Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Snow sticking in loader bucket

[RegL]

We get low elevation non-sticky snow (wet) so I haven't had this problem but what about paraffin wax? On small stuff like snow shovels we heat them up on the shop wood stove and melt the stuff on for a solid coating. Obviously you can't do that with a bucket but we'd put our cross country skis outside in the cold then just rub on a heavy coat of paraffin wax. Snow never sticks to either, even the skis up in the high country powder. We buy the paraffin blocks at the canning section of the market. Candle wax would work too.

I used paraffin earlier this Winter and it worked pretty well. I just took a bar of it and rubbed it in cold. It takes some elbow grease to get a good coat on that way. It's about due again and I'm thinking of shoveling some coals from the outdoor wood furnace into the bucket to warm it up before waxing it.

 

[Danno1]

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Well I can say one thing, dry snow or wet, Pam doesn't work on my snowblower.

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[Northland]

I find the snow sticks to the bucket no matter what. I have been leaving my tractor outdoors lately. We got hit with 18' of snow in the last 36 hours and despite being -15C this morning the snow sticks in my bucket.

I just live with it now that my tractor is banished from living beside the wife's car in the garage.

 

[DreaminGreen]

I normaly use spray silicone on the snow blower. A few times I used tire shine that stuff you spray on tires to make them shiny. Its a little expensive but it worked real good, as my brother says it's "slicker n snot"

 

[scott_vt]

I hate it when I get manure stuck to the firewood that sits in the passthrough next to the living room.

Evenin Teach,
Yes Ive got to agree with you on that one !!!

 

[bialecki]

I found the Teflon/ Silicone spray that Lowes sells works good (located in the tool section of the store). Granted you need to spray your Snow blower, snow blade or FEL after each use but it has work with the wet snow we have been getting in Southern CT.