Anyone have a snowplow

[taxx]

Yeah - but thats the crap I always hear when I wheel my Explorer!

I am talking overloading, such as a big plow on a soft front end, a 7k lbs trailer behind a small SUV.....


not saying I never did anything like that, just saying I have learned and know better now.

 

[TJM623]

might be stupid question....doesn't blowing end up making a pile eventaully i mean you have to blow it somewhere....

 

[Mbrooks420]

If you have a good higher hp 2 stage blower they can usually broadcast it far enough that it just makes the surrounding snow deeper, and more dense.

 

[glfredrick]

Any decent blower will throw that stuff over 40 feet in the direction of your choice... If it is really wet and heavy, it might take a bit more effort, but that stuff doesn't push either (unless you call pushing ramming a pile of solid snow at about 40 MPH - hence the call to get an old beater 3/4 ton 4x4).

You just blow it onto the lawn (or onto the neighbor's place ) depending on your particular frame of mind at the time...

This is what we had...

http://www.deere.com/en_US/ProductC...hment?attNmbr=BM20482&prodNmbr=SKU21483&tM=HO

It was quite a machine... Easily outworked most local snow plow rigs and we lived in an area where it needed to...

 

[Mbrooks420]

How much was the blower setup?

 

[glfredrick]

The John Deeres are the Mercedes of lawn equipment... just so that you are not shocked...

Our rig, complete was around $14,000.

You can get a good unit for less than $1500 that will take care of any driveway - plus cut the lawn in the summer...

We had the best becsue of the amount of ground we had to cover.

The JD's are full hydro (steering - lift - transmission - brakes - blower tilt and swivel, etc.) with shaft drives for all the accessories - and ours had the cab, heater, radio, blower, mower, and a few other things (wheel weights - tire chains - block heater, etc.).

 

[taxx]

You can get a high end walk behind self propelled with electric start for $900. Or you can go down from there to just a couple hundred. I have used both and it depends on the size of what you are doing.

 

[SteveVB]

Here's a thread with a Ranger and a nice Curtis plow (7" foot I think)
ranger with plow Suspension and drivetrain is similar to the Explorer, but the heavier explorer would push a bit better without ballast.
As for plowing with the Ex- depends on what you are going to do:
If your looking to do commercial work it wouldnt be a truck to use, but if you have your own property or a couple of small lots or driveways I wouldn't worry to much about using the Ex. with a decent blade.
Just take it easy and keep the truck maintained.
I plowed for a guy who ran a few rangers to do bank lots and drive thru's. I don't remember any problems and they were beat by the employees of the co.
Take a look on E-bay for used plows, seems to be more than a few this time of year.

When you get the plow post some pictures.