Mf12 ok for snow plowing

mike2

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I have a factory snow plow for my mf12 tractor. Anybody have any experience plowing snow with this tractor and how does it do? I read about people pourig the piece under the seat wig cement for additional weight but I don"t want to do this. I have visions of spending time to get the plow hooked up only to find the tractor won"t push the snow, just sits there and spinns, or slips when trying to back up. I am also no planning on using chains because I don"t want to tear up my blacktop.
 
Depends on what tires you have if they're loaded, if you have wheel weights, how much YOU weigh, how fast you want to plow, how far you have to move the snow and how much/how wet your snow is. I'm blowing snow with a Wheel Horse with weights & chains and not seeing any damage to the blacktop but I don't rush it, slow and easy and I don't spin the tires very much. You're plowing snow that might require a little more aggressive attack. If you have a fairly aggressive tire (lugs or regular M&S tread) and not the wide floatation tires I'd think you'd be okay with wheel weights. You won't know until you try. Friend of our family ran a small country store with gas pumps up in Northern Illinois, for quite a while they did all their Snow removal with a 4HP Wheel Horse with a plow, it had lugged tires, don't think they had weights but might of used chains it's been years since I've seen our home movies with my Dad running the Wheel Horse doing their snow removal so I can't remember. They gave us the tractor when they closed the store there weren't any weights or chains with it, just the deck and blade but then again they hadn't used it for snow removal for about 10 years before they closed the store so the chains or weights might of been lost.
 
You push snow with momentum. I push snow up a fairly step concrete driveway with chains, one set of wheel weights, and my behind on the seat.

That MF12 will do quite well for you but without chains, you will need lugged tires and quite a bit of weight. On a flat area, you could get by with one set of wheelweights.
 
Everyone has given you good advice but ignored the same thing you did......LOCATION! Here in MN you can push snow with something like that but in a normal winter that's a lot of snow. Eventually you are going to get way more snow that a GT can handle with a plow. Plus with a plow you have to plan on where you are going to stack that snow at. A lot of 1st time plowers run into that problem. Couple of years back a guy started plowing out my FIL's place. I had ot go over there (10 miles) with a farm tractor twice to blow back the stack when this guy ran out of space to stack snow. The next year he started the stack way back! I kept a farm drive, long one, clear in MN with a Wheel Horse 12 HP and blower for years before I got the big tractor and 8 foot blower. GT's will do the work, they just take a little longer.

Rick
 
If the snow is deep I use my snowblower as long as the snow isn't wet. For a few inches I use my old Wards garden tractor with the snow blade. I have wheel weights and chains on it since it has turf tires. We didn't have any snow in 2012. I plowed the garden in Feb. It did snow a lot in 2010-2011. Hal
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I have a Ford LGT100 (10hp) with a front mounted blade.I"ll second what some have said. It works okay but you want to move the snow well off the
driveway. Then it snows again and the pile inches a bit closer to the driveway (and freezes) and pretty soon you"ve got a much norrower driveway. Advice: push the first snow well off the side.
 
I am in pa. At my old house, I once had to use my bulldozer to keep my road open. I moved and my new property is not big enough to maneuver the plow on my truck. I wanted to avoid chains due to possibly hurting my blacktop. I have a plow on my atv as well. Would like to use my tractor, seems fun. Any way to add weight with buying factory weights?
 
100 lb. of weight and use chains,you will not hurt the driveway unless just you sit there and spin the tires.
 
Test your engineering skills. Weld up, or if no welder avail, bolt together a platform on the rear of tactor. 4x8x16 solid concrete blocks weigh about 44# each.
Have 5 of these blocks hanging on rear of my JD 112, plus my 225# on the seat really counterbalances the 180# blower on the front. Don't need chains anymore.
Willie
 

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