The Snowcaster sidewalk shovel allows you to cut a lot of time removing snow from sidewalks. The Snowcaster basically took the design of a snow plow blade and applied it to a shovel. About as quickly as you can walk, the Snowcaster shoves snow to the side of the clearing path, and it does a nice job cleaning down to the concrete. The Snowcaster was made to be both extremely easy to use and durable. It is geared toward the …
Read MoreWill Fries, owner of Xtreme Fab, gave us a tour of the Sno Power Pull Plow. A pull plow is mounted on the back of your truck which is exactly where trucks are designed to take a lot of weight. These plows were inspired by farm implements many years ago and allow you to gain some additional efficiencies. Used as a stand-alone plow or in conjunction with a plow on the front-end, they can move a lot of snow. The …
Read MoreBerlon Industries of Hustisford, Wisconsin, announced John Slawson is their new CEO this year. Berlon Industries is a manufacturer of attachments for a variety of common landscaping equipment like skid loaders, wheel loaders, utility tractors, and even trenchers and mini skid steers. Berlon offers a lot of attachments not available from OEMs and is known for the rugged durability of its product. Slawson has an extensive background in manufacturing and plans to bring a “lean manufacturing culture” to Berlon. A …
Read MoreBob at Hiniker showed us their new Torsion-Trip Scoop Plow. It is a scoop plow with 20° fixed-angle outer ends to capture snow so you can push a lot of snow all at once. Hiniker built the plow to still allow full angling, giving you the opportunity to windrow if you want as well. You can buy the plow with 8’ or 9’ blades. It has a full width steel cutting edge (also available with a rubber cutting edge). Since …
Read MoreWe talked to Brian Ivey, meteorologist at Neoweather, to find out why people would pay for a custom forecast instead of using a free app. Why pay for a premium weather service? The payback can be found in as little as one storm according to Ivey. The secret is in the precision that allows you to make smart decisions in the allocation of your limited resources. Neoweather creates customer weather forecasts that are tailored to you as an individual company, …
Read MoreWe talked to Scott Moorman, Director of Engineering at Buyers Products to review their new Gen 2 MD & MDV snow plows. The SnowDogg MD and VMD series plows are for ½ ton to ¾ ton trucks and are meant for light to medium duty use, which means this plow is targeted at home owners and businesses with smaller parking lots. In reality, Buyers Products also knows that some folks are using their ½ ton or ¾ ton truck for …
Read MoreWe met with Joe Bonnell at Bonnell Industries to discuss their new front mount patrol wing snow plow. Bonnell Industries tends to build everything “heavy duty,” to withstand the heavy use a municipal snow plow needs to take, and their front mount patrol wing is no exception. It has a trip edge cutting blade to minimize the impact when the plow hits objects hidden under the snow and a rear hill lift cylinder which keeps the wing plow on the …
Read MoreBuyers introduced a new combination dump-body/salt-spreader combination under its SaltDogg Brand. It is fabricated using 304 Stainless Steel and is available in a 9 ft or an 11 foot body. This unit is a mid-sized dump body with a capacity of 3-4 yards, and it is intended for class 4 to class 7 trucks. There are both electric and hydraulic drive options for the units. The benefit of using a combination dumb-body and salt spreader unit is you now have …
Read MoreSno-Way Intl. keeps at it every year with introducing a lot of innovations to our industry, and we get to share with you an ingenious design trick they implemented to instantly convert a mounted UTV broadcast spreader into a drop spreader. This feature is really great for buildings and grounds folks where they have a lot of sidewalks, especially properties that have both broad and standard paved foot-paths. You can use the UTV to broadcast spread on a wide foot-path …
Read MoreHighlights: Western Products unveiled its new Nighthawk LED headlamps with its EdgeView Technology at the 2019 NTEA Work Truck Show. The LED headlamps feature side lamps that direct light through the outer edge of each headlamp to provide a full 180 degrees of light visibility from plow edge to plow edge—as well as a heating system to keep ice and snow off. Nighthawk LED headlamps will be offered as a new headlamp option for Western truck plows 2008 or newer. Western Products, unveiled …
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