How To Bend Sheet Metal For A Snow Plow

Be precise on the bottom edge and top edge.

How to bend sheet metal for a snow plow. Homemade snow plow from a hot water tank part 1 5 after the cutting duration. Cut out the shape of the plow accounting for the bend curve from your steel sheet using a metal saw. A straight curved blade will simply have a straight edge on the top and bottom but a shaped blade that throws snow to the side will be much wider on one end. Watch our video of bending sheet metal for custom plow fabrication.

Depending on whether you want the snow to be thrown to one side or to both sides you will need to bend the steel into a curve to match your criteria. Driving a big chevy up onto a pipe to bend it. Well you are at the right place. I am an a p and taught sheet metal at local trade school.

Bending aluminum accurately is an art. Little sketchy that the wood was rotten. More than that and you start trying to lift the snow instead of pushing it translating to more weight on the blade wich makes the plow harder to push and wear faster. Well its almost done.

I used 14 ga sheetmetal a 2x4 and a hyd jack with a chain wraped around the plow and the metal jacked down using the chain on top of the jack. Looking at a cross section the outer 60 of the alu will stretch and the inner 40 actually shrink making very accurate bends tricky so if accuracy is important you need to adjust your bend lines accordingly. To bend the metal you will need a metal bending fabrication tool.