For you snow plow owners...

[catsco]

How did you cut the tire? I have never had any luck.

This (using a tire tread) is exactly what I've done for four winters.

I use a "Torch" demolition blade on a sawzall.

Very easy to cut around to remove sidewalls.
Pretty hard to cut across the tread as the flexing of the tread with the blade slows the cutting, but only takes about a minute.

When one side wears out, rotate to use the other edge.

One major improvement was to make a steel bar about 2" wide (1/8" or so thick) with matching holes.

That helps made the tread flat AND makes it much easier to drill holes through the tread at the right place.

I use whatever length the tread is after removing sidewalls rather than having to cut the tread twice. Looks a little odd, but helps avoid damage to anything I'm plowing close to.

Mark H.

 

[catsco]

I don't know if you realize how stiff and sturdy the Power Trac rubber blade edge is.

Not sturdy at all, a complete waste of $$$.

I use two tire treads or less per winter, usually 30 or so plowings of 800' long gravel drive.

The Power Trac rubber edge wore down to the steel in 8 or so plowings per edge.

Rubber edge was pretty expensive, used tires are free here in CO at any tire store as we pay a fee for disposal when you buy new tires whether you have old or not, and they have to pay to have them hauled away.

 

[coolconnection]

Not sturdy at all, a complete waste of $$$.

I use two tire treads or less per winter, usually 30 or so plowings of 800' long gravel drive.

The Power Trac rubber edge wore down to the steel in 8 or so plowings per edge.

Rubber edge was pretty expensive, used tires are free here in CO at any tire store as we pay a fee for disposal when you buy new tires whether you have old or not, and they have to pay to have them hauled away.

Sorry to hear about your bad luck. I have a 300 foot paved drive and I bet I used mine 3 times a week last winter. Still on same side with hardly any wear on it after 3 winters and first 2 were before it was paved on rough slag stone and same drive. It works good for me.

 

[RegL]

I was just thinking( pretty dangerous ). Why do we PT owners feel it's so important to use rubber edges on our snow plows? Around here, about 99 percent of all driveways are plowed with pickup trucks and I have never seen one with a rubber edge. almost all have steel edges. Being that the PT plow weighs about one quarter what a pickup plow does I can't imagine it would do that much damage.

 

[frischtr]

I was just thinking( pretty dangerous ). Why do we PT owners feel it's so important to use rubber edges on our snow plows? Around here, about 99 percent of all driveways are plowed with pickup trucks and I have never seen one with a rubber edge. almost all have steel edges. Being that the PT plow weighs about one quarter what a pickup plow does I can't imagine it would do that much damage.

You are probably right, but I'm not taking any chances. Blacktop ain't cheap, especially on a 8' x 500' driveway that was redone recently...