crushed stone driveway

[filix]

I have a frontier snow blower on the back of my kubota. I have a friend with a crushed stone driveway. Very manicured lawn. I have seen people move snow of it with a plow. Makes a mess. stones all over the lawn. I was thinking of trying to keep my blower 2 or 3 inches off the stone. and don't let the skids touch the stone. I was worried about still moving some stones along with the snow you push. How would you do it? Thanks. Filix

 

[mikester]

I tilt my blower backwards on the first few cleans to leave a 1" skim coat. Once it packs down I can can tilt forward to scrape without picking up stone.

 

[mcmxi]

I have a frontier snow blower on the back of my kubota. I have a friend with a crushed stone driveway. Very manicured lawn. I have seen people move snow of it with a plow. Makes a mess. stones all over the lawn. I was thinking of trying to keep my blower 2 or 3 inches off the stone. and don't let the skids touch the stone. I was worried about still moving some stones along with the snow you push. How would you do it? Thanks. Filix

I think the biggest challenge can be if there's much in the way of a crown on the driveway and if your blower has to straddle that. Also, depending on the condition of the driveway you might still blow stones at some point which isn't fun.

I used to blow snow on close to 400 yards of gravel driveway using a front mount blower on a BX, and since the blower was 4ft wide with little crown on the driveway, I was able to set up the skids so that I left somewhere around 3/4" of snow and didn't send gravel flying. Definitely a much better experience if the ground is frozen solid. Nowadays I push snow on gravel with an hydraulic angle blade, and use a rear mount blower on the asphalt.