How do you plow snow?

   / How do you plow snow? #161  
This is from last year, first and only time I cleared the snow ... Usually it's melted by the time I get home, as I'm a long distance over the road truck driver, and gone for weeks at a time ... If I had my pickup, I would have just driven through it like my neighbors do ... But I had me semi-truck, and a light load, backed off the road and got stuck on flat ground!

We had gotten about 6" the previous day and cold, and it had started to warm up as I was getting home and it was getting soft, packed to ice under my tires ...

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   / How do you plow snow? #163  
How do y'all remove snow? Plow truck, snowblower, 3-point back blade, etc.
Our primary snow mover is the 1989 Jeep Cherokee XJ with a 6'6" Western snowplow. It does a real good job with a front diff lock, 5 speed with the 4.0L. It's nice to have a heated cab. Traction becomes an issue in wet, sloppy spring snows though. View attachment 4419913
2008 Arctic Cat 500 4x4 and a 5’ blade. Makes easy work of 3000’ of driveway
 
   / How do you plow snow? #164  
Nice! I can see why that one is not your plow truck!

I have a ā€˜51 Dodge M37 (Korean War pickup truck). It’s very mechanically sound (engine & transmission rebuilt, brakes upgraded, etc), but it’s more of a ā€œwork in the woodsā€ truck (or occasionally haul a pile of kids for some parade or other event. I’ve been debating adding a plow, but Vermont winters are not nice to vehicles: I just have not been able to bring myself to subject it to all of the road salt. I did get tempted when a local friend advertised a nice Fisher plow for sale.
 
   / How do you plow snow? #166  
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That's the glossiest Rat Rod patina I've ever seen. Nice (y)
 
   / How do you plow snow? #167  
   / How do you plow snow? #169  
Nice truck. Who did the louvers?
The truck is the way we bought it (including the louvers), primer, partially sanded back over the earlier red paint. I did a wipe-on clear to keep the primer from rusting. After two years we're still unsure if we're going to paint it. Probably not.
 
   / How do you plow snow? #170  
The truck is the way we bought it (including the louvers), primer, partially sanded back over the earlier red paint. I did a wipe-on clear to keep the primer from rusting. After two years we're still unsure if we're going to paint it. Probably not.
The rat rod look is in, I think it looks good just the way it is.šŸ‘
 

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