Posted by oldtanker on December 03, 2016 at 08:22:32 from (66.228.255.59):
In Reply to: Worst Plow Driver? posted by JimS on December 02, 2016 at 11:38:59:
I think most of you guys are wrong. To me this is a classic case of the wrong equipment for the job! Way too much snow for a commercial outfit working under time limits to be using a pickup in those conditions!
Pickups were never designed to PUCH snow. They are designed to carry a load in the bed and maybe pull a trailer. Heck, mechanics love guys with plows with contracts! They gotta get em fixed right now! Actually we hated em. But really, pickups are not designed to push snow and IMO are not good snow removal equipment, at least not where you get a lot of snow. There was a craze here for some time with truck mounted plows. All these guys were going to make money pushing snow! Well come spring when they sat down with their tax person they found out that they made little is any profit after repairs! Now most of the pro's doing parking lots are using wheel loaders with snow pushers on the front!
Heck here even the highway trucks have a heck of a lot of repairs compared to a truck not used for plowing. Not what they were designed for.
From the looks of that snow in the vid they should have been in there with a wheel or skid loader.
Then maybe add in someone who really doesn't know what they are doing? I can take a newby operator, show em how to run a wheel loader and they can clear snow and most likely not break anything. Newby to plowing with a pickup is almost a broken truck BEFORE they start!
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