How do you plow snow?

[Rustyiron]

Inertia is a good thing!
Once he started the side to side jiggle (while bellied out) it can quickly end. Forward progress that is.
I didn't notice any kind of plow on that tractor!

 

[scootr]

 

[airbiscuit]

My wife and I were watching the weather forecast, and I told her "It looks like you can expect to get a good 3 inches tonight." I thought it was funnier than she did.

 

[scootr]

My wife and I were watching the weather forecast, and I told her "It looks like you can expect to get a good 3 inches tonight." I thought it was funnier than she did.

Maybe she would laughed if you told to expect a good 8 inches.

 

[ArlyA]

We're at camp tonight and found 2+ feet of new snow here. Was rubbing the bottom of the 6x6 as I pushed it around. Will post pics when we get home.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

scootr, Doesn't look like they got much "plowed" ...

 

[shooterdon]

We're at camp tonight and found 2+ feet of new snow here. Was rubbing the bottom of the 6x6 as I pushed it around. Will post pics when we get home.

Been wondering how a UTV plow was going to deal with your situation. I know mine was not great once it got over 12", but I do not have a lot of patience. Broke two shear pins on mine.

Love following your write ups. Makes me wish I was 30 years younger, but this old man needs things that take less effort.

 

[ArlyA]

Been wondering how a UTV plow was going to deal with your situation. I know mine was not great once it got over 12", but I do not have a lot of patience. Broke two shear pins on mine.

Love following your write ups. Makes me wish I was 30 years younger, but this old man needs things that take less effort.

Trust me, I can't do 1/2 the things I could, even 5 years ago. None of the plows we've owned have had sear pins. Looking for some plow to add to the 4x4 atv we are supposed to pick up Monday.

 

[scootr]

scootr, Doesn't look like they got much "plowed" ...

Assuming you mean the NH tractor then no. They were just plowing through the snow but it made for some good video. Now the dozer in the next clip, that baby was moving some snow!

 

[ArlyA]

We decided the base here is 3+ foot at camp and pulling slash into the woods has near impossible. Our 6x6 can still tootle around in that snow with its low, low psi but getting hungup on unseen objects becomes the issue. When we plow, we are near idle and never get out of low range for most of the winter. So its using its traction to push the plow. While going reasonably slow and on a atv, its easy to see your blade and miss things you didn't want to bite, like a building. But of course in soft, deep, snow that hids everything you still find that boulder. I've never plowed with a rubber tire equipped machine.

 

[shooterdon]

We decided the base here is 3+ foot at camp and pulling slash into the woods has near impossible. Our 6x6 can still tootle around in that snow with its low, low psi but getting hungup on unseen objects becomes the issue. When we plow, we are near idle and never get out of low range for most of the winter. So its using its traction to push the plow. While going reasonably slow and on a atv, its easy to see your blade and miss things you didn't want to bite, like a building. But of course in soft, deep, snow that hids everything you still find that boulder. I've never plowed with a rubber tire equipped machine.

As long as you keep the tires on a solid surface as you plow you should be fine. I used chains on the Ranger after I got rid of the pods. If you try riding into 12-14" of snow, you are toast. Once the floor pan is being held up by the snow under it, you are done.

You might want to consider a sled with a tow sled like this to move stuff from your parking area up the trail to you cabin:

Pardon Our Interruption...

 

[ArlyA]

Track sled or snow dog? Link didn't work. Our 6x6 or atv on pods does fine.

 

[Rustyiron]

Arly I won't begin to give you any snow advice, but with all your grooming experience....
rather than plowing in from your parking area to the cabin wouldn't a packing/grooming treatment be the best approach for your amazing snows?

 

[ArlyA]

Arly I won't begin to give you any snow advice, but with all your grooming experience....
rather than plowing in from your parking area to the cabin wouldn't a packing/grooming treatment be the best approach for your amazing snows?

Oh gee, I'm plowing some at the parking area and at camp, but no where else. In my camp thread, you will see photos of the roller we do the road in with. It's completely impractical to plow the mile in.

 

[shooterdon]

Track sled or snow dog? Link didn't work. Our 6x6 or atv on pods does fine.

Try googling this:

Moose Racing 4503-0070

They have a solid bar for attachment so it does not slide into the sled.

 

[ArlyA]

Try googling this:

Moose Racing 4503-0070

They have a solid bar for attachment so it does not slide into the sled.

Oh a cargo sled! We are contemplating one if they offer a cover. But just contemplating at this point.

 

[sd455dan]

Already in January and finally last night, mounted up the Inverted blower. This winter "so far" is more like a wet fall than an actual winter.

Second pic
Same time of year, and same place where the tractor is parked now but in 2022

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Ours hasn't even been wet.

 

[sd455dan]

Ours hasn't even been wet.

Wow. We will probably get dumped on eventually, but the temps have been overall much warmer so far.

Indian summer for your area it sounds like?

 

[Too many Kubotas]

We've had the warmest December ever, and were braking records pretty much all of last year.

If we do get snow at some point, by now my plowing skills will be marginally better than when I first got the tractor.