Snow plow truck sense?

[dietz4ibanez]

Looking for input, opinions and experience on snow plows and trucks. I don't know if we will be getting snow this year or not but I want to be prepared and it looks like we have twice as many properties to put ice melt on and push snow.

I can't decide if I want to 0% the plows and put one on the dump truck that is a 2wd dually. I could also buy a truck that might have a plow on it or might even get a truck to plow on.

When I used to plow with pickups, we would seldom use 4wd. That's the benefit of the dump truck, at least I think with 4 wheels back there. I could always use chains and "winter" tires. I would probably prepare the truck with a dump bed on it with a back up camera for added safety!

I do have a video of the old dump truck pulling the bobcat and trailer weighing 16k pounds+ up a icy hill. It's on my facebook timeline from January.

 

[OldCracker29]

I would think the dump truck would be fine where you're at, but I don't know how much snow you get on average.

 

[geektoad]

Don't you guys just shut down the whole damn state if you get snow?

 

[Longshot270]

Don't you guys just shut down the whole damn state if you get snow?

No that's us.

 

[Nick The Great]

Don't you guys just shut down the whole damn state if you get snow?

We had a job site near Fayetteville NC a few years ago. They got maybe 1/4" of ice and those fwonkers didn't go into work for a week!

 

[That Crazy Squirrel]

Just an FYI... You can't (well, you can but...) mount a plow on GM pickups before about 2009. The frames end up cracking from the weight and vibration. You can have a welder gusset the frame to reinforce it and prevent the cracks, but no major plow company sells plows for them, so you'd have to fab your own mount.

Link to a thread about it in another forum I belong to: What the Cr*p! cracking frames when plowing?

Photos of the kind of cracks you wind up with:

Link to more info from the Plowsite forums: http://www.plowsite.com/showthread.php?t=67168&highlight=gm+frame+crack

 

[CJ Hungus]

Just an FYI... You can't (well, you can but...) mount a plow on GM pickups before about 2009. The frames end up cracking from the weight and vibration. You can have a welder gusset the frame to reinforce it and prevent the cracks, but no major plow company sells plows for them, so you'd have to fab your own mount.

Link to a thread about it in another forum I belong to: What the Cr*p! cracking frames when plowing?

Photos of the kind of cracks you wind up with:

Link to more info from the Plowsite forums: http://www.plowsite.com/showthread.php?t=67168&highlight=gm+frame+crack

Weird, I have never heard of this issue. I've seen thousands of GM trucks with plows up here without a problem.

 

[daddy]

Well, all trucks can crack and it's better than plowing with a Honda, Crapyota or a piece of junk Ram or Ford. GM is the best despite poor quality and terrible reliability. GM is the bestestest no matter what.

 

[That Crazy Squirrel]

Weird, I have never heard of this issue. I've seen thousands of GM trucks with plows up here without a problem.

Just showing what I discovered a few years ago when I wanted to put a plow on my GMC and found that nobody sold a kit for it.

Could be the ones you see up there have been strengthened with gussets. Could be they're using fiberglass plows (lighter weight, and the weight bouncing around seems to be the main cause of the cracks), could be those trucks are only lasting a couple years and then getting junked, could be a combination of all of the preceding.

Hell, it could even be that you're hallucinating this entire conversation with a talking (typing) squirrel.

 

[dietz4ibanez]

Just an FYI... You can't (well, you can but...) mount a plow on GM pickups before about 2009. The frames end up cracking from the weight and vibration. You can have a welder gusset the frame to reinforce it and prevent the cracks, but no major plow company sells plows for them, so you'd have to fab your own mount.

Link to a thread about it in another forum I belong to: What the Cr*p! cracking frames when plowing?

Photos of the kind of cracks you wind up with:

Link to more info from the Plowsite forums: http://www.plowsite.com/showthread.php?t=67168&highlight=gm+frame+crack

Both GM trucks we have that we would plow with are 2014's...

The company that I worked for previously had 10 plow trucks and the company he worked for previously had 2-3 times as many Chevy plow trucks without a single cracked frame. Some of the guys running those trucks smack the crap out of some curb and car stoppers...