Snowplow blocks headlight beam

[Chuck4310]

When I'm driving in the dark, the headlight beam is blocked by the snowplow when it's raised.
Has anyone installed lights to compensate for this? Either higher or lower?
Like ditch lights?

Chuck

 

[jimainiac]

Lots of people put lights on the rollbar. I put on two, that swivel on their brackets. I have one facing forward to light beyond the loader bucket, and the other is facing backwards. That combination works great for me, for moving snow around at night.

 

[Chuck4310]

I should have mentioned that I need to keep the rops folded down to fit in the garage. It normally stays like that.
If it weren't for that, I would go with your suggestion Jim.

 

[Travelover]

............... It normally stays like that................

Would ya fold it up real quick if you were rolling over?

 

[aczlan]

you might be able to put a pair of pieces of angle iron on your loader arms (the vertical part) and mount lights to them, then they would stick up 1-2' above your plow in most cases, and wouldn't blind you when you look back like the ROPS mounted ones tend to do.
Attached is a crude (5 minutes in paint) version of what I am talking about. The blue bars are 1" or so angle iron, and the black things are lights. Alternatively you could mount the lights where I put the second pair (with a #2) on the rops, however you would block them frequently when working (or at least ( would).



Aaron Z

 

[Jeepnford]

I've thought about mounting lights on the plow itself,similar to the way they are mounted when on a truck. That's been put on the back burner since we've had such a small amount of snow this year,plowed once.

 

[Thumper & Buttercup]

I'm in the same boat, but I am going to mount a set on the ROPS Bar facing forward, I'll be posting up some photos, the way I'm mounting them I can drop the ROPS back down if needed. In my case the only time I would drop the ROPS bar if I'm in the woods and need clearance. I thought of putting a set on the loader also but gave up on that for us.

 

[LBrown59]

I should have mentioned that I need to keep the rops folded down to fit in the garage. *It normally stays like that.
If it weren't for that, I would go with your suggestion Jim.

This is no good.

Would ya fold it up real quick if you were rolling over?

He might die trying.

 

[Thomas]

Maybe temp setup on rear fenders?

 

[Chuck4310]

Thanks for your suggestions. I've got a few spare electrical connections on the rear wiring harness. I'm going to post pics on the jd forum to see if anyone can id them before I trace them out.
As I recall old Fords, or was it IH, had lights mounted on the sides up front down low.
Aaron- You have my wheels turning about attaching something removeable to the top of the loader mount "tower".

Apologies for getting off topic but thanks for the comments about the rops being folded down. While I may be going against the grain here, I actually have it up when logging, towing, operating on uneven ground and whenever else I feel it's necessary.

Chuck