Farmall 140 front blade thoughts

[Farmall 656]

I am considering finding a front blade for my Farmall 140 with fast hitch. What experience have you had with them, good or bad? What are the weaknesses of the IH front blades? My plan would be to plow a little snow in the winter and work over the gravel driveway in the spring/summer. What lengths did these blades come with, 60"-72"? I understand these blades IH made for the 140 also could be mounted as a belly blade. How easy/hard are these blades to find to buy?

 

[grandpa Love]

I am considering finding a front blade for my Farmall 140 with fast hitch. What experience have you had with them, good or bad? What are the weaknesses of the IH front blades? My plan would be to plow a little snow in the winter and work over the gravel driveway in the spring/summer. What lengths did these blades come with, 60"-72"? I understand these blades IH made for the 140 also could be mounted as a belly blade. How easy/hard are these blades to find to buy?

Almost impossible to find in the south east. But they work great, considering the size of the tractor. If you buy one with all the mounting hardware and brackets you can mount it as a push blade or belly blade.Probably a few YouTube videos of them in action. I know lots of folks use a cub to push snow,a 140 would be better.

 

[wh]

Rarer than hens teeth in the south. Like everything else for the super a/ 140 series —- takes a minute to mount/dismount it. They would not be all that hard to fab one to fit. As far as the mid mount blade I have seen several that simply mounted a blade to cultivator feet.

 

[Wdj]

They work pretty good within their limitations. If your day job is running a D6 you'll need to adjust your technique. With patience you can do quite a bit. Front blade does interfere with using a crank. I just used a cut serpentine belt as rope start on the belt pulley.

 

[Pete7]

I am considering finding a front blade for my Farmall 140 with fast hitch. What experience have you had with them, good or bad? What are the weaknesses of the IH front blades? My plan would be to plow a little snow in the winter and work over the gravel driveway in the spring/summer. What lengths did these blades come with, 60"-72"? I understand these blades IH made for the 140 also could be mounted as a belly blade. How easy/hard are these blades to find to buy?

I’ve used a front mount plow on my Super A for over 25 years on my gravel driveway. I get about 10 ft of snow over the winter so it gets used a lot. Blade is 60” with the “extension “ which makes it higher ( not longer). Blade was factory made to manually pivot left/right but that is a pain so I added a hydraulic cylinder to save getting off the tractor to change the pivot position. I needed chains but part of my driveway is on a good incline. I see them for sale on Marketplace and Craig’s list around here ( western NY).

 

[AlinMO]

For leveling a driveway or grading you want to belly mount blade.

 

[47fivewindow]

Buy one you'll love it. The main weakness is the time of mounting and removing. If you come across a rear mount fast hitch blade that might be a good idea, lots of snow get moved by them too.

 

[47fivewindow]

one of these might be useful

 

[wh]

One point blade would be like a unicorn around here. Person could buy a light weight blade and add a one point or you could use the blade and build a front match to attach blade to tractor. Mount 1/2 inch flat piece on each side of bell housing where cultivator framing fits. Go down so far and weld a 6 in piece of thick wall 2 1/2 in pipe. Slide a heavy wall 2 pipe thru these. In center of this weld two arms going forward to blade. Weld 1/2 plate to fear of blade with 3/4 in hole. Match a plate to arms to bolt to blade. On the forward arms fab an arm from lift arms for cultivators to the arms going forward. I would use 1 inch rod with 90 degree turn on bottom. Weld tab to forward arms and hang rod to this. If I wanted it to angle I would use 2 1/2 tubing going nearly to blade the insert 2 in tubing into that. Drill holes every 3 inches or so and you have angle function.

 

[560Dennis]

I don’t think they(140) have enough ballast on the front end or total ballast for front blades. Front end skew of course to the path of least resistance.
Some Guys with no experience get frustrated and start to ramming it thinking thats going move it, they snap the weakest point on a little wore out sixty five year old tractor. Go ahead with your plans ,but I think you’ll be very disappointed after you find out how little work your 140 can do.
Get something heavy duty like A Ihc T340 minimum. Or John Deere equivalent for example.
Or rent a unit to see what you need .

 

[wh]

Had a homemade blade on a super a here at one time. They are not a d6 cat but in loose dirt or snow they would be fine. Not going to clear airport runways but a driveway and small snows would work.

 

[Wdj]

If your other option is a shovel you'll love it.

 

[wh]

First front loader we had was an IH 1000 for the super a/140 series. Was a bear to put on and off but beat using a scoop to move saw dust in and out of the sweet potato plant beds. Finally got newer tractors and got a loader for the Massey 175. Wish I still had the I h loader for giggles (it would stay on tractor now).

 

[grandpa Love]

I don’t think they(140) have enough ballast on the front end or total ballast for front blades. Front end skew of course to the path of least resistance.
Some Guys with no experience get frustrated and start to ramming it thinking thats going move it, they snap the weakest point on a little wore out sixty five year old tractor. Go ahead with your plans ,but I think you’ll be very disappointed after you find out how little work your 140 can do.
Get something heavy duty like A Ihc T340 minimum. Or John Deere equivalent for example.
Or rent a unit to see what you need .

I really don't think he will be disappointed .....my goodness don't be such downer. There are thousands of super A and 140 working every day with no disappointment .

 

[Jim in NC]

My grandpa had one for his Super A. I helped him attach and remove it many times. It worked great. He cleared pathways about the farm as well as his and neighbors' driveways. We would put it on the tractor before the snowy winter weather began and remove it when spring was in the air.

 

[Wdj]

I don’t think they(140) have enough ballast on the front end or total ballast for front blades. Front end skew of course to the path of least resistance.
Some Guys with no experience get frustrated and start to ramming it thinking thats going move it, they snap the weakest point on a little wore out sixty five year old tractor. Go ahead with your plans ,but I think you’ll be very disappointed after you find out how little work your 140 can do.
Get something heavy duty like A Ihc T340 minimum. Or John Deere equivalent for example.
Or rent a unit to see what you need .

I'm a bit hesitant to chime in on snow work as we don't get much where I live. Once in awhile we do get a dump of snow deep enough to have to plow , often wet and heavy. I found that the Super A , front blade and chains does better than the MF 165, loader , box scraper, rear wheel weights and loaded tires, no chains. Especially when backing up.

 

[formerly ny bill]

I used my 100 (older version of 140) front blade for several years to successfully push silage up closer to the cows in the feed bunk. I doubt that fresh fallen snow would be much heavier. Only picture of the blade I have is when I got it home. Also had a 1pt York rake with it. The blade wasn't much wider than 4'.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

The blade is called the A-60, 60 indicating the 60" width of the blade. C-72 is a 72" blade that fits the Super C. Like others have said, rare and hard to find.

As always, if you're willing to travel any distance and/or pay any price, you could have one tomorrow, but finding one reasonably priced within driving distance can be a tall order.

 

[C. Amick]

Farmall 140

International 140 with mid mount scraper blade, 6 volt, runs and drives great , we used it for scrapping snow and has really good tires

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This 140 has a belly blade, but I don't know if it also be mounted up front.

 

[DaveBN]

If you have all the parts the blade can be mounted either under the tractor as a grader or out front as a dozer blade. Their is an extension that bolts to the blade if it's used as a snow dozer. I believe the attachment parts differ if you have a fast hitch.
Dave