What is Faster for Plowing Snow, Truck or Skid Steer?
If you place a skid steer and a truck on the same lot in the same snow event, a skid steer would beat a truck hands down. Plowing with a truck, you have to backup and do not have the zero-turn that a skid-steer does. With a truck, you will spend half of your time backing up because you can only plow in one direction. The Kage angle plow is the fastest, most efficient way to move snow from a surface. Examine how the roads are cleared in your city, for instance. The local municipality uses fixed or reversible plows to push the snow to one side of the road at high speeds. Imagine the profitability gained by replacing a pickup truck using a plow, with one Kage System run on a skid-steer. Your sites can look better, faster, with less equipment and manpower.
Maneuverability of Skid-steer vs Truck
Now we already went over how the truck will need to backup and or have a large area to turn around to attack the snow again, whereas with the skid steer, you do not need nearly as much room. However there is more to the maneuverability than that! With a skid steer, you will have the ability to angle the plow with the use of the hydraulic hook ups. You can hop up on the curbs and plow snow, as we know, the crew clearing the sidewalks can always use a hand! With angling, the operator can windrow the snow into a ditch, away from cars and garage doors. Rather than needing to back-drag every spot in a parking lot, the Skid-steer can maneuver through all of the parked cars.
Do I Need To Stack The Snow?
With a Skid steer, the sky is the limit for stacking ability! With a truck, you are only able to stack as high as the blade which, if you’ve ever used a truck to plow snow, it isn’t going to be high enough. If you end up using a truck, you’re going to need to have a loader come out and haul the snow away later. Why have two machines out on the lot or on the site when you can have one skid-steer with a Kage system!?!
Pusher or Plow, What to Use?
The regular snow pusher box is less than productive without having another piece of equipment along to do back dragging, scraping, and general cleanup. Not to mention that it will leave trails on both sides once it becomes full of snow. The straight blade angle plow by itself is limited in efficiency when there is no snow storage off to the side. It’s also limited to how much snow it can stack, and how high. The SnowKage box comes completely off of the plow. This means that it is not hindering the operation of the angle plow when it’s not needed. Wing plows that have movable containment wings on the ends are heavy and expensive to repair. One wrong hit on a wing might put the entire unit out of use.
A Better Way to Plow Snow
The Kage system can pull onto site, back drag and windrow away from the building. Then hook onto the SnowKage box, and push out these piles and windrows. Then finish by dropping the SnowKage box and angle plowing the parking lot – or any other sequence and combination. The angle and trip edge functions of the plow are fully functional when the SnowKage is attached. This means that you can angle your pusher and limit the spillage off to one side after it fills up. This also helps when cleaning out drive circles, or trimming around small islands with a tight radius. If there is no room for a windrow to the side, however, the obvious next choice is to move the snow forward, where the snow pusher is very useful. It can contain large amounts of snow, and move it in a forward direction. The simplistic design and proven efficiency of the straight blade angle plow, combined with the capability to contain and push snow in one direction gives the operator more reliability, versatility and momentum than ever.
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