SPLRover

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• Dec 18, 2022

• #1

Hi All,
Plenty of snow here in Scotland and plenty of people looking for snow clearances in car parks etc as the gritting companies are too busy.

I'm thinking for buying a snow plough for a Puma 110 and fitting it and doing snow clearances.

Does anyone have experience of fitting a Defender snow plough, what is involved and how effective they are etc...

 

tottot

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• Dec 18, 2022

• #2

Snow blades to fit Defenders are available. Have a look on line.

 

marjon

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• Dec 18, 2022

• #3

Sure they are around.
But bet it would take a lot of work to get the investment back, but it would be fun.

When we had our Dodge dakota there was a section in the manual about the snow plough fitment, hydraulic pumps and extra cooling, also some heavy duty fittings if I remember right.

but hey would be fun to see.............. do it and post pics.

J

 

Knappster

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• Dec 18, 2022

• #4

Some years back, one of the ex-MoD clearance companies was selling snow ploughs with defender fitment, advertising in LRO. Might be worth contacting one or two of these companies to see if they have any ex-MoD ones.

 

kevstar

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• Dec 18, 2022

• #5

i looked @t doing it but peeps w@nt it gritted once its been cle@red @s it turns icy once its done.
even looked @t 2nd h@nd gritters. wide berth comes to mind.
youd be better buying @ kubot@ tr@ctor with slow plough n gritter @tt@chments plus @ tr@iler
@ tow it with yer l@ndy @ good set up will cost round 15k.

 

SPLRover

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• Dec 19, 2022

• #6

Thanks guys. Will do some research and see what's out there. Kevstar, your definitely right on gritting afterwards. Will be quite a bit of money out initially. Cheers

 

kermit_rr

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• Dec 19, 2022

• #7

All the snow has gone now.. for another year

 

kevstar

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• Dec 19, 2022

• #8

kermit_rr said:

All the snow has gone now.. for another year

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we is norf of the w@ll so it will be b@ck

 

frog hopper

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• Dec 19, 2022

• #9

Be very careful, I don't know if this will be relevant, but before the coal industry was binned one of my jobs was clearing snow to create lanes for vehicles and foot traffic on site. Now then........if someone had a fall on virgin snow, that was hard luck, if someone had a fall on a walkway we had cleared, then it was our fault. We had to be very careful to lay grit (or boiler ash/cinders) asap after clearing snow.