There are dozens, if not hundreds of people on this forum that use loader mounted snow plows with no reports of damage to their loader arms. There are anecdotes of "I know a guy" that bent loader arms on every kind of machine made, including wheel loaders and skid steers, but I personally have never seen a documented case of damage due to an angled snowplow. Loaders are quite sturdy.
The side load on the loader is limited by the lateral traction of the front wheels. The sideways pressure can't be more than the pressure it takes to slide the wheels. The same forces are at work whether your scooping into a pile of dirt while turning, as when plowing snow with an angled blade. When plowing snow, the surface is almost certainly slicker than the surface when working dirt on dry ground, so the loads are likely far less than when simply moving a dirt pile. The force directions are no different than pushing into something with one end of the bucket.
Your missing the point, that he intended to use the loader and plow to poke and knock down snow accumulations creating low hanging branches.
Unless a plow has a trip edge the same laws of physics apply.
All traction is obtained by the linear movement and contact of the tire treads/chains/wieghting of the tires to the actual ground surface.
Any available traction is created by:
1. road surface type
2. current ground conditions affecting the amount of
adhesion that is available to the tires.
3 tread surface available to contact the road surface (which is not much rubber to begin with)
a. forward speed
If the tractors had sanders like locomotives they would be given the huge advantage of sand for adhesion of the wheels to the road surface; saying that if the
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folks created a set of chains that could be mounted on the BX to the row crop models they would have a barn burner of a product.
It would be simple enough to mount a set of insta chains on the rear axle even with a front implement carrier for a plow or snow caster.
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4. tire type
5. snow chains
a. chain type
6. added loading of tires
The issue is more of snow loading and frozen snow banks and the freeze thaw cycles affecting snow wieghts wherein fresh snow fall wieghing 21 pounds per cubic foot will increase in wieght with a freeze thaw cycle.
The other issue is snow depth as well with regard to a plow versus a snow
caster wherein if you have snow banks you are continuing to push the snow upon itself and increasing the wieght per cubic foot of snow loading against the plow.
The more the snow is moved around the greater the wieght in the snow as the layers
are broken up and compressed with the plowing action.
The entire width and square area of the plow creates the force that will create the G forces that will be transmitted to the bucket pins and the lower arms and depending upon the plow angle will increase the forces generated to one side or the other unless the plow has a tripping edge.
