How do you plow snow?

[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.