Snow Snow plowing

[skyhook]

Just curious, Billrog...is your hoe 4x4 and are the rear tires loaded,
you certainly have the weight there, I'm wondering why it can't handle that hill.

 

[Thomas]

Little wind shaking snow from the tress will look like snowball fight,yep know about getting smack on the head when plowing,sure does gets one attention real quick.

 

[Looking4new]

I do all the sharp corners where it's steep mainly down hill the straight stretches get plowed going both directions . I've only gone over the bank 3 times in 23 yrs. then I get the backhoe and lift the tractor back on the rd.

It only takes one time to go over the bank wrong and you end up DEAD. Then someone else gets the backhoe to lift the tractor off you.

 

[Billrog]

Skyhook the hoe is 4x4 the tires are not loaded the machine weighs over 20,000 lbs. the way it's configured and with any traction what so ever goes very well. But when you get that much weight sliding on an icy surface just below freezing not much stops it. Today it's real cold so would probably be okay. Normally I would plow with the tractor then sprinkle a little sand before moving the backhoe so no chains are necessary.
Lookin4new all my rds. have a slight slope to the inside so going over the bank has only happened with the tractor when plowing to close to the edge clearing the snow over to get ready for the next snow fall. By then it's deep enough I don't go over very far just get hung up.