Does this snow removal method not seem somewhat counterproductive?

jimbob200521 · #1 02-14-2014, 01:10 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3acZBP3DnUc

A rear mounted snow blade for a pickup. Hmm

Seems like piling up snow behind a pickup might cause a problem when trying to back up through it, why not just add wings to the front blade? I guess could see it being used in conjunction WITH a front blade to slightly widen the path but there are many clips in this video of the driver just using the rear blade. Thoughts, guys?

Shrewcub · #2 02-14-2014, 01:30 PM

I would like to see that move the heavy wet foot we got yesterday!

drglinski · #3 02-14-2014, 01:32 PM

Dad's got a rear mounted blade on his Farmall H that he uses to move snow...it works great till he pulls the snow and tries to back through the pile (rather than angling it off the side and/or pulling it and going forward); he buried it up to the oil pan this winter and had to be pulled out.

A neighbor of mine down the street has a rear box blade on his pickup he uses in conjunction with the front blade, but not nearly as wide as this one. I'm not sure how well it works, but the last time I saw him trying to use both at once his truck was doing a whole lot of spinning and not so much snow removal.

J-Mech · #4 02-14-2014, 01:33 PM

Yeah, that is the new thing. Got a friend who works in Chicago for a company that works on/ sells snow plows. Problem with the pickups, is they can't get into corners, and the front plow can't carry snow very far effectively. So, they made the rear blade with wings so it works like a box blade. Very effective. No different than the one on a tractor, it's just on a pickup.

jimbob200521 · #5 02-14-2014, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by J-Mech

Yeah, that is the new thing. Got a friend who works in Chicago for a company that works on/ sells snow plows. Problem with the pickups, is they can't get into corners, and the front plow can't carry snow very far effectively. So, they made the rear blade with wings so it works like a box blade. Very effective. No different than the one on a tractor, it's just on a pickup.

I couldn't agree more! Where I work, we've got a nice sized, simple, straight parking lot that any decent plow truck driver could clean up in little to no time. BUT, we've also got a very tight turn around up by the front of the building. Last year, the company we used for snow removal only had trucks and plows and after every snow, the turn around basically had a small path trough it because the trucks couldn't navigate around the tight turns. This year, we are using a different company and they bring in a New Holland skid-steer with not only a big blade but a box attachment that the driver can put on or take off in mere seconds, similar to the picture below. He drops it, plows, then picks it back up and cleans up, it's really a slick system they've got.