urethane dino
12-02-2004, 07:32 PM
How and why I have come to own an 810 is a very long story.
First off I to apologize to Jerre, I had spoken to him back in April after I got the new truck and asked him to hold a plow for me. This summer and fall has been crazy, and a 24 round trip to Erie Pa was just impossible this fall. I am still in the middle of building my house, very hard to do when you are solely responsable for every aspect of the build both from schedualing and doing the actual work. That is why I wasnt at JP's or St. Jaques BBQ's
Then I toyed with the idea of not putting a plow at all on the new truck, and because of the house build I was really late in getting out contracts. That all led to late seasonal money coming in, which was needed for the over budget concers on the house. We had a 2-4" snowfall in early Nov. and that led to me sqeaking by to get through that, but I guess others did even worse. I got alot of calls thereafter, and priced our service waaaaaaaaaaay high. Well alot more seasonal money came in, and now I needed another plow. So with a little checking I found out that plow pricing was alot higher this season, but I found a 8.5 pro plus with wings installed for 4350.00. I gave a $ 500.00 deposit on it and waited for it to come in. It took a long time and when it did arrive it was only an 8'. They found me the 8.5 and i was to be installed today.
I priced 810's in the mean time and couldnt touch one for under 5K in CT. So I was resigned to the pro plus which was fine. Low and behold on Monday I get a call from a friend who bought the same truck as me,he is looking for a pro plus and cant find one. I offer him the plow I have the deposit on and call Portsmouth Ford and set an appt. to have a 810 installed yesterday. I left at 5am and arrived at 7.30 am, left the dealer at 10.30 am and was home by 1.30 pm, still in time to hang some sheetrock.
Yes I did make some negative comments about the plow, and I hope that I was totally wrong about the plow. I have no dealer support with in 2 hrs of me so I am on an island here. But being that I paid 4595.00 for the plow,having the convienence of not having to get out of the cab to attach the wings, and an extra 1.5' in width, it just made sence.
With the controller, the idea with the wing rockers at the top is the cradle the joystick in between your thub and pointer, and use the reach of the fingers to move the rockers. They are ok on the bottom, but in my application, I have the put my arm in an arkward position to move them. I think if I reposition the controller it will be better. It will take some time and experience to get used to it.
I do like the option of control over truck or plow lights. Some times in heavy snow the plow lights cause snow blindness, having the truck lights undercut the snow helps.
First off I to apologize to Jerre, I had spoken to him back in April after I got the new truck and asked him to hold a plow for me. This summer and fall has been crazy, and a 24 round trip to Erie Pa was just impossible this fall. I am still in the middle of building my house, very hard to do when you are solely responsable for every aspect of the build both from schedualing and doing the actual work. That is why I wasnt at JP's or St. Jaques BBQ's
Then I toyed with the idea of not putting a plow at all on the new truck, and because of the house build I was really late in getting out contracts. That all led to late seasonal money coming in, which was needed for the over budget concers on the house. We had a 2-4" snowfall in early Nov. and that led to me sqeaking by to get through that, but I guess others did even worse. I got alot of calls thereafter, and priced our service waaaaaaaaaaay high. Well alot more seasonal money came in, and now I needed another plow. So with a little checking I found out that plow pricing was alot higher this season, but I found a 8.5 pro plus with wings installed for 4350.00. I gave a $ 500.00 deposit on it and waited for it to come in. It took a long time and when it did arrive it was only an 8'. They found me the 8.5 and i was to be installed today.
I priced 810's in the mean time and couldnt touch one for under 5K in CT. So I was resigned to the pro plus which was fine. Low and behold on Monday I get a call from a friend who bought the same truck as me,he is looking for a pro plus and cant find one. I offer him the plow I have the deposit on and call Portsmouth Ford and set an appt. to have a 810 installed yesterday. I left at 5am and arrived at 7.30 am, left the dealer at 10.30 am and was home by 1.30 pm, still in time to hang some sheetrock.
Yes I did make some negative comments about the plow, and I hope that I was totally wrong about the plow. I have no dealer support with in 2 hrs of me so I am on an island here. But being that I paid 4595.00 for the plow,having the convienence of not having to get out of the cab to attach the wings, and an extra 1.5' in width, it just made sence.
With the controller, the idea with the wing rockers at the top is the cradle the joystick in between your thub and pointer, and use the reach of the fingers to move the rockers. They are ok on the bottom, but in my application, I have the put my arm in an arkward position to move them. I think if I reposition the controller it will be better. It will take some time and experience to get used to it.
I do like the option of control over truck or plow lights. Some times in heavy snow the plow lights cause snow blindness, having the truck lights undercut the snow helps.