Blizzard! The original "wide out"! This is my 810 power plow (douglas dynamics bought Blizzard thus was born the Western wide out)

 

when they leave a 10 inch x 4ftx4ft hole at the end of a school parking lot and dont mark it lucky i saw it but sill slid into it. I plow 4 public schools and 2 buss and keep my day job so after 4 nights and days reflexs slow . but its all good I got the tools and the skills to keep up and to the OP buy western there good

 

A situation like that is beyond and out of your control. That is when you charge them for the damage. I had an idiot customer put a giant rock flower garden in the middle of his driveway right in front of his garage. So one night I'm plowing his driveway and just happen to see the huge mound as I'm heading down towards his garage. I stopped just in time. The guy drove Volvos and didn't put much thought into how a truck was going to plow this driveway in the winter. I couldn't even make a clean swing around his pile of rocks. That was the last time I plowed that driveway. Two years later the rocks were gone. I turned him down when he called me back up to plow it again.

 

I sub them schools for 50.00$ hr. my owen ins. and maint figure since 91 made close to 60 grand no complaints...

 

I am running the Western 8ft Ultramount. Easy on and off and a ton of support in my area (long island ny). It is also the most popular plow in the area with a ratio of 8:1 western to any other. Certain times I wish I had a wide out type plow... it would def make straight pushes much easier. Do you guys have any luck with back blading? I don't have to do it often, but usually when I do its pretty useless. Also, how many of you guys are running the feet on your plows? And how often are you replacing you blade? I am running out of washers on the feet adjustment on my plow.

 

yea these ultra mounts dont like to pull snow I have found out if you angle the blade as you start back it will work ok

 

I run feet on my 800 foot dirt driveway at our old farm and run the blade on tarred driveways. Back blading is useless with almost any plow with snow that is not fluffy and dry. Fisher makes a back blade setup that works. I'd bet you could very easily make one up for your plow.

 

Fisher only way to go.

 

I have a fisher 7 1/2' plow on my truck. I had it on my 92 f-150, now my 99' f-250 going on 12 years. I only had to replace 1 broken hydraulic line. I'd put it on my next truck,but I want to get a Fisher v-plow. The minute mount system works great,it only takes a minute or two to mount or dismount.

 

i agree. one of my meyers 8 foot plows is 44 years old. it came new on a 64 dodge 1 ton 4X4, and i have kept it to transplant on every truck i have ever had..

 

I don't mean to be rude but if you have plowed driveways for very long you WILL break something or something will break on you. I have been plowing since 1995 and have broke a few things, bent a few things but I also plow 50+ driveways a storm... It's not always easy money and smiles!

 

Western 7.5 unimount!!!!

 

I agree that plowing 50+ driveways will in fact cause you to eventually break something. It would be almost impossible to remember all the obstacles around all those driveways. One year a past customer of mine planted a nice row of small evergreens along the far side of his driveway. That was the area at this house where all the snow needed to go. Winter came in like a lion dumping over a foot of snow on us. That morning here I was plowing away like usual and pushing his snow off to the left of his driveway. The owner comes running out like a crazed maniac waving his arms in the air. By then it was way too late. I had just topped off over a dozen small bushes that he recently planted. No, I did not have to pay for them. We had an agreement as to where the snow from his driveway had to be pushed in order to keep the driveway clear all winter. After that I found a secret to prevent any plow and property damage. You need to visit each driveway just before winter to make sure people haven't changed anything from the previous year. I also had an agreement where I do not replace torn up turf if they want the driveway plowed down to the tar. No matter how hard you try. Sooner or later you are bound to turn up a rolling turf ball. Usually you can just stand it up and roll it back out. Then drive over it a few times to pack it back into the ground. The only damage that I have ever had since 1978 to my plow was a few blown hoses. That is an expendable item that will need to be replaced sooner or later regardless of how you plow. Another thing that I notice about people that plow and damage to plows or frames is in regards to how high their truck is in relation to the angle of the plow. The perfect angle is to have your plow frame level with the ground so that it deflects upwards if you hit anything that is low on the ground. Nowadays that is almost impossible if you own a Ford SD. They sit way too high up in the air. I'm waiting to try out my 2003 F250SD as it sits up pretty high compared to my old 94 F250. My 94 had the plow frame sitting perfectly level. My 2003 has the blade angle downwards. This is not good. Hitting a low solid object will cause the truck to raise up in the front and the blade to dig in instead of bouncing over the object like it normally would do. Here is where a Western or Meyers blade can make a big difference. The whole blade will flip over and jump the obstacle regardless of the angle of the plow frame.

 

the way to eliminate this happening is to lower the plow mount, or get a mount with multiple mounting positions.
my 88 has the mount lowered 6 inches so the plow sits flat.
my 02 has 2 pin positions on it, with 3 inches in height difference. depending on the wheels on the 02 at the time, either 31's or 35's, i can still have the plow fairly level

 

I have a Fisher 8'6" V plow on my F250 @work. In fact, we have 4 of that setup now.


As far as breaking things, you have to do something wrong to break a plow or a mount. Hoses, plates, etc are all wear parts. Bending or breaking something on the V plow we run is caused by user error. If you are running a cheap plow setup, that can be a different story.