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Ya I had a blade trip plow What a POS...Never again..One time I was doing a drive and it tripped and sent me off into the woods like I was on rails...LOL
Westerns and Fishers bar none!!! Ive had westerns my whole life from the old style to the unimount. Unimounts are great and parts are everywhere. Alot of Western and Fisher parts are interchangable. My Western plow that was on my old F-250 had a Fisher joystick. Now....I have a Boss plow on my Superduty. The ONLY reason I bought a Boss was because my truck already had a Boss mount and wiring. Everyone I know that has a Boss has had nothing but problems with them. The joystick is big and bulky so I bought the handheld one and I still dont like it. The Boss standard blades arent very tall. My Standard Western Unimount was 6 inches taller than the boss. The Boss blade I bought came with that stupid snowflap that flips up and blocks airflow when Im driving down the road. No other brand plow comes with it but Boss seems to think they need it. But it pushes snow so I can live with it. But If I was to buy new, Boss would be pretty far down on my list.
When your plowing the street or highway and the wind is howling that snow foil keeps the snow off your windshield where the wipers will push it down and it refreezes on the cold bottom of the windshield, then the iceberg starts growing up then the wipers start getting icebergs on them, then you gotta bang the crap out of it and scrape everything.
Every once in awhile someone new comes on my plow route and they don't have a snowfoil, it gets very nasty with some storms (wet snow, cold temps). We plow a sweeper route I get the middle of the road, the guy behind me gets my wind row and the center of that side, and then the town ten wheel sander grabs his and to the curbing. So this guys behind me and there is a blizzard coming over the top of his plow, his wipers are on defcom speed, as we go under street lights I see the passenger wiper gone and the drivers encased in a glacier his windshield was iced like crazy, he had over a foot thick deep iceburg in his grill. He comes over the two way and says he's overheating we all stop and look at his truck. After some scrapping he goes to the town barn to get help from the mechanic. After the mechanic uses the hotsey on the truck he sees the wipers are toast the linkage and transmission are damaged.
We need every trick we can to be out here. I have tried heated wipers, heated washer fluid, heated defroster strips applied on inside of windshield (have to take the windshield off to properly apply), aux heater inside on dash. What works is defroster on high with max heat( tried no heat before, inside of windshield freezes) side windows cracked (need vent shades) silicon rubber blades, rainex or other on side glass mirrors, windshield, and have heated plow light lenses. My 2020 has the heated windshield for the bottom. Could be more or better, they tout it as a defroster, better than nothing. You would think someone would have a heated windshield for a Superduty
I've got a Blizzard Speedwing and it's pretty trick. It seems a little light duty to me but I have yet to bend or break it. Mine is fairly old and is developing some rust issues but it works great, it's more of a parking lot plow than for driveways, On and off in a minute or two as well. If I were to buy another it would be a Boss or Western V plow for sure.
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