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First Time Plowing Snow in Watking Glen - Not Pretty Either
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First Time Plowing Snow in Watking Glen - Not Pretty Either
Well, like Spaceghost, this morning was the first time plowing snow in Central NY. We had about 7 inches overnight with a slick coating of ice. It's not the fact that the Cub can't push it. I think if I had the traction, I could push the end of a car out of the way. I have 9.5 x 24 turf tires with 300 lb of wheel weights. The problem lies in my driveway. Asphalt, 20' x 90' or so with a 15% incline
The worst part of it is that my neighbor, a retired policeman, offers to rid the neighborhood of snow (something like Superman) with his brandy new $12,000 + hydraulic driven Cub Cadet Tractor complete with hydraulic snow blower attachement, seat warmer, coffee maker, toaster, frying pan etc. etc. The thing is a real beauty but I'll never let him know that.
Anyway, I'm in mid spin with my Farmall and he comes racing up the road and starts blowing the driveway across the street. He cluck clucks that it's too bad I don't have a set of chains and to add insult to injury, my wife comes out and tells me to have "Phil" do our driveway.
Of course, my pride kicked in and with a few shouts of "never" and I'll drop dead before I ask him, I proceeded to hand shovel the driveway yet another time.
Ok. Anecdotes aside, I have one question for all of you. As it appears that Tirechains.com is getting a whopping business this year, it looks as though I'm going to order a set of ladder chains. $111.00 I think. I'm thinking that this will be the most asphalt friendly of the bunch. But let's talk about shoes. I placed two on my grader blade and I think that it leaves way too much snow on the pavement. They're adjusted down about as far as they're going to go with approximately 1.5" of clearance underneath. Has anybody with an asphalt drive had any problems taking the shoes off and scraping the surface directly? I'm concerned that I'm going to gouge up the new surface that we just had placed 2 years ago. I'd rather leave the shoes on of course so, I'm open to ideas of how to retrofit the existing ones.
The worst part of it is that my neighbor, a retired policeman, offers to rid the neighborhood of snow (something like Superman) with his brandy new $12,000 + hydraulic driven Cub Cadet Tractor complete with hydraulic snow blower attachement, seat warmer, coffee maker, toaster, frying pan etc. etc. The thing is a real beauty but I'll never let him know that.
Anyway, I'm in mid spin with my Farmall and he comes racing up the road and starts blowing the driveway across the street. He cluck clucks that it's too bad I don't have a set of chains and to add insult to injury, my wife comes out and tells me to have "Phil" do our driveway.
Of course, my pride kicked in and with a few shouts of "never" and I'll drop dead before I ask him, I proceeded to hand shovel the driveway yet another time.
Ok. Anecdotes aside, I have one question for all of you. As it appears that Tirechains.com is getting a whopping business this year, it looks as though I'm going to order a set of ladder chains. $111.00 I think. I'm thinking that this will be the most asphalt friendly of the bunch. But let's talk about shoes. I placed two on my grader blade and I think that it leaves way too much snow on the pavement. They're adjusted down about as far as they're going to go with approximately 1.5" of clearance underneath. Has anybody with an asphalt drive had any problems taking the shoes off and scraping the surface directly? I'm concerned that I'm going to gouge up the new surface that we just had placed 2 years ago. I'd rather leave the shoes on of course so, I'm open to ideas of how to retrofit the existing ones.
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Scotty. As I don't have an asphalt drive, this is just an opinion. I don't believe the blade will ruin your drive more than chains or your shoes will. Your shoes will have more of a tendency to dig into asphalt. Just don't put a lot of down pressure on the blade. I would think if you can adjust the shoes to be equal with the bottom of your wear plate, you will be just fine. Your problem will be wearing the bottom of your plow down (wear plate) if you take the shoes off completely. It's too bad they don't have slots instead of holes for adjustment. Otherwise, I would give it a try.................
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take the shoes off!!!!!!! I had a big ashfault driveway. You can float that blade anywhere you want it just set your hyd stops where the best height is. I usualy let it ride light on the ashfalt becasue the tire chains will do more damage then the blade. It will work out just fine take them off and try it!
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Scotty, look at the vertical tilt on your blade. By tilting the top of the blade forward you can lower the cutting edge of the blade and still keep it off the pavement.
Another option is to tweak the shoes with an impact fine tuning tool (big hammer).
Another option is to tweak the shoes with an impact fine tuning tool (big hammer).
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I've tweeked the shoes with my impact tool pretty well but they're only going to bend so far since the lower nut on the mount gets in the way. The steel tends to curl around it. I actually thought about mounting the shoes backwards so that the shoe is on the front of the blade. That way, I can hammer them more into a 90 degree bend rather than a sweep.
True about the chains. They were going to be a last resort on the pavement due to potential damage but what are ya gonna do right? Otherwise, Henry's just a big paper weight in the snow.
True about the chains. They were going to be a last resort on the pavement due to potential damage but what are ya gonna do right? Otherwise, Henry's just a big paper weight in the snow.
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Scotty,
I thankfully used to plow over 500 ft of asphalt drive. I never had shoes for the plow and the plow never hurt the asphalt. The chains on the other hand tend to chew into the asphalt if you get any wheel spin at all. My drive was very steep also and as long as I didn't try to back-up the hill I had no problems
I thankfully used to plow over 500 ft of asphalt drive. I never had shoes for the plow and the plow never hurt the asphalt. The chains on the other hand tend to chew into the asphalt if you get any wheel spin at all. My drive was very steep also and as long as I didn't try to back-up the hill I had no problems
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Its been a few years since I've plowed snow with my Cub, but when I did I put 2 weights on each wheel for a total of 600lbs. I had one occasion to plow on asphalt and I felt like I was driving a tank. No chains just lots of weight. Unless its coated with ice, pavement should be a piece of cake. I've got 850' of gravel, now thats a whole different story!
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WOW, You got snow Cool. I live down here in Hannibal and we got about 2" last night and a quarter " of freezing rain. Its been green here most of the season I think the syracuse station said we had close to 13 feet this time last year. I cant wait to go play with my cub I have loaded tractor tread tires with weights and chains. Send some of that snow 50 miles to the west will ya. JON
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He would have to send it a bit North too wouldn't he??????????????
I am not set up at all with my Cub to plow.
I'll be in northern Deleware county next tues for a couple of weeks to finish insulating and finish the 1st floor Bathroom. I don't know if I want snow or not. I'll have to take the back hoe off and put the 3 point plow on if it gets too bad. Got to do something with a 1000 foot drive. At 72 i am too old to shovel and too lazy to park at the street and walk in and out. Like the man said a man has to do what a man has to do.
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I am not set up at all with my Cub to plow.
I'll be in northern Deleware county next tues for a couple of weeks to finish insulating and finish the 1st floor Bathroom. I don't know if I want snow or not. I'll have to take the back hoe off and put the 3 point plow on if it gets too bad. Got to do something with a 1000 foot drive. At 72 i am too old to shovel and too lazy to park at the street and walk in and out. Like the man said a man has to do what a man has to do.
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