Show your Plow Shop

[drive in guy]

[attachimg=1]I wish we had snow to plow this year, the farmers could use the moisture. Here is a picture from 2011 where I'm using the Cat 248 skid loader with an 84" snowblower to clean between the house and the barn/woodshop. We live in the middle of SD in the country with about 2 miles of a driveway to get to the county road that gets plowed. We are on our own to get down our driveway.

Most of the farmers around here have snowblowers for the 350 HP 4wd tractors that they use to clean out feed bunks so they can feed the cattle, those babies can move some snow!! I could find my pictures of these but they are JD Green

 

[semenza]

Most of the farmers around here have snowblowers for the 350 HP 4wd tractors that they use to clean out feed bunks so they can feed the cattle, those babies can move some snow!! I could find my pictures of these but they are JD Green

  Would love to see some pictures of those in action. I am in the middle of farm country here in NYS. Lots of huge tractors but very few with snow blowers. Mostly they just use the silage blades on the tractors to plow snow here. Or the payloaders.  Box blades are becoming a bit more common though.

Seth

 

[alex946]

Alex,

  Is that lifting eye on top of the blower just to aid removal?

I've never seen someone used this lifting eye. But, according to the rules, it is necessary to have heavy equipment

 

[Tinker]

Another 8 inches this weekend here in Eastern MA. I snow-blow our 2 driveways, the elderly lady's across the street and a run for the dog out back. Takes me about 45 mins per storm.

You guys out in Eastern CT and MA must need periscopes to see over the snow banks by now.  another snow storm and it will look like Shemya (sp???) air base at tip of Aleutians off tip of Alaska back in the 50's.  We landed there on our way to The Orient.  When we landed, we could see no buildings, just a few humps in the snow.  we got out of the plane, and were led t a hole in the snow.  We entered into a roadway of tunnels, the most important of which led to the mess hall.  I had never seen snow that deep around buildings before.  I did see high banks of sno on Mt. Rainier a week or so before.  I had hitchhiked to the lone ski area on the West side of the mountain.  A couple had picked me up, and since i had no particular area I had planned t travel other than to be back at Ft. Lewis before 11 pm curfew, i went along with then to the ski area.  There was a large open area where a few cars were parked.  I high snow bank surrounded the area.  I don't know what equipment had piled it so high.  Sno blowers were not around yet.  here were ladders leaning against the sno banks, one of which my new friends climbed with shies on their shoulders.  I climbed up to see what was happening.  People were skiing from the edges of the sno banks down the side of the "hill"  there was a small engine that reminded me of the old Clinton saw motor we had used back on the farm to saw firewood.  It was the type that fired a couple of times to build up speed and then it would coast along until it slowed to somewhere just above stall speed.  it then fired up again. (If nobody else has seen or heard those old engines, I am pretty sure Darcey knows what I am talking about.) That engine was turning the wheel that operated a rope tow that disappeared somewhere down the hill.  I stayed around for a few minutes until I noticed somebody heading for their car.  I hitched a ride back to the lowlands.  There was 12 feet +/- snowbanks on the mountainside.  The day before, I had been watching the Daffodil Parade in Puyallop (sp???) only 60 +/- miles away.
Tinker

 

[hrrb]

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Yeah yeah yeah...I know it needs an explanation  [big grin]

Clearing the roads is taken care of by the city. I pay for it trough taxes.

So what's the box of beers for then? Well...I still have to clear the sidewalk. If I don't I'll get a fine  [scared]
So further up the road there's a caretaker with all the right gear. A real nice guy.

Every year in december I buy him a box of beer. And then he takes care of clearing my sidewalk during the whole winter. As I said A REAL NICE GUY!  [wink]

From the pavement to my front door there is approx. 25 ft which I handle with a shovel.

/Henrik

 

[rst]

Tinker, that was a hit and miss motor http://auto.howstuffworks.com/183-how-hit-and-miss-engines-work-video.htm

 

[Tinker]

Tinker, that was a hit and miss motor http://auto.howstuffworks.com/183-how-hit-and-miss-engines-work-video.htm

We used to call it a Skip Engine.  Same idea.  I loved the sound with it chugging and wheezing.  That site you indicated shows a row of John Deere engines.  where i was farming, it was all John Deer or McCormic Farmall.  you either loved one or hated.  either way around, there seemed to be no compromise.  The Farmalls were 4 or 6 cylinder and ran more smoothly.  the JD's were 2 cylinders and you could "count the strokes".  I loved to listen to them but hated to drive as it seemed like i just did not have enough hands to operate.  The JD's were especially noted for the fact they would run on anything that you could pour into them and burn.  Kerosene was cheap and they ran pretty good on that.  I was brought up driving the Farmalls, so I was in that camp for operating, but still loved the sound of the "Poppers"
Tinker

 

[fritter63]

Just wanted to show you the kind of plowing we've had to do out here in California this week:

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[Tinker]

Just wanted to show you the kind of plowing we've had to do out here in California this week:

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[dead horse]

 

[Sparktrician]

Just wanted to show you the kind of plowing we've had to do out here in California this week:

I quote my ex-father-in-law:  "SMAW TASS!!!" 

[big grin]

 

[Gary in Texas]

Some areas of Houston experienced frost on their windshields yesterday morning!!!!

The top story on the 10PM news on channel 13ABC was a weather alert that some areas could experience below freezing temperatures for up to 3 or 4 hours overnight....  Near panic set in!!! 

 

[semenza]

Some areas of Houston experienced frost on their windshields yesterday morning!!!!

The top story on the 10PM news on channel 13ABC was a weather alert that some areas could experience below freezing temperatures for up to 3 or 4 hours overnight....  Near panic set in!!! 

    It's all relative of course and we are having a month of below average temps. But we were pretty excited about having one day that was 16F and one day that hit 20F. And those high temps for the day lasted at least two hours!  [eek] The rest of the last couple weeks hovered just above and just below zero.
    Last nights weather forecast put us in the 2" - 4" zone but the level non-drifted snowfall in the driveway is 6". I had a two day reprieve from plowing but time to fire up the Grasshopper again.

    How are you Boston and New England people holding up after the latest round?

Seth

 

[semenza]

Just wanted to show you the kind of plowing we've had to do out here in California this week:

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pheeewww, man, you've got some serious frost to scrape off there. At least I think I can see some frost,....... no?, ... it's 70? ........  huh, oh well.  [big grin]

Seth

 

[fritter63]

Just wanted to show you the kind of plowing we've had to do out here in California this week:

I quote my ex-father-in-law:  "SMAW TASS!!!" 

[big grin]

If it makes you feel any better... I have to go to Detroit next week.  [eek]

 

[Thunderchyld]

It's nice to see a snow blower with a lifting eye, considering the number of lift bars I built and installed on regular snow blowers for a friends company.  I'll see if I can get him to send me a picture of one of his trucks, I like how he's got them set up.  8' V plow and a custom bed. 

The custom beds are kind of nice, originally designed and built by his FIL(since retired).  FIL built the first bed because my buddy and his wife were just expanding the company from landscaping(college buddy, he ran landscaping during the summers) and were working together on the job, but having troubles.  The snow blower was hard for the two of them to get in and out of the truck when it was just a standard bed, then they were looking at adding a salt box.  Add in trying to lift the blower over the side of the bed and it would be impossible to single-truck things. 

There's a short flatbed section right behind the cab with a custom crane for the snow blower.  Kind of a derrick crane, when the jib is up the blower is on the bed, when it's down, it's just hanging off the edge, ready to lower.  Behind the blower deck is a double chambered spreader with mixing capability.  Their reasoning behind having both salt and sand available is dealing with rural driveways that aren't paved.  Personally, I think the double chamber was more of a nod towards the family pastime of racing snowmobiles, so they could grit the race lanes, but it does get used on the job as well.

 

[Tinker]

Quote from Seth >>>I had a two day reprieve from plowing but time to fire up the Grasshopper again.

 

[semenza]

Quote from Seth >>>I had a two day reprieve from plowing but time to fire up the Grasshopper again.

 

[WoodWhisperer]

Here's mine. '91 dodge 3/4 ton diesel.  This truck has a lot of power!  I clear 10 lots that the company I work for owns. With the 6-8" of snow we got over this past wkend, it took me 10 hours to get it all cleaned up.  I really dislike winter!
Sean

 

[WPeters]

Here is our setup.  2012 diesel 2500hd Z71.  Boss Plow

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[Billedis]

Darn, had to mow the grass today.  A little cool, only 62 out, but supposed to be in the 80's all week next week.  Bill, Riverview, FL