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The equipment is only half or less of most of these kinds of operations and the operator is the rest. I’m always trying to understand as much as I can about the skills involved in doing this stuff as with the equipment used to do it. I’m pretty interested in this aspect of plowing because it closely relates to the down pressure system I invented. Personally I find it very hard to regulate the blade height to say 1 inch above the surface and plow with any kind of speed over a gravel surface with dips etc. Or is it like leaving training wheels on your bike when you were a kid its just not what you should do. Or is it that the U edge acts as a big long plow shoe. Is it a difference as to what we call a gravel road or driveway. I’m really surprised that some of the old pros on here are at opposite poles on this issue.
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And its good to see people of all skill levels coming together here. It seems over the last week or two membership has really taken off. Hope this helps.įirst off welcome new members.
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Once I have had a couple of good freeze days and the drive has been packed in I leave them off till it warms up. mine are 6 inches wide by 12 inches long and I maybe had 10 stones in the yard last spring. When I want them off I just pull two hitch pins and they fall right off 1 minute max to change them. I have mine set at ¾ inch and that’s about right for my crown. I tried the round skids and they worked better than none at all but depending on what your blade weighs I found them not large enough so I made a set for my plow. And the reverse is leaving areas with 4 or 5 inches when you go over a rise. If your plowing well packed bank gravel you might be fine with just the blade but if like people do here just pour on a layer of 2B stone every couple years then IMO you will find it hard to hover your blade a inch above the ground and get a nice looking job without digging in here and there. In the spring my first year I had tons of stones to move back into the driveway. And I had a bad time plowing loose gravel roads and drives as you stated. Chris and the guys on here have plowed about 10 million times as many miles as I have and I am sometimes reluctant to disagree with them but it sounds like you are about as new to plowing as I was a couple of years ago.