Turf tires 🤣🤣

couldn't afford any after all they spent on the new machine, lol

Where's the Cat D10 dozer when you really need one?

With the tandem drive machine and a V90 plow I don't like getting stuck in a narrow pass that caves in on me so i widen a little as I go. The end of road was right where I was standing filming so it really wasent that long of a stretch. I did upgrade to a AWD machine this winter..what a differance that makes!

Awd,chains and Michelin snow radials. Almost unstoppable.

@@garyjung6525 lmao.....almost! I run a 163H a bit during central oregon snow season but we generally don't get the drifting like this and I haven't got to play in the snow with our vplow yet. It's hung on a 14G unfortunately to save abuse on the 2006 163H which does have AWD..........when it decides to work. We do have a 4 way front plow and a 10 or 12 foot wing plow on the 163 though, let's you make a lot of mess real quick haha. Still fun and always somethin to learn pulling levers on a blade, especially with snow you learn to control and move material

Yes the voice of experience. Been there my self.

Nope

not at all. rookie

Wasn't going to spend the 2 hrs going the 30 miles home to go get the payloader just to dig open a 500ft stretch of road that took 20 minutes to open with the maintainer.

Understandable...thought maybe it was right around the corner, my bad ! 👍😂🤣😂

Hope ND

Silver Creek, not far from Monticello!

This is inefficient. But, these small municipalities and low population counties cannot afford any more than one or two motor graders to plow heavy snow, and maintain the gravel roads 12 months a year. A separate expenditure for a snow blower would be hundreds of thousands of dollars, not including maintenance or training.

Was not going to chain up for one bad spot like that on 100 mile stretch of route. Yeah so it took an extra 10min. Would have taken that long to chain up so it was a wash

Great job keeping up

If I did my 100 miles of roads with a snowblower it would take a month to get through them one time 🤣

@@nicholasstaloch6614 what about an 8 or 10 foot wide one

@@nicholasstaloch6614 wouldn't it be quicker to just go forward continuously rather than reversing and ramming the whole time

This is ND wind blown snow. It is hard as concrete and you have to back up and take a run at it. You make it as far as you can and you spin out and you back up and do it again. This was my old tandem drive machine so it spun out a lot sooner than my new AWD one would now.

@@nicholasstaloch6614 yea i know what windblown snow is like, I have cornfields around my property and I get to deal with 2-foot snowdrifts in my driveway alone and I can stand on top of them being a 260lbs man. if you watch some of the commercial-grade snow throwers they use one big truck it might be a better option as much as you hate the idea of changing something

So what is the right tool for the job? You sound like you should be a brain surgeon instead of just a keyboard know it all. It’s probably a small municipality with a small budget. So in fact a grader with a v-plow with a wing for shelving is indeed the right tool for the job Einstein!

@@renislevasseur855 you know the term but not the meaning. V plow is effective on fresh fallen snow, not snow drifted roads hard compacted like this back road. To much resistance on the plow, which is why the operator keeps having to backup to regain momentum. A straight plow is the better solution to ‘shelf’ the snow in sections which you can’t do with a V. Here’s a good example, mid way through the video you’ll understand what I mean. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m7Bjm9xj07bWl3U.html

zfilmmaker I’ve been running a cat grader with a V plow for 35 years. This guy is a total rookie. I have a 12 M3 that would wipe that out in one pass. Check my video.

@@CATMAN42ful I never doubted a grader couldn’t do the job, just the guy in the video can't. That said, I could and have ripped through roads just like this in one pass with my Fendt 1050 and a Degelman blade. I’d do it in two passes to widen it... I angle my blade so the snow is pushed to the side. But it really comes down to operator experience. KZfaq has many grader videos in snow twice as deep push through in a single pass with running starts. I have no doubt you can do it too.