P1000 When a snow plow isnt enough

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What do you use to back up your pioneer snow plow when the pioneer isnt enough for snow? How often is your pioneer used to handle all the snow removal

wondering if a tractor box blade with removable wings can be a back up to the pioneer plow. Hard to find removable wings though
 
Robobrainiac

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We don't get alot of snow here and I haven't really had to use my "backup" but we have a Kubota 3301 with loader.

Our pioneer 1000-5 has a Denali Pro blade from the HondaSXS store. We got to use it a couple times last year and it just pushes snow like crazy. Never missed a beat. That was with stock big horns. This year we will have the SuperATV Intimidators to try out.
 
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I don't use a backup. I've had a KFI Cycle Country 72" blade for almost 8 years. It worked great on my Teryx 4 and was a simple new mount under my P1K5LE. The mount does not reduce your ground clearance and it's easy to connect/drop the blade. The push tubes are very strong and I've hit ice banks at 15-20 mph (instant full stop over the steering wheel) and everything survived intact.
As others mention above, a truck mounted plow will have more weight/push power. But I've had situations where I would have been stuck in a truck, so I was better off getting out of trouble in my UTV.
The first photo is my Teryx on the trailer in mild snow. The second photo shows the sheet ice underneath the snow on a different date after plowing. The grade is steeper than it looks and I wouldn't have been able to get up and down the ice in a truck (sans chains).



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Vikes79

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After my Denali plow I have a 8’ Blower on a tractor with loader and a smaller skid steer.

some times I will windrow the snow pile and use the big blower to make it go bye-bye.

last year was so thin on snow I rarely used the plow and never started the tractor. The year before I ran the big blower a ton.
 
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Had a plow on my former ATV. Worked okay but sometimes a problem finding places to stack snow and time consuming with a longer driveway. My Kubota has a 63" front blower I lined with UHMW sheet (same stuff being used on skid pans). This reduces friction so things don't get clogged often with snow is sticky, plus the snow is thrown further. Here I'm clearing a neighbor's driveway with light snow and another neighbor took the video (I didn't know he was taking it):

 
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For years I used a BCS 853 Berta blower once the windrows got too high for the ATV to push back (that used to mean pretty high, but I’m becoming less insane as the years go by). Most snows it worked pretty well to plow to the middle and then blow out that middle windrow with the blower. On occasion we’d have a snowfall so thick and wet (up to 2’ overnight) that the ATV couldn’t move it. Then it was snowblower back and forth taking biggest bites possible, ATV to cleanup, then one last snowblower pass on the middle windrow (can’t plow snow anywhere with an ATV when banks are 3+’ high).

Recognizing what snow/temperature conditions are best for plowing and snowblowing can make the difference between a lot of work and impossible with these tools. It takes a lot of time on a mile long driveway even when done right.

I like the blower so much the plan is upgrade to a 7’ wide one on CTL with Cinchtrax. But that will be the primary driveway machine and I’m hoping not to put a plow on the new P520.
 
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Robobrainiac

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Had a plow on my former ATV. Worked okay but sometimes a problem finding places to stack snow and time consuming with a longer driveway. My Kubota has a 63" front blower I lined with UHMW sheet (same stuff being used on skid pans). This reduces friction so things don't get clogged often with snow is sticky, plus the snow is thrown further. Here I'm clearing a neighbor's driveway with light snow and another neighbor took the video (I didn't know he was taking it):

For a minute if it was black snow you would be tractor pulling :p that looks awesome!
 
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Oh my, that nice white roof seems to be sliding off your house!
Thats my cabin lol. But yes it tends to do that with the metal roof with that pitch. Looks like curtains lol
 
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I have 2 back ups, F350 & F250. Pioneer with KFI 66" is much easier on a long narrow driveway and will get to places the larger blades won't. Work smarter, not harder....
 
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We get a little snow here & there....lol. No pics but we've got a front mount blower on the Kubota. We get too much to plow with a ATV/UTV, used to do with with a plow truck but the blower makes it much cleaner and tears up the yard less.
 
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