MinnesotaEric
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Hey, that's a good video! Looks like your snowblower works great. Are you using the loader float with your Hiniker blade, if not how are you setting the height?
On my tractor I never use float for the snow plow. The plow itself articulates up and down as well as laterally while the loader stays fixed. All that movement from the plow pushes the plow out about an extra foot which works like a lever. Paul Short uses his loader's float and though I confess I don't understand how his plow floats laterally, I understand there must be some kind of provision. Anyway, Paul's use of the loader's float allowed him to suck the plow in closer by about a foot or so. My thoughts are that I want the plow's articulating bits to be the sacrificial parts rather than the loader (considering that I plow miles when it snows enough to plow).
All to say that when plowing with a snow blade designed for a SSQA, the snow blade does all of the articulation, not the loader. Paul Short's system allows his tractor to weight the plow when scraping driveways and lots, which is something that plows like mine that do all of the articulating forward of the SSQA plate cannot do.
To answer your question how do I set the height. The height is set by the loader, but the plow hangs lower. My loader positions matters only in so much as I have my loader low enough so that the plow can articulate over oncoming rises and falls, and so that I have the angle of attack set right. In this video my pucks are not really touching the ground (if you can spot them in the video), because I'm trying to get maximum "scrapage" with my blade. A bucket, or a plow set up like Paul Short's would allow me to be able to "dig in" a little better. The trade-off of those systems is that they are harder on the pins on the loader, IMO.
Make sense?
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