Yea your missing somthing i think
Its been a long time since i plowed snow but the units i had 20 + years ago depended on hydraulics or electric to lift the plow but gravity and the weight of the plow itself was the only thing providing downpressure so your not digging into the snow just letting gravity and weight provide the downpressure....
I think you can buy a system if you want that pushes the plow down but mainly thats for digging into earth and as far as i remember nobody i knew had a plow setup where you can drop the plow and use the downforce to lift the front end and change a tire for instance...
I think my old units even had a rubber type material on the bottom edge so you wouldnt dig into the road so i think plowing with actual hydraulic pressure pushing the plow down would be dangerouse unless you plow at 3 mph to say the least....
The road and truck / plow assembly would be taking quite a beating possibly flipping if you were moving fast and hit a high spot or speedbump in the road but theres probably people with some hyd or electric down pressure system out there for some specific purpose...
I assumed everyone was useing a floating type of system but with so few explanations maybe things have changed in my years out of this....
T-party-puppy
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I think you can buy a system if you want that pushes the plow down but mainly thats for digging into earth and as far as i remember nobody i knew had a plow setup where you can drop the plow and use the downforce to lift the front end and change a tire for instance...
I think my old units even had a rubber type material on the bottom edge so you wouldnt dig into the road so i think plowing with actual hydraulic pressure pushing the plow down would be dangerouse unless you plow at 3 mph to say the least....
The road and truck / plow assembly would be taking quite a beating possibly flipping if you were moving fast and hit a high spot or speedbump in the road but theres probably people with some hyd or electric down pressure system out there for some specific purpose...
I assumed everyone was useing a floating type of system but with so few explanations maybe things have changed in my years out of this....
T-party-puppy
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