Let's See Your Snow Moving Equipment...

[Champ ionized]

Actually, I can imagine using that! This is what I am using.

 

[the bus driver]

How do you turn your dish washer in to a snow thrower?

Give her a shovel !!

 

[RacerRick]

I have a friend with a couple of Jeep J10's with Western plows. He finally had to retire his old blue one he bought new in 1975, and has been plowing commercially almost since new! Body was rotted to death and the frame finally rotted out.

So what does he do? Buys another identically equipped 1975 J10 (360/Th400/Quadratrack) and slaps his spare plow on it. He figures this one will keep him plowing until he dies.

 

[R1chy]

Actually, I can imagine using that! This is what I am using.

That is awesome. Any chance we can see a video of it in use?

 

[gasgas17]

Actually, I can imagine using that! This is what I am using.

I wouldn't want to get my hand caught in that one!

 

[bczygan]

We live on a corner so we have about 200' of 5' wide sidewalk, plus a 40' drive and 3 vehicles to keep cleared off. Plus 2 curbside parking spaces.

This is what I use. Easy on the back.

And good exercise.

As long as there are multiple small snows, I get right at them and keep up with it.

Have a snowblower that lives in a shed and is never used.

If a deep snow comes, I have a neighbor and his kid who do the whole shebang for $20.

 

[jd_77]

Sorry no pictures but I have an older murray 24" snow blower and newer 21" Toro snow thrower. But most of the time I can just shovel my driveway. I usually clear my driveway early in the morning so I try and be a nice neighbor.

 

[Strouty]

 

[Signal10]

This is what I use but no recent snow plowing pics.

 

[txvwnut]

Could you Imagine plowing with this in your downtown.

Might feel better in a zombie apocalypse.

Wausau Everest makes one very similar to that. Doesn't move snow worth a **** as it falls out of the impeller area since there isn't any feeder ribbons.

 

[Black hawk]

My girls at work

 

[jeep_boy02]

I hope that isn't you... But I suppose it technically does work

 

[Beaumont67]

Partners in Crime - son enjoying the garden tractor ride with power steering - John Deere 318 (1992 model, with 501 hours):

This Honda HS624 is 20 years old (2 stage really throws snow), never breaks down and still starts on the first pull.
- track drive & hydro (auto) transmission, are nice features

 

[mikester]

The JD318 ! The most popular garden tractor JD ever made ! I had a 316 set up the same way before I bought my 425 ! That little tractor moved a lot of snow in the time I owned it but I will say switching from blade to blower is much easier with the 425.

 

[bobcatdan]

The JD318 ! The most popular garden tractor JD ever made ! I had a 316 set up the same way before I bought my 425 ! That little tractor moved a lot of snow in the time I owned it but I will say switching from blade to blower is much easier with the 425.

I'd love a 332, the diesel version of the 318. Only problem with them is changing attachments are a real pain in the *** compaired the mighty 425.

 

[hedhunter9]

98 F150 with SnowDogg plow and my homemade wings and 2000 F150 with the same set up. Plowing some deep stuff.
Bob

 

[mikester]

I'd love a 332, the diesel version of the 318. Only problem with them is changing attachments are a real pain in the *** compaired the mighty 425.

Funny, my biggest complaint about the 316 was they way JD set up the hydraulic controls and forward/reverse. My 316 was a '78. To go forward/reverse and stop you had to use your right hand to move the lever. To control the power angle plow you were using your left hand. That made steering a pain in the ***. If that tractor had foot controls for forward and reverse it would have been a much better design. That's the biggest reason I went with the 425. Plus the power steering and ease of changing over the attachments.

 

[dbabicky]

I have shovels, 2 snow blowers, a riding mower with a plow and a 1948 8n with a back blade.

They all require me to be out in the cold.

I use this for 95% of my snow.



Heater, radio, power steering......


Tom

I'm jealous, I have a 2000 K3500 with a 8.5 foot straight blade Sno-Way, and a 1948 Ford 8N with back blade. I always use the Chevy. Looking for a 1 Ton dump truck like your Chevy though. Also a small dozer.

 

[Dajn]

I'm jealous, I have a 2000 K3500 with a 8.5 foot straight blade Sno-Way, and a 1948 Ford 8N with back blade. I always use the Chevy. Looking for a 1 Ton dump truck like your Chevy though. Also a small dozer.

A friend of mine has a ealier 80's chevy one ton with a dump box and it is four wheel drive which is hard to find. Would love to have it but he is not selling it.

 

[98XJ]

03 660 grizz been good to us

 

[viking01]

How do you turn your dish washer in to a snow thrower?

Give her a shovel !!

And then your run! Fast and far! ... and don't forget to zig-zag so she can't adjust her aim

 

[birmingham]

This I'm sure this is a very naive question, but why do you have to remove the snow from your driveway? why can't you just drive through it? my work truck has huge steel bumpers on the front and back couldn't you just run it over? Does it turn to ice if you run it over a lot?

here we don't get any real snow (it snows every year but it really is just ice on the ground) it can't be plowed or removed from the driveways its hilly here and we just wait a few days for it to melt.

 

[csp]

Deep snow can't just be driven through. If it's deep enough you get high centered on it, just like deep mud or sand. How deep you can drive through depends on traction, ground clearance and how wet/heavy the snow is.

It's not light fluffy powder that just moves with no resistance.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

Works excellent at making it move north, and east

Yeah, but inevitably it will catch fire, be swallowed by the Earth or break off and sink into the ocean...

Tommy

 

[birmingham]

Deep snow can't just be driven through. If it's deep enough you get high centered on it, just like deep mud or sand. How deep you can drive through depends on traction, ground clearance and how wet/heavy the snow is.

It's not light fluffy powder that just moves with no resistance.

So my thought process on this is my work truck for example, its a 4x4 with an all heavy steel work body, bumpers, 3500 with chains and a garage to build momentum. if driven every day then i should be pushing all the snow back into the road from the night. My wives car wouldn't work out so well, its made from plastic.

Would this work? does anyone do this?

 

[csp]

If you have momentum and a short distance to blast through, sure it's possible.

You need to understand that some of us are plowing long distances though. I had a half-mile of 3-4' drifts that had to be removed earlier this week on my driveway. Unless you have a deuce-and-a-half or equivalent (or larger) you're not going to be blasting through snow like that.

I got a 4wd tractor with chains and 26" of ground clearance at the front axle stuck just playing around in these drifts before digging it all out.

 

[ipse_dixit]

You're actually compacting the snow below your vehicle. Eventually, the snow will provide enough lift that you won't have traction. I've tried doing this in the past. I don't any longer.

The end of the driveway is usually the worst, when county plows pile up what they've removed from the road.

 

[Asphalt Angel]

Chuggie!

 

[csp]

This I'm sure this is a very naive question, but why do you have to remove the snow from your driveway?

Forgot to add that plowing is also done so that police/fire/UPS/mailman/visitors/FedEx/etc can get to where they need to go.

 

[Hondarancher4435]

Just bought a ******* 100 articulating loader. Putting a new engine in it now hoping to have it ready for the snow

 

[Techie1961]

This is my kit for this year. I bought the blower at the end of the season last year and haven't tried it yet. It's all ready to go though as we enjoy weather that has me out without a jacket most of the time.

I also have my other 455 set up with a plow.

 

[bagged89s10]

Here is mine. I got it for free and rebuilt the gearbox last winter right before the first storm.

 

[billwood437]

My dynahoe snow movers.

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[Chris Stack]

Here's mine... Ariens compact 24, 205cc briggs

Ditto.

 

[bfarroo]

Simplicity Sunstar 20

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[NotV8]

30" walk behind snow blower for the back patio and 68" for the front and driveway…

 

[Junkman]

This is my kit for this year. I bought the blower at the end of the season last year and haven't tried it yet. It's all ready to go though as we enjoy weather that has me out without a jacket most of the time.

I also have my other 455 set up with a plow.

Better build yourself some type of cab or you will be covered with snow before you make your first pass. I went one season without a cab, and quickly learned that the wind will blow the snow back at you no matter what direction you have the chute facing. A cab with a heater make it much more tolerable to deal with snow, especially as you get older. I have a 1979 Ford F250 with a plow and a dump body on it, and haven't used it since I bought the tractor with the snow blower, back around 2003. That truck was bought new just for plowing and dirt hauling by a cemetery, and I bought it from them through a 3rd party in 1982. It never went across the road in the winter, and I never had reason to drive it in the warm months, so it has about 30K on the odometer. Haven't looked at it in years, and it rests comfortably in the field behind the house. My wife keeps saying that I should sell it, and I keep using the old line... "someday I am going to restore that old truck". Not ever going to happen, in my lifetime in reality, but it is a thought.

 

[ishiboo]

30" walk behind snow blower for the back patio and 68" for the front and driveway…

Kioti's are pretty in Bobcat white! How do you like it?

 

[Hpozzuoli]

You guys with the JD Tractors with plows, have any of you that have gators tried retro fitting them to the gators. What all was involved. I just put a winch on my gator 4x2 in hopes of sticking a plow on it.

 

[glider]

Chomping at the bit!