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Need to buy a snow plow for my skid steer. Just for doing my acreage. Anyone know which ones to look at and which ones to avoid? I see some cheap ones on kijiji (1200 new), but wondering if a guy is going to get what you pay for. Might be fine for just doing my place? Its crazy how much you can spend on them though.
 

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Need to buy a snow plow for my skid steer. Just for doing my acreage. Anyone know which ones to look at and which ones to avoid? I see some cheap ones on kijiji (1200 new), but wondering if a guy is going to get what you pay for. Might be fine for just doing my place? Its crazy how much you can spend on them though.
We ran the bobcat pivot style blades at work on our cat skidsteers until we got a loader, worked good, our yard was 10 acres and used it for 2 years. It did however take about 20 hrs to plow 8" of snow out of that area.

Not sure what they are worth but definitely are a tough unit. We did have one get damaged, but running full speed into a frozen rig mat will do that.
 

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You get enough snow to plow in Creston Deaner? Thought you guys just needed a broom?

Haha. Depends on the year. Last year was insane. Had over 4 feet of snow here. Usually a person is plowing 8-12 inch dumps. It melts half of the time but you never know. The one time you dont plow it, sure enough it will freeze hard and be an icy mess.

But yeah, thats why i want to spend as little as possible. Some years we really dont use it that much. Have a warn plow for our last side by side that we used the last couple of years and it worked awesome. Not sure i want to rig it up to the new defender though. The new sxs is a 6 seater so pretty long to be manoeuvring around.
 

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We ran the bobcat pivot style blades at work on our cat skidsteers until we got a loader, worked good, our yard was 10 acres and used it for 2 years. It did however take about 20 hrs to plow 8" of snow out of that area.

Not sure what they are worth but definitely are a tough unit. We did have one get damaged, but running full speed into a frozen rig mat will do that.

Thanks. Ill have to check out what they are worth tomorrow.
 

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I second the bucket option. With a blade and lots of snow you eventually run out of space. With a bucket you can always go up
 

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I have a large snow bucket on my T630, good for big drifts but I find it's not that great when you get a good dump of fresh. I have a good Bobcat built blade, it is better than the big bucket most the time, but my next purchase will be a box plow, they look like they would work the best. I see Boss plows makes them for skid steers.
 

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My skid steer is just a little guy. Bobcat S150. Would it handle a big bucket? And my driveway is over 600 feet long so a blade is nice for that. I guess one nice thing about the bucket is you could have a central dump pile and not lose a bit of gravel
 

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I bought a couple 96" snow blades from Ritchie last spring. Still never got a chance to try them but paid around 800.00 each and they look to be reasonably well built for china stuff. Has hydraulic pivot as well.
 

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I have a fairly long driveway and wanted a snow blade with the wings for cleanup after bucket or blower work. Granted it's on a JD compact tractor, but I couldn't stomach what people were asking for the things. In the process of building my own. This far for a 24" tall blade x 72" long x 3/16" thick with mounts, wings, etc I'm into it for $300.
 

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I have a fairly long driveway and wanted a snow blade with the wings for cleanup after bucket or blower work. Granted it's on a JD compact tractor, but I couldn't stomach what people were asking for the things. In the process of building my own. This far for a 24" tall blade x 72" long x 3/16" thick with mounts, wings, etc I'm into it for $300.

Thats a good idea. I see a great deal on a snow bucket on kijiji right now. Could get it for the yard area and then improvise something for the driveway. Yeah I cant just justify 3k or more for a good snow blade. I see some chinese made ones on kijiji for around 1000 though. Anyone ever buy stuff from "uncle weiner"?
 

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I looked at wieners buckets, but i bought a 96" HLA bucket for my s185 yesterday from my neighbours attachment business. Noticeable quality difference. But also cost more.

Whiners would prob work but looked cheap and no holes in the back so you can see the edge.


The neighbour plows our whole subdivision in 1/2 hour with a 14' blade on a 2 speed machine.

Once up and down and the whole road is done.

He said it use to take 3 hours with an 8' blade and a single speed machine.
 

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I have the Bobcat blade for mine and it works well. I have used both a bucket and the blade, for my driveway the blade works much better. My opinion would be if you have a long driveway and smaller yard area the blade is the way to go and with a shorter driveway but bigger yard the bucket would work better. Also have to make sure the road gets a good freeze and has some snow packed on or the blade just ends up pushing all of the gravel into the ditches.
 

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I plow snow for a living, a blade is more efficient than a bucket on roads. Wider areas like parking lots then a snow pusher is the ticket. A medium duty blade will be fine for an acreage, lots for around $1500.
Where you want a hd plow is doing roads, man holes and curbs can twist up a cheap plow quickly.
 

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This guys sells all sorts of skid steer attachments.

I was looking at those. Was wondering what kind of quality they are. Im guessing they arent real high end, but might be good enough for an acreage with a long driveway? Has anyone see this stuff in person.

How big of blade can a guy put on a bobcat S150. I think they are around 48hp or something like that.
 

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I was looking at those. Was wondering what kind of quality they are. Im guessing they arent real high end, but might be good enough for an acreage with a long driveway? Has anyone see this stuff in person.

How big of blade can a guy put on a bobcat S150. I think they are around 48hp or something like that.

Ive seen them at auction and my buddy just bought one from uncle wiener. For occasional use like you’ll be doing they are fine. For the money you can’t beat them. The design Is decent the only reservation I’d have would be the quality of the cutting edge. If it’s $hitty you can always get a domestic edge from cat or Deere or someone. They DONT have skid shoes on them so if you go that route hit princess auto and get a set of shoes and mount them to the blade.
 

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Also I’d go with an 8’ blade for that bobcat. Any bigger in wet snow the machine won’t handle it.
 

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I have one of these type blade scrapers in a pull behinds version and they work awesome for snow removal.
 
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