Santa brought a snowplow!!

[hillslider]

Merry Christmas everyone!

This year Santa brought me a snow plow for my Polaris 325 Magnum 2X4. I needed it not really for home use but to use at our church. It will be a lot easier to haul down than the Kubota L3130. It is a polaris blade so the install was pretty easy. The brackets all mounted to exhisting holes in the frame. It took me about 3 hours to get the job done. We do not have any snow on the ground so I went out and bladed the gravel drive to see how it would do. NO PROBLEM. I was amazed that it would push a blade full of gravel without spinning the tires. Really looking forward to some snow! As you can see in the pick my 4-wheeler is in bad need of a bath and you can see the mud mark on the blade to show how much I was pushing. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[hillslider]

Here is a close up of the blade. It has 5 positions. Center and two positions off to each side. Plus it has shoes and springs to allow the blade to kick foward in case something hard is hit.

 

[hillslider]

Here is a pic of the manual lift handle. I guess santa could not afford the electric lift kit. Maybe next year! But it is really easy to lift and lower. But you can only have it down all the way or up all the way. I just might have to do the elctric lift so you can have it at any position.

 

[hillslider]

Taking the plow on and of is really easy. You just drive over it and at the end of the push tubes is a "C" bracket and then some little levers that snap over it and locks it into place. Off in about 1/2 minute and back on in about the same time.

 

[hillslider]

Did I tell you that putting tire chains on can be a PITA. I think I should get re-baptized for the things that I muttered trying to get them on. But wow can I dig in the mud.......thus the bath that is needed. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[5030]

Hillsider:

I've considered getting a front blade for my wife's Honda Foreman 400 4X4. Seeing yours, just reinforces my belief that she could plow the driveway instead of me.

 

[JDgreen227]

About two years ago I purchased a Moose 50 inch County plow from Dennis Kirk for my wife's Foreman 450 which was already winch equipped. Told her it was HER Christmas present but she never wants to use it....lucky me !! It amazes me how much snow the plow will move and I don't even need chains. Prior to buying the ATV plow I used a JD 318 with a 54 inch front blade, even with chains, 100 lbs of wheel weights and 200 lbs of barbell weights hanging off the back I never had enough traction to use the power it had. The ATV will push twice the snow in half the time and not chew up our driveway in the process.

 

[5030]

JDGreen:

Bet you have a gravel drive like me. I think 99% of people here in the Wolverine have gravel drives. Must be the amount of quarries we have.

I like Dennis Kirk. You order it and 2 days later it shows up.

I put my new Lucknow 78" on the 5030 yesterday. It looks "industrial".

The kids across the road are bummed out. They know the school bus will be able to get through now. I like to blow the road down to the pavement. We get really big drifts here. Last year, they went 6 feet high.

Problem with a blower on gravel. The gravel will turn a blower into a machine gun. Hard on windows and bystanders alike.

 

[hillslider]

Well it snowed a little here in West Virginia.....so I was excited to try my new plow out. I loaded up the Polaris and headed to my church to clear the drive and parking lots. We only got 3 inches but I had a great time. The plow worked perfect and I was surprised how my little 325 2x4 would push the white stuff. Since I was doing a large parking lot I made one pass down the center and then went back and forth rolling it to the sides. By the time I was at the end of the lot I was rolling a pretty big windrow of snow. Great fun......we need more snow. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[boustany]

On your say so, I bought a Moose 50" for my 4Trax.

Works great so far, but they have to fix the instructions: the springs don't go where they say they go.

We had 3" of wet snow and it only took a few minutes to do my 700 foot driveway. I'll still use the 3010 for big snowfalls and on the weekend clearing the snow piled up by the plow.

Plus I can let my 12 year old use the plow, I really don't trust him with rotating machinery yet. I put a speed limiter on the 4Trax, so it tops out at about 14 km/hr. He has still managed 700 km (420 miles) on it in the past 12 months - and that's just around the farm!