Wooden Snow Plower

I am a hobbyist with meduim CAD exprience with advance electronics background - I joined V1 Engineering for the opportunity I got to build their CNC machine from LR2 now LR4 to express my ideas and they deserve all the credit for my creation.

I had to build this because I got into trouble with my wife on spending too much on my FPV drone so during winter I use my FPV gear to plow the driveway sitting in my living room

Happy wife happy life Happy CNC ing

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Curious what you mean by that.

Super cool snowplow! I like the use of the wheelbarrow wheels. What motors are you using and what battery and control board are you using to run it?

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I think they typo’d deserve into desire.
What a cool project.

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edited thanks my friend

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Very very cool project. I like that you even included amber hazard lights just like a real plow would have.

Any more pictures or details? How did you connect the motors to the wheels, is it 2 or 4 or 6wd?

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This is incredibly brilliant. :smiley:

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I had the same question. Based on the second video, my guess is the front two wheels are driven and they rest are not. But it may just be the balance of weight. Skid steer is difficult to model.

I’m also curious how deep of snow it can handle, and if the strategy worked with the wife.

If we never hear back, I guess the wife didn’t approve. :grin:

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Hope we do hear back from @spinorose, he has a great video walking through parts used for his chain+sprocket 6 AWD setup driven by 2 wheel chair motors :flexed_biceps:

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Where do I submit my order?

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Heck no! We helped you make a tool, you dreamed up and brought your ideas to life all by yourself.


This whole CNC thing really started for me when I won a bearing design competition. My closest competitor was an RC snowplow just like this. The memories your pictures stirred up are amazing. How I felt about all this then compared to now…wow, what a rush. Thank you so much for sharing. Another cool fact is the HackSmith won the competition the year before I did.

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