So who has made themselves..

[Brian Gaff]

A diy snow plough?

Could be mounted on a lawn mower and if you have a water resistent vacuum, you could have a snow blower as well.

Brian

[Gazz]

Well, i and quite a few other shoppers at asda just had a good laugh at the local boy racer in his ultra lowered corsa type chavbox car with an extremely large and low front spolier thing, he was doing a pretty good snow plough impression just trying to get out of the carpark, when he came to a speed bump (the yellow and black plastic ones about 8 inches wide) he pushed enough snow up onto it and under the spoiler to reduce traction from his front wheels to zero.

[Brian Gaff]

Yes, I also heard that one of these, being made apparently of flimsy plastic completely broke off the car in a Croydon car park yesterday. Not built very sturdily are they.

Brian

[harry]

They don't actually blow, they throw. So it wouldn't work.

[The Natural Philosopher]

OF COURSE ThE INABILITY TO SUCCESSFULLY PLOUGH ROADS EQUIPPED WITH SPEED BUMPS IS YET ANOTHER REASON WHY THEY ARE DANGEROUS

[dennis]

They blow.

[Jules Richardson]

I made a blade for the lawn tractor a couple of years ago as an experiment, but even with chains it didn't have the traction to go through anything heavy; it really needs 4x4 (or tracks). For the lighter stuff it would probably have been OK, but we don't generally get lighter stuff around here!

[ss]

Well I just nail a piece of thin ply to a pole

[Jules Richardson]

I've done that, too - it's quite useful for raking large amounts of snow out of the way, so long as the snow's of the right consistency - if too wet and heavy then it takes too much effort, and if too powdery half of it tends to just flow out of the way and around the rake.

[Muddymike]

So did I, it was useless. I used a length of 12 inch industrial guttering, even added a rubber edge using some old conveyor belt. The plough itself was basically okay but my 18 HP garden tractor couldn't push it. The problem was, without a dif lock one wheel just spins.

I now have a snow blower, it does blow not throw as its a two stage machine.

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