One to check off my bucket list.

Snow coming Saturday. First time I can remember having the ground frozen before I had to plow.

best way to plow wont tear up the ground

Or the gravel out of the driveway

Best way to plow that won't tear up the ground.

I welded brackets to a 3 inch pipe so I could bolt it to my 7 ft back blade on Jubilee. A 4 inch pipe would work better.

My Red Green snow plow I used light weight wood and a 4 inch PVC pipe. It looks ridiculous, but it won't remove gravel or even damage grass.

I will push some snow on the other side of the road. Some snow has to end up on grass. Notice grass isn't disturbed. This snow plow floats over the ground because I attached it to the 6 ft woods mower.


If you look at the pile of snow next to truck you will see no grass or gravel.

If I tried attaching a snow blade to a mower like that I would most likely destroy the mower.

Most Likely you don't have a woods mower. I could run into a fence post and snap off the post or stop the tractor. Mower deck is bullet proof.

I would buy another tractor before I remove the mower. It's a BPIA getting mower off and back on.

It'd be a toss up between tearing up the mower or just choking the tractor.

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Think of it as late season landscaping.

I quit caring about ripping up a little grass here and there years ago.

After a few years the high spots were all gone and it is rare that I scalp anything anymore.

Does not take long for grass to regrow.

Rest assured, If I ever tear up mower or damage tractor, I'll post pics. Made this snow plow 10 years ago. More likely to damage wood before I damage anything else.

In the past in my neck of the woods the ground has frozen before the first snow but in the last few years we haven't had that luxury. My snow mover is a 15,000 pound, 135 hp tractor that can do some serious landscaping in a few seconds. Setting that bucket at the perfect level where it doesn't go over the top of the snow but doesn't do landscaping is an art I haven't completely achieved yet. LOL When i feel the dreaded feeling of the tractor pulling down quick while the bucket gouges in I stop of course, but then I put the loader in float and tip the bucket as I slowly back up to try to unload the dirt back into the hole I made. It actually works sometimes. My favorite snow mover is the 12' Westendorf box scraper. Behind a big enough tractor it can move a lot of snow without digging dirt though it will scalp a little. Downfall to the box scraper is it can't pile the snow so I have to go the extra distance to spread it out in the field. Either way, I finally can enjoy the luxury of warm cabs to sit in while moving snow, something i didn't have during the first 50 years of my snow moving career if I want to call it a career. Our first snow mover was a Caswell loader on a John Deere A without rear weights or chains or even a heat houser. No live power, no power steering, no traction. In the cattle yard, if the tractor stopped with the front wheels cradled between to frozen cowpies, it was stuck. And we look back at those years and call them the good old days.