vtsnowedin
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We had a couple of 3 to 4 inch snowfalls the last couple of nights and there is a storm in the mid west that might give us a swat so I thought I had better push some banks back to make room. Mine is not too bad but the road out to the last neighbor runs between cut banks or over short sections of swamp with the road narrow and about four feet above the water level. She tries to plow it herself with her Kubota but doesn't have a cab on it so I tend to get to it first but hadn't pushed back for her until she asked and she hasn't because she either doesn't understand the need or is to afraid of getting stuck doing it. Anyway her spur of the road was getting to be a tunnel with banks about up to the tops of my rear tires and about twelve feet wide. In the swamps I used the tried and true buck it back method of squaring the blade and coming in as sharp as I could with the plow up about a foot to push the top of the bank off into the swamp stopping when the leading front tire started to drop off the edge keeping three wheel up on the hard road. At this having the plow a long way out in front of the loader pins is an advantage as you have pushed it that much further before the wheel drops. For the cut sections and across level ground I found I could hold the plow up about a foot and drive right down the bank with two wheels in the road and two out in the bank. As I was wallowing along rolling the top half of the bank to the right I thought to myself "Try that with a pickup truck and see how far you get". I did not have my phone with me so didn't get a picture but trust me it was a good hour in the seat.