went and looked at the 810 and the strait blade 8000HD nice plows, and good people at the dealership. Would you recommend skipping the strait blade and going with the 810 for a your first plow?

 

Your looking at my first plow. I have another one for my other truck. I would say yes, go with it for you first plow. They are the most efficient things out there right now. They even run circles are the Vplows.

 

Have you used any other plows to base this info off of or is this just what the plow dealer told you?

Not tying to cause an argument or ruckus, just curious.

 

For one storm yes. Transmission was messed up on my truck so I borrowed a friends chevy with a 9'2" boss V after he did his lot. I will admit, on the smaller piles it worked a little better. But for most the snow and normal plowing my blizzard is a lot better. It holds the edges on windrows better and larger piles as well. The new Vxt might hold the piles better but they wont windrow better. Being able to adjust the wings on the fly is what makes it a win win.

And remember that the blizzard 810 and 8611 are the ONLY expendable plows that actually plow with the wings. All others have poly edges on their wings where blizzard has steel. They wont cut into the snow and actually plow like normal when in the straight 10' section. Another reason why the blizzard uses numbers and the others dont. Their not technically 8' out to 10' plows. Their just 8' plows with adjustable wings.

Another thing to consider is the speedwing. If this is your first plow you might like the speedwing. I kind of wish my 2nd 810 was a speedwing instead. Employees are dumb and it takes them a while to figure out the 810. Speedwing is almost idiot proof. I tell you what though, if boss could make a V with expandable wings, that would be the cats meow.

 

I'm sure they could, but the darn thing would cost north of $10k...and the stupid joystick controller would still be optional!

 

Here's the plow, the extra leaf I added, and what I use it on. I also do a few neighbors and the cat shelter my daughter volunteers at if we get more than a couple of inches of snow. Not much of a driveway to justify spending $4500 for the plow, but my knees are shot and I don't want my back to join them....

The plow is a Boss 8' Super Duty trip edge, no wings or anything. It does the job just fine for what I use it for. As far as pushing snow, I let the diesel do the work. I plow pretty slowly and use 4X4 low if it's deep to take advantage of the gearing. At some point I'd like to get Detroit True-Track diffs for both ends, but that's $2500-3000 installed...

 

That time of the year again. I've been trying to get my pile running again. After putting new brake lines and driveshaft in last year I need it to run to get my money out of it.

 

Hey Guys,

Question for the gassers... Do you have any issue with elec draw with single battery? If so, what have you done to remedy?

I have a '01 CCLB 250 w the 5.4 and 8 ft Blizzard. Plows great but the battery takes a beating.

Thanks in advance,

Mark

 

My single battery gasser runs the battery down if I am doing allot of short back and forth runs. I don't do anything but just wait longer for the plow to come back up. Dual batteries would be a nice upgrade but I don't "need it" so I don't do it.

If I were commercial plowing I would probably run dual batteries and a upgraded alternator (possibly two).

 

I have to replace the battery in my 2006 f350 cc every two years. Seems to die just enough to not have enough power to start, even tho lights and stuff still will work. Charging the battery never works for long; just easier and less stress to just stick a new one in

 

stock alt and one battery one my '91 f-250 with a '01 BOSS plow.

been on the same battery for over 10 years too, hard to believe! i keep expecting it to go one of these days but nope.

 

Thanks for your replies. My first move will be a new battery as I do not not the history of the one currently installed.

Mark

 

Here's my 2011 F250 6.2L with Western UniMount Pro Plow 7.5'. Overload rear spring, +1 coil spring front, front and rear air bags, 390lb counter weights, single 900cca battery, stock 155a (157?) alternator, SEIC high idle mod, BFG Rough Terrain tires. The tires are less aggressive than the BFG All Terrain, but they did great this past winter. The BFG All Terrains on my F150 are practically unstoppable.
BTW, the picture is just after pulling the tractor trailer out from being bottomed out in a parking lot! He just needed a few inches to get on some gravel we shoveled in front of the drive wheels.

 

From February 22, 2001 F150 with a Western HTS 7.5 plow



Veiw from the living room and just starting on the drifts.



What I had to get through, took about 1.5 hours

 

this weekend 20"+ in less then 10 hours.