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Old 12-18-2013, 02:38 PM   #4 (permalink)
bennelson
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It's winter now. Been cold lately, and we've had a couple of snow storms.

It wasn't bad mounting the plow up again, but it's sort of a huge pain to mount the rear weight bar. I'll have to modify it in the spring to make it easier to mount/unmount as a one-man job.

Overall, the plow works fairly well. The latch that lets me angle the blade left/straight/right isn't perfect. I may have to do some work on that in the spring as well.

I also ordered some tire chains. Those came in the mail a week or so ago, and I finally got to installing them. I have never used tire chains before. They weren't that hard to put on, once I figured them out. WOW, those things really grip.

I plowed all the way over on the edge of my driveway so that both right wheels were on the grass and I was pushing WAY too much snow and I STILL didn't have any trouble with traction!

Pretty cool to plow my drive without two-stroke gas or carburetors!



(Note: weight bar photo is from the summer when I removed it.)


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