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Old 01-20-2019, 11:30 PM
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My lift arm build,,,









I never bent this lift rod!! and,, it is adjustable,,
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Old 01-20-2019, 11:35 PM
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I never bent this lift rod!! and,, it is adjustable,,
Again, different application. 450/451/551 lifts when the rod goes forward. It's pushing a noodle uphill vs. pulling it.

But that does look gucci.
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Old 01-21-2019, 12:09 AM
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Again, different application. 450/451/551 lifts when the rod goes forward. It's pushing a noodle uphill vs. pulling it.

But that does look gucci.
Yea,, this rod, could hold the weight of an entire Cub Cadet garden tractor,, if you could balance the GT on the rod,,,

so, tension, compression, no concern the rod is built heavy enough,,, I guess the rod could double as a crow bar,,,
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Yea,, this rod, could hold the weight of an entire Cub Cadet garden tractor,, if you could balance the GT on the rod,,,

so, tension, compression, no concern the rod is built heavy enough,,, I guess the rod could double as a crow bar,,,
I dunno. I don't think that design would do any better of a job than the stock lift rod on a 450/451/551.

For that long of a rod, it really should be in tension vs compression, IMO.
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Again, different application. 450/451/551 lifts when the rod goes forward. It's pushing a noodle uphill vs. pulling it.

But that does look gucci.
Nice work!
reminds me of the time I was dragging a heavy rigging chain @ work.
Boss asked, why are you dragging that chain?
I said, "it's plum too heavy to carry, and pushing it didn't work out well"
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Old 01-23-2019, 11:14 PM
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Nice work!
reminds me of the time I was dragging a heavy rigging chain @ work.
Boss asked, why are you dragging that chain?
I said, "it's plum too heavy to carry, and pushing it didn't work out well"
that’s awesome!
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Old 01-23-2019, 11:18 PM
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weld a piece of angle iron onto the side of it to reinforce it
I like that idea. I might give it a try. I will have to straighten the rod out again which might further weaken the bar, but it’s worth a shot. And if it fails again I could always do that on the replacement. The factory bend did not withstand the weight of pushing when the blower was all jammed up with slushy wet snow. It was really my fault, but my plow tractor is out of commission and I had to get the driveway cleaned before the arctic freeze came in. That’s the first snow I’ve had trouble moving with the 551, but understandably so considering how wet the snow was.
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Old 01-26-2019, 04:52 PM
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Here’s what I did. I straightened the bar again, and I used the angle iron idea. I hope the bending and straightening twice didn’t weaken it too much.

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Can you use the helper spring for the 450-51 style I had one and helped get it past center
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