Loader Bucket Tooth Bar and Broken Hip Glare Ice...

[canadianstrom]

I have chains on my rear tires and use a quick pump of a brake pedal to manage direction when on ice

 

[oosik]

I've used a little bit of everything to navigate my yard( ice skating rink). Sand, gravel, wood stove pellets. Sand seems to work the best for me. Little sandy paths over and across the yard.

 

[shooterdon]

I have thought about putting snowmobile track ice studs on a piece of Uni-strut or U channel that would slip over the lip of the bucket and using a couple of binders to chain it on....maybe a couple of ratchet straps would work too...like on a Ratchet Rake.

 

[oosik]

I have thought about putting snowmobile track ice studs on a piece of Uni-strut or U channel that would slip over the lip of the bucket and using a couple of binders to chain it on....maybe a couple of ratchet straps would work too...like on a Ratchet Rake.

If you are talking about the ice studs we had on our Arctic Cat snowmobiles. They would, most likely, work like a CHAMP. The ones we had looked like a very aggressive pop bottle cap. Out on a frozen lake - they would tear the carp out of the ice surface. With HardOX runners on our ski and ice studs - we could almost control our snow mobiles.

 

[Bronco82]

On the driveway to the pole barn, I spread ashes out of the fireplace on it. Provides enough grip for the next trip up in the tractor. I want to do it on the walkway in front of the house, but can't because then it will get tracked into the house on boots and I won't hear the end of it.

We may get one mild day of freezing rain, followed by a cold night and the next morning, everything is all ice. I would like to see the other people's ideas of what to do on walkways and driveways to maximize traction on the ice, aside from the cleats on boots and chains on tires, but something rigged up on the tractor to at least scratch/gouge it so it's not skating rink smooth.

 

[oosik]

If the idea is - "I don't want to fall" - then scratching the ice MAY help a little. I would not put a whole lot of hope in that though. Use pea gravel - provides traction and should not track into the house too bad.

When my Mucks get muddy - take them off out on the porch. Into the house in my bare feet. Hose the Mucks off in the sink. Along the way - slip into my house slippers.

 

[Wyobuckaroo]

Growing up in South Dakota,

We are getting a dose of Texas winter today. Freezing rain....just a matter of time before they close schools and businesses.
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So we are in a phase of early morning skiff of snow in the first light of morning.. Compacted by temps and any amount of sun by last light of day.. Scraping ice surface is really important now..

No.. Scraping will not absolutely prevent a fall, but helps a lot..
All keep safe..

 

[Jstpssng]

I have thought about putting snowmobile track ice studs on a piece of Uni-strut or U channel that would slip over the lip of the bucket and using a couple of binders to chain it on....maybe a couple of ratchet straps would work too...like on a Ratchet Rake.

That would work well, as long as none of them break off or at least you pick them up if they do. They really do a number on a tire.
One year I ran my picked sled up and down the icy hills on my road but that didn't work so well as the sled is designed to distribute the weight.

The problem I have with scarifying ice is that this time of year there's enough flow during the day to recoat it, like a natural zamboni. Even today, when temps never got to 20 degrees there is still water seeping from last week's warm spell.

One thought I've had is to convert a box blade so that I can slide my pallet forks into it, and use the scarifiers on the ice. That would prevent the need of taking your rear implement off.

 

[civilian]

I have a BX2230 for snowblowing. Most of the time I drag the rear blade behind me. When thspring comes and the drive turns to ice, I take the blade off and install a set of Cat 0 discs. They don't cover my tracks but the do scratch the ice surface. I alo don't drive straight up and down the drive. It is constantly turning in half circles. It leaves a bit of loose ice in the grooves for the car tires. My walks aren't long enough to draag the disc on. Jon

 

[bdhsfz6]

Most of the time, I spread cinders on slick spots as in my avatar picture. When it becomes necessary, I use the scarifier teeth on my York rake to score ice. If I have the blower or spreader mounted on the rear, I use this SSQA to 3pt adapter and mount the rake on the FEL:

Skid Steer 3 Point Attachment Adapter

The Skid Steer Style 3 Point Attachment Pate provides an easy three-point attachment to Category 1 implements.

www.palletforks.com

If you drag the rake with the FEL, do it perpendicular to the direction of travel. Doing so at an angle can cause FEL damage if the rake snags on something.