Re: Snow plow rates

Posted by The tractor vet on October 26, 2018 at 09:18:58 from (104.179.81.68):

In Reply to: Snow plow rates posted by Tracto-man on October 26, 2018 at 06:02:28:

Just remember here that once you put that plow on the ft. of the truck and start doing drive ways you just be come commercial and your car pick up insurance will not cover you if something happens . Or if your out trying to get drives and lanes open during a snow emergency and the roads are closed and something happens .Then having a truck that is heavy enough . Knowing what snow plow brand to get and what will work and what will not work . Truck repairs , yes you will learn quickly all about truck repairs . Keep in mind that they have only ever built two automatic trans missions , The one thqat is going out and the one that is all ready out . I plowed commercially for 19 years , i had privet drives , gas stations, businesses , apartment complexes, and a couple farm lanes , . Then in 77 i added in two townships as back up plow and sores for heavy equipment . Then a towing company would call me at times to get to wrecks when nothing was moving and the need to go came up . When i started plowing snow here where i live there was only three of us , one guy had two two ton dumps and a old Clark wheel loader , the other guy had a 3/4 ton Cheve with a Myers plow and i had aq heavy 3/4 Ford with a Western plow . Jim M. and experienced the same problems truck wise as we ate spider gears in the ft. rear end , Jim also ate a transmission a year . The C 6 that i had stood up better buy it went out after three years . I could do all my own repairs , Jim was at the mercy or the bowtie store . Safety equipment you need Blinky lights ( this give idiots a better point of aim). Added weight ya need to add weight to the rear to off set the engine and plow on the ft as to take the strain off the ft. axle. Having a truck with a Dana 60 ft. is a must , yes i see lots and lots of half tons running around with plows on them for about a year or season . Then knowing your locations like your own drive , people want there drives clean and they want it NOW and they must be the first on the list . They may be your best friend till the day you remove a four inch wide strip of grass next to the drive the length of the drive way or you buried that Rhododendron bush and it dies under a pile of snow . And then ya have the gravel drives . The only plow that ever did a gravel drive and left the gravel was the western as i had a bunch of gravel lots and drives . And i had both a Western and a Myers , I don't care what you did with the myers our how you set the shoes she was going to plow gravel , The myers only broke down when it snowed i don't care how you maintained it , you could count on it drop kicking you during each snow fall . I had to carry a spare lift unit . Oh yea one more thing Chains as in tire chains , you say you don't need them tell me that when ya get hug and have to get pulled out , our it is bad enough you can't move the snow due to lack of traction and heavy snow . Now as to how much to charged on todays market , well with the cost of fuel, cost of equipment , added in costs of repairs insurance the cost of even a used plow and there are a ton of them on the market i would say that 40 bucks a drive would be cheap and by the hour probably 125 bucks and hour if not more . I know what i was getting on the last two car dealerships that i was doing just to get them open for the day and the going back for clean up when they moved all the cars back , oh gee's thirty years ago it was 100 buck and hour and i was the CHEAP one back then.

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