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Slit a piece of schedule 40 2-2 1/2" pipe and fit it over the cutting edge on your plow. With a couple brackets it can be a bolt on part. I have a friend that plows right over his lawn every winter with no damage.
Mike
That my friend sounds like a nifty idea. Ya may have given me another project before next winter...thanks!
 
One Saturday afternoon, a man was sitting in his lawn chair drinking beer and watching his wife mow the lawn. A neighbor lady was so outraged at this, she came over and shouted at the man, "You should be hung!"

To which he calmly replied, "I am. That's why she cuts the grass!"
 
Neat that you've perfected a way to clear snow from gravel. My drive is 1/4 mile long and snow plowing always left tons of stones in the grass. Most of the drive is through farm field; but around the lawns at my in-laws and our house I'd rake it out from the grass for hours. Rented a power-brush one year and geezuz, that monstrosity wasn't a breeze to use and if not careful with it, you didn't have any grass left to be concerned about. I keep the plow blade up a few inches; but this past winter with the heavy drifting had to give the truck a good go to plow through sometimes. Still, doing this - it's not near the stones I used to have. Few years ago I forked out to have crushed asphalt laid down and this is better especially when I get my old ride out for some exercise.
On the crushed asphalt - was that "recycled" or "new" and about how much did it run you?
 
Slit a piece of schedule 40 2-2 1/2" pipe and fit it over the cutting edge on your plow. With a couple brackets it can be a bolt on part. I have a friend that plows right over his lawn every winter with no damage.
Mike
You have my curiosity here....
I'm having a hard time imagining being very successful at snow removal with such a rounded scraping
edge? Or perhaps, this is a method specifically suited for grassy areas?
 
Agreed. I was just curious about a bagger for sucking leaves in the fall.
I've been just mulching up the leaves in the fall and leaving them on the lawn. I've read that's good for the lawn, too. Seems to have a good effect on my lawn, and no need to dispose of them.
 
You have my curiosity here....
I'm having a hard time imagining being very successful at snow removal with such a rounded scraping
edge? Or perhaps, this is a method specifically suited for grassy areas?
I think he uses it for the drives too. He's not real energetic so I can't see him changing it out.
Mike
 
On the crushed asphalt - was that "recycled" or "new" and about how much did it run you?
Recycled stuff - the job was around $3800 I recall and they rolled it. It was a hot summer day good for doing this. It held up nice for about 4 years then had them back to expand the stuff into my 2nd driveway and re-did a section that was done earlier that was getting rough. Some sections held up better that had more oil in it I suppose. Nice thing is when it's wet the cars don't get all crapped up with gravel and less dust when it's dry. Asphalting the entire thing would be great; but the cost was going to be around 4 times more than this. Then I thought...what...have to seal the entire thing every few years to preserve this investment? lol For this I'll fork over another $4k in a few more years to resurface it.
 
Holy cow with you guys paying thousands of $$$ for those cute little riding mowers! :eek::eek:
This place, having been used as pasture for some decades before I started "taming" the
Johnson grass 25 years ago (y'all from around these parts know what I mean by "Johnson
grass") EATS riding mowers for lunch and spits out the front axles.
Been there, tried that...

As I remind folks, the place may look nice, but these aren't lawns out here - they literally are
semi-tamed pasture, with an extremely hardy hay-grass that literally dulls your blades as you
cut it. The ground itself, being about 4-6" topsoil on top of southern clay (with lots of rock base
under that - this is marble country, after all) isn't quite as smooth as your standard issue
subdivision grading, either - and decades of running over it with a tractor hasn't improved that
much.
They say "clay remembers" - boy, and how! We've literally had dual axle tandems up here on
the yard on dry days - emphasis on dry. :D
When we've had decent rain, the grass grows fast and you gotta stay on top of it - but when it
goes dry, the grass literally stops growing (that's part of being hardy, I reckon).

For the last 17 years, I've owned a compact tractor - 30hp diesel 4x4 Massey-Ferguson (made by
Iseki in Japan) with the "halfway" tires on it (not full agro, not turf tires) utilizing a pull-behind
Maschio finish mowing deck built in Italy (!). Both have been beat on relentlessly for all these
years now; the tractor is simply indestructible and goes freaking forever on 5 gallons #2 diesel
(I can mow the place twice on a tank usually, and we're talking acres here). The deck is thick
as the dickens, but keeping a good set of spindles and blades on it is a challenge due to the
abuse. Fortunately, parts are cheap and I get a season or so out of a set of blades.

Of course, the tractor is also pressed into duty as the official vehicle of the half mile of road out
here (between my own road and the tiny one-lane county road I look after as well), all gravel
and some quite steep.
Me being me, I've even perfected snow removal from gravel. Serious. Yeah, I ain't right...
Oh, and the rule around here on who does what is simple:
I am responsible for everything outside the house, she's got the inside (other than all the remodeling,
wiring, plumbing, heavy moving, etc. of course).
Lisa actually likes to mow (she's never in a hurry with it), but I usually go about mach 7 when I do it,
so there's never much for her to mow on these days - and I wouldn't be braggin' about it if she were
to do it all the time.
Sorry, that's not right to ask of the wife, least to me. I got it. :thumbsup:
Too much info Ed, lol.
 
Too much info Ed, lol.
No doubt, but as you well know - when the spirit strikes me, I write.
For a whole host of reasons really - only one of which is hoping to relay information to others.
 
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