Moving snow question

I know, its spose to get to 95 degrees today and I am thinking of moving snow. I'll admit that there is something wrong with me, so lets leave it at that!

QUESTION; I have a problem with moving snow on my gravel driveway with my skidsteer loader. I fabricated a 6 inch pipe to fit over the cutter bar on the scoop, but I still pick up gravel. When I dump the snow, the gravel ends up in the grass. In the spring I have gravel mounds that I need to remove before mowing begins.

How about one of you northerners, I am betting one of you have a solution to my problem. Please don't tell me to move south.

It's an age old problem with loose aggregate on top of the surface or, with clean crushed stone used for a wear surface, even with spacers under the shoes of ones plow blade, seems to pick up the stone. You need a clean wear surface, similar to pavement, when installing crushed rock subase that is the same as approved for road sub base by d.o.t departments, mxing some portland into it, and soaking is one way of packing the material and binding it, theres probably lots of ways and materials that can be used to get the same effect.

I find when working on surfaces like this, a snow blower picks up the aggregate, anything with a cutting edge collects the loose aggregate, if you set it too high, the remaining compacted snow layer not removed turns to ice, then you have a surface, blower does the best job, but that loose aggregate is always getting in there if you have fresh snow directly on the surface, aside from strategically locating the piles of snow where you can remove the stone in the spring, or moving same over driveway before it completely melts down and settles into the grass, I've never found a good solution except paving or some other means to make a clean well packed surface with no loose stone.

Thats why I have built a V plow. Its 8.5 foot wide so it pushes the gravel to the sides of the road where it then can be graded back into the road in the spring. 8.5 foot wide is more then enough for a car or truck to drive in plus because of the V it does not push you to one side or the other and works great. When we have snow that is
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I usualy leave the 1st snow on the ground if it isn't too much. Pack it down with the car and truck. Next snow can be removed as the gravel and rock is stuck to the ground.

I try to pack the early snow (usally wet snow) to develop an ice base 2-4 inches thick over my gravel driveway. Thaws can be a bit of a mess if the ice bace gets to thick and rain can turn the driveway into a skating rink. Just like snow you can grade off the slush if too deep during a thaw. Driving over the ice with tire chains helps to rough up the ice.

The problem is WET snow, and NOT dry snow. When you have wet snow, you basically are rolling cookie dough, which picks up stones.

I like to dump my snow on the edge of my driveway somewhere, instead of the grass.

I "plow" my gravel drive with my York rake. It moves MOST of the snow, and turns some gravel up on top of what's left for some traction. I end up with very little gravel in the grass...

I agree with Mark and Chuck. I remove the snow with my H and a model 51 trip loader. It can't dig the snow, but scoops it off level, if there's not too much I put the bucket down and drag it back. In both cases leaving a packed inch of so of snow to paste the rocks to the driveway.

Sorry, make that a model 31 loader (1951)