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Is this the same in your opinion for paved or unpaved? I cleared my asphalt but held off on the gravel drives.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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...

Had to laugh. That's the ONLY thing I remember every year about snow plowing.

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...

Thanks, man. Do you recall the brand or source for your polyurethane edge?

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

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

I hate to say it, but it seems to me we're paying a price for the attack on labor unions and wages for skilled and unskilled labor in the USA. Must be other factors too. And I'm not saying dealerships should be unionized necessarily but that unions set a standard for compensation that trickled...

Thanks, Mike. I am an obvious rookie at mechanical things. I'm absurdly proud that I at least do the basic services on my tractor. My carpentry is rough. I am proud of my pruning skills and now have most of my saws and poles and shears hung on the other side of the wall shown.

Jay, my two mainstay workbenches are on the other side of the wall! Land slopes so much here that this little brick outbuilding has the single-car bay (now tractor) on one level, and you step down into the other side. Hard to get used to my tools on both sides. But I've overhauled the other side...

GreX, I used Mobil 1 successfully in my first two Kubotas and a JD. I just checked to make sure the oils I used were diesel rated. In my current tractor, I run Amsoil 5-40. On fuel treatments, I like Hot Shot's Secret, based on how high it rates in all the tests I've seen. Through the warmer...

Wall Control is sturdy steel pegboard available in various colors, and it's helping me get control of my workbench in the tractor shed. I picked orange to honor my Kubota, with some blue fixtures. Nicely painted, Wall Control looks more expensive than it is. Next I'm going to add some magnets...