You could try something like this.
I used plain old trailer shackles to get me the floatation. The holes are already the same size as the actuators.
Actuators to lift blower - floating

Good luck.
Bill

 

to attach pics with post, click on the "go advanced" button at bottom of quick reply window in center, then scroll down, there is a "manage attachments" button, click that, then click on browse and select pics, you can do this up to 4 times. click upload first! then close window. I use 320x240 resolutions. my kodak digital camera software allows me to save a pic to any preset size and I choose this one for email and posting, usually about 50-100k, large enough to see detail, but small enough to upload quickly

I want to see you pics! Look forward to it.

 

Another cheap way to lift heavy tractor parts is useing car powersteering pumps... They are little hydro-pumps with the oil tank all in one... They work great... The older ones work best...

 

thats a great idea about the power steering pumps. what kind of weight can one of those move?

 

Alright I finished the lifting portion of the plow and actuators and it turned out great!!! Here are a few pics of the lift. If you would like I also have a small video about 7 mb I can email. Just shoot me an email and I will forward it to you. Firefighter5143@insightbb.com

 

Here are a few more pics

 

If anyone is wondering the plow lifts 11" in under 3 seconds so it's pretty fast.

 

what's holding your actuator in place if the one end it attached to the chain. The directions with mine explicitly said do not mount to the cylinder?

 

On the other end of the actuator is a 1/2 hole. I drilled a 1/2" in the frame of the tractor and bolted to that using a 4" long 1/2" thick grade 8 hardened bolt. I then ut an oversized u-bolt around the cylinder and only tightened that till it was lightly snug.

So all of the pulling weight is held correctly and the u bolt keeps the thing from just swinging down when there is no weight on the actuator.

 

Deerman, Hello, I saw your pic of your anlgle for you plow but it is kind of hard to see how u mounted the actuator for the plow to move. If u have some free time would you be able to take a few closer up pics of ur plow. One with the blade angled and a few of how it is mounted?

Thanks

 

Sorry guys, I have been out of town. I will try to take some pics of the blade angle actuator this weekend. I have a new 332 and I need to take some pics of that tractor so I will have the camera out. The front blade is currenly not installed on the tractor but that should actually make it easier to see the mounting. FWIW, you only need a 4" stroke actuator. Any more than that just gets in the way. Someone mentioned the mount points, it is absolutly critical that they be parallel to each other. The ram not only moves around it's mount point but the entire actuator moves through an arc.

 

BTW, Pigsitter, I have a 212H JD with a factory sleeve hitch and frankly I never thought about installing an actuator on it. I may have to look into that idea.

 

hey deearman any luck finding extra time to take pics? thanks

 

Some garden tractors come from the factory with them already on ... This is one I found at the junkyard...

 

is that for lifting or angleing?