Toy Snow Plow

[kshultz]

Does anyone make a good toy snow plow that will stand up to kids and real snow?
My 6 year old is mad as a hornet because he keeps breaking his plastic snow plow truck.
Just wondering if there was a good steel one out there. (I can hear him outside balling as I type)

Thanks.
Kent

 

[mhomrighausen]

The best that I can find is this.... INLAND TRACTALL PICTURES. Then if you have a regular pedal tractor rig up something similar only use a piece of wood for the front blade. As a kid we had the TRACTALL Model C with a different front blade. Sadly it went to scrap after I left the farm.

 

[mhomrighausen]

Or can you rig him up something like this. IH 544 Ertl tractor with loader. I have the tractor and loader separately. I should sell the critters only just don't get around to it ever.

 

[sblunier]

The Bruder stuff seems to hold up to kid use well.....my nephew hasn't broken his yet, and he's tough on stuff.

 

[kshultz]

Thanks for the input guys.
He has a Bruder trash truck I think. He got it for Christmas and he already has the doors torn off.

I just hope he won't be this rough on our Cub Cadets.

 

[akleyla]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/tPg1ZMiC9pA

 

[dschwandt]

Do Ya suppose it has on board sonar to detect curb boxes etc??

What with my luck, it would hit one, turn over and leak all the battery acid out of it, I'd then have the EPA on my case as well as the water dept to fix a water leak!!

 

[dlbarnett]

Wheres the seat?

 

[kshultz]

Amy,
Yeah, I don't think that is in my budget.

 

[akleyla]

LOL,the seat was in a heated garage....if it was mine someone would stop,load it in their truck an drive away...

Outs of my budget also,but for a toy I have a remote control truck I mounted a snowplow on the front and it moves like 3" of snow any more than that it just spins the tires...

 

[mhomrighausen]

Schultzie. Any updates on helping your boy out with his dilema? We've a fella across town that has some of those old Structo steel construction toys only I'm sure that he'd want a nice price. I could check if you'd like. Let me know. I'd still opt for making a front blade for a pedal tractor.

 

[kshultz]

Nothin' yet.

I think I'm gonna have to fab something up on one of my old Tonka trucks. He's been playing with one of those for a few years now and it still looks like the condition when I stopped playing with it.

 

[dschwandt]

Looks like a trip to the National Farm Toy Show in Dyersville, IA may be on order this year??

 

[dfrisk]

MARLIN - Back in 1989 to 1991 I worked in the old Structo production plant in Freeport, IL. It ended up being owned by the Thermos Co, Rt 75 EAST of town about a mile.

Their lead tool & die maker showed me a bunch of old tooling they had stored up in the rafters from their days of making those indestructable steel toy trucks!

Thermos closed the plant in about 1992, last I knew about 6-7 yrs ago some company leased the plant to make heavy steel industrial pallet racks and steel storage shelves.

One of the nicest manufacturing plants I ever had the pleasure to work in.

 

[dlbarnett]

Just seem like something that expensive you should be able to ride on it.
Is this the classic example of A)I could have spent 10 hours this year shoveling snow. B) bought a snow blower and spent 2 hour clearing snow, or C) spent 1000 hours in the garage and $20,000 to clear snow.

As far as toy trucks go I'd look for an old steel Tonka loader of of epay. the stuff the sell in the stores new is all plastic crap. I've got a collection of about 50 Tonka's from the fifty's early sixties, they just don't build em like that any more

 

[kostendorf]

Check this toy out, I want to find one of these.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=472243196241750