As a kid my dad plowed the roads for our township. A large Oshkosh, smaller FWD and a Caterpillar #12 grader. The grader had the front blade and V plow and wing. Normally only use the grader blade for scraping ice and the wing. The Oshkosh did the real work, he would keep the blade about 3 inches off the ground so when it hit bit snow it would push down for added traction on the front. I can still recall riding with him and the exhaust pipe coming out through the hood and it glowing cherry red in the night because it was working that hard. Steve…

I’m going to give my Kodiak snow blower a hug when I get to work in the morning. Such a wonderful tool when needed.

This looks like you're in the hills near Veblen, SD. Legend has it, he is still trying to open the pass to this day. :P Thank you for sharing your work.

Spring snow storms in northwest colorado. Dealing with the exact same thing on April 5th. minus a sweet looking gravel road. Got no gravel, , mud and two foot ruts to navigate before I ever get to the drift. Was ten degrees this morning so not too much mud. Chains dig holes. so i make some pack to drive on with chains. This is my rookie year of plowing snow in a grader so most other winters will be piece of cake. This "rookie" has learned a lot watching Graderman's videos. Thanks! Ed Schwartz. ( Becky's husband)

Thanks for a great video! I like how you used the wing plow to push back the wall on the right when it got really deep in the drift.

I plow in North Dakota and it’s been a long and Miserable winter up here too. Ready for spring haha

We get that alot of that up north here. Or even at the end of season when we open machinery roads. (Roads that have been closed all winter).. awsome video, thank you.

Great Job !! It soaks up a whole load of power !!

Ran into a similar situation a few years ago. After hitting the drift with the V-plow I would back drag the loose snow out of the hole and dump it off the shoulder. Maybe try tipping your wheels towards the bank to keep the front end from getting pushed over. Use that wing to knock that wall down so you have room for more snow.

Great video and very interesting. Sounds like a big snowblower could really be used in these situations…loader too.

I've been learning to run a grader to plow snow with an old austinwestern with a streight front blade and a swapped 466

I was worried about the same thing here, they forecasted 22” and 45 mph winds. We ended up with around 12” and the wind wasn’t more the 15-20 mph. We had some spots with 3’ drifts, it was fun plowing. I had four dozers placed at farmers yards plugged in ready to go around the townships in case we got into trouble. Great video!!!

Just found this channel. Cant believe im watching someone else run grader! Lol. I run a 160 up here in Saskatchewan. I like to plow slow at night when i can

Thought I had it bad ! In California, where I hailed from, worked for a Central Valley municipality. Hardest projects were planing 2 to 1 detention pond slopes, working the top down to nearly 30’ in some cases, spilled a few cups of coffee at that angle! During leaf pickup season, farmers let us dump our vac trucks and chip trucks on their fields for turning in to the soil as compost. Grading leaves and wood chips took a little patience, they don’t roll out like gravel or snow! Great to watch your game plan play out, sorry you couldn’t punch it, gotta save the machine for the other areas of the township, right? Good job, man!

I would love this job. You’re out by yourself making the roads nice. The only problem is I can’t take a $10hr pay cut from the grading company I work for.

Hey that looks like fun. Ran mostly 16’s at the coal mine. No Vplows or wings. Mostly a 24M at the end. You had to be careful with it as the front wheels were along ways forward. Good jod

Little trick I use is keep my v up a ways and articulate all the way and set my front tire out on the berm. I run 6 trigg chains on an awd 140. new 160 be here next year

You belong in Smokey n the Bandit, great voice...

Looks like a good job for end loader or snow blower

This is same western canada same with cn cp railroad huge bank snow.you should get big snowblower like kodiak or sicard with huge bank lots faster.thanks video😊

Now that this drift is open and being as deep as it is you will need a dozer to open it up and push iit back PLUS you will have to ridge both sides of the roadway where you can !

It's really bad out there keep up the good work in the fall do they put up some snow fences that way you don't have to drift that's what we used to do out Colorado be safe 🚜🇺🇸

Thanks for sharing all your videos I've learned alot by watching you do you perfer running your cat over the deere or vise versus

Reminds me of little boys in long jump. They back up 3x longer than needed to get to speed.

Wow that's alot of snow big drifts satisfaction

I'm dealing with the same problem in Idaho right now.

Where about is this compared to Sioux Falls SD? That's crazy amount of snow in one area!

Horsepower is great, but mass behind it is just as important...😉

I know this is a little off topic, but what carbide blades do you use for grading in the summer? We are looking to try some on our 672 Deere

What does the maintainer weight remines me of 1980s in bremer county iowa 1/2 mile school bus deep great videos

This looks like dozer business with the grade following…

Have you ever articulated so the back tires are away from the pile on days like this?

TIp, run the nose plow on the gravel and shake some of or any snow sticking to the plow so that the plow is clean before you hit the drift ! ( from Canada )

Graderman, how do you like the visibility of this Caterpillar angled cab design for running V plow? We are considering buying a new Cat 150, but are not sure about looking through those two cab posts and tiny front window to see straight ahead.

You NEVER give up on that shit until it's done, you have the equipment to do it so do it.

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setting yourself up for problems...i always would widen the cut as i went...get up speed and lean wheels and hit the drifts to give yourself so room instead of a slot that can trap you

i was hoping you would call for a wheel loader 30 minutes ago. Then he would already be on the way

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I would say that you need to have wing extension for the v-plow that would help push the snow up and over better 😂😂

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Would have been beneficial to have a wheel loader with a snowblower there 😁 But I guess it's not a common occurrence so it's use what you have at your disposal deal 🙂

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really need to backup a mile down the road, you're not even going 5 ft into drift!

I hate them new Cat graders the wing doesn't fold out the way like old ones hard to ,maneuver work with it

What county are ya in?

Why would you back up that far if you're just going to slow down when you get to the snow?

To hard on equipment use snow blower and finish up with grader

Слишком длинный разгон, все равно скорость уже не увеличивается, тем более газ сбрасывается. Эффективнее врезаться в снег, приподнимая отвал.

I am asking because I don't know much about snow plowing, Why is your Blade not in a V position the other way.

Beginner's mistake...Even if your scraper is flat, on the first stroke, the snow was no higher than your scraper. You should have let your scraper high enough to remove the first 2-3 feets. By removing the top layer, you could have advanced, lower your scraper and move backwards with the snow. Push the snow to the side and repeat until you pass, playing with the wing to widen the passage.

Edit out all the backing up and this would have been a short video

Why do you keep letting off the throttle before and during hitting the drift? I grew up near Rugby ND and have plowed and watched the roads being plowed and you dont tiptoe into big drifts like that you go as fast as it will go and keep on the throttle unless you like being in one spot most of the day. You act like it is your new 4x4 pickup and dont want to get it dirty.

You need a snow blower

park it, get the oshkosh with blower

I was wondering how much time you were going to spend there. If you can't see the other end of the drift why waste time ramming a machine into it? I don't know who is in charge up there but in that state there should be a snow blower somewhere that would cut through that drift, even a high flow skid steer snow blower would. Somebody up there needs to get on the ball and get stuff in order there.

I was wondering how the plow is attached. Because if it was me and the mount was proper I'd hit it a little harder than that. I know equipment and you don't want to break anything but 5 to 8 mph faster and you would gain more than a couple inches. And before you go shaking your head I'm not in the habit of breaking things and I been at it long time. I've owned my own company since 72 and know steel. But a warm cab paid by the hour so why hit it like I should. My Dad was like that till I showed him the right way to do it. He just said okay that's good. Drilling for 60 years and hold the record for most footage in a said period. So when you can do that and get double the footage on the bits that anybody else is getting that means you know what your doing. I'm well known and buddy you wouldn't be slack assing like that very long working for me. Chow.

Need a big old loader or blower or even a big old D11 dozer with a Vblade

Why does he back up so far ever time? you can see he gets up to speed Then let's off and goes in at a coast but. But he's at the coasting speed long before he hits. Seems like wasted motion for the machine.

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Awfull video. Should put the camera on the outside.

When you don't use the proper equipment to do the job, you'll never complete it. It's like moving a ton of bricks with a teaspoon. Typical example of government wasting money. I'm sure you have a front-end loader or a snow blower that would be much more efficient and less costly. You admitted yourself that what you are doing is not good for the equipment, yet you continue doing it. You need to remove the snow. All you are doing is pushing it.

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