Snow pushers

Doug Wi

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Are becoming very popular for snow removal as you don't have to dump the bucket each time. . Some have a steel bottom/cutting edge and some have rubber. which is best?
 
Rubber won't peel through hardpack like a steel edge, and sure polishes up the stuff left behind. However, rubber won't tear up turf like steel either
 
thats what I was thinking. The steel would be better for large paved areas, but the rubber probably wouldn't move as much gravel/ sod.
 
All of mine but one is rubber. Rubber is fine, more forgiving and good for 95% of the time, but that steel is hard to beat in hard pack. We do our jobs early on so rubber works well ( before it gets packed down). And we ice melt most so a little smear leftover is no big deal.
 
Always fun to see what an Inexperienced plow boy can do to gravel lots or roads. Snow melts and maybe a third of the gravel is in a huge pile. Isnt it a good idea to have heavy duty wheels or swivel skid shoes on your blade? My Gravely dog eater form the 50s to mid 60s has two big honkin black swivel gauge wheels. I have them set to leave about one inch. Almost impossible to rip any lawn or driveway at that setting. Still plenty clean enough. I know a lot of you guys have customers who want bare pavement. Dumb. Lawers. My two cents.
 
My snow pusher is a 2010 John Deere and I have a 84" blade with a steel edge the first year I did have some clean up but have had very little in the years after. I like to keep my yard with very little snow pack. Randy
 
My pic was supposed to be in last post. Here it is
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They're two different tools.

A snow pusher is a large box blade that attaches to a loader bucket. It has sides to contain the snow, and cannot be angled. Hence, you can only "push" the snow straight ahead.

A snow plow is open-ended, and is or can be angled so the snow can be "plowed" to the side.
 
I made a non-angle blade for my 2N FEL which makes cleaning my driveways much faster.
Can still make pile close to 8ft high.
Took suggestion from a forum member and put a pipe on bottom edge. Now doesn't tear up lawn as bad.
 
Snow plows and snow pushers are two different animals. Now there are also hybrids, coming from both directions. You can get snow plows with movable/retractable wings (also available on some V-plows), and there are now snow pushers that have hinged wings that can work as a box blade in either forward or reverse, or act as a VERY long angling straight blade, with different wing variations. Here's a nice one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vqc0fm8NXw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVxA5Qxs4D0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyOPjcg2oGE
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Many Ideas and different conditions..it is tuff on equipment and tuff on drive ways to deal with snow. Here is some that I have used in the past.
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Thanks for the replies. I Bought one from pictures only on an online auction and it has a rubber edge. Its a snow pusher like what oliverguy posted only 10' wide. Watched a guy with a payloader cleaning a wal mart parking lot with one once and thought it looked like a good deal. I then made one out of a buggered up 8' snow bucket and have used that for many years. Cut most of the bottom of the bucket out and welded in a piece of 1/2 x 6 steel for a cutting edge. worked well except no skid shoes and if the ground wasn't frozen you could do a bit of landscapeing. Bought this one cause I wanted something wider. Seems like you waste a lot of time having to dump the bucket on every pass. Just plow my own yard and several neighbors. Haven't had to use it yet, but hopefully it will work well and not move too much dirt.
 
My neighbor plows with a JD TLB and 14 foot pusher like oliverguy posted, says he'd rather use that than a plow truck any day. I think my ideal setup might be a 10 footer on a MFWD loader tractor with a blower like tims showed there on the back- pile it up and blow it away!
 
(quoted from post at 10:28:23 01/11/18) They're two different tools.

A snow pusher is a large box blade that attaches to a loader bucket. It has sides to contain the snow, and cannot be angled. Hence, you can only "push" the snow straight ahead.

A snow plow is open-ended, and is or can be angled so the snow can be "plowed" to the side.

I guess that makes sense. I never heard the term snow pusher before though. Learn something new every day.
 

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