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?

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?

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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 have a bit of drive to clear - it takes a couple of hours to clear by
hand with a snow shovel. I was thinking to make one, but decided that
for the rare time it does snow, where the amount would justify the the
time and cost, it just wouldn't make sense. Now I'm retired I can just
wait for it to melt anyway.

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.

On 11/12/2017 17:34, 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?

Thanks for the responses. I've chatted to a few people today and the
consensus was that for anything more than a few inches ride-ons don't
have enough weight or power. It seems that a dedicated snow blower might
be a better bet, but that seems OTT for the amount of snow we usually get.

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

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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?

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.

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.

On 11/12/2017 17:34, 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've tried using a snow blade with past ride on mowers but even the
Hayter 18/42 just didn't have enough traction to do the job. The open
rear diff just leaves you with one wheel spinning.

I now have an ex MOD Snapper 12hp 24 inch pickup two stage snow blower.
It has fixed drive to both wheels plus proper snow tyres and even then
it sometimes spins on the slope up to our drive.
Other than the occasional traction problem its a fantastic machine which
easily throws most snow 40ft and only struggles with half melted slush.

See it in action here.
https://youtu.be/ArEvTOPQGuU

Mike