On Dec 23, 11:42�am, enigma wrote:
Sheldon wrote .
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enigma wrote:
Sheldon wrote:

Snow is finally stopping:

http://i40.tinypic.com/280axi.jpg

do you use the tractor to clear the snow, or do you also have a
plow truck or snow blower?
we got 30" +/-, but it's really blowy so some places are
very de
ep
& some are only a few inches.

I have a monster plow mounted on my tractor's front loader:

http://i42.tinypic.com/fdwyn5.jpg

�i have a plow for the pickup truck, but when it's deep it's easier
to use the tractor bucket. the road plow left a 4 foot bank at the
end of the driveway, but that was easy enough to pick up with the
bucket & move across the street & dump over the bank on that side.

With the blade angled I've no problem plowing deep snow... slices
through four foot drifts like a hot knife through butter and pushes it
off to the side. The huge pile left by the county plows at the foot
of my drive is no problem, I push that snow right across the road into
an empty field. If the snow is packed and starts to protest I simply
raise the plow while pushing, that always breaks it up so that on the
next attempt it's easy to push. I have a bucket too but it's of no
use for plowing, it just fills up and jams, and would take way too
many trips hauling loas of snow... and during freezing messy weather
I'm not about to be changing implements... so the plow is on for for
the duration during winter, the bucket is a warm weather implement for
loading. Unless I have a specific chore that needs the bucket I'll
put it on during change over, otherwise I remove the front loader
during warm weather as I use the tractor for mowing, I don't need to
be hauling an 800 pound front loader all those hours. For moving snow
a plow is the way to go, blowers are too dangerous.