AndyMA
Elite Member
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2000
- Messages
- 3,667
- Location
- Windham County, Conn
- Tractor
- Ford 2120 , Kubota MX5200 , Deere X748SE. 1956 Economy Tractor
Quick comeback...thanks peter. Let me ask you...in your experience using the blade is it possible to pull the snow forward successfully just 2" over the driveway.
I'd rather pull with the blade angled to the right ...I just don't want to dig up my gravel.
edit I have an old tire I was going to sawzall and cobble on some 2" boots on each side of the blade.
Sure it's possible to pull the snow forward. It's just a real pain to deal with the hardened ridges the tire tracks leave. They tend to turn to ice.
I've used loader mound plows, frame mount plows, blowers, rear blades, and box blades over the 40 plus years I've moved snow in Conn and Mass.
While in some areas of Conn and Mass we may not have gotten much snow in the last couple of years, there have been many times when we have had well over 24 inches of heavy wet snow. (and in the Blizzard of 78, well over 7 feet) A bucket works great to move that and allows you to pile it high (on a decent size tractor you can keep pushing up the pile and make piles over 20 feet high with ease). The biggest problem with using a FEL is bucket size and the angle you keep the bucket at. Small buckets don't work very well as they tend to fill quickly and dump snow over the top and around the sides. A loader mounted plow works better than a frame mounted plow in my opinion as you can also push the snow up into high piles and not run the risk of getting the plow hung up on piles of snow (the Jeep syndrome).
Have fun, I love plowing snow. Started doing it to make money on a Ford 8N to make money in 1960 at age 10. Still have the same Dearborn plow which ahs been lengthened 2 feet and is now used on my TN and Ford 2120. Maybe someday I even add hydraulic rotation
Andy