Farmall 450 sidewalk snowplowing - video

Bob M · Feb 13, 2015

Here's a short video of my son plowing city sidewalks with the 450 after our most recent "snow event".
Sidewalk snowplow

Red Dave · Feb 13, 2015

Good video Bob, Thanks for posting it.

Why does the plow have that "prong" sticking out the front? I've never seen a plow with something like that on it.

Dblair · Feb 13, 2015

it looks to be for the plow to jump up onto the curb

Bob M · Feb 13, 2015

Dave - That prong is to guide the plow up over curbs, misaligned sidewalk slabs, etc. All the sidewalk plows have 'em.

Also - there's a backward facing "shark fin" hook welded on top of the prong to attach a tow chain when required.

sd pete · Feb 13, 2015

That is new to me. Interesting!

Mark-Mi · Feb 13, 2015

Your son must be a good brake dancer.

Our town has to have a new John Deere compact 4x4 to get that job done.

steve_in_mo · Feb 14, 2015

That one has had the governor turned up a little bit.

rustyfarmall · Feb 14, 2015

I like it! Just judging from the "whine" it made when backing up, I'd guess the tranny is beginning to show its age.

rankrank1 · Feb 14, 2015

Awesome video!

I see you really have the rear wheels of the tractor narrowed up. How wide is it outside of tire to outside of tire?

I truly love the custom muffler design. No irrating flapper to rattle around and bang (I hate that sound). Plus the height savings it provides is likely nice too in low barns, low garage doors, low tree limbs etc. I have modded all my mufflers to just barely go through my one low barn door, but I still may steal your design. Do you have any close up pics of the muffler?

thanks for posting

Bob M · Feb 14, 2015

Thanks!

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I believe the tractors are 54" - 56" wide outside the rear tires.

There's minor variation of the exhaust arrangement on the plow tractors. These two are fairly typical:

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