motownbrowne
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- Joined
- Dec 30, 2013
- Messages
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- Location
- river falls, wi
- Tractor
- Kubota mx4700 HST, New Holland TC-29D
Plow snow with the blade reversed and pushing the snow rather than pulling. My blade is 8' wide, and when it's angled while it plows wide enough for the tractor to drive in a clean path, if the blade faces forward and when driving forward, it had enough force to slide the front end around. Turn the blade around, and it works great.
The advise to plow wide is valid, since you can only push the snow, you have to plan for 3 or 4 snows out. If you only plow a drive path, where will you put the next snow storm? My stink'n drive was 8', and the plow path was 30' (lots of drifting)
I know not everyone likes or can stand to turn backwards that long but for me it worked.
That's definitely one way to do it. And if there's lots of snow I'll do that sometimes, as long as you're slow and careful it's fine. The reason for caution is that 3 point hitches on tractors are designed to pull, not push. Yes, some pushing is fine, but it's much easier to break things going in reverse than forwards. Of course, it's also going to depend on the blade size and tractor size (as well as how much your tractor is over engineered, which might be quite a bit on that old Massey).