tractors for snow plowing use

[barracane]

tractors for snow plowing use
Hi, in this period I happened to see agricultural tractors set up for the snowplough service, on the front they are fitted with a plate and a bulldozer blade to clear the roads of snow, you can use them as you like, thanks

 

[barracane]

 

[Canal Navvy]

I'm well out of date but I did a fair few hours on a Muir Hill tractor with a Bunce angle blade on the front, back in the day. The MH tractor was already front heavy without the blade on and with it was probably 75/25. It would spin round on the brakes like a skid steer (which was handy snow drift bashing) and with a chain on the top link attachment point would pull artic lorries up hills.
The downside was that if you misjudged the size of the drift it would just go sideways through the fence

 

[DaveDCB]

One of my customers had this fabricated with my design, I used to keep their 15 acre factory & carpark clear in winter months. (Cost them £20k a day to close down in wages alone!!)
Very simple, drove the front bucket into it and two ratchet straps and away you go!
You could clear some snow with it!! A plough was mostly useless on that site given the sheer size of the place!

It used to take 2 Jcb’s and they had a big old foden gritter, with the ‘snow pusher’ I could keep up on my own no problem. Loved that little number

 

[Bri963]

I’ve had three serious goes at snow clearing in the UK (every time I’ve been to Sweden we’ve had to clear the test area every day but that’s never been more than a two hour job.

1987 I had two 18 and one 12 hr shifts on a 941 with no cab heater clearing roads north of Spalding where the snow had drifted over 6’. Had to pull a council snow plough out after he “showed me how to do it”. Another council plough somersaulted a Volvo 244 upside down into a ditch after ramming an unusually high drift.

2006 I had six hours on a 938H clearing all of the Perkins factory after a freak snowfall. In some places the snow had drifted up the side of the factory almost to the roof, about 20’. No heater again.

Last time was four years ago, a single drift in front of some loading docks. 299 CTL with heater and heated seat. That’s the way to go.

 

[tinydigger]

did some snow clearing back when i worked at the airport used to drive a Douglas p3 push back tug with a 20 foot blade on it could get a good push with that think i once did a full runway length in one push that ting was a beast

 

[barracane]

what better tractor and equipment for snow service?

 

[Canal Navvy]

Our roads get blocked by stuck vehicles so the most important thing for a tractor on snow plough duty is that it is big enough to help a lorry on its way

 

[barracane]

Does a 120 horsepower truck have to tow trucks? Do you think it's suitable with the weight of the equipment and the snow plow and grip chains set up?

 

[pettsy]

It’s not just HP though, it’s the gearing and grip. I remember years ago a mate getting stuck in snow with loaded wagon and drag 200m from his yard. Old 3CX and L200 struggled to even move it. His unimog pulled it like it was empty, didn’t spin or anything just squat and pulled with no drama!

 

[Smiffy]

It’s not just HP though, it’s the gearing and grip. I remember years ago a mate getting stuck in snow with loaded wagon and drag 200m from his yard. Old 3CX and L200 struggled to even move it. His unimog pulled it like it was empty, didn’t spin or anything just squat and pulled with no drama!

That's funny as unimogs are often a pain to tow agri trailers with as they are so light.
Someone local had an ex snow blower unimog with something around the 120 gear combinations.

 

[pettsy]

That's funny as unimogs are often a pain to tow agri trailers with as they are so light.
Someone local had an ex snow blower unimog with something around the 120 gear combinations.

I don’t know too much about the model/spec of it tbh, was pictured here at a local show.

 

[Canal Navvy]

I don’t know too much about the model/spec of it tbh, was pictured here at a local show.

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10 stud hubs ...... it'll be a bigun

 

[Lancs Lad]

I don’t know too much about the model/spec of it tbh, was pictured here at a local show.

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That back tyre setup...bet that things an animal

 

[V8Druid]

I don’t know too much about the model/spec of it tbh, was pictured here at a local show.

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no wonder it squatted and pulled ..... look at the boots on it

 

[Canal Navvy]

10 stud hubs ...... it'll be a bigun

2150 ....tenish tonnes and over 200hp ....it would pull pretty well

 

[barracane]

mercedes zetros?

?

 

[Lancs Lad]

Yup...Cumbria have them

 

[pettsy]

Only a handful of Zetros in the uk, I think a couple of yellow gritters and a tipper bodied truck. This black one was imported as a chassis by pete on the farm forum and converted to a spreader.

 

[Lancs Lad]

Spotted the beast...