k0ua
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I suspect if you put chains on the front, and some more weight in the back, you will have a very capable plowing truck.
My truck is in the ditch!
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I filled the back of my bed with heaps of snow and compacted it with the FEL of my tractor. I like using snow because I don't have to shovel it back out when the winter is over 
. We had 3" of new snow last night. Not much, but enough to require plowing. Everything went fine. Never slipped a wheel. Plowed that neighbor's driveway again (downhill only this time) but the neighbor still is afraid to drive up his own driveway and walks from the main road 1/4 mile up to his house. I guess my getting stuck scared him.
I will get some chains for the front on Tuesday. Dual chains for the rear would be nice but seems like overkill. A bigger problem is the snow berms on the side of the main road are getting so high in places that the blade won't throw the snow over it anymore. A blower would be nice, but it sure isn't on the budget.
. We had 3" of new snow last night. Not much, but enough to require plowing. Everything went fine. Never slipped a wheel. Plowed that neighbor's driveway again (downhill only this time) but the neighbor still is afraid to drive up his own driveway and walks from the main road 1/4 mile up to his house. I guess my getting stuck scared him.I will get some chains for the front on Tuesday. Dual chains for the rear would be nice but seems like overkill. A bigger problem is the snow berms on the side of the main road are getting so high in places that the blade won't throw the snow over it anymore. A blower would be nice, but it sure isn't on the budget.
jack707
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I have a Chevy 2500HD with a 8 ' boss plow I always put sandbags in the box for weight and just because you have a dull ie 1 ton you still have to add weight. Glad you got it out.
PILOON
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Even more so if you are driving it! (been there)
And a dozer slides on solid rock just as bad as on ice.
Farmer495
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After seeing pics surprised the 100 HP could't budge that, the Farmer lifted with the 3pt a bit? Likely put enough weight on to budge it.
I stuck a tractor bad enough I had to have a much larger tractor come in when our other same size one wouldn't budge it. Bigger tractor didn't even spin a wheel and pulled me out instantly.
I stuck a tractor bad enough I had to have a much larger tractor come in when our other same size one wouldn't budge it. Bigger tractor didn't even spin a wheel and pulled me out instantly.
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They sure do. I'll take a tractor with chains on ice over a dozer any day of the week. I just had to pull a triaxle out of my driveway 2 weeks ago. The old guy wanted me to try pulling him with the dozer and I flat out refused to even consider it. The dozer weighs nearly twice as much as my 4wd tractor but with tire chains on the tractor I was able to pull him right up the icy driveway.
So did the 100 hp just try to drag you out? Where as the 125 hp picked your truck's butt up (adding to traction and freeing the rear diff.) to pull you out? Or was it just the fact that the 100 hp might have been 2 wd and the 125 hp was 4 wd?
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LD1
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I too am surprised the 100hp wouldn't do it.
I had a 18000# backhoe over the edge of a pond stuck slot worse than that. And a 125hp 2wd is what got me out. That was with no assistance from the how either, as it was dead in the water.
I had a 18000# backhoe over the edge of a pond stuck slot worse than that. And a 125hp 2wd is what got me out. That was with no assistance from the how either, as it was dead in the water.
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I would think that dually tires would hinder traction, as it is twice the flotation, so each tire only gets half the weight. You're still putting the same amount of weight to the ground, but its spread out over twice the area, so there's less pressure under each tire patch.
I was always told big fat flotation tires for mud and tall skinny tires for snow.
Anyhow, I plowed snow at an airport for 6 years with both a dually and non-dually 3/4 ton pickups. I preferred the non-dually. It just seemed like it did a better job.
That was 30+ years ago.
So what's the consensus from those that plow snow for a living?
I was always told big fat flotation tires for mud and tall skinny tires for snow.
Anyhow, I plowed snow at an airport for 6 years with both a dually and non-dually 3/4 ton pickups. I preferred the non-dually. It just seemed like it did a better job.
That was 30+ years ago.
So what's the consensus from those that plow snow for a living?
