Snow plowing
Cargo Master
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Two stage walk behind blower works for our 30' subdivision driveway. Snow plows in the subdivision are annoying. They pile snow so high at the ends of driveways, no one can see cars coming from either direction.
I can understand why the OP prefers a blade on the pickup since the public road sometimes is a do it yourself job.
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Cross-Country
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Here is the ole girl that the plow is going on. I love this truck. Took 17 years of driving my 2000 Excursion to get to this point. You cant see if from this angle but there is a smaller, slimmer lightbar underneath the forward facing one that is pointed to the rear. Very helpful backing up at night.
Tuned
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From: N. Appalachistan
So just to bring this to a conclusion, here's what I've decided. I am going with the 7K coils. $250 is worth the piece of mind. I will them get either the Western Prodigy (9') or the Western Wide Out (9'), or another brand of similar design. Weight over the rear axle, or lack thereof is easy to resolve. If it proves to be an issue, Ill just get one of my employers soon to be discarded 400 gallon totes. It can stay frozen all winter long on the back of my rig for all I care. That will easily balance things back out. This setup will tank care my large Alaskan driveway easily and if I ever decide to do a little plowing on the side, then Ill be set up for it.
If you haven't seen it, Western has a ballast calculator on their site. You probably won't need all 3400 lbs of a full 400 gallon tote. Note their recommendation that the ballast be placed behind the axle as much as possible, not over it.
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Cross-Country
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Well it's a done deal. I ordered the OEM 7000 lbs springs (5C3Z-5310-F) and with shipping I paid about $350. I went to install them and realized all my jacks and stand weren't made for this beast. A good excuse to go out and buy 6 ton jack stands and a 3 ton floor jack. It didn't take long to swap them out and they were same length and width as the 5600 lb springs. The truck now sits about 3/4"higher. Probably one of the easiest somewhat major project s I've done in a while. So easy in fact, I had plenty of time to get my SxS on jack stands to start diagnosing a shifting issue. Now I'm just getting my garage all cleaned up and going for a test drive. I took it for a short ride down crappy road that has more holes than Biden has unintelligible sentences. I couldn't tell any difference in the ride, but maybe someone with a refined *** could.
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mike L
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