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Tucker Blade mounting options

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I am sure one of y'all can school me on this. I have pretty much decided that adding a blade to a Tucker is the only way I am going to get the machine I want with a blade. I have been told that Tucker mounted their blades a little differently on the newer machines and that the new setup would be easier to fab up and maybe even a little better design. I have no idea what year that changed, but it looks like the one in this pic is mounted different. Am I just missing something or is there no brace on this machine from the front axle back to the frame? Now, unless I am wrong, the ME machines were setup to have better visibility of the blade and must have been expected to be used to move more snow or at least move snow more often. Surely, if there was a change on blade mounting on these machines it would have been an improvement.

I'd love to hear some thoughts on this.

 
Well after zooming in on the pic and studying it, I see the radiused channel for the brace. Looks like the brace comes right off of the 5th wheel instead of the axle. Defintely looks simpler.
 
Both of the Tuckers I have owned had the blade attached to the 5th wheel and turned with the front axle. All the blades I have, have a 4 link or a 3 link set up. Here are some pics of how the blade in mounted on the Tucker and a couple of the LMC. There are also some pics of a Tucker quick disconnect, loosen 2 bolts and the blade comes off if you don't want to carry it.
 

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Here's a picture of a newer Design hook up, "1994 Tucker", Blade design is much stronger and closer to machine, I believe the blades on ME models where made by 'Valley' where the newer ones are Tucker.
 
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