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 04-24-2017, 10:13 Post: 40290
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 Using an ATV to plow snow

I saw a friend plowing the parking lot of her family's hotel with her 4-wheeler two winters ago. She had just gotten a blade and was trying it out. The snow that was there was fairly hard and my impression was of the blade bouncing around a lot and snow coming off both ends of the blade and probably underneath as well.

I don't remember the blade angling but you'd think it would about have to. If it didn't angle, snow would come off both ends of the short blade, and you really couldn't clear a very wide area. But even if the blade did angle, I imagine the snow would get too deep trying to plow the stuff that had already been plowed.

Anyway, back and forth across the parking lot she goes all the while we were eating. She was playing with a new toy. I've never seen her or anybody else try to clear that lot with the 4-wheeler after that. They have a Cherokee with a blade, which isn't all that great either. Serious plowing here is done with 3/4-ton 4x4's.

For speed, you can't beat a truck since in moderate snows they plow about 10 mph faster than road gear on most tractors. I think tractors with a blade work at around 7-mph and maybe 3-mph with a blower. A tractor with a loader and blower may have an advantage over a truck in very heavy snows and drifts. A blower also can save a lot of time if there's no convenient place to put the plowed snow. A major skill in snow plowing is figuring out where to pile it and how far back to push it so you don't run out of space by spring.






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 08-03-2017, 20:20 Post: 69758
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 Using an ATV to plow snow

Several people around here have them but I don't think anybody depends on them for clearing drives. They don't carry much snow on the short blades. Even if the blade angles so snow comes off only one end nothing very wide can be done. You end up plowing snow that was already plowed and it gets too deep pretty fast. The main use for them seems to be clearing walkways and paths to ice fishing huts.

A friend who had a hotel got a new 4wd ATV and got a blade for it a couple weeks later. We saw her racing back and forth across the hotel parking lot with the blade bouncing around and throwing up birms either side of the blade. It also was putting very little snow off the lot. She was playing and she only did it once and then it was back to the guy with the plow truck.






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