Show me your snow plow rig

[fastfredracing]

We are supposed to get hammered starting tomorrow .
The cab is ready to fall off my 76 k20, but it pushes snow like it is it's job ( it is )
I have a love affair with ratty old snow plow trucks. It all started , when I was 19, I worked for a transmission shop. He had a rusty jeep willys with a blade on it . It had no floors, or doors, but had forward reverse, and a heater . I always loved coming early to plow the lot. I would have paid him for the honor . With a manual transmission, and a manual winch up and down plow, you were a busy guy operating that thing
I have had probably 5 different plow trucks now , every one of them were under 1500.00 rust buckets . A few of them I fixed up, and few of them I ran with stop signs for floor boards, and bungie cords, and coat hangers holding things together. I had a Ramcharger, with so many holes in the floors, that it would fill up with snow behind the drivers seats when you were plowing
Any who, here a couple of my most recent ones .



My buddy just sent me this video .

Lets see yours, tractors, and quads are cool too!

[Rusty Heap]

[2porscheguy]

[Seahawk]

The day I brought it home six years ago. It, uh, doesn't look nearly as nice now.

Absolutely changed winters for me.

[speeder]

Wow, that's a cool rig, Paul!

I grew up in MN. where there are plows hanging off the front of PU trucks all over the place. I recently watched some snow plowing videos on YT, (talk about a rabbit hole), and the guys w snow removal businesses in MN. are making so much $$ that one guy seemed to have two new diesel Super Duty trucks in his driveway, (including the one he was plowing with), plus a nice FJ Cruiser and a nice house to boot. The PU trucks are about $70k each, not including sales tax and of course the plow. Kind of mind-blowing to me, how spending that much on capital equipment makes business sense but wtf do I know?

My other observation is that anywhere people use PU trucks w blades on them doesn't really get much snow. Go to Mammoth or Tahoe some time in CA. and you will never see one. They simply would not work...they would get stuck and not be able to toss the snow out of the way. Only blades are on Class 8 dump trucks, (DOT), otherwise, everything is augers. Giant augers on various sizes of skid steers, etc.

[speeder]

Looks like this after one snow fall:

[speeder]

One word: Augers.

[DonDavis]

[pavulon]

It's tough to beat the efficacy of a 2 stage snow blower. A gallon of fuel moves a LOT of snow that way.

[Tom '74 911]

Not the newest, quietest or prettiest, but it gets the job done.

[911boost]

None of my buddies that plow snow here have diesel pick ups, they all use gas powered ones...

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by 911boost

None of my buddies that plow snow here have diesel pick ups, they all use gas powered ones...

None of my buddies plow snow here, they all use vaccums to clean out beach sand from time to time.

[unclebilly]

Here is what I use...



I’ve walked through wind packed snow 4-5’ deep with it and can plow at 12 MPH (top speed) without issue.

It is a ***** when it gets stuck.

[pavulon]

It's tough to appreciate how solid snow can pack until a few cold days of 30-40 mph drifting needs to be addressed.

[dheinz]

This boro truck is what I use for my town. I am retired but on call for snow removal. Looks like another busy week ahead...

[slow&rusty]

[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by unclebilly

Here is what I use...



I’ve walked through wind packed snow 4-5’ deep with it and can plow at 12 MPH (top speed) without issue.

It is a ***** when it gets stuck.

If size matters then unclebilly wins. Having said that it has multi uses on the farm. Well done ub!

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by speeder

Wow, that's a cool rig, Paul!

For our climate it works like a charm...6x6 FTW!

We honestly use it every day 9 months a year on the farm. I even bought a small utility trailer and rigged it with all my wife's gardening stuff...she tows it to the job site

You are right about real snow. When we are going to get more than a foot (once every few years) I have to plow when the snow is still six inches or so. The key for me is the blade is adjustable from the drivers seat, I am facing forward, and warm.

What used to take me well over an hour (a mile and a half of road) now takes about 20 minutes.

A guy I ran rivers with in the 70's was from Truckee. He told me they average over 10 feet of snow a year!

I just looked it up and he was full of schit: They average 14 feet of snow a year

https://www.bestplaces.net/climate/city/california/truckee

[fastfredracing]

I knew you guys would have some cool stuff !

[white85carrera]