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Alan, I beg to differ with you.
I have plowed commercially for MANY years and can tell you a properly equipped tractor will out-plow a pickup hands down every time.
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Alan, there's part of the problem, I'm in Canada,  .
OK, now you have changed the story, you said "Plus there is no way ANY tractor could keep up with the plow on the truck." Had you said "BX" instead of "any" I would have agreed with you.
If you were to put a comparable unit against a pickup you would see a big difference. Comparing a BX against a 7' blade on a 3/4 ton truck is like comparing a commercial FMM against a 19" Lawnboy. No contest.
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Beagle brings up an excellent point in his post.
Any time you are doing any kind of plowing, whether it's with a blade or the bucket, you must be sure that the equipment is protected from shock loads. In the summer that is fairly easy, a rock or stump in the soil will usually move enough to cushion, or come loose, when you strike it.
However, in the winter, even a small stone, or for that matter block of frozen whatever, will create enormous forces against the equipment when it is struck at any speed. Add to this the temptation to work quickly and get back into the warmth, and it could be an expensive 'oopsey'. It is also physically dangerous, a machine can stop suddenly or jump sideways in reaction to striking a frozen object, this can lead to whiplash or other injuries.
Believe me, when it's 20° outside and the snow is blowing, is NOT the time to break something.
Mind you I don't like breaking something when it's 72° and sunny either.... .
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No help from Dennis, I figger'ed it all by myself, same as the little ° for the degrees in reference to the temperature.
There are special codes for all the 'specialty' characters, such as with foreign languages, such as the new European money symbol €.
That way you can type 'Danke Schön' or 'Bitte Schön' or 'Möchtest du mit mir einen Kaffee trinken?' and get all the proper characters in there.
Mostly however I think it's best for making cute typed pictures Œ;-Þ}
As for the plow, we run all trip blade plows, not trip edge, that way when you lift the FEL a little to tip the blade down to scrape the edge doesn't just roll under all the time, it actually scrapes. I also like the poly plows better, ANY blade that far out adds a LOT of weight a long way out, a steel blade just makes the back that much lighter. Be sure to run a lot of rear counter-balnce, nearly max. for your tractor. Also, avoid the tempatation to put skid shoes on the mount and let all the weight off the FEL, you need the weight of the FEL over the front axle to maintain traction.
Thanks, for the comliment and please, feel free to pick what's left of my brain for anything else.
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We use plows made up here called Arctic Snowplows, they are now owned by the cabadain division Monarch Hydraulics. They are very well designed & built and seem to stand up to years of use well.
I would recomend against the use of the B/H, but it depends on the sites you are working on. Personally I think they protrude too far out back and block to much vision. As I'm sure you know, the two things you can NEVER have enough of when plowing are light & vision.
We use 55 gal. poly barrels with a drawbar stuck through them (a little off-center) and then filled with concrete and scrap steel. This seems to work well because the weight is low, well back because the drawbar is off-center na ddoes not obstruct visibility. If you use the milky white ones they look very neat and professional when finished.
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It isn't THAT far from snow in October.....
It seems funny to me to hear someone from Kentucky saying "Bring it on." when referring to snow.
I was at the auction at Keeneland a few years back when the 'great blizzard' hit, it was hilarious for us Northerners to see a city come to a complete halt because of a little snow. I was staying at the Marriott across from the track and they were plowing the parking lot with a small dozer because that was the only thing they could find to do it. They had the National Guard out on the Interstate in their 6by's and stuff 'rescuing stranded motorists.
The ALT codes can be found on the link below.
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Iowa, I hear ya', I have an uncle who lives halfway between LA & San Francisco, he closes his pool for the 'winter' because it gets down into the 50's and who would want to swim in weather like that!!!
He called up here to my place talk to his 'big sister' and to see how she was after having some tests done, since they were in the city they we're bunking with us. He got all upset when all he got was voicemail, he assumed that something had gone wrong. When we told him he got the VM because we were all in the pool he thought we were pulling his leg. He had checked the weather and it was only in the mid 40's here.
I agreed but said it was a nice night and the pool was warm, he thought we were NUTS. We enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.
Heck, the 30's overnight is only a lovely fall night.
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Dave, you're right, sort of, it was the Fairfield Inn, at 68 & 4, they are part of the Marriott chain.
I was going to leave the 'rather large woman' on the tailgate comment alone. I have seen stranger.
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