Building a SNOW PLOW for my Truck. Is it Cheaper Than Buying One?

hello and welcome to the channel my name is waldo and in this video we're building snowplows from scratch it is a lovely winter day and i'm really excited to have a special guest to help build some snowplows this is a rural vermonter from vermont and i'm actually going to be building a plow for this blue truck here and he's going to be building a plow for one of his vehicles yeah i have a 1998 jeep cherokee that's just sitting around my yard right now so i thought it'd be a good idea to put it to some use and make it plow my driveway at least so my blue truck here is a gmc 1500 so it's kind of a light duty truck and his jeep cherokee is even lighter duty than that so we're not building super heavy duty plows here we're gonna kind of go on the lighter end of things my plow's going to be a little bit bigger than his because well it's a slightly bigger vehicle i bought some 14 gauge steel for the blade and well a bunch of other steel to make the rest of the blade and the mounts and all that good stuff we have hydraulic cylinders hydraulic pumps and yeah tons of other hardware so we're building plows all right it's not completely from scratch but it's kind of from scratch so i have a sheet of 14 gauge over there for the blade over here we have a sheet of 3 16 plate for the ribs and then i have a bunch of miscellaneous other stuff here for the other parts of the plow like the mount and structure and stuff like that so we're going to be making the ribs of the plow first those are the things that run on the back of the plow and they sort of give the blade its shape and i'm going to be cutting it out of this 3 16 inch steel and we're going to be cutting a bunch of them i think we're probably going to cut 12 in total six for each plow that's the idea anyway and this is an example where it would be really nice to have a cnc plasma table but we don't have that so we're just going to use the plasma cutter by hand so just take a little silver streak welders pencil to trace this template out this is what we call cardboard aided design or cad it's really handy for things like this the silver of this pencil actually is pretty easy to see when you're cutting with the plasma torch obviously you maybe it's not obvious you have to wear some special shaded glasses when you're cutting with a plasma torch because the arc is very bright and so it can be difficult to see the markings that you've made if you use like a sharpie or something like that however this silver pencil does work pretty well for that and of course i broke it uh-oh we will persevere and that's so i know where to drill a hole we just have to do that like probably 11 more times [Music] do [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] waldo did his first six and i'm gonna try now i've never plasma cut before though so this is gonna be a first [Music] look at that that is beautiful i think i should have had him do all of mine several of these ribs are going to have a pivot point for a trip functionality which is basically meant for if your plow hits something like a curve or a rock or a root something really hard like that that it actually trips it's spring-loaded so that it doesn't break anything basically [Music] [Music] [Music] we got the obligatory shot of aspen helping us get work done she feels comfortable with a rural vermonter already i'm a dog whisperer [Music] very nice i'm going to let rural vermonter do the rest of these while i go work on tackling the next thing good lord wall just got some grip strength on him yeah you got to get it tight enough not this way right this way yes exactly okay [Applause] [Music] two part of the challenge of building things especially large things is figuring out how to assemble it properly and getting the components to stay in place while you attach them whether it's by welding or other means yeah really heavy-duty piece of angle iron which is going to attach to the bottom of the plow and it's going to hold on the cutting edge so the pivot point for the trip functionality of the plow is right here and i went ahead and made a piece of rod here that fits through these theoretically and that will help so when i start welding these ribs on they will be lined up enough so that i can fit a pin in here later on and they will be aligned properly throw a welding square on here try to get these to be perpendicular with the floor well i'm i'ma start by tacking this whole thing together before i fully weld it and i think i've decided that it is time for a new pair of welding gloves these have served me really well for about a year and a half now when i first used these on the channel while i was i think i was welding some like engine mounts or something like that for the common swap project i decided to pick up another pair the exact same thing because these are so awesome like once you break them in they're super flexible they're reinforced in all the right places so that they're tough and durable but they're not reinforced in the areas where you want them to be flexible so they're really awesome super comfortable well insulated and i think they're a pretty good price too so i'll put a link down in the description below i've got a lot of use out of these old gloves they're really not too bad a little bit uh ripped on one of the fingertips but um you know i built a trailer a flat bed all sorts of good stuff with them they look nice too well well they're clean anyway make sure it's parallel this way that looks pretty good [Music] yeah this piece was really just to align these surfaces temporarily [Music] this thing just drilled through a piece of 3 8 inch thick steel like nothing these mag drills are super awesome so i will put a link in the description below [Music] so these are intended to reinforce these holes here at the pivot points so that they don't get all wallowed out over time as they're subjected to the forces of plowing [Music] i'm going to line up with this pin here and then i'm going to clamp them down with some vice grips just to make sure that they don't move or warp at all as they're cooling after i weld them in place [Music] okay so up means trailer up oh yeah that should be more than enough [Music] well this is kind of where we're at with it it did not line up perfectly here there's a gap there of about maybe an inch or two if we look over here on the end you know it did a decent-ish job and there's some extra on this end over here but i'm kind of hoping that this will have put a little bit of a bend in it that will hold so that we can sort of tack it in place and then we'll figure it out from there what we do after that so yes as you can perhaps tell by this point forming the moldboard of the blade ended up being quite a challenge no that didn't work so one thing that we've found on this channel is that ratchet straps can solve just about any problem and i think this problem is no different so i'm gonna soften the corner here with this little corner pad thingy that's meant for ratchet straps probably run this ratchet strap over here and then i have this piece of pipe here which runs all the way across to the other side which i will use the ratchet strap to pull up and it will bend the piece of steel into place hopefully oh yeah it's getting real hard to do yeah i've decided that we really need some bigger straps [Music] okay i'm a little surprised at how much force it's taking to bend this sheet of steel into place wow that requires so much force we still have like a couple inches to go too yeah there are safety glasses yeah safety glasses would be a good idea do [Music] yeah so we're using three jacks to hold this piece of sheet metal into place and then i'm gonna tack it here in the middle of the plow at the middle ribs to hold it in place and we'll sort of just let the edges fall into line and we'll tack those into place later [Music] well here it is and look at that it looks like a plow pretty neat take a look around the back here get the exposure set properly yeah you can see you know i got it tacked in for the most part it's not fully welded yet but we'll do that later so yeah looking pretty good [Music] and with the cutting edge installed it's looking pretty good all right so apparently a rural vermonter can ride a unicycle now because he saw mine in my basement and so he told me that i have not ridden this in a long time and i was never really that good at it but i'm gonna have a little bit of a go and i'm gonna cheat by using this railing here to get up on it because it's really tricky i'm also wearing work clothes and work boots in particular do not make this easy sounds like an excuse to me yeah on the ground there he goes the ground is really unlevel here very good the trick to not hurting yourself is when you know when you know you're gonna fall just jump right off and you'll be fine anyway it's your turn all right this is his first attempt this is technically one of the practice ones where i'm not supposed to be filming yeah this might not go well guys it's just it's been a couple of years all right we got it it's like riding a bike look at him go and no it is icy over there and it's bumpy like that's really tricky what he's doing all right let's see if i can do backwards still i don't think so it's going to be uphill oh all right guys i'll try backward one more time though give him a round of applause for that you have to cut that bit out [Music] all right we got a little bit of an assembly line thing going on here so i'm mag drilling these little brackets here made these with some cardboard aided designs and then after that i'm bringing it over to the chop saw where i chop them down to size and then we got a rural vermonter over here who is plasma cutting them into their final shape [Applause] [Applause] [Music] well we got real busy and we made all of these which are mounts for the pivot points i guess snow plows have a lot of pivot points this isn't even all of the ones that we need we need quite a bit more than this so these will make the pivots for the trip functionality of the plow and the idea is that this basically goes on here all right so it goes something like this so i figure we weld this up while these are installed just to make sure that all the pins and stuff are lined up oh no that was garbage i'm like an eighth of an inch off there look at this i've never even used this grinder before and you can tell because it still has a grinder guard on it i got it for 50 bucks at tractor supply brand new this was their display model i think [Applause] well that thing's got some power to it although it's kind of hard to make it look pretty it's time to mount the attachment points for the tilt hydraulic cylinders on here but i think i'm going to remove this piece first and get it on the ground where it'll be a little bit easier a little pin i can use for alignment here welding [Music] yeah so this will make the pivot point so that the plow can rotate in either direction clamp this bad boy adjust for the warping that just occurred look at that it fits nicely pretty nicely i love that that's good excellent and then this is going to go right about here to finish off this clevis type thing all right i got the welder turned all the way up since we're welding 3 8 plate to 3 8 plate so we get it on 240 for this take a moment to enjoy this really cool shot if you've never welded before this is basically a really detailed view of what you see when you're welding with a welding helmet on well this is where we're at so far we've got this assembly pretty much all welded up we've got the rotating assembly here the hydraulic cylinders and all that so the plow can rotate and so up next i have a bunch of other stuff to install on the plow so i have these trip springs and hardware that need to go on uh inside of this packaging i have some plow shoes that will help because i have a gravel driveway that'll help it so that the plow edge doesn't dig into the gravel too much and i also have some orange sight marker rods here which will go on the corners of the plow and i think that'll be kind of a nice touch i figure i'll get these markers installed on here first because these will look pretty cool and it's easy to do well it holds itself on there [Applause] [Applause] [Music] all right so these trip springs are going to go right about here like this and the purpose of this is to keep the plow in its normal position because there it does pivot here and it also allows the plow to trip and tilt forwards if i hit something like a rock and i have plenty of rocks in my driveways so i fabricated this thing and that's where the lower part of the trip spring is going to connect to down here [Music] so this right here is going to be the stop that prevents the plow from tilting back any more than this which is going to be its normal position i cut a piece of wood here to be 7 8 of an inch which is just the right size for the rubber pad that's going to be in here which hasn't come in yet but it will be in later this week [Applause] [Applause] [Music] so now to tension this spring here um i think i'm supposed to tension it until i can fit a uh like a piece of paper or something in between these coils so it doesn't have to be tightened that much i can see a gap down here some of these ones in the bottom ones in the top and the middle still no gap well i think i'll call that good the package came with two nuts and a lock washer so i assume they want the lock washer in between the two which will uh help lock these together and yeah the tension of this is something that i can adjust after i try plowing with it we'll see if it trips too easily or if it takes too much force to trip and then i can adjust it as necessary all right so these plow shoes come with all of these washers and this spacer down here and that lets me adjust it so that i can get the right height i went ahead and cut up a piece of pipe here this is probably like one inch schedule 40 that fits pretty well over that and i'll weld this to the actual plow so i can basically just kind of stick this over here pretty close to the edge now if i lift the plow up i should be able to get this thing out of here and then i can finish welding it up all right so i got some gussets welded in there and then over here i also got some lower stops welded in for the trip functionality all right so now it is time to start working on the truck mount side of things so i am going to be loosely basing my truck mounts on the fischer minute mount 2 design because i found diagrams and instructions or at least mounting instructions for that and the first thing i need to start with is removing the bumper for this truck and also the grille in order to remove the bumper so let's get to that [Music] do [Music] so these tow hooks have to come off because the plow mounts are going to use the mounting holes for these [Music] all right well i have to drill some holes in the frame here to get this thing mounted so i welded this piece of rod on here basically as a handle because i have to get this bolt way down the frame rail and into that hole [Music] so one of the most important attachment points is right here in the middle and you can see how thin the frame is here on a half ton truck it's only about an eighth of an inch thick and the fear here is that if i stick this bolt in here it could just rip the frame apart if a lot of force is exerted on this so what i did was i made what is essentially a big fat washer here out of some 3 16 plate this will be able to go right in here the bolt will go through it and it'll distribute the force among this whole large area of the frame which will significantly reduce the chance of breaking the frame with these brackets done i can now take measurements here and then go back and work on the frame of the plow that connects to these inside where it's warm and i'm getting just about 30 inches on center so i have decided it is time to start putting a coat of paint on the blade itself because i want the paint to have plenty of time to dry before i actually use it so that it has cured enough and hopefully it will be durable when i do use it i'm starting out with a self-etching primer and then i'm going to follow that with a top coat of alice chalmers persian orange number one which i hope is a really nice shade of orange but i guess i won't really know for sure until i get it on this primer is meant to be sprayed on not brushed so it's gonna be interesting it's a little bit on the thin side that's for sure but we're going to make it happen the reason why i can't spray it on is frankly because i don't have a paint booth and it's way too cold outside to be spraying paint right now and i can't spray paint indoors like that would be kind of ridiculous wouldn't it [Music] do [Music] [Music] yeah so check it out two coats of paint on it and it looks pretty good so i decided to throw the bumper back on here just to see how these mounts fit in relation to it now these ends here these stick out way longer than they need to so i'm going to cut these back pretty much all the way back here and with this i can basically visualize that i need to come down about i don't know four or five inches from here to clear the bumper um i might end up doing a little bit of trimming in here just so i don't have to come down too far and then i also was able to figure out basically like how far forward i need to come and figure out all the dimensions there so that the main plow frame misses the front of the bumper all right so i'm working on the quick attach bit for the mount and this right here is the mount on the pickup truck side of it and then this is going to be the plow side of the mount and so when i basically go to mount it i drive the truck into this and then this thing is guided by these right into the hole and then this pin goes in here this pin goes in here well it's a little bit uh it's a little bit tight but this pin goes in here and uh secures all these together and another thing to note is the plate on the bottom here is going to lock into this thing right here i will weld another piece of flat bar something like that underneath this that'll keep that locked in there so there basically will be two points where this will be secured in place so that it should be nice and tight so now i just gotta weld this thing together [Music] so on the other side of this this is a the truck side of the mount i have this plate right here which is going to go here and it's going to guide this plate into place with this little ramp thing i'm looking to bend a 30 degree angle here which is about like that that's only 20 degrees little more to go 30.1 excellent [Music] hydraulic pump should fit right in here so i'm a little bit worried that i might have mounted the pump just a little bit too far to the back the grille of the truck is going to be right around here and i'm not sure exactly how much clearance i have until i actually mount this thing to the truck so i can measure it so i think it's time to do that so that i know if i need to move this or if i can leave it where it is so this is going to go on here something like this [Music] [Applause] i should be able to lower this thing now and it should hold itself there so i need about four and a half inches here and i have six and a half so that is pretty good i think we'll leave the hydraulic power unit where it is all right all right should just pull right out now nice and easy oh yeah [Applause] oh no the pin doesn't come out oh boy i should have thought of that yeah so i really messed up with this thing but i was able to fix it by cutting off some of the end here at an angle so that i could pull it out and i also cut the end of this off to shorten it and drill the new hole so now everything's good nice all right so now i need to make a little clevis for the bottom pin here of the cylinder and i want it to be right about in line with this pipe how's that for some cardboard-aided design i think this is where i want to position this cylinder or at least the lower clevis this should make it so that when the cylinder is at half of its stroke this top triangular piece here should be level [Music] oh it's time to attach the plow blade half of the frame to the truck half of the frame and that's gonna happen right about here with this piece now i went ahead and fabricated a piece of three inch c channel that rotates like this there's a one inch bolt here which acts as a pivot point and this is going to allow the plow to sort of do this just a little bit so that it can conform to the ground the thing is it needs to be limited so i have this right here and there's going to be another one for the other side i'll weld this on right about here and that should give me about six degrees of rotation which i think should give me about 10 inches of movement at the very end of the plow and i've estimated that that's probably about the right amount let's see if i ended up with the six degrees that i was hoping for so we'll zero this and now getting 6.3 degrees which is close enough it doesn't have to be perfect just gotta be close enough [Music] [Music] would you just take a look at this that is fantastic looking i mean it's not quite done yet we still need some paint on the truck side of the frame and it still needs some headlights and i got to install the hydraulic pump along with all the hoses so still quite a bit of work to do but dang it's looking good well let's jack this thing up a little bit and test out some of its functionality so we got yeah it moves nicely that's its ability to contour to the ground i mean i guess most of the time the ground is going to be level with the truck but you know it'll vary a little bit and that's yeah that looks pretty good and then we got some angle man that looks like that's a pretty good angle right there it doesn't like hit the truck or anything like that very cool well i just found an issue something in here is uh touching and it causes that when you know what if i because it's at a bit of an angle if i do this you know what if i lift this end it'll probably fix itself yeah yep uh good thing my feet weren't under there well all right that's an easy fix there's just i gotta grind a little bit off of the corner in there that's the uh the stops for the uh tilting motion there yeah overall i gotta say this is pretty awesome so far this is weird i don't usually want it to snow but i'm actually hoping for a snowstorm just one more snowstorm this year so that i can try this out what do you think i think that's probably about right ah yeah so i got these lights on the internet and they are replacement lights for some brand of commercially available plow that i don't really remember at this point it might have been like a mire or a western or something like that but in any case yeah they were available on the internet for a reasonable price so the next step i'm going to take all of this apart i'm going to make some changes in here that we're preventing it from moving its full range of motion and then i'm going to slap some paint on the frame part of this then i can reassemble it and then hope for a little bit of snow because i really want to actually demonstrate the use of this in this video so it has been several days or actually probably more than a week since i filmed that last clip and we are forecasted to get a pretty decent sized snowstorm tomorrow they're forecasting 8 to 14 inches of snow which is more than enough to try this plow out so if you take a look at the plow you can see i managed to slap some paint on it i got all of the frame pieces painted black so those are looking pretty good of course i forgot to install the bumper on the truck when i assembled all of this so i'm gonna have to disassemble it throw the bumper back on and then hook it back up again but that'll be pretty cool because i'll be able to try out the sort of quick disconnect feature on it on camera so that we can all see how it works so now what i need to do next is i need to hook up the hydraulics i need to hook up the power and the controls for the pump itself we can try to bleed the hydraulic system hopefully that's not too difficult to do and then try it out and see if this thing is going to work i topped off this battery last night to make sure we'll be okay and it says 100 12.9 volts good i just picked this battery cable up at tractor supply and i figure it probably should be long enough to get over here so there's a ground point right here but unfortunately this cable is just a few inches too short to reach it that's as far as it'll reach so what i'm thinking is i'm just going to drill and tap the frame right here it does reach that just fine a little bit of oil for lubrication so it's time to start installing the hydraulic hoses but i have to start by installing these fittings on the cylinders because i have to convert it from this pipe thread to a 37 degree jic which is what the hoses are and we're gonna throw some teflon tape on here just to be safe i think this is actually i'm not certain but i think this might be a fuel nptf which is self-sealing but i also think i remember reading that uh after the first time you tighten it and loosen it you may need teflon tape and so i'm going to just do the safe thing and put some teflon tape on here from the start so pull this plug out of here hopefully it doesn't make a mess there's probably some hydraulic fluid in the cylinder oh look it says made in china i assure you we only use the finest stuff on our equipment around here i wonder what the torque spec is on this click click so the hydraulic power unit uses these o-ring boss connections here this one right here is for the lift cylinder which is the one i'm working on at the moment i like o-ring boss a lot better than pipe thread that o-ring seal means you don't actually have to tighten it that much click click so i've got all of the lines connected so it's now time to fill the hydraulic reservoir pull this cap off oh it even has a nifty little dipstick here to tell me if the level's good and yeah i'm gonna fill it up with some valvoline this is the max life full synthetic atf atf generally works pretty well in hydraulic applications with colder ambient temperatures and obviously being a snow plow it'll be around freezing so this is the control unit and it plugs into this connector over here i'll run this into the cab later but for now i'll just have it out here so yeah we'll give this thing a try i mean the battery's hooked up there's hydraulic fluid in it all the hydraulics are hooked up so this should work now i don't know which way this is supposed to be mounted it's got a bunch of arrows on it which one is up which one's down which one's left which one's right i have no idea but we're going to figure that out is this up it's not working i can hear clicking all right so i have an electrical schematic showing how this thing is supposed to work so these right here are the switches that are on that orange controller down here we have the hydraulic control valves we have the motor there the battery there and then this right here is the start coil for the motor so the up the in and the out buttons all have these little diodes here which connect to the blue wire so they send power over the blue wire when you press those switches which energizes the start coil that's on that solenoid that's what closes this switch right here and powers the motor so i guess the first place to look for a problem is to check this blue wire here to see if that's being powered all right can you see the problem yet this right here is the blue wire and that's where i attached my ground cable here because i'm a dummy and well i don't actually see any other obvious place to hook up the ground so i think i'm going to use one of these little mounting screws probably the one on the bottom here that mounts the solenoid to the motor itself and uh you know that'll ground the case of this which is probably going to work all right i got this thing grounded to the case so let's give it another try hey hey look at that sweet it's really sweet look at that it lifts up really high actually i was a little bit worried about it lifting up high enough but that's that's plenty more than i need actually rotates nicely cool okay so that's gravity brings it down it drops down quickly that's which is good because when you're plowing you want it to slam down so you can get going you don't have to wait for it for too long so that's cool it raises quickly this is pretty awesome all right and then tilting okay i think i got the uh cylinders backwards but no worries that is fantastic i mean you can see it tilting which it's supposed to do because of that ability that i built into it so that it would conform to the ground this is like really awesome it's it's working that's awesome that is really awesome all right let's bring on the snowstorm all right so to disconnect the plow so that i can install the bumper here or say at the end of winter when i don't need it attached anymore basically what i'm going to have to do until i figure out a better solution is i need to support this somehow and i'm going to do it with a floor jack for the time being a lot of these plows have like a built-in stand thing that's sort of collapsible that you can when you get the plow down on the ground you can lower the stand and it'll support it in this position but you know mine doesn't have that right now just gonna support it like that nice so with both of those pins removed plus the battery cables disconnected and the control cable disconnected now i can just drive out and it should just kind of come apart on its own [Music] oh well that's a little bit embarrassing perhaps i should have known that it would do that but uh all right so there's some kinks to work out here yeah i think when i put it in park it rolls back just a little bit so it's out of alignment oh a mouse oh yeah that really wasn't too bad getting this thing hooked up once i build some sort of a stand for the truck side of the frame for it to kind of hold it in place and prevent it from falling forward i think it'll be quite a bit easier all right well here we are it is the next day it's still snowing out a little bit although it should be wrapping up pretty soon it looks like we got i would say a little less than a foot which is good but it's definitely within the range that they were predicting so it's time for me to get this thing cleaned off and started and we'll start plowing [Music] all right it's still snowing out there quite a bit so make sure this thing still works raises up lowers nice i want to start off with a slight tilt in that direction all right we've got it in four wheel drive let's back up a little bit do a little bit of a head start i need a place to mount this thing go ahead and drop the blade all right let's go boys is it working it feels like it's working get close to my car over here you know what we could use a little i'm gonna stop here it's a little awkward i could use a little more angle there we go there's a big rock over here in the driveway that sticks out so this might trip actually it looks like it didn't now where do i put this now this is literally my first time plowing so you'll have to bear with me here see out into the street here i can't see i don't know what's coming [Music] okay well oh let's lift the plow now there we go i mean it kind of looks like it worked i left a bunch of snow in the road so i should probably move that straighten out the blade a little bit here it's really straight get a boat like that lower it uh the snow was you know what the blade wasn't lowered all the way some of you guys have done this before and you're probably looking at me like what an idiot it's a little bit of a learning curve to it i would say [Music] [Music] wow [Music] oh are you all right [Music] [Music] well i would say that went fairly well the driveway is plowed as you can see it was a little bit clumsy at time because i've never done this before and it's tricky to do especially when you're also thinking about filming and where do i put all my cameras and all that stuff so a little bit of a learning curve there also there were no gopros harmed in the making of this video i don't think so that's also a plus now it's already pretty much the end of february so we're hopefully done with major snowstorms for the rest of the year or at least for this winter but i am in good shape for next winter and i'd probably just have to rearrange my driveway and the way things are placed because it's a little bit awkward the shape of it and where the vehicles are parked so that uh it's just hard to find places to push the snow so once i improve that i think i will be in really good shape for next year all right so there are a couple things i want to talk about and those are the cost of the plow and do i recommend building one for yourself so the cost of it ended up being a little over two thousand dollars now that included everything that i had to do and the biggest expense was the hydraulic power unit which i think came in at over seven hundred dollars although the hydraulic power unit was set up specifically for a snow plow so that means that it had the right hydraulic control valves for a snowplow for the three single acting cylinders and it also came with that orange controller which is also specifically meant for a snowplow now do i recommend building one for yourself well to be honest not really unless you really want to build one if you're gonna get some enjoyment out of it because in my area you can buy a used snow plow in i think working condition for probably around a thousand dollars now that probably won't come with the mounts for your vehicle that you'll need so you'll need to buy some mounts you may need to get it installed you might need wiring harnesses stuff like that so you might end up spending pretty close to what it cost me to buy the materials for this but it took a long time for me to build this plow it was way more work than i expected so don't expect to save any money by building one of these if you do it you're just doing it for the fun of it another word on mounts so i was looking at fisher mounts for a minute mount two system for this truck and the only ones that i could find were used mounts on ebay they were all rusty and they didn't come with hardware and you know how much they cost 700 which is just unbelievable to me i was able to build the mounts myself and it was a little bit of work but it cost me far less than 700 dollars in materials like less than a hundred dollars in materials so if you do want to build something and maybe you want to save some money maybe that's what you should do buy a used plow for a thousand dollars and if it doesn't come with mounts try making your own mounts so up next i am back on brandon this truck's green cousin with a duramax and i'm going to be working on the aluminum flatbed for that so thank you so much for watching and we will see you in the next one you

Channel: Waldo's World

Views: 563,942

Keywords: welding, DIY, snow plow, fabricating, trucks

Id: EnI8FCfe2DY

Length: 65min 11sec (3911 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 26 2022