Posted by DR. EVIL on October 03, 2018 at 06:06:46 from (174.198.1.242):
In Reply to: Oshkosh Snow Truck posted by RedMF40 on October 02, 2018 at 13:45:34:
The township I worked for a couple summers when I was in college in the mid 1970's plowed snow with two 366-powered C65 Chevy trucks. They were special ordered with a check mark for Every option described as Heavy Duty. Township had both angle blades and a V-blade for the trucks. Worked one week during spring break one year, got a late spring 6 inch wet snow storm. Boss still had the one-way blade on the '67 C65, it was always first truck out, lower gearing, top speed only around 62 mph. The '74 truck was geared faster, almost 70+ mph. We could really roll a curl of snow off that blade around 4000 rpm in high side of 3rd, almost over the fences! Put 3-4 loader buckets of crushed rock in the spreader box and if things got REALLY bad they had tire chains too. Had an old early '60's vintage Super 300 Austin-Western grader to put the big V-plow on, and the wing. Traded it in '74 for a brand new one. For snow removal their frt driving axle was king! The Super 300 had a 4-53 Detroit, '74 had a 4-71 Detroit, S-300 had a shuttle shift and torque converter drive, new one 8 speed fwd & rev. full power shift with torque converter.
New grader now is around $450,000-$500,000. Places that have them need them. The County DOT that plows my road tries to do too much with their Volvo grader with the wing. There's a 6-8 ft high bank that drifts in bad. They discovered a new invention 10 yrs ago, called Snow Fence. It helps, some. They tried widening the road once with a frt angle blade on the grader, got all 4 drive wheels sitting on snow & ice and a huge pile of snow behind the blade. I don't own anything big enough to pull that thing out, county plow truck gave him a little tug and he was out. I have pushed back a foot or two of snow with my Super H and loader with 80 inch blade, But the Best Tool for that job is their 544 Deere endloader, it piles all the snow about 3 rows into the corn field on top of the bank. The bucket is 7-8 ft wide, only takes him a couple minutes. DOT garage used to only be 4 miles from our place, think the big equipment is kept about 20 miles away now.
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