Trip Edge VS Full trip

[Ben427]

Hi all, Looking at a new Boss plow And was wondering if there were any advantages/disadvantages to the full trip design. Ive seen the old lower end meyers and what not and wasn't impressed with them, they seemed to fold right over. I've owned fisher trip edge and havent had a problem with them, and will assume that the trip of the boss is similar.

I was mainly wondering if the full trip Boss plows were fairly hard to trip or if they lay down in 6" of wet snow. I think I'm going with the trip edge, but the 80 Lb weight savings would be a bit easier on the front end.

[slplow]

I can only compair the full trip boss to the fisher hd as I have not tried the boss trip edge.
The boss full trip will hands down, will out scrape the fisher hd.
The boss has a much softer trip but it only trips when you hit something like the fisher hd.
Boss makes the fastest hydros and are just as reliable as fisher.
As for the boss trip edge it looks well built but I think it will scrape as bad as the fisher hd.
I think you would be very happy with the boss full trip but if you still pefer a trip edge plow, I would get the fisher X blade. You can't go wrong ether way.

[paponte]

I purchased my first 9' BOSS last year, and I love it. I had to tighten the trip springs on it, as they were set very lose from the factory. Since then, have had not a single problem with it. I Also have Fisher bottom trip blades, and honesty I just like the BOSS setup much better. Very fast hydros, and it lifts higher than any other plow I have seen. :)

[wyldman]

The newer multi-spring full trip plows are much better than the older ones,no more flopping over all the time.They also scrape much better too.You can continue to scrape with the plow tripped,and peel up hardpack and not lose the snow load.

I find the Fishers do not scrape as well,and can be quite violent when tripped at higher speed.I was also not crazy about the trip edge plows,as snow\ice\debris would get stuck inside and they would not return.

[Mark Oomkes]

I will agree that Boss has faster hydraulics.

But I prefer the trip edge over the the full trip. I have not used a trip edge Boss, but we have 3 full trip V's and 2 Fisher V's and 1 Fisher straight. While the Fishers are not as old as the Boss's, we have had no repairs needed on the Fishers for cracks. We did have some repair done to the straight, but that's because someone tride to plow a curb with it, in which case any plow is going to need some repairs.

Our Boss V's have been welded by the hinges numerous times, at least once a year. They have all had the center pin that the plow pivots on replaced numerous times as well as the hole bored out so we would not have to replace the pin every other plowing. This was a result of the hole elongating and the pin moving around in the hole instead of pivoting.

We don't scrape hard pack anymore. If a customer wants bare pavement, then they need to pay us for salting. I am not abusing my trucks and plows to the point of plowing with a plow that is tripped to get hard pack off a lot. JMO

[paponte]

I find the Fishers do not scrape as well,and can be quite violent when tripped at higher speed

LOL, you must be talking about when they jump about 3' up in the air and smack back down! Gotta love that.

Mark, I have yet to find a plow that will solve a hard pack problem. Unless a plow is equipped with some sort of down pressure system, there will always be need for a melting agent. I would have to agree, it is not worth abusing your truck trying to get down to bare pavement. Another point on why you have to pretreat, and salt with the storm. :)

[BWhite]

Originally posted by paponte
LOL, you must be talking about when they jump about 3' up in the air and smack back down! Gotta love that.



That sure does a great job of cleaning the snow off them .


As someone who has owned several Fisher HDs and now a X Blade . THe X Blade trips a lot less violently and the 75 degree angle of the base angle ( trip edge) seems to scrape quite well .

[nsmilligan]

One of my drivers has No top front teeth, the previous contractor he plowed for had a Boss V, he hit a storm drain cover in the scoop position, lots of damage to the plow and plow frame, not to mention the teeth in the steering wheel. Should have been wearing seat belts! This wouldn't have happened with the Fisher, the worst would have been the plow flying up and crashing back down. At slow speeds the trip edges of the Fisher will still scrape fully tripped, with a heavy plow like the V

Bill

[dapgar]

must have been driving at a pretty fast clip.

[rtm038]

Originally posted by dapgar
must have been driving at a pretty fast clip.

Must not have been his truck. You know how some drivers are when it comes to plowing....kick the tires and light the fire...:burnout.

[CT18fireman]

SO what? to get the job done, you have to be able to move. Boss Vs cannot possibly trip in the scoop position, forget relief valves, it won't trip as fast as a trip edge V will. Boss refuses to admit this and thus why we don't see a trip edge V from them. Western used to make a full trip V, but they realized that Fisher had a better design so now all the Vs from Douglas Dynamics are made with a trip edge.

Yes the hydros are faster but no by much.

I would rather keep my teeth.

[dapgar]

well there is getting the job done in a safe and timely manner, and then there is getting the job done where it causes damage to the vehicle and the driver. I'd rather take the first route and so i'm not sitting around watching my truck being repaired because i drove it like a madman trying to rush.