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Snow plow for George

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I passed this guy on the road today and thought of your story about plowing snow with a cat loader. This guy was plowing well sites out before it melts completely. Kind of a make work project. The oil patch is sort of like that. :?
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That's a good looking plow. Our chinook has only produced the one day where we got to 3 or 4C - I don't think we got above 1C today. We got no ground clearing either but the snow has sunk a lot. Still I like this area - we like our moisture so much we try to hang onto it :D
 
Has been 3 to 5C here the last couple days, snow has sunk alot which is great for the cattle, not so tough to get around in the swath grazing fields, and they can find the last tidbits of swaths close to the ground much easier as well. Supposed to stay warm for a few days I guess.
 
Blkbuckaroo said:
Do they make those "v" plows for small tractors? Who Mfg them?
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Somewhere out there there is an old one off a smaller unit from the 1950's. You see them at the odd auction, right place right time. A far as some one making them new I'm not sure if there are smaller ones but Cat certainly could answer that.
 
per said:
Blkbuckaroo said:
Do they make those "v" plows for small tractors? Who Mfg them?
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Somewhere out there there is an old one off a smaller unit from the 1950's. You see them at the odd auction, right place right time. A far as some one making them new I'm not sure if there are smaller ones but Cat certainly could answer that.
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I'll search thier site,thanks.
 
Looks like it would work! I don't get the work often enough so I just have a 6 yard bucket on one and 6 1/2 on the other cat and a 5 yard on the hough - - - I don't look to get any this year ( I would rather not but if it gets deep enough )

We had 7" last Thursday and it was kind of miserable but most of it is gone now and with the long range forcast I guess I'll just keep hauling grain.
 
I don't know if they make a V plow or not, but Degelman Ind. makes some really nice blades for tractors, you should check out their website www.degelman.com
 
I finally got off dialup and am now able to upload to photo bucket :D
These are some of the snow removal tools we use here.
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This is a 980C that moves about 22MPH ( my daughter is trying to model) and with a 12' bucket (3406B engine putting out 425 hp ) it can make a pretty good hole . I bought this loader from the cat dealer with a locked up engine but I got a used engine with 2,000 hours on it in the deal and we put the engine in and after we had everything working it got cosmetic treatment. Three foot of snow or less does not slow it down. The bucket fills and then it just forms its own V plow.
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This is a 980B that I got used form a county hiway department with a blown engine. I put in a new factory engine (3306 puting out 375hp ) and we love this for snow removal as they had special gearing and it will run 40MPH The bucket is only 11' wide but 3' of snow just makes it laugh. I had to back up and run at one mile of snow about 4 years ago that was 5' deep from fence line to fence line and the county could not get it open. I could hit it and go about 1,000' before losing momentum and backing up for another run. I think I backed up and hit it again about 4 or 5 times but got that mile open in about 10 minutes.

The only time I ever had to use the buckets and dig thru was in the blizzard of 1978 and the county and army corp of engineers would give me locations to go to. Some of the drifts I dug out were 25' or higher - - - I made a few tunnels as I could not reach hi enough to bring the top down!
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This is the same loader all cleaned up. My daughter showed this male in 4H and brought down the house as he was supposed to stay and she was to move about 3' to the left. Worked very well through all the training but when the compitition was on he knew he was not allowed to go to her so he stuck out his left paw and just drug her back to him! Even the judge was laughing!

Notice that even though I run older equipment every light, turnsignal, brake, parking brake, wiper, 4way flasher, etc. work on every piece of equipment.

Most of my equipment I have rescued from junk yards but I get them in top running shape then steam clean, sand blast , paint and decals.
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If the snow is 12" or less we don't even get the loaders out as this will run about 40MPH and with a 14' blade angled to the right will make about a 12' wide path and direct all the snow the same way.
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All cleaned up and ready to work!
 
The front tires are on backwards as it gives better traction when they are leaned over to prevent side drift. The rear one is that way as we had a flat and just grabbed our spare.
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this is what we have had to use this year as we have had way more ice than snow. I use the teath and break the ice up then put the 7' bucket on and try to clean up.
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Even with teeth 6" long every6" it is still a chore to get thru the ice.
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This is what I get after about 5 or 6 passes with the demo bucket to break it up. I put this in a parking area so that when the thaw comes the gravel I have moved is still in an area where it is needed.
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And it almost looks like snow but trust me it's mostly ice.
 
Nice gear George. There are a few guys like you here that fix up older good equipment and get it back to work. They are handy to live near because they like to make their equipment work and pay and I like work, I could watch it all day. :wink: OK what I meant was when I need a job done it is usually cheaper to hire the rig and operator than to acquire the iron. Thanks for the pics, a grader operator here hit a snow bank on the road with a 500 horse unit and v plow so hard he bloodied his nose when he hit the windshield.
 
My grader is only 125HP but when I put chains on all 6 wheels it is pretty hard to stop. I will buy a V plow for it if I ever find one cheap! My wife says that should be my middle name as when I pass on something I feel is too hi but she wants she will jusy say "cheap, cheap, cheap"

I have really never looked to hard for one as if it gets that bad I just pull out one of the cats. But I'm just a big boy at heart and if I found one cheap ($200 to $500 ) I would get it just to mow around!

The front axel does not drive on this ( both rear ones do) but I still put chains on it if there is ice to keep it going where I want.

You guys up north would appricate that I have added and extra heater ( bunk heaters out of sleepers ) to almost every piece I own as when I'm out in the weather I want to be warm!
 
Thanks for the info.

I get bad side drift with my pull grader as someone removed the leaning wheel mechanism on the rear axle. I can't fabricate some of what is missing & haven't found another yet.


Heaters are nice. I got cheap & didn't buy a cab with new tractor but It isn't cold here that much.
 

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