I live on top of a hill with a roller coaster private road. I generally end up clearing a quarter mile of roadway. Last winter I went without chains on my tractor & had some pretty scary sliding incidents. So, I could put the chains on this winter & solve my tractor's problems, but what about our cars? Eventhough the public roads are cleared & salted making them passable. I had to walk up my icy drive on several occassions the past few winters, including a trip or two the entire length of the road.
This year I opened up the purse strings and bought a Vicon Spreader. It is one of the few spreaders that support of sand/salt spreading. I had it equiped with a short snow spout and a large agitator to deal with wet sand. Another key reason for the Vicon choice was the spread width of 6 to 12 feet with the short snow spout. It has a pendulum design, meaning the spout moves back and forth rather than spinning in a circle. A low speeds it looks like a tractor has a short waggin tail.
Now the bad news, it costs about 3-4 times as much as a standard fertilizer spreader.
Pics are in my gallery.
This year I opened up the purse strings and bought a Vicon Spreader. It is one of the few spreaders that support of sand/salt spreading. I had it equiped with a short snow spout and a large agitator to deal with wet sand. Another key reason for the Vicon choice was the spread width of 6 to 12 feet with the short snow spout. It has a pendulum design, meaning the spout moves back and forth rather than spinning in a circle. A low speeds it looks like a tractor has a short waggin tail.
Now the bad news, it costs about 3-4 times as much as a standard fertilizer spreader.
Pics are in my gallery.
