i have a moose plow, with the 60" tapered blade.

when i angle the blade, left or right, so that it will throw the snow when plowing, the taller end seems to weigh down the blade so much that it makes contact with the ground well before the opposite end of the plow blade.
this makes for ugly plowing.
when the blade is straight, no such problem.

wondering if anyone might know of an adjustment i could make to correct this.

thanks.

 

raise the skid on the bigger side with washers

 

tried it, but that wont do it - unless i want the skid to dig in to the gravel driveway.
it seems to be that the uneven weight distribution is the problem, but i am unsure how to properly correct it.
i have toyed with the idea of adding weights to the lighter side, but that doesnt seem like the best way to go.....

 

how about tire pressure add alittle to the heavy side take out a little on the light side ???

 

Put a counterweight on the short side of your blade. I wouldn't try changing tire pressures, too many problems associated with running different pressure.

 

You may have caught something at one time while plowing and slightly twisted the frame between the plow and the atv.

It happened to me once. When the blade was straight it was barely noticable but when it is tapered it made plowing impossible.

To check this park your quad on level ground and have the blade straight. When you lower it (with the skids set at equal height) the skids should touch at the same time. If they don't then the frame is twisted. Just step on the side that needs to be pushed down and it will straighten right out. If you still can't get it taper the blade so the side that needs to go down is further out. This will give you more leverage.


The other thing could be is your 4-wheeler sits up too high for the plow mount. This would put an over aggressive angle on your blade and basically make your skids useless. This would become very obvious when tapering the blade because you are extending one side even further away from the frame and giving that side more angle yet.

I ordered the arctic cat plow for mine. The frame is custom built to allow the plow to run at 90 degress to the ground when lowered.

 

i didn't hit anything with the plow - not yet anyway. surprisingly little snow thus far in my part of vermont.
i was thinking a counter weight would do the trick, will also look into adding the side shield one day this week, that may be enough weight to bring down that side.
will let you know how it turns out.

 

The push tubes are pretty universal no matter what brand plow blade you use. they all tend have a certain flexability built into them... Have you spoken with Moose about it? Surely, you can't be the only person to have ever had this problem. I would think they may have a suggestion for you to try.

 

On some ATV's the push tube mounting bracket is so high above the ground that it causes the plow blade to tip forward so that the portion of the blade angle farthest away will make contact with the ground first and most of the weigh will be concentrated at that point. If that seems to be the case the mounting point may have to be lowered or the push tube may be heated with a torch and bent until the plow swivel bracket is level with the ground.