Today I finished my "poor man's" snow plow. I know there are a lot of threads on here about plowing, and I know we all wish we could have a snow plow for 4-5 months out of the year. We all know they can be expensive some topping out at $6,500! After searching craigslist and finding nothing but old beat up plows with holes and bad pumps for $2,000 I decided to make one that was cheap, required no mounting hardware, and no extensive electrical wiring! HOW? You ask? Hitch N' Plow!

This adapter ($174 shipped) allows you to attach any Cat 1. Three point hitch to any vehicle with a 2" reciever. As long as the implement (scraper) weighs less than 500lbs.

I got the winch from Harbor Freight and was on sale for $49.99. The blade I got from the local junk yard for $110.. So.. for a whooping $335 I have a 8' plow!

If you get past the fact of how hillbilly or redneck it looks, it's actually a pretty cool deal for your own drive and maybe the neighbors. I think my winch is a little on the weak side for the blade I found.. but I wanted an 8' clearing path. Installation is a breeze with just one 12volt source and a ground wire to the winch. The winch is wireless! So no running wires to the cab for a hand controller. If the winch I have now craps out.. I'll get a bigger winch and swap over the wireless control box to the new winch (2 wires) and my new winch will then be wireless!

anyways.. no snow here yet.. but I got it all hooked up (5 min.) and the thing works pretty well. here are some pictures! Let me know what you think! I know I'm not going to be doing any major plowing with it.. but it beats the hell out of the shovel and the crappy lawn mower plows that cost like $350!

I also am working on a back up light that plugs into the RV slot and illuminates the blade when backingup..

 

Nice setup! Where in Ohio are you located? I saw your location said buckeye state

 

You know where the cap meets the bed put some lights there?

 

wtf...ive never seen anythinglike that...Props, that looks real good

 

pretty cool. is that thing even side to side or is it at a bit of an angle so it will push the snow out to the side?

you know, a good spot for a light would be inside the camper shell on the roof in the back corner. something like a tractor light or a single fog light. and if you get glare from the hatch then you could just flip it open when you're plowing.

 

A little town call New London 44851.. It's about the middle of the state and about 45 minutes south of lake erie... between Norwalk and Ashland. Where you from?

 

I've made a "light stand" to be welded (or bolted) to the actuall blade... It is about 3 ft tall 1" square tubing.. I have 2 lights pointing to each side of the blade.. and a 55watt flood light pointing backward.. pretty much 3-55 watt lights.. plus the 2 55watt lights I already have... do you think the 3-55 watt lights will be too muuch for my RV plug to handle? I have it set up to turn on when the truck is put into "R" that's like 165 watts off of the one plug...

the blade can angle side to side.. and even spin backwards to push snow

 

well that should work too. what size is the hot wire you're going to connect it to? and what is that wire connected to? if it were me, i'd connect a relay to the wire you want to use for power and run a 14 gauge wire from the battery to the relay then on to the lights.

 

right now I have it plugged into the trailer plug.. I have the tow package with the 7 prong RV.. I'm not sure how much juice is running through that wire.. I was thinking about taking the reverse bulbs out of my tail lights to direct more power to the aux lights I noticed that they dim when I plug my light stand into the RV plug.. doesn't dim much.. but you can notice it if you look closey

 

St. Clairsville 43950, It's about 15 minutes from Wheeling, WV. I go to school at Ohio State so i live in Columbus now. Go bucks!