I have the 60" Glacier on the sportsman and I love it. I have fabricated a snow deflector for the top and it works fine. Pushed 12" of snow last year with no problems.

This plow system is the quickest and easiest to hook up. I can pull up to the plow and have it operational in about 60 seconds with no manual labor. Real nice.

In reference to the 48 or 60. When plowing deep snow, you will need to angle the plow. When you angle the 48, you will be driving over snow. This not only makes a mess of the area that you just plowed, it also will pack the wet stuff and make it hard to move. I also plow side walks with the 60. I have not had any problems there. Well...except for the neighbors flower pots that I ran over. OOOPPPS

 

The glaciers a good setup but remember one thing - If you plan on keeping the mounting plate on year around as I do you'll need to cut a hole in it to change you front hub fluid if you have a central hub as in the 600 and up(I'm not sure about the 500's).
Other than that I added a long steel rod to the blade with a cable attached to the angle release so I don't have to get off to change the angle.

 

^^^^^^^ All 04.5 and later sportsmans have the central hub design, for reference. good point there

 

Thanks to all for your help. I went with the 60" plow and really stepped out and got a ramsey atv3000 winch also. I couldn't see all the same work wiring the electric lift when I could have and excuse to go 1st class!!!! :-)

 

bigjer
Do you have the blade mounted winch for the plow and if so how did you set up the strap I cant seem to get the plow to lock with out lifting it that last inch were I have it now [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img]

Nuse

 

Nuse
I opted for a full winch setup. The Blade-mounted electric lift should lift and lock the blade just fine.,but I really cant help you there. Probably you need to attach your anchor point of the lift strap higher?

 

Thanks
I know that I have to put it higher I just don't know were or how
Nuse

 

lovemud,
Thanks for the tip on the front diff hole!!! We tend to get tunnel vision by concentrating only on the immediate project. I appreciate your advice. My first thought was that I would remove the plate to drain diff, but once I saw how tight the mounting plate bolt clearance was, I drilled a large hole in the mount plate. I: think it would be nice if Polaris thought this far ahead. :-)

 

I was kinda surprised too...... they're usually pretty good about those kind of details, otherwise its a good setup