Snow Attachments snow blade vs snow pusher

[Green Acres Homestead]

I have a L4740 47 hp kubota tractor. I recently may have a parking lot to do about 600 feet so I was looking at getting something in addition so the snow blower. I have a front end loader so I was thinking a snow pusher or a snow angle blade. What is the pros and cons for each attachment. If the snow is high can I move it easier with the pusher or blade. What is easier on the tractor? Feel free to give me some advice.

 

[JerryK]

Snow pushers basically are for moving the snow somewhere. They hold way more than a normal bucket and usually incorporate a 'soft' scraper bottom edge of some type to clean better. Most large parking lots are cleared up here with big loaders with a wide pushers chained onto the buckets. Angle blades are for clearing roads where you just are shoving the snow to the side to get it out of the way. They do parking lots with angled blades and the newer adjustable V plows, but a big pusher is hard to beat clearing a large wide area. As far as easy on the tractor, a pusher would probably put less side to side load on your FEL than an angled blade.

 

[Thomas]

I try pusher one winter work great for lot clean up..quicker and stack snow better than plow,doing driveway plow much better than pusher.

 

[msb1766]

Take a look at Paul Shorts web site he has a rear blower and an angling front blade.
He has videos so you can see how it works.
https://www.youtube.com/user/7863348/featured

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Thanks guys. Great info

 

[George2615]

I agree with the others. I have both a 7'6" PA plow blade I use for the driveways I plow and a 7'6" pusher blade for straight runs on parking lots. My pusher blade has an adjustable height steel cutting edge. The pusher does create less stress on the tractor because its usually straight forward pushing. An angled blade does put side stress against the loader arms but nothing the tractor can't handle.

 

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I agree with the others. I have both a 7'6" PA plow blade I use for the driveways I plow and a 7'6" pusher blade for straight runs on parking lots. My pusher blade has an adjustable height steel cutting edge. The pusher does create less stress on the tractor because its usually straight forward pushing. An angled blade does put side stress against the loader arms but nothing the tractor can't handle.

George, did you ever confront a situation or snow amount that bogged down the tractor with the pusher?

 

[George2615]

George, did you ever confront a situation or snow amount that bogged down the tractor with the pusher?

Not yet. When I first bought the tractor and pusher last Feb I didn't have chains for the tractor. Pushing snow across a lot or driveway it quickly filled the pusher and with no chains, unloaded tires, and no rear ballast the tractor would stop moving and the tires were spinning. Since the pic was taken I have loaded the tires, added chains, and rear ballast and have no more tire spin and no bogging down. We've had light snow storms but haven't had a deep, heavy, wet snow storm that would test any strain on the tractor yet. I'm happy with this tractor being about 1500 lbs heavier and 11 more HP than my last.

 

[BrianWillan]

I have a L4740 47 hp kubota tractor. I recently may have a parking lot to do about 600 feet so I was looking at getting something in addition so the snow blower. I have a front end loader so I was thinking a snow pusher or a snow angle blade. What is the pros and cons for each attachment. If the snow is high can I move it easier with the pusher or blade. What is easier on the tractor? Feel free to give me some advice.

You could get the bests of both worlds with a plow blade and a pusher in one.

Kage Innovation

They make frame under carriage mounts for your particular tractor. Check out the videos on the site, it is a quite a versatile piece of equipment.

Cheers

Brian

 

[George2615]

You could get the bests of both worlds with a plow blade and a pusher in one.

Kage Innovation

They make frame under carriage mounts for your particular tractor. Check out the videos on the site, it is a quite a versatile piece of equipment.

Cheers

Brian

Great looking system. If they have a mount for my tractor (which is not listed on the site) and could sell them for what I have invested in both of mine I would consider one but I think the price would be out of my reach.

 

[greenmojo]

I'm using a 6' rear blade on my 4300 set at a descent angle for forward plowing.

It seems like it is working well, but of course without any real downward force, I imagine soon when a layer of ice builds up, this won't work so well.

I'm plowing dirt / rock and about 2 miles of it, would a FEL blade be better, or not worth the money spent considering I already have the rear blade?

~Moses

 

[Rustyiron]

The pusher box's seem to be all the rage now, but I wonder, in a commercial parking lot situation, where you have a few acre's to clear, and it all need's to go to the end…. doesn't the box fill up and then just spill off? When I plowed such lot's, (before pusher box's) we'd windrow with an angle blade, eventually taking smaller "bites" or passes until we were hopefully able to switch the plowing direction 90* and head for the side. It would seem to me that having both would be the best and fastest way. Windrowing until (too big) you had to push to the side & clean up. Just wondering.

 

[LiveRoll]

I have a Horst Welding HLA 3000 mounted to My loader, it has flip over plates that simply pin into place after they are flipped. Granted, they are heavy to flip over, but the whole procedure takes 45 seconds, It allows me the best of both worlds, the ability to plow windrow as well as pushing and piling.
This is the sixth winter for this blade and it has been used for oilfield conditions It has been an excellent piece of equipment, I highly recommend you checking out the HLA site.

Cheers


Roger

 

[George2615]

The pusher box's seem to be all the rage now, but I wonder, in a commercial parking lot situation, where you have a few acre's to clear, and it all need's to go to the end? doesn't the box fill up and then just spill off? When I plowed such lot's, (before pusher box's) we'd windrow with an angle blade, eventually taking smaller "bites" or passes until we were hopefully able to switch the plowing direction 90* and head for the side. It would seem to me that having both would be the best and fastest way. Windrowing until (too big) you had to push to the side & clean up. Just wondering.

The lots I do with mine are small. Maybe 200 x 300. My tractor weighs only about 6K. For bigger commercial lots you need a tractor with weight. At work we have a 20,000 lb articulated machine with a 16' pusher and I've seen the snow so heavy the tires lose traction toward the end of the push and spin and we have to take smaller bites. The object is to start plowing before it gets too deep then we don't have that problem.

 

[MossRoad]

If parking lots were cleared faster with plows than boxes, you'd see more plows than boxes, I'd think. But just about every large parking lot around here has some old loader or loader/backhoe with a wide box on it, not a plow truck. So there you go....

 

[Rustyiron]

Yes, I have indeed noticed that here also. I guess "plowing with the storm" is the key!

 

[MossRoad]

As someone mentioned, plows for roads and driveways, narrow areas where you can't turn off to the side too well, things like that. Boxes for large areas where turning isn't a problem.

When I worked at the airport, I'd plow a 400' x 400' concrete pad with a Dodge pickup and a plow. We'd clear a small area in the center, then just start driving in a circle from the center out, getting wider with each pass. When we'd get the circle squared, so to speak, we'd then knock the corners in. That was the hard part as the snow was too high for the pickup by then. We'd call the airport authority FEL and he'd push it back with the big box. Something like a 28' box! I could have spent an hour on something that took him two swipes!

 

[Rustyiron]

Well last night we got 12-14" and after I did my regular angle blade plowing on the roadways, I put the end plates that I made late last winter (and didn't get a chance to use). I was amazed how quickly it made short work of my open areas!!! I never would have believed the difference, quite amazing. My (Snow Wolf) plow came with provisions built in to the plow to add end plates that they sell to convert it to a pusher box.

 

[MossRoad]

Nice! :thumbsup:

 

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Well this convinced me. I'm turning my bucket with log hooks attached into a snow pusher. This way I can stack logs (as I do my logging in the winter), leave the hooks on and mount the pusher sides in case I have to plow using the logging hooks as a mounting platform. Apparently I have to come up with some way to remove and put on the sides of the pusher in an instant.