Needing a snowplow? I bought a powerblade kit after a bit of web research. I found it for 390 (Canadian) dollars. Beats the next best deal (Kimpex) by 120 bucks and it is probably a better plow. It fit my ride right outta the box and it is built TOUGH! I tried it out by levelling 5 dumptruck loads of inch and a half crushed stone over 200 feet of driveway. Wow, what an acid test, like that is about 100 tons of stone. No visible damage to the plow or the frame or the 650P kwad, just a few scratches on the paint of the cutting edge of the blade. I guess I can recommend it, if you need a plow. (www.PowerBlade.com) PS..It took me 2 hours to fit it up, working right on the ground without a jackstand..I just ran the front wheels up on a ramp so I could remove and replace the stock engine skid plate with the plow mounting skid plate. The plow is quick-detachable, using two pins and spring-clips. I Used my winch to lift and lower the blade, but there is a lever rig available for that purpose, if you dont like to winch. The lever rig costs another hundred.

 

Yea, I leveled a couple tons of No. 2 stone in my driveway last spring with my Cycle Country plow. Works great, they arent just for snow. Sometimes I even run it backwards around some of the more overgrown trails to clear the weeds. Get some gravel drags for the bottom of the blade if you dont already have them, it'll keep you from pushing that stone back out of the driveway in the winter.

 

You betcha! Driveways, pool fill ins.... snow.... lots of stuff..... gotta luv a blade.

On mine, it has the "fold in" (there prolly a hi tek name for that, but....) feature for bumps in the concrete when snow plowing which can at times for gravel and such give way. I put a short piece of ¼" steel with holes in it mounted to the main frame of the blade mount and when I need a solid blade, I just hook up a pin to the blade to lock it in place.

pic of Praire with blade

 

Thats a great idea Rattlebars. I think they all have the "break away" feature, so that you cant overload the plow or the machine pushing it. But I have had to do some repeated lifting and chopping away at some piles of dirt to avoid that "folding" feature, maybe I'll fab up a locking device too, thanks for the tip.

 

Hey Rattlebars...That feature that trips the plow over if you strike something is called the stumble trip. On mine, it is a set of two heavy coil springs that go from the top edge of the blade to the bottom edge of the front end of the push frame. The springs are attached to two long eyebolts, which length is adjustable. The more tension that you crank into the springs by tightening (shortening) the eyebolts, the greater force that the blade require before it rolls forward and jumps up over the object. Also there is a cam arrangement that presets the vertical angle of the blade. The purpose is so that you can set the "foldover" of the plow, so that the snow load is forced to fall ahead of the blade and not fall back over the top of it. One of the previous posts comments that there is a bar that resembles a rake that goes along the bottom edge of the blade for "raking" over the gravel. I do not have that feature but would like to get it. My blade does have an adjustable shoe at each end to stop it from going all the way down, that allows me to miss the crush rock surface when plowing snow. The shoe is in contact with the plowed surface and mine is adjusted to create a 1" gap between the cutting edge of the blade and the ground beneath it, when fully lowered.