from grabbing any gravel. I purchased an inexpensive horse mat for the rubber stock. The rubber ends of the plow wear out quicker than the middle. So I split the plow edge into three sections. Two of which are foot long sections for the right and the left end of the cutting edge. Ten years of plowing two tenths of a mile in Michigan and my gravel for the most part stays in place.
Before Mr Sicard invented his snow blower, this is what we did here in rural Québec until the 1940s. That is: rolling the snow, it was easier to move around for the snow sleds as well as for Mr Bombardier's snowAutomobiles to ski-doing on it . The problem was in spring . The snow rolling all winter lasts for a very long time in spring creating a very compact and hard surface base which will take forever (until St-Jean Baptiste , 24 juin ) to melt.
Compacting the snow makes for a nightmare in the spring if you live somewhere where snow sticks around all season. I don’t have time to finish this right now so maybe you mentioned this.
I'm just compacting the first 4'' of snow...the rest of the season it's snowblower time... Just like any other years...just faster with the roller this time!
Vinny, I do the same thing by driving my truck up and down my driveway (250 feet) many times. I never thought of what you just made. That was one great project!! If I stay here in Minnesota I'll have to build one of those. Thank you for sharing and the video.
I'm in Florida watching you build this fantastic contraption and subbed because of the comment about not knowing when to throw scrap metal away. I'm exactly the same way.😂
What a great way to create a skating rink. Compressed snow makes ice. I live in one of the great snow belts. We average 11 feet in 3 months. Been here for 50 years. Never seen anyone use something like that. I own a snow blower. Its the most efficient way to move snow.
@@grayden5334 Driving on glare ice is not logic. I also have a gravel drive. I have 1/2 inch ground clearance so it doesn't throw rocks. Works just fine. I get a packed snow base ..not ice.
@@bobdevreeze4741 You just complained about "Compressed snow" making ice then you claim you have a "packed snow base"...those sre the same things just different ways to say it. 🤦🏼♂️
@@packbadge obviously you don't get much snow.... Do you know what corn snow is.... Ice is on a skating rink it is hard clear and slippery. Snow is much softer and white....
@@bobdevreeze4741 🤣 obviously you are speaking out of ignorance. I've never lived anywhere that doesn't get a lot of snow. Born in Northern Alaska. Raised in Northern Wisconsin. Currently living in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Truckee, CA. We got just shy of 600" last winter...around 57 FEET of snow in a couple months. I think I live in a place that sees far more snow in one storm than you get in an entire winter. Further more...I am a skier who gets 100+ days a year of skiing in. I'm going on month 18 straight of skiing. I am a snowmobiler and avalanche safety course trained. Lastly, I run snowcats for a living in always changing snow types of the Sierra. I can keep going if you'd like. Now what was that about me not living in a snowy area? Also...I played hockey all of my life so...I know plenty about ice rinks as well 😉
Interestingly here in the US before the invention of the snow plow or blower they used to use a horse drawn snow roller to roll the roads. In the spring the compacted ice was so thick and hard that they had to use dynamite to break it. We still have a snow roller on display in my small town.
A thick layer of ice can take weeks to melt. It was the only thing in my mind throughout this whole video. Good luck with the ice when all the snow is gone.
As someone who uses 4-wheel-drive rather than mess with snow removal, I can tell you that you're just making a future ice hocky rink out of your driveway by compacting the snow.
Nice build ! The sport/outdoor running /skitrack/ slalom centre in my town uses a tire roller (tow behing) for pre compaction of the track beds when making ski tracks, looks a lot like yours , but I think there is rims on it, eventually liquid filled tiers for loading it down, there is smaller weight on top also. Another sheeper way to mount the tires could be to put a steel tube with bolt on flanches in the ends in the centre and thred them over the tube ,this would make them ride more even ,because of all around support of the tire walls. Eventually there could be air tubes in the tires also , but maybe tricky to get the valves to peak out on the inside of the steel cylinder.
The amount of snow we're having, no matter how much you compact it it'll get way too high too fast. Also with temperature differences (we had like -20c one day, -5c the next day, +2c the day after, then -10c again) it will turn into a skating rink real fast. The only way to avoid it is to remove all the snow promptly before it can thaw and refreeze
Establish the base layer, but don't keep compacting it all winter. If you have too thick a compacted layer, a few thaw/freeze cycles leaves you with very deep frozen ruts that are not fun to drive in.
Hahaha! I love this intro! The large parking area near our house is large enough to drive in circles... so every winter, I do a circular car waltz to pack the snow over our gravel driveway. My wife always just shakes her head at me... but with this video, I feel vindicated!!
if you get under 100 inches of snow a year will work, but over that and and in the spring you will dig those tires in every morning and get stuck. Been there done that.
Well the algorithm worked for you this time! First time seeing this channel (that I remember anyway), and I could use something like this for my son’s driveway. I’ve struggled getting a base so I can snow blow without chucking rocks and/or breaking shear pins.
If you ever get a driveway - install copper piping in it that runs back to the house or shop. On the return (from outside) have a collection tank for excess liquid, and then a pump to pull out of the tank from. Have the piping wrap as much as possible around the exhaust of whatever your heating source is, scavenging waste heat to warm the driveway to just above freezing. Never worry about snow, shoveling, ice ever again.
The bottom arms are called the *LIFT ARMS* , the bar between their end is the *DRAW BAR* and above that you have the *TOP LINK* which usually has a ball joint on the end and is threaded for length adjustment. A snow roller is fine.. if you don't want a foot and a half of solid ice in March that takes until June to melt and deep heavy ruts
Excellent upload, and narration. I did the snowy drive polka for thirty years using the transit van I drove for my company, (no worry about the amount of diesel used!). It had nice wide tyres.
The lower two arms on the tractor are called "hitch lift arms", those going upwards are lift arm stabilizers. Also consider getting an hydraulic top link, makes the three-point hitch a lot more universal depending on the equipment
This method of packing is used at winter test facilities to condition the initial annual snowfall into a solid base layer. Then also used daily to condition the snow surface for a consistent surface for tire and vehicle testing.
🤣Great sense of humor. Of course there are many ways to construct a compacter for the snow but ya work with what is on hand. Now come spring ya might want to drill wee drain holes in those tires so they don't collect rain and skeeters.
Our town has a snow roller festival. It's made from wood and was horse drawn, goes back to the days of kick sleds. As for my driveway, we compact thr first snowfall then use the blower the rest of the year to keep the mud issues down.
Genius! First time here your a man after my own heart. I always use what ever i save for projects and i save everything. My wife hates it but if she only new.Great job/ Be safe
The 3 point hitch on the back of the tractor, the top hook up is called the "top link" and the bottom hook ups are called "lift arms" which have stabilizer bars and many more individual parts but for the most part it's "top link" and "lift arms " .
Dude, in the US we scrape down to the pavement. And then we refinished driveways when they need it. And we salt. Interesting concept to compact the snow on purpose but when that happens on my drive it's usually the result of not fully plowed or an unplowed driveway freezing over. Kind of like your car waltz, but accidental.
Interesting. Quite niche. Snow isn't a problem in many areas anymore. The winters being so mild, snow melts in a week of falling where I am at. Didn't use to be like that. But it makes the snow issue a nonissue anymore.
’Top link' is the name you are looking for. It is as simple as that. Bottom ones are link arms. This is what makes up the three point linkage system or sometimes called three point hitch.
My father didn't use tires, but took a 500mm tube, centered the axle like you did and filled it with sand to make it heavy, but it's not a solution if too much snow falls at once And this ˝global warming˝ works great, so we don't even have snow anymore
If you really wanted to know. From Wikipedia: Three-point hitches are composed of three movable arms. The two lower arms-the hitch lifting arms-are controlled by the hydraulic system, and provide lifting, lowering, and even tilting to the arms. The upper center arm-called the top link-is movable, but is usually not powered by the tractor's hydraulic system.
I have a roller a bit like that -- it is off a rock transfer conveyor for loading cargo ships. It is a 6' wide x 32" diameter steel drum with a rubber material attached to it as a tire to grab the conveyor belt. It has been mounted in a pair of huge pillow block bearings so I can pull it with my MF 2860. I think it weighs around 2200 pounds, and it will flatten the snow. I like your design better, mine is too heavy to deal with most days.
Get a two inch ABS pipe and cut a slot down one side, then slip it onto the cutting edge of your blower. This prevents the blower from picking up the gravel.
I love that you did this!!! I was having essentially the same idea for the first couple of snows to build up the snow base before my track loader mounted blower sends my driveway into the forest, never to be seen again!! I conveniently hoard... er... collect used tires for various projects so no fence jumping and dog dodging necessary!😂
You had me at the "$10.00 budget" part! Gotta love 3" channel, especially pre-owned, it's like a 2x4 to a carpenter. "Rustoleum rusty metal primer", is all I use, 2 coats for a finsih and 16 years later it looks like I applied it yesterday, I've grown to like the red oxide look, fast drying also. You could have used coupling nuts to join short sections of all thread together, they're like a really long nut, but I get it, you didn't have any handy, but had the rebar.
I compact the snow by dragging some truck tires around behind the 1/2 ton truck and when it becomes soft in the spring push it away with the loader. Nice job on your build
Simpler method might be the drum method of old. They built a huge wooden drum, and used water as the counterweight (probably with some antifreeze!). town streets were compacted in this way, and the water then drained. This roller is still around, 125+ years later. Today, it might be better to use the largest plastic barrels you can find.
I remember doing this as a kid with my grandfather. This is...overkill, to say the least. A pair of 55 gallon drums and a tree were most of what we needed, we just pulled it behind the tractor on a couple chains.
Winters in Maine used to be consistently cold so it was easy to make a good ice base for a gravel driveway that would last 5 months. Not any more. It’s becoming more trouble than it’s worth to use my PTO snowblower. The lack of a hard base and frequent rain and slush is too much for the thing. I’m thinking about building a blade for simple back - up snowplowing.
Nice build. Though with 40 years experience of removing snow at my farm, I'm not sure that compacting snow is the best solution. When it finally melts you will have days of ice that takes more time to melt.
Having lived in Michigan most all of my life, snow handling is a big ordeal in some locations. Especially in Kent county, where they try and remove every speck of snow, every time it snows out, and they flood the streets with salt, enough to kill the trees along the highways, in that attempt. Some of the other counties, where the taxes don't cover such extravagance as 24 hour snow plowing and salting the roads till the trees die, they level the snow, and put sand on it to increase traction. And the trees and animals don't suffer from salt toxicity.
Before watching this video, I have biked over flattend snow a lot. It does not work lmao. The snow tries to pull control away from you at every moment I prefer the snow to be thrown to the side
I welded up some brackets on my snowblower and on a couple of old snowmobile skis. Couple of removable pins and can change from doing the long stone portion with skis on, then take off for the asphalt in 2 minutes or less. It raises the blower up about 1 inch. Does not take up much space to store the skis and the blower never digs into the uneven stoned driveway.
Compacted snow is great. It's when that very top layer gets a chance to melt a little in the sun and then freeze into a sheet of ice that it begins to suck.
I'm thinking a cardboard sono footing tube filled full of concrete with all thread rod centered thru it could work too. A lawn seed roller or even a Fred Flintstones car wheel from a junkyard in Bedrock.
Yes sure...all of those! 🤣 But the 400lbs feels heavy at the back...So a big sono field with concrete...man that thing would have been too much for my lil Massey!
Fun build! I don't know if your tractor can handle the extra weight, but simply capping the ends & filling up the tires with sand should correct the bouncing issue some. No need to be extra careful sealing up the tires, as if a little sand leaks out it will just improve your traction a bit.
This video should be called, How to make a compacted ICE Driveway! This works great when you want an ice rink for your driveway. This also doesn't work for powdered snow. (AKA cold weather snow)
you re right, I m now the guy how has the ice rink in my neighbourhood! A group of neighbours and I starded a garage league in my driveway, you re welcome to joint too 😅
Nice! The only thing I can see possibly becoming an issue is the bounce. You may end up with a rippled surface. Solid discs instead of cross-bars would eliminate that, though. On a scale this small, it's unlikely to be an issue, though.
Where I live this would become a nightmare come spring, even with plowing we still get half foot deep pot holes in the ice ontop of the roads when it starts to melt
I deal with a dirt and sand road and made the same, only i stacked the tires 6’tall with an 8’ pipe center as a hub, and poured the cement directly in to the tires, to create weight and center the hub. No bouncing
Another first class video but fair who. I am a mechanical fitter and welder. The project is a good practical one. The instruction you provide is excellent but again who is it aimed at. Anyone who is capable of building this either owns a well equipped workshop or has access to one. The enthusiastic amateur will have neither the knowledge or resources to tackle a project such as this.
A simpler method and more elegent solution is to use a steel tube (a road water culvert) of the rim size. A plate at each end with an axle fitting welded to the plate, then the plate welded to the tube. It would not require a long axle, and the tires would not require any connections, as the tube is the axle. The amount of welding and cutting is much reduced. One end plate needs to be fitted in a way that it can be removed to replace (or add) tires. Tires rubbing together wear the walls. I have seen 12 foot wide rollers in use as agricultural machines.
1:03 Maybe they had the fence there to keep people from dumping their old tires --- i.e., perhaps the fence was intended to prevent people from ADDING to the pile of old tires, not TAKING THEM AWAY.
So you compact six inches of snow and it looks fine other than the hump to drive up into your drive way and down into your garage. Then you get one of many mild spells where if you drive on it you cut deep ruts into the base you have made that late freeze and trap your wheels and rip off low ground effects of you modern vehicles. When it gets mild you will need to scrap all the snow off your drive way but it never thaws evenly so you will get bumbs and valleys making your driveway uneven and a mess. Briliant summer roller for land scapping doing that final compaction when planting new grass. Good skills shown as well.
Great build ! I had guy come and buy eight tires from me to build the same implement for a sled club. Love the channel and the natural funny guy you are.
@@VinyB57 mine were on rims he ran a large pipe through the centre bore of the rims. Seemed a bit easier, however I admire using what you have. Keep up the creativity!
This channel is still the most under appreciated on RUclips Tube…..Viny B and EdGasket deserve 500K followers.
Agree!!
Hey thanks man! Appreciate it! 👌👌
I just found this channel, I agree 100%. This is the first video I’ve watched.
Amen. Presentation and technique are fantastic,😊
Just discovered your channel and it is great. Your presentation and technique are absolutely outstanding.
When I was in the USAF, temporarily stationed in Alaska, we landed our KC-135A in -60 degree weather. The parking ramp was about a foot thick in packed snow. They only removed all the snow off the runway. In the parking areas, they just leveled off the snow and parked the aircraft on top of the snow. They even painted new taxi lines on the snow.
what!! Insane 🤯
I can confirm that. I was at the AF Base in Fairbanks from 69-72. At -60 degrees the snow stops being so slippery.
Lol. Just put underground heating in places where it snows
@@Kawka1122this has the same sentiment of someone going “ duh to end world hunger grow more food”
@@Kawka1122 painting the snow is much cheaper than spending gas/electric bill for the heating.
Tangential to your video which purpose is to keep gravel put, I've come up with another method to do so. I use an ATV with a winch operated snow plow. To keep from plowing gravel I use a length of rubber for the bottom edge of the plow. In practice I adjust the plow to just touch down, and then the added rubber folds backward which keeps the plow from grabbing any gravel. I purchased an inexpensive horse mat for the rubber stock. The rubber ends of the plow wear out quicker than the middle. So I split the plow edge into three sections. Two of which are foot long sections for the right and the left end of the cutting edge. Ten years of plowing two tenths of a mile in Michigan and my gravel for the most part stays in place.
Before Mr Sicard invented his snow blower, this is what we did here in rural Québec until the 1940s. That is: rolling the snow, it was easier to move around for the snow sleds as well as for Mr Bombardier's snowAutomobiles to ski-doing on it .
The problem was in spring . The snow rolling all winter lasts for a very long time in spring creating a very compact and hard surface base which will take forever (until St-Jean Baptiste , 24 juin ) to melt.
and as im sure you dont wan tto resurface the road every spring like i saw them doing in alaska..
its best for a blower lol
@@jigglie8077 You know here in Qc there is no QC to check the quality of road works...
Nothing like the melting and freezing turning your driveway into a hockey rink.
Red Green reference that's great 😂
Absolutely
Good to know I’m not the only one old enough to get that line lol
and right after the duct tape moment lol
He does seem the type to keep his stick on the ice.
I got his autograph
Compacting the snow makes for a nightmare in the spring if you live somewhere where snow sticks around all season. I don’t have time to finish this right now so maybe you mentioned this.
You didn’t he get that there is a reason why ski slopes stay white longer than open terrain
I'm just compacting the first 4'' of snow...the rest of the season it's snowblower time... Just like any other years...just faster with the roller this time!
@@VinyB57 iSnow that lasts a eternity maybe you get a ice sheet in spring this is stupid warm weather will probably give you the joy that is ice
We had 11" of ice last Spring. We plowed, snow blowed, it still packed down. We needed to hire a Bobcat to dig us out.
@@FreezyAbitKT7A thats an exoected result
Vinny, I do the same thing by driving my truck up and down my driveway (250 feet) many times. I never thought of what you just made. That was one great project!! If I stay here in Minnesota I'll have to build one of those. Thank you for sharing and the video.
Lawn roller with sand. Save some fabrication and probably money also.
Hey, glad it inspired you! 👍
Be nice if we even got snow this year here in Minnesota.
So instead of clearing the snow you compress it into ice which is far worse?
@@drew651 This... really, just... this.
Either fill with sand or old oil (as long as you never plan on draining it)
I'm in Florida watching you build this fantastic contraption and subbed because of the comment about not knowing when to throw scrap metal away. I'm exactly the same way.😂
What a great way to create a skating rink. Compressed snow makes ice. I live in one of the great snow belts. We average 11 feet in 3 months. Been here for 50 years. Never seen anyone use something like that. I own a snow blower. Its the most efficient way to move snow.
Quite litterly is the point of it so it keeps the gravel in place is his logic
@@grayden5334 Driving on glare ice is not logic. I also have a gravel drive. I have 1/2 inch ground clearance so it doesn't throw rocks. Works just fine. I get a packed snow base ..not ice.
@@bobdevreeze4741 You just complained about "Compressed snow" making ice then you claim you have a "packed snow base"...those sre the same things just different ways to say it. 🤦🏼♂️
@@packbadge obviously you don't get much snow.... Do you know what corn snow is.... Ice is on a skating rink it is hard clear and slippery. Snow is much softer and white....
@@bobdevreeze4741 🤣 obviously you are speaking out of ignorance. I've never lived anywhere that doesn't get a lot of snow. Born in Northern Alaska. Raised in Northern Wisconsin. Currently living in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Truckee, CA. We got just shy of 600" last winter...around 57 FEET of snow in a couple months. I think I live in a place that sees far more snow in one storm than you get in an entire winter. Further more...I am a skier who gets 100+ days a year of skiing in. I'm going on month 18 straight of skiing. I am a snowmobiler and avalanche safety course trained. Lastly, I run snowcats for a living in always changing snow types of the Sierra. I can keep going if you'd like. Now what was that about me not living in a snowy area? Also...I played hockey all of my life so...I know plenty about ice rinks as well 😉
Interestingly here in the US before the invention of the snow plow or blower they used to use a horse drawn snow roller to roll the roads. In the spring the compacted ice was so thick and hard that they had to use dynamite to break it. We still have a snow roller on display in my small town.
Dynamite? Was this how you make pot holes in your small town?
A thick layer of ice can take weeks to melt. It was the only thing in my mind throughout this whole video. Good luck with the ice when all the snow is gone.
Here in the U.P. of Michigan they called that panking the snow.
Thats why snow blowers are better overall because they can break hard snow or ice, but the roller is far better for soft snow.
@@Sea-Dog5496 This is for Indians who go fishing.
As someone who uses 4-wheel-drive rather than mess with snow removal, I can tell you that you're just making a future ice hocky rink out of your driveway by compacting the snow.
I love the Red-Green reference. "If they don't find you handsome, they should find you handy."
Nice build !
The sport/outdoor running /skitrack/ slalom centre in my town uses a tire roller (tow behing) for pre compaction of the track beds when making ski tracks, looks a lot like yours , but I think there is rims on it, eventually liquid filled tiers for loading it down, there is smaller weight on top also.
Another sheeper way to mount the tires could be to put a steel tube with bolt on flanches in the ends in the centre and thred them over the tube ,this would make them ride more even ,because of all around support of the tire walls. Eventually there could be air tubes in the tires also , but maybe tricky to get the valves to peak out on the inside of the steel cylinder.
Viny B, the two complement each other, they both have their work to do and it seems to be just fine.
All the best, until the next one.
Cheers 👍💪✌
Exactly! Cheers mate!
Those are the "top link" and the "lift arms"
First time watching your channel. I enjoyed your dry humour. 🎉 was the icing in the cake. I am now a fan.
The amount of snow we're having, no matter how much you compact it it'll get way too high too fast. Also with temperature differences (we had like -20c one day, -5c the next day, +2c the day after, then -10c again) it will turn into a skating rink real fast. The only way to avoid it is to remove all the snow promptly before it can thaw and refreeze
Around here they use rollers like that for packing snowmobile trails. The only difference is instead of a 3 point hitch they use a trailer type hitch
Establish the base layer, but don't keep compacting it all winter. If you have too thick a compacted layer, a few thaw/freeze cycles leaves you with very deep frozen ruts that are not fun to drive in.
Very well made: the video and the contraption!!! I like how you fixed the hub to the frame with that offset plate! Thanks!
Another great video Vinny!
That “top bar bit” is called the “One-eyed third leg”
Top link
@@Paulman50 I know; but Vinny said “points for funny responses”
Yes, bonus point for you mate!
@@Paulman50 Yeah When I grew up on the farm it was either top link or center link. The term was used interchangeably
I love all the innovative ideas, Viny. I am very much looking forward to your tool series build videos.
Glad you do! 👍
New viewer, "Peux pas tout awère" made me crack up
Hahaha! I love this intro! The large parking area near our house is large enough to drive in circles... so every winter, I do a circular car waltz to pack the snow over our gravel driveway. My wife always just shakes her head at me... but with this video, I feel vindicated!!
"A grinder and paint, will make me the welder I ain't"
I have saved pieces of "scrap" steel multiple times and then needed that exact dimension and knew exactly where it was! Great feeling.
if you get under 100 inches of snow a year will work, but over that and and in the spring you will dig those tires in every morning and get stuck. Been there done that.
So happy I found this channel, excellent content! Definitely motivated me to get back to working on stuff in my shop. 👍
Well the algorithm worked for you this time! First time seeing this channel (that I remember anyway), and I could use something like this for my son’s driveway. I’ve struggled getting a base so I can snow blow without chucking rocks and/or breaking shear pins.
If you ever get a driveway - install copper piping in it that runs back to the house or shop. On the return (from outside) have a collection tank for excess liquid, and then a pump to pull out of the tank from. Have the piping wrap as much as possible around the exhaust of whatever your heating source is, scavenging waste heat to warm the driveway to just above freezing. Never worry about snow, shoveling, ice ever again.
The bottom arms are called the *LIFT ARMS* , the bar between their end is the *DRAW BAR* and above that you have the *TOP LINK* which usually has a ball joint on the end and is threaded for length adjustment.
A snow roller is fine.. if you don't want a foot and a half of solid ice in March that takes until June to melt and deep heavy ruts
Excellent upload, and narration.
I did the snowy drive polka for thirty years using the transit van I drove for my company, (no worry about the amount of diesel used!). It had nice wide tyres.
The lower two arms on the tractor are called "hitch lift arms", those going upwards are lift arm stabilizers. Also consider getting an hydraulic top link, makes the three-point hitch a lot more universal depending on the equipment
Hey totally forgot about that i tend to just call yhem tri points hitch
This method of packing is used at winter test facilities to condition the initial annual snowfall into a solid base layer. Then also used daily to condition the snow surface for a consistent surface for tire and vehicle testing.
🤣Great sense of humor. Of course there are many ways to construct a compacter for the snow but ya work with what is on hand. Now come spring ya might want to drill wee drain holes in those tires so they don't collect rain and skeeters.
Maybe I will! 👍
Awesome Viny! Looking forward to the fixture table
Thanks Tyler! 👍
Our town has a snow roller festival. It's made from wood and was horse drawn, goes back to the days of kick sleds. As for my driveway, we compact thr first snowfall then use the blower the rest of the year to keep the mud issues down.
Genius! First time here your a man after my own heart. I always use what ever i save for projects and i save everything. My wife hates it but if she only new.Great job/ Be safe
Awesome job. I do the same thing with my car, tried packing with my snowmobile but not enough weight. Good job.
Hey thanks! With ski-doo! What never seen that before! 😏
The 3 point hitch on the back of the tractor, the top hook up is called the "top link" and the bottom hook ups are called "lift arms" which have stabilizer bars and many more individual parts but for the most part it's "top link" and "lift arms " .
Dude, in the US we scrape down to the pavement. And then we refinished driveways when they need it. And we salt. Interesting concept to compact the snow on purpose but when that happens on my drive it's usually the result of not fully plowed or an unplowed driveway freezing over. Kind of like your car waltz, but accidental.
We do the same thing here. They used to compact snow in the 30s and 40s. Nobody compact snow.
"Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Toys?” -- Jack Nicholson as the Joker😊❤❤
I love the old red green show reference.
In terms of function AND cost effectiveness, I’d say this is pretty good. It works as intended and didn’t break the bank.
100% ! 👍
Interesting. Quite niche. Snow isn't a problem in many areas anymore. The winters being so mild, snow melts in a week of falling where I am at. Didn't use to be like that. But it makes the snow issue a nonissue anymore.
’Top link' is the name you are looking for. It is as simple as that. Bottom ones are link arms. This is what makes up the three point linkage system or sometimes called three point hitch.
My father didn't use tires, but took a 500mm tube, centered the axle like you did and filled it with sand to make it heavy, but it's not a solution if too much snow falls at once
And this ˝global warming˝ works great, so we don't even have snow anymore
Northern people problems. It sure is nice to live in the South in the Winter.😎
Pretty cool! This guy is brilliant, with a creative mind.
Hey, thanks!
If you really wanted to know. From Wikipedia: Three-point hitches are composed of three movable arms. The two lower arms-the hitch lifting arms-are controlled by the hydraulic system, and provide lifting, lowering, and even tilting to the arms. The upper center arm-called the top link-is movable, but is usually not powered by the tractor's hydraulic system.
When he caulked the weld i spit me coffee out. That was epic !!!
That was the best,,,,,,!
I have a roller a bit like that -- it is off a rock transfer conveyor for loading cargo ships. It is a 6' wide x 32" diameter steel drum with a rubber material attached to it as a tire to grab the conveyor belt. It has been mounted in a pair of huge pillow block bearings so I can pull it with my MF 2860. I think it weighs around 2200 pounds, and it will flatten the snow. I like your design better, mine is too heavy to deal with most days.
Get a two inch ABS pipe and cut a slot down one side, then slip it onto the cutting edge of your blower.
This prevents the blower from picking up the gravel.
Thanks for the tip Tim
I love that you did this!!! I was having essentially the same idea for the first couple of snows to build up the snow base before my track loader mounted blower sends my driveway into the forest, never to be seen again!!
I conveniently hoard... er... collect used tires for various projects so no fence jumping and dog dodging necessary!😂
You had me at the "$10.00 budget" part! Gotta love 3" channel, especially pre-owned, it's like a 2x4 to a carpenter. "Rustoleum rusty metal primer", is all I use, 2 coats for a finsih and 16 years later it looks like I applied it yesterday, I've grown to like the red oxide look, fast drying also. You could have used coupling nuts to join short sections of all thread together, they're like a really long nut, but I get it, you didn't have any handy, but had the rebar.
Third link, top link, center link all names for the top turnbuckle for the 2 pt lift
I compact the snow by dragging some truck tires around behind the 1/2 ton truck and when it becomes soft in the spring push it away with the loader. Nice job on your build
Fantastic fabricobbling Viny. I also love to make things with "Late American Discard". Great video thumbs up.
Thanks for watching
Simpler method might be the drum method of old. They built a huge wooden drum, and used water as the counterweight (probably with some antifreeze!). town streets were compacted in this way, and the water then drained. This roller is still around, 125+ years later. Today, it might be better to use the largest plastic barrels you can find.
An already made lawn roller would do the trick. But it’s not as much fun as constructing your own roller with tires. 😊
Pretty cool, all the machining and welding were impressive.
Thank you very much!
Found this channel today and loving it. Thanks!
What a good "engineer". Even keep the directional tire running in the right direction. 😂
And it's not be coincidence...I really too the time for it... 😉 It's my OCD I guess!
Subscribed. This is like red green meets this old house in the 80s.
First time at channel.
LOVED the Red Green reference! Well done.
I remember doing this as a kid with my grandfather. This is...overkill, to say the least. A pair of 55 gallon drums and a tree were most of what we needed, we just pulled it behind the tractor on a couple chains.
55 gallon drums were one of the option too! But as you saw, I went with the tires!
And in the off-season, that 400# counterweight could be used on a Trebuchet build. Perfect size for 12-16# punkin' chunkin' 😏
I have no idea why I am watching this, but I got a good laugh from "We need bearings, so welcome to the backyard of failures."
I didn't write this one to be a joke, but glad you laugh at it! 😅
Ah yes, resurrecting pioneer tech. The wooden, horse drawn snow drum for packing paths on a farm in winter
As an Aussie I'm not sure what that white stuff is on the ground but it was entertaining watching.
Winters in Maine used to be consistently cold so it was easy to make a good ice base for a gravel driveway that would last 5 months. Not any more. It’s becoming more trouble than it’s worth to use my PTO snowblower. The lack of a hard base and frequent rain and slush is too much for the thing. I’m thinking about building a blade for simple back - up snowplowing.
Nice build. Though with 40 years experience of removing snow at my farm, I'm not sure that compacting snow is the best solution. When it finally melts you will have days of ice that takes more time to melt.
Having lived in Michigan most all of my life, snow handling is a big ordeal in some locations.
Especially in Kent county, where they try and remove every speck of snow, every time it snows out, and they flood the streets with salt, enough to kill the trees along the highways, in that attempt.
Some of the other counties, where the taxes don't cover such extravagance as 24 hour snow plowing and salting the roads till the trees die, they level the snow, and put sand on it to increase traction. And the trees and animals don't suffer from salt toxicity.
Best line ever! If she doesn't find you handsome she should at least find you handy. Red a Green show. 😅
Classic! 😉
that was a great watch! Brilliant!
Before watching this video, I have biked over flattend snow a lot. It does not work lmao. The snow tries to pull control away from you at every moment
I prefer the snow to be thrown to the side
I welded up some brackets on my snowblower and on a couple of old snowmobile skis. Couple of removable pins and can change from doing the long stone portion with skis on, then take off for the asphalt in 2 minutes or less. It raises the blower up about 1 inch. Does not take up much space to store the skis and the blower never digs into the uneven stoned driveway.
Good job in your work, tack everything before welding.
Always!
Compacted snow is great. It's when that very top layer gets a chance to melt a little in the sun and then freeze into a sheet of ice that it begins to suck.
I'm thinking a cardboard sono footing tube filled full of concrete with all thread rod centered thru it could work too. A lawn seed roller or even a Fred Flintstones car wheel from a junkyard in Bedrock.
Yes sure...all of those! 🤣 But the 400lbs feels heavy at the back...So a big sono field with concrete...man that thing would have been too much for my lil Massey!
Fun build! I don't know if your tractor can handle the extra weight, but simply capping the ends & filling up the tires with sand should correct the bouncing issue some. No need to be extra careful sealing up the tires, as if a little sand leaks out it will just improve your traction a bit.
Those arms on the back of a tractor are called lift arms. And the complete assembly is typically called a 3 point hitch & linkage, AFAIK.
This video should be called, How to make a compacted ICE Driveway!
This works great when you want an ice rink for your driveway.
This also doesn't work for powdered snow. (AKA cold weather snow)
you re right, I m now the guy how has the ice rink in my neighbourhood! A group of neighbours and I starded a garage league in my driveway, you re welcome to joint too 😅
Nice! The only thing I can see possibly becoming an issue is the bounce. You may end up with a rippled surface. Solid discs instead of cross-bars would eliminate that, though. On a scale this small, it's unlikely to be an issue, though.
The two lower links on a three point hitch are called "Hitch Lifting Arms" and the top link is called the top link.
OH GREAT - now you have a perfect base for a skating rink
Was liking what I was seeing. But, the Red/Green Show reference warranted an immediate subscribe.
Hey thanks!
Ya brilliant. Until spring, when the compacted snow gets soft, and you end up stuck in your own driveway!!
Where I live this would become a nightmare come spring, even with plowing we still get half foot deep pot holes in the ice ontop of the roads when it starts to melt
That part is the dangly doo. I think it's Latin.
Love 'The Red Green Show' reference.
I deal with a dirt and sand road and made the same, only i stacked the tires 6’tall with an 8’ pipe center as a hub, and poured the cement directly in to the tires, to create weight and center the hub. No bouncing
Another first class video but fair who. I am a mechanical fitter and welder. The project is a good practical one. The instruction you provide is excellent but again who is it aimed at. Anyone who is capable of building this either owns a well equipped workshop or has access to one. The enthusiastic amateur will have neither the knowledge or resources to tackle a project such as this.
A simpler method and more elegent solution is to use a steel tube (a road water culvert) of the rim size. A plate at each end with an axle fitting welded to the plate, then the plate welded to the tube. It would not require a long axle, and the tires would not require any connections, as the tube is the axle. The amount of welding and cutting is much reduced.
One end plate needs to be fitted in a way that it can be removed to replace (or add) tires.
Tires rubbing together wear the walls.
I have seen 12 foot wide rollers in use as agricultural machines.
1:03 Maybe they had the fence there to keep people from dumping their old tires --- i.e., perhaps the fence was intended to prevent people from ADDING to the pile of old tires, not TAKING THEM AWAY.
Amazing how quick projects like this get really heavy. Sneaks up on a guy.
Looks like the algorithm worked on this one. First time viewer and i like the content. I'm happy this is one of your most popular videos.
Top link or third link ie. 3 point hitch... :D Bottom links or lower links possibly draft arms not sure about that one though
So you compact six inches of snow and it looks fine other than the hump to drive up into your drive way and down into your garage. Then you get one of many mild spells where if you drive on it you cut deep ruts into the base you have made that late freeze and trap your wheels and rip off low ground effects of you modern vehicles. When it gets mild you will need to scrap all the snow off your drive way but it never thaws evenly so you will get bumbs and valleys making your driveway uneven and a mess. Briliant summer roller for land scapping doing that final compaction when planting new grass. Good skills shown as well.
I love watching metal workers! This is a great video!
Great build ! I had guy come and buy eight tires from me to build the same implement for a sled club. Love the channel and the natural funny guy you are.
Thanks Scott....you have to pay for these..?🤔
@@VinyB57 mine were on rims he ran a large pipe through the centre bore of the rims. Seemed a bit easier, however I admire using what you have. Keep up the creativity!