PSA: You are going to want snow tires this year

[BigDee]

Get a 24" wide dual stage. I have a 20" dual stage and it works well but those extra 4" would make a big difference. Plan to buy cans of PAM in bulk at Costco, you have to spray the inside of the blower with PAM quite a bit to keep the snow from sticking and clogging everything up.

[hurley842002]

Just slapped on 4 of these for the Taco recently....



I can't afford a "snow" tire AND an a/t tire, the duratrac in my experience is the absolute best snow tire, while being a serious off road contender, nice tread pattern and lots of siping .

Now to pic up a set of chains..

Edit, should have said siping not sizing.

[hatidua]

Is that from yesterday?

December 12, 2012, -according to the imbedded data in the photo.

[ZERO THEORY]

Is that from yesterday? I noticed a little whiteness on the peaks in the evening, but it was hard to tell for sure. I bet it's snowing up there this morning too!

See below:

December 12, 2012, -according to the imbedded data in the photo.

Just slapped on 4 of these for the Taco recently....

I can't afford a "snow" tire AND an a/t tire, the duratrac in my experience is the absolute best snow tire, while being a serious off road contender, nice tread pattern and lots of sizing.

Loved my Duratracs. I'll get another set once my current rubber goes.

[cofi]

not worried about snow this year we had drifts over 5' and i just beat it down

heres me towing out the plow truck

[TFOGGER]

Go buy a length of VBAR chain, cut it up into 6" sections, go buy some tension type straps online and long needlenose pliers. Assemble 6" sections of VBAR with comparative sections of straps. When you need them, wrap about 6 on each tire and wrap the strap around the needlenose and roll it/tighten it and you're set to go up until the point where you get high-centered.

This is what a lot of the guys who cross that pass in february do. I keep a couple bags with me in wintertime - one for my front, one for my rear. You literally can take up to about a foot of snow with that shit.

Studs suck royally in comparison, and the second you hit pavement with them its no time at all before they are a determent.

I've got a 09 KLR 650 and VBARs will clear everything depending on tires.

I've done the Elephant Ride on Guanella every year since 1996, with the exception of last year. Chains work well in the soft stuff and snowpack, ice screws work better on ice but absolutely suck on pavement, along with the wear issues on anything not snow or ice. The studs I use are the "rally" type with the carbide tips, and they work almost as well as screws on ice, without the wear issues. Chains still work better in deep stuff, but for bopping around on city streets in the snow, the studs work great.

Rally stud:


Ice screws:

[Hummer]

Here in the mountains of Boulder County we're thankful the rain didn't turn to snow. Would have made the flood cleanup really miserable.

I'm ready for the snow now. The SR5 plow truck wears studded snow tires and has chains for all four in case the snow is deep and wet.





The Tundra wears Michelin LTX M/S 2 tires year round. They are excellent on snowy roads. In winter it carries a bucket with 4 wheel chains which I've only used a few times during elk season. With chains the Tundra moves like a Cat dozer in 2 feet of snow.




With luck, winter weather will hold off a while, I have a lot of outside work to do in the next month. Let it snow on opening day of second season.

[hurley842002]

Here in the mountains of Boulder County we're thankful the rain didn't turn to snow. Would have made the flood cleanup really miserable.

I'm ready for the snow now. The SR5 plow truck wears studded snow tires and has chains for all four in case the snow is deep and wet.





The Tundra wears Michelin LTX M/S 2 tires year round. They are excellent on snowy roads. In winter it carries a bucket with 4 wheel chains which I've only used a few times during elk season. With chains the Tundra moves like a Cat dozer in 2 feet of snow.




With luck, winter weather will hold off a while, I have a lot of outside work to do in the next month. Let it snow on opening day of second season.

Nice plow truck, what year is it?

[JohnTRourke]

honda single stage snow blower

it's a honda, so it always starts
light enough to move around and useful all the time
will handle up to about 12" or so over that you're fucked

2 stage blowers are great, but they are heavy, expensive and below 2 or 3 inches of snow they don't work (not enough snow to make them run)

http://www.homedepot.com/p/t/2020268...e=cii_45538312

[Hummer]

Nice plow truck, what year is it?

It's a 1985, the last year the SR5 was made with the solid front axle and leaf springs. I added an extra leaf all around to better handle the 400# weight of the plow. I bought the truck a few years ago for $750, and moved the plow from a worn out 1980 Toyota. I had bought the Meyers Two-Meter plow new back in '85, put it on the '80 Toy pickup and used it for commercial snow plowing for 10 years.