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Re: Moving snow with a blade
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Posted by Nolan on December 22, 2006 at 04:39:32 from (167.102.133.164):
In Reply to: Moving snow with a blade posted by sodly on December 21, 2006 at 10:08:22:
It works, you just spend a good bit of time looking over your shoulder. Some folks find that more uncomfortable than others. Similar the driving in reverse. Some are much better at it than others. Biggest advantage to going backwards is you don't build up a ball of snow in front of the blade that also happens to be under your tractor. You're also not driving over the snow first before trying to shove it with the blade. It really works a lot better going backwards. Since a little 5' blade is turned about 45 degrees, that's a narrow path of snow you're shoving, so a bigger blade tends to work better for this job. Keeps your tires out of the snow. But then it does an even better job of shoving the tractor sideways, so you're limited this way as well. My old 8N could handle the 5' blade well, and the old Jub could handle the 7' blade. And if there was much snow at all, the blade was lousy no matter what tractor was pushing it. As soon as you've piled up a few feet of wet snow nothing is going to shove it around worth a darn. Then you need to either use a true snow blade and roll it over, or use a blower and throw it over.
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