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Old 12-09-2018, 06:12 PM
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Default Snow removal--first attempt

OK my Yankee and Mid-western friends, grade my first efforts on moving snow with a Cadet. So we have 9" of snow that will not hold you up (no good for sledding), you sink pretty deep in it. I used the 124 to clear in front of the garage (it never melts there). Now I did not intend to clear it all the way down to the concrete as we are getting sleet and freezing rain now--figured something not so tough under the bottom would be easier to scrape away. Anyway, lawn mower handles great on the concrete, pretty much a fast idle in low gear. I had trouble trying to get to the concrete while driving on gravel, one wheel would break through to the ground. I also had a little trouble with this when backing up on the concrete, got it "stuck" twice. So, is it the conditions or do I just need chains? I'm running loaded skinny ags with 160lbs of weights on the drawbar and my 200lb in the seat.
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Old 12-09-2018, 06:22 PM
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Wet snow is the hardest to plow, I have chains and 200lbs of weights and still spin the tires (on gravel), but that is at the end when I am starting to pile it up. I run 8.50 tires with 2 link chains.

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Pack the snow before you go sledding, dead bodies work well when rolled up in a carpet and rolled down a hill.
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Old 12-09-2018, 06:34 PM
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Pack the snow before you go sledding, dead bodies work well when rolled up in a carpet and rolled down a hill.
Oh yeah, we pack the heck out of it with 4 wheelers and Kawasaki Mule for making sled runs. Generally use an alternate route to make it back to the top of the hill. The 4 wheelers were having trouble with this stuff today.

The year we got 21" I packed my driveway with a farm tractor. BIG MISTAKE. 2wd truck and a Ford Thunderbird were not enjoying it for a week.
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Old 12-09-2018, 06:38 PM
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Always so much easier when the ground is froze up.
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Old 12-09-2018, 06:51 PM
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A set of 10.50 turf tires and chains will run circles around those little AGs..

I used to use basically run the same tractor with a 54 inch blade,,
the tractor never stopped, because of spinning,,

now,, I gotta say, I did not want the tractor to spin,, that would mess up everything,,
so I worked hard at driving the tractor so the tires did not spin,,

Run the tractor in the highest gear possible,,
I would rather slip the clutch in high gear than spin the tires,,,
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Old 12-09-2018, 07:06 PM
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I load the tires, use 2 link chains on turf tires and have small wheel weights.
no problem going where I want up to 12" with the thrower.
Any more than that, I am careful to make sure the thrower is ahead of the direction of travel so as to lower the depth of the snow.
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Old 12-09-2018, 07:41 PM
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Agree with CADplans. Ags are for mud in the garden not plowing snow. Turf or atv style tires loaded, with chains and weights if needed is the way to go.
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I agree with the others......chains on the turf make you go better.
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Old 12-09-2018, 08:29 PM
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Well, at least 5 of you guys are saying loaded turfs with chains. Hmmm, wonder what we have in the corn crib? No chains, but maybe a set of old turfs already mounted. Think there is a set here off a 110 Deere.

So, since I already have the ags, would they be better for summertime, mud, grass, loose/deep gravels as opposed to loaded and chained turfs? I will admit, those ags will flat out dig now with all the weight--seems to be the problem with the snow, they want to claw through it!
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Try what we find works, if you find differently, you can always go back what you like.
Do get the 2 link chains rather than 4 link.
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