Enjoying my Pusher

[shooterdon]

not sure how big your tractor is but my approx 6500Lb L4740 with studded industrial tires runs out of traction pushing heavy wet snow even with a 1200Lbs blower on the back. I find it is easier to wait out the storm and clear it once at the end with the blower. leaves the edges really nice and saves fuel. This is all on flat ground and a small driveway by rural standard, U shaped probably 400 ft total. only the rear tires are studded but it wouldn't really matter because when you drop the loader into float you lose alot of the weight on the front tires anyways. when I get stuck it does help to lift the loader just up off the pavement to put some weight on the front tires.

My tractor is about 5500 lbs. I have oversize loaded turf tires.

I had a blower for five years and used it less than 25 times because we do not get the amount of snow we used to get years ago. Saving fuel is not on my list of things that matter. Another 15 gallons of diesel beats the pita of hooking up a blower, lubing chains, and replacing shear pins on a blower. I spent $200 getting the V plow serviced last year. A pusher is zero maintenance and easy on/off.

I expect to deal with snow 12 times a year. I don’t do anything if we get less than 4”.

The first time using the pusher I did not use the float function. I wonder if that was why the tractor did not get pushed around?

 

[Harrygoodwrench]

I am considering a pusher, but it would have to push for 300 feet down a steep paved driveway. No place to push it to until I get to the road. I would push it across a lightly traveled road with a 10ish foot drop into the woods on the other side of the road.

How deep do you think the snow could be for a 5 foot pusher to handle pushing 300 feet? I could start on one side and if there is overflow towards the middle of the driveway, pick that overflow up on the next pass. And work my way across. Maybe 3 passes with the overflows.

Another possibility is to use my rear mount 64" snowblower to go down the middle of the driveway for deeper snow. Then use the pusher to push roughly 2.5 feet wide passes on each side.

Are any of these scenarios feasible? Or am I in la la land? I'd like to minimize my time in reverse, and we do get a lot of 3 or 4 inch storms where I think a pusher would be great and could handle the snow by itself.

I have a 66" snow pusher and a rear PTO snowbower.
In your instance I'd use the snowblower to make a starter path then use the pusher to push the rest of the snow.