Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Do snow pushers fetch up on frozen rocks?

[Green Acres Homestead]

I’m using my bucket to scrap the final snow off the driveways. I occasional fetch up on frozen rocks and it’s hard on gear. Do snow pushers fetch up hard like buckets or do they have a tendency to bump over them without fetching up hard?

 

[Hay Dude]

I’m using my bucket to scrap the final snow off the driveways. I occasional fetch up on frozen rocks and it’s hard on gear. Do snow pushers fetch up hard like buckets or do they have a tendency to bump over them without fetching up hard?

When you say “snow pusher”, do you mean a snowplow? Yes, they are easier on the machinery than a bucket as they have a moldboard spring relief trip edge or the moldboard has trip springs.

Below, You can see the trip springs on my trip-edge Arctic 8.5’ snowplow

Below, you can see the moldboard trip springs on my Western 10’ Heavyweight plow

 

[RjCorazza]

A steel edged pusher will jolt on an obstruction, but perhaps not as violently as a bucket edge that is generally parallel to the ground.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

When you say “snow pusher”, do you mean a snowplow? Yes, they are easier on the machinery than a bucket as they have a moldboard spring relief trip edge or the moldboard has trip springs.

Below, You can see the trip springs on my trip-edge Arctic 8.5’ snowplow

View attachment 2124019

Below, you can see the moldboard trip springs on my Western 10’ Heavyweight plow

View attachment 2124020

I had a trip plow and sold it with my other tractor but I was meaning snow pusher. they don't trip They are like a bucket but have runners. They are more like a box blade but they are on the front of the tractor.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

A steel edged pusher will jolt on an obstruction, but perhaps not as violently as a bucket edge that is generally parallel to the ground.

Thanks. People say they work good. Apparently they hold alot of snow and they roll the snow so it is easier to push. I'm looking at getting one because the bucket fetching up is hard on gear.

 

[jyoutz]

Thanks. People say they work good. Apparently they hold alot of snow and they roll the snow so it is easier to push. I'm looking at getting one because the bucket fetching up is hard on gear.

A lot of snow plow implements and techniques work well on pavement, but not so much on gravel. If the gravel is frozen, I think you could float the pusher and it would work unless you hit a big rock or something sticking up. If the gravel isn’t frozen, it will push gravel unless you hold it up a few inches above the road.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

When you say “snow pusher”, do you mean a snowplow? Yes, they are easier on the machinery than a bucket as they have a moldboard spring relief trip edge or the moldboard has trip springs.

Below, You can see the trip springs on my trip-edge Arctic 8.5’ snowplow

View attachment 2124019

Below, you can see the moldboard trip springs on my Western 10’ Heavyweight plow

View attachment 2124020

On a side note the Massey is a beast. Beauty of a machine.

 

[ruffdog]

Some snow pushers are made for hitting obstacles.

Arctic Snow and Ice Products | Sectional Sno-Pusher™

 

[Hay Dude]

Thanks. People say they work good. Apparently they hold alot of snow and they roll the snow so it is easier to push. I'm looking at getting one because the bucket fetching up is hard on gear.

Are you putting your loader in “float”?

 

[bdhsfz6]

I back drag snow with the bucket in situations like this. When a pile forms, I push it off to the side. Takes a bit longer but it's much easier on the FEL.

 

[RjCorazza]

Thanks. People say they work good. Apparently they hold alot of snow and they roll the snow so it is easier to push. I'm looking at getting one because the bucket fetching up is hard on gear.

With a rubber or polyethylene edge there is little chance of a sudden impact, although polyethylene would take a beating on gravel.
I split the difference between pusher and plow by adding wings bolted to my standard plow (which also trips). For smaller snows I use the wings, and take them off when I need to plow normal.
I have since added polyethylene edges to the wings pictured.

 

[Hay Dude]

This pusher has a sprung trip edge

 

[bdhsfz6]

I wonder how they deal with surface obstructions on these monsters:

Looks like it may have a rubber scraper

They're mostly used on airport runways though, which don't have a lot of rough surfaces.

I'd hate to see what would happen if it hit a solid object on one side. If the surface were slick enough, hopefully it would just spin the loader around. Otherwise, some serious (and expensive) damage would occur.

 

[Hay Dude]

I wonder how they deal with surface obstructions on these monsters:

View attachment 2124074

Looks like it may have a rubber scraper
View attachment 2124075
They're mostly used on airport runways though, which don't have a lot of rough surfaces.

I'd hate to see what would happen if it hit a solid object on one side. If the surface were slick enough, hopefully it would just spin the loader around. Otherwise, some serious (and expensive) damage would occur.

Thats got a float position. It would just hop over it.

 

[bdhsfz6]

Probably would if it's small enough. I'm thinking of a pipe sticking up a foot or more that's solid enough to not just shear off. Hitting something like that on one side would cause major damage

 

[House of Henniker]

I just made a snow pusher. It works great on my gravel driveway. I have the side skids raised up about 3/4 of an inch. It does go over rocks better than the bucket does. I dont think you will be disappointed with the snow pusher at all.

 

[bridge4]

I use a snow push, with a rubber edge. I clear a gravel parking lot, and 3 big driveways every time it has snowed the last 6 winters with a push on the front and blower on the back. When the ground is hard, I don't really get any stone, when its soft, or the first plow or two of the season I can get some. I just feather the push box up a bit. I do not put it in float, although I don't see why I couldn't.

I keep my rubber edge as close to 1/4 inch or so from the side skids, if I do it too much higher, the winrowing makes me crazy and adds a lot of time.