Anyone make/made a wheel kit for a straight blade?

[GrumpyJoe]

Living on a gravel drive and road ya'll understand what it's like to plow snow and try not to take half your gravel with you. My driveway and road ain't exactly flat. Sometimes I scalp and other times I'll leave 4 inches of snow. I like the setup on the landscape rakes but not sure if they make them for a straight blade.

 

[Aquamoose]

Try getting your drive as level as possible in the off season (now) and when the first snowfall comes, pack the first layer down (don’t plow it) then plow only if temps are subzero when the ground is frozen. You may need to turn the blade around for questionable times when the ground isn’t frozen yet.

That’s how most everyone does it.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Living on a gravel drive and road ya'll understand what it's like to plow snow and try not to take half your gravel with you. My driveway and road ain't exactly flat. Sometimes I scalp and other times I'll leave 4 inches of snow. I like the setup on the landscape rakes but not sure if they make them for a straight blade.

Skid shoes should help if not take care of the problem altogether.

 

[Gem99ultra]

I bought mine from Leinbach some time ago. But I think EA sells them now. They're listed for $397.

 

[CADplans]

Yes, gauge wheels help!!

Buy a set of gauge wheels for a landscape rake, put them on a rear blade.

 

[countrybumpkin]

Most use a single tail wheel on rear blades, but no reason you couldn’t use a double set up. You would more than likely have to fab your own mounts.

 

[TheMan419]

Some people swear by bolting a piece of rubber horse stall mat to make it the cutting edge. Of course that does not work if you also have concrete areas to plow.

 

[oosik]

Brother - do I know exactly what GrumpyJoe is talking about. When I had my lighter(566#) rear blade - at times I could get away with plowing my mile long gravel driveway BEFORE it froze up hard and not scalp ALL the gravel into the ditches.

However - now with my new Rhino @ 1050# - easy times are not gonna happen. I either wait for things to freeze solid or reverse the rear blade and drive forward.

I've tried skid shoes on the Rhino - does not solve the problem in my situation. Maybe some type of "wheel pack" would. Reversing the rear blade is so much easier, cheaper and it DOES work.

Thirty six plus years here and the most snow at any one time - - 14 inches. Nothing like some of you guys get. And drifting snow - the time we got 14 inches - it drifted a little but it was no problem, at all, plowing right thru the drifts with the rear blade.

We get all of our fair share of snow - its just, usually, spread out over a fairly long time. Now that I said it - watch us get dumped on this coming winter.

 

[fried1765]

Most use a single tail wheel on rear blades, but no reason you couldn’t use a double set up. You would more than likely have to fab your own mounts.

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Is that tail wheel a Rhino supplied accessory, or can it be sourced elsewhere?