Alan
03-11-2004, 01:11 PM
If you've looked over a Sno-Way "Lobo" vee plow I'm sure you've wondered how that flexible "bullnose" works. From my experience, not very well!
It's too soft and if you run over soft ground it will bend down and dig a groove a couple inches deep and about a foot wide. When you backdrag it will bend upwards and butter on a nice path of packed snow.
I've been thinking about how to do something different and finally did something about it. The urethane edges were getting ready for flipping and while I was doing that I remodeled the mounting surface where that rubber piece goes. That allowed me to mount a section of urethane in front of the edges on the wings.
When you run either (or both) wings forwardthe urethane bends as the wing hits it. If all goes as planned this should hold snow in the scoop nicely. Because it's mounted at the same angle as the rest of the edge it shouldn't bend and dig in. If we get one more event I'll be able to check it out and be ready to run next season.
I flipped the edges over and had to add one piece of new material. As you can see, there are places where the worn edge was chewed up pretty badly. This plow gets run with downpressure on just about all the time and is used on some pretty ragged gravel drives at fairly high speeds. Frozen in chunks of 1 1/2 crushed stone are rough on urethane.
It's too soft and if you run over soft ground it will bend down and dig a groove a couple inches deep and about a foot wide. When you backdrag it will bend upwards and butter on a nice path of packed snow.
I've been thinking about how to do something different and finally did something about it. The urethane edges were getting ready for flipping and while I was doing that I remodeled the mounting surface where that rubber piece goes. That allowed me to mount a section of urethane in front of the edges on the wings.
When you run either (or both) wings forwardthe urethane bends as the wing hits it. If all goes as planned this should hold snow in the scoop nicely. Because it's mounted at the same angle as the rest of the edge it shouldn't bend and dig in. If we get one more event I'll be able to check it out and be ready to run next season.
I flipped the edges over and had to add one piece of new material. As you can see, there are places where the worn edge was chewed up pretty badly. This plow gets run with downpressure on just about all the time and is used on some pretty ragged gravel drives at fairly high speeds. Frozen in chunks of 1 1/2 crushed stone are rough on urethane.