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    Plow snow before ice? AND asphalt vs gravel strategy?

    Is this the same in your opinion for paved or unpaved? I cleared my asphalt but held off on the gravel drives.
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    Plow snow before ice? AND asphalt vs gravel strategy?

    I have a Heavy Hitch rack on the rear with quite a few suitcase weights. Can't remember the total right now but it's significant. Much more compact than my box blade!
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    Plow snow before ice? AND asphalt vs gravel strategy?

    That's a good question on float, never thought of that. It floats the FEL, I suppose, and thereby what's attached to its front. I've heard tires make great edges. Mine isn't cow mat, but probably the same, came from Kubota—so whoever supplies them.
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    Plow snow before ice? AND asphalt vs gravel strategy?

    It's a front blade on my tractor. Most of our driveway slopes 20%. There's a curve at the top, where it turns toward the hose, that is steeper. Tires are loaded R14s. Yeah I pretty much plow downhill. I can take take a small bite going uphill . . . Very small!
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    Plow snow before ice? AND asphalt vs gravel strategy?

    Sawburner, how do you spread the grit? I have a pile of sand but don't have a spreader. I suppose I could try to dribble it out with the bucket.
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    Plow snow before ice? AND asphalt vs gravel strategy?

    As my late neighbor used to say, "Let's do something even if it is wrong." So I did. Picture shows the left side clear after going downhill with my blade and its new rubber edge in float. That really squeeged the snow off, but sandpapers the rubber. I can't plow well going up hill, though the...
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    Plow snow before ice? AND asphalt vs gravel strategy?

    Had to laugh. That's the ONLY thing I remember every year about snow plowing.
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    Plow snow before ice? AND asphalt vs gravel strategy?

    We have 1-3" down, with freezing rain forecast for tonight. Plow before the rain? Locals on NextDoor are debating, with most saying wait. My prior experience inclines me to plow before ice. Our asphalt driveway is long and steep and located without good sun exposure. Sticky patches of melded...
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    Snow plowing using blade with rubber edge

    Thanks, man. Do you recall the brand or source for your polyurethane edge?
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    Snow plowing using blade with rubber edge

    Dustball, the UHMW edge sounds great. I may upgrade when I go through this new edge of my rubber lip.
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    Snow plowing using blade with rubber edge

    Inexperienced snow mover here who is dealing with snow in SW VA after two snowless winters in a row. So I'm also rusty. I need advice, ideally from folks who use a snow plow blade with a rubber edge on asphalt. On my Kubota B2601, I have a B2672 front mount on my loader arms with a 5-foot snow...
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    Bit or auger type for post hole digger

    Racerboy, I ended up hiring it done! For the number of posts, I couldn't justify an attachment.
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    Wall Control pegboard up, magnets next

    That saw was one reason I cleaned up the place—the previous owner left it, and I haven't used it yet! I've never run one, and have to do my research too.
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    Wall Control pegboard up, magnets next

    chim, I have two Tomcat bait stations on one side of the garage/shop and two on the other! Two in the furnace room of the house. Got more ordered for outside the barn and sheds. They are obscenely expensive for what they are, a small plastic box with steel pegs inside for bait. But they work and...
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    Kubota Quality

    I hear you, Trustable. I was kind of playing devil's advocate here, as I grew up hearing union horror stories. And my father was in management and hated unions and was always fighting them. But at the same time, I was best paid in a unionized place when I was, of all things, a newspaper...