Snow blades on ride-on mowers - do they work?
We've had a lot of snow so I'm wondering whether it's worth buying or
making a snow blade (and getting some chains or snow tyres) for the ride-on mower. Has anyone here tried clearing snow with a mower? |
Snow blades on ride-on mowers - do they work?
Huge wrote:
John Deere do a snow-blower for my ride-on. It's significant that they don't sell it in the UK. TFFT, when it's snowy it makes everywhere generally quieter, imagine if we had the din of snowblowers instead? |
Snow blades on ride-on mowers - do they work?
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Snow blades on ride-on mowers - do they work?
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:34:03 +0000, nothanks wrote:
We've had a lot of snow so I'm wondering whether it's worth buying or making a snow blade (and getting some chains or snow tyres) for the ride-on mower. Has anyone here tried clearing snow with a mower? I wouldn't try making one (its very difficult to to get the correct angles for proper clearance) but you can buy them. Frankly I don't think they are worth the money as we seldom get the volume of snow to justify them. The local ag mechanic has adapted a powered walk behind lawn mower by attaching a snow blade to it. It *sort of* works but took him ages to build. He wanted to try it out with a view to producing some for sale but decided it wasn't worthwhile. Have you tried using a leaf blower to clear the snow? It works well on fresh and or powdery snow. |
Snow blades on ride-on mowers - do they work?
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Snow blades on ride-on mowers - do they work?
Sounds a bit counter intuitive to me.
Our snow in the UK is normally very wet and sticky, and the usual effect is a gummed up mower. Brian -- ----- - This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please! wrote in message ... We've had a lot of snow so I'm wondering whether it's worth buying or making a snow blade (and getting some chains or snow tyres) for the ride-on mower. Has anyone here tried clearing snow with a mower? |
Snow blades on ride-on mowers - do they work?
Huge wrote:
On 2017-12-11, wrote: We've had a lot of snow so I'm wondering whether it's worth buying or making a snow blade (and getting some chains or snow tyres) for the ride-on mower. Has anyone here tried clearing snow with a mower? John Deere do a snow-blower for my ride-on. It's significant that they don't sell it in the UK. It doesn't snow often or hard enough to justify buying one. TBH, I wouldn't bother. I bought a tiny stand alone, push along electric snow blower in the US for use here. It hangs up in the garage and has been used twice for snow clearing. It's a lot easier than a shovel! It throws the snow about 20 ft. |
Snow blades on ride-on mowers - do they work?
On Monday, December 11, 2017 at 5:34:07 PM UTC, wrote:
We've had a lot of snow so I'm wondering whether it's worth buying or making a snow blade (and getting some chains or snow tyres) for the ride-on mower. Has anyone here tried clearing snow with a mower? We once had a Westwood ride on mower. I bought lots of attachments for it. Snow blade. Electric spray with tow behind fluid container, fertilizer spreader. All were completely useless. The snow blade just rode uo over the accumulated snow. The electric sprayer, I could pee better. The fertilizer spreade just dumped all the fertilizer in the first few yards. But they were good mowers. |
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