Snow I confess, I plowed one inch of snow

[crd]

As a new tractor owner this year, I smiled when I looked out this morning to find an inch of powdery snow on my driveway -- my chance to try out my BX2350 and 60" Woods rear blade in the snow.

First, I tried plowing in reverse with the concave side facing the snow -- sort of like a regular plow. All the prior posts I read said this would dig into my gravel driveway -- and sure enough it did. I have ordered the Valu-bilt shoes which might help, but they have not arrived.

Back to the garage to reverse the blade. Worked like a charm - and something I never would have thought of without the forums. Easy to control using the 3point lift and looked like it could have handled ~4 inches of snow without spilling over the top. No more digging into the gravel driveway, either!

I can see what people mean about plowing in reverse, it does make for a "pain in the neck" after a while. But not enough to justify the cost of a front-mounted solution.

I'm also trying the suggestion of a magnetic light from Northern that plugs into the accessory outlet. Light wise it works great -- although I wonder about wet snow getting into the outlet. Anybody have experience with this?

So, fellow newbie owners, the rear blade solution seems like a great solution for snowplowing.

 

[danfromsyr]

we had 8" here in upstate (central) NY armed with only the loader bucket at the moment (have a 54" rear blower to mount up- PTO- 3pt lift missing)

loader worked great till the august bought diesel get thick.. sputtered and died .. I had added a few ozs of additive but must not have sloshed around enough.. so ran in grabbed the Kero (+additive) and poured a few gals in the tank.. by then the sitting heat must have helped the filter/fuel and it fired up.. I was done anyways so drove it back into it's shed..

for cold starts.. I don't have a engine heater, but i was considering adding a battery buddy as I have had on my Diesel rabbits. so the battery was @ full voltage and not freezing internal temps when asked to crank..

colder then the old push snowblower, but heck lot more fun. can't wait till after christmas and I can afford (time and $$ ) to put the blower on the back.. should quicken clearing time here in the snow belt of NY

 

[Thomas]

Evening crd.
1"...heck that's good way to get feel for equipment operation,but if you wish for more practice come on up for we got 4",and Saturday looks like first plowing of this winter....heard tell couple days of 40's also day of 50 degree weather headed our way next week.

 

[escavader]

I got to admit,i dont usually chuckle when i read a title we have all been there!!Best bet is to pack them first couple inches.We got 6 plus up here,i dug up alot with the fel.Have lots of fun with it,i think new england is gonna get dumped on this winter.
ALAN

 

[George2615]

I'm about 20 mi. north of Dan. We got about 14" of the white stuff overnight. Had fun , I mean work to do when I got home from work. Had to start up the tractor and plow the driveway. Then I hooked up the plow for my truck and went to do more plowing.

 

[LBrown59]

The thing i hate about winter is we get 2 of them a year.

 

[Volfandt]

This was the 2nd of the two "big" snows we got down here last year. The BX23 got to profile alittle whilst the ole Wheel Horse took care of the bidness