Ever watch how a grader will cant the front tires on an angle? This must prevent them from getting pushed around by digging the "edge" of a tire in a bit. Pickups must have more weight on the front end proportionally. Also, the plow is closer to the tires than the loader variety. Still, a pickup can move sideways when trying to shove a snow bank over. My 3520 with 72" frontier has behaved well, but I do need the steering brakes on the long stretch of the driveway to keep back the banks. I've don't usually need them in the wide open sections. One thing that would make any snow blade easier to use is the side to side pivot that Horst HLA did on their plows. This lets the plow stay on the angle of the ground even when all the way left or right. I can do this now by playing with the curl, but it takes constant attention. Also, I would sometimes want to curl more or less to dig in or float and can't do to a sideslope. Also, the frontier trip springs seem a bit week. When she trips over, the plow often will stay there until I pick up the bucket a bit.
Mech, What is the width of your Frontier plow?? What is the actual weight of it??? I keep seeing these on here but am not firmilar with them . Here in New England the most common plows on these are made by Curtis and it makes a good outfit, but they are considerable lighter made plow than a Fisher. With the front tires chained up, this will push even wet snow, so deep that it comes over the 28" height of the blade, and back over the hood of the 3203! About the only time I get any "crabing" is if I get a windrow say 30" tall and then try to go with it and as it builds up in front when you get enough of it out there it will eventually start to crab. For up to 20" of the white stuff it will just sling it down the angle side and clean up nice every pass! I have tryed them all ...[on pickups over the last 25 years] Myers , Curtis , Western, even a plexi glass one made in Wis I think called a "Badger", and for our money its Fisher all the way. The plows are so much ruggeder and heavyer they "stay down" instead of riding up all the time. We are getting about 18" tonight and I am going to make a short movie in the morning and post on utube so will link it back to this site so the boys can see how that JD handles it with a 90" blade!
