Angled snow plow pushing the tractor around?

[George2615]

As mentioned, pushing heavy wet snow with an angled blade on your QA will tend to push the front of the tractor sideways. Raise the blade a little and take a smaller bite. You may need to use your independent brakes to help keep you straight. It's just my opinion but with the loader mounted plow all the force pushes against the front of the tractor in the opposite direction. With the old frame mount the force was distributed to the entire tractor instead of just the front.

 

[ray66v]

I have a loader mounted plow, on a small tractor, and it pushes snow very well. I do have a backhoe for ballast.

You can help the rotation problem, by reducing the angle of the blade.

You don't necessarily need to angle the blade dramatically. Mine moves even deep snow, at only half of the amount of angle available.

 

[RickB]

One more reason why tractors have individual brakes. An angled blade will transfer forces to the tractor at times. You can learn when to expect that, and what to do about it. By itself, this issue is no reason to abandon the idea of a plow that can angle unless you are completely untrainable.

 

[Thomas]

Tire chain w/rear ballast would help,try taking smaller push when wet heavy snow until you get the hang of it.

 

[RoyJackson]

As RickB wrote, split brakes...if your tractor is equiped with them, will keep the tractor on the straight and narrow...all it takes is a jab on the brake on the side you want to go...now and then.

 

[nybirdman]

Add some rear weight,ballast box,heavy box blade ect. you will be fine.

 

[zzvyb6]

The problem is more pronounced on a skid steer because of the shorter wheelbase. The R4 tires are also a contributor. They usually have a tread compound optimized for wear instead of water, ice, or snow traction. That includes lateral force generation (which is causing the plow to veer. Several members are trying to add sipes to their R4 tire treads, but sipes are for (deep) water dispersion, not increasing ice traction. Putting some real snow tires on a skid steer, where the tread compound and tread design and footprint are intended for ice and snow operations could probably help a lot. Something like a Bridgestone Blizzak for example. I have them on all 3 of my cars and a truck. Even the RWD CTS is a tank on ice and snow covered roads.

 

[MossRoad]

I had a blade on a 4 wheeler many years ago. 4x4 and chains on all 4 corners. Using the blade angled often resulted in the machine being sideways, especially if plowing at speed.

So yes, this could happen with too much blade and deep snow.

Me? I'd pass on the blade and just use a decent bucket.

I have both a bucket and a power angle plow for my FEL arms. By far, the plow does a much better job than a bucket. Like 5X better job. The only time I use the bucket for snow is when I ran out of places to pile the snow last extreme winter, and had to haul snow from point A to point B.

 

[Professor Marvel]

Deeper snow will push you around. Like others have suggested, backup and hit it again, lessen the angle, etc. You just have to work with it. To me it is a part of plowing. You will get a feel for your equipment. .... Now go hit some snow

 

[chuck172]

This is my first year plowing with the CK35, but I'm very pleased so far. The first snow was about 10 - 12 inch of heavy wet snow. 2nd plow was about 4 inch of wet slush, again no problems. The CK never spun a wheel, never missed a beat, didn't move sideways at ALL. With that said, every tractor, every plow truck at some point will veer sideways if pushing enough snow. With a tractor your size, it's not going to happen very often.
For comparisons, my CK35 weighs 5000lb with Plow and Blower, I run turf tires, non loaded year round.View attachment 401739

Like tractor tom almost to the word. First year plowing with the ck35. 12" of heavy, heavy snow. The ck never spun a wheel. I do have a frame mount though. 7'6" fisher. Haven't even needed the rear chains yet.