dumptrucker
Well-Known Member
Thou shall clean out ditches where possible. Thou shall not fill ditches in. Thou shall cut out pot holes not skim and fill them.
That's how I had always did it too. My friend says, lean the top of the front tires to the right, into the drift. This puts the weight on the sharp right corner of the tire. Yep, less drift. Go figure.
I believe leaning the tires to the left moves the contact patch forward on the bottom of the tire. This requires less steering wheel turn to get the tire to move leftward. This is translated to improved control of drift by the operator.
As someone else mentioned, I control drift by positioning the table and/or articulation. I rarely lean my front tires. Mostly do so to keep the contact patch flat on the ground if on a bank.
Anybody else use the wheel lean or moldboard tilt to raise or lower the entire blade instead of manipulating the blade levers?
Amen......Thou shalt never underestimate the value of a good roller man.
Speaking of plowing snow. Thou shall not hit mailboxes with the wing.
I've been trying to figure that one out as well, Scrub. When he says he leaned "away" from the drift, does he mean opposite the direction the front was being pulled to? If so, (not trying to be a smartazz here) it absolutely would work better because that is the correct way. I know I'm stating the obvious here, but leaning towards the direction you're drifting to would be like putting skis on.
No flame felt. Rather than lean the direction you are trying to hold and causing the leading edge of the tire to hold, which is counter productive, lean the direction the drift is causing the front to drift. This puts the leading edge of the tire into the ground. Rather than creating a ramp which lifts the tire off the ground, it creates a 45 degree edge that digs in. Yeah,,,, stupid huh????
Just try it. I thought it was stupid too.
When I go clean up logging roads for the DNR I pick up the windrow outside the front tire. Just move the blade over and do so. Any other way and the front wheel would be in the ditch. In many township and gravel county road applications it is the same as they move the windrow from side to side each time they get graded.
Depends on County roads if your 3x or 4x or more. I always make my first cut with my toe floating out past my front tire making my windrow land just outside of my roadside tires and on my center cut I try to land my windrow where I have at least a tire width to straddle the windrow on my 3rd cut back to the center.
I hear you...........have never done municipal work myself, just parking lots & can see your point where sometimes when grading roads you have to bring the windrow in from outside of the tire. Good point.
Depends on County roads if your 3x or 4x or more. I always make my first cut with my toe floating out past my front tire making my windrow land just outside of my roadside tires and on my center cut I try to land my windrow where I have at least a tire width to straddle the windrow on my 3rd cut back to the center.
Yes sir understand that I maintain little over 100 miles in my County and get chewed out for not feathering it but I always try to keep my roads 2 blade widths and have 12ft mold board on this 120m2