![]() ![]() The major cost-saving advantage of a steel cutting edge is that you will scrape to the pavement in one pass no more need to scrape the lot twice or add extra salt. Steel Cutting Edge: All angle plows come standard with steel cutting edges and have integrated trip-edge or full-trip systems to protect the operator from unseen objects.You also can improve this efficiency by up to 30 percent by adding wings. Fewer Windrows: Angle plows reduce or eliminate windrows because you’re angling the snow.Again, the head-to-head comparison video provides a great visual representation. ![]() Why can’t you do this with a snow pusher? You could, but you’d be creating a pile of snow in front of the store. Because you’re angling the snow, you can turn your machine and and take another full pass pushing toward the storefront. You start at the storefront and angle the snow all the way to the pile at the opposite side of the lot. Let’s take the same scenario we used above, in the large commercial parking lot. Cutting Edge “Down Time”: The single greatest efficiency advantage of an angle plow is that you are able to keep your cutting edge on the ground moving snow nearly all the time.You’re paid hourly, and you want less efficiency not more.Your budget is limited and you’re looking for the least expensive up-front cost.You want the simplicity of no moving parts.You need maximum containment to move snow from between buildings.You have areas where it’s impossible to windrow the snow to the sides.No Oscillation: Traditional rubber-edged snow pushers are rigid, so they don’t follow the contours of the ground to create a clean scrape on uneven terrain.Visibility: Again, especially on skid steers, the closer the pusher is to the machine, the more difficult it is to see the ends of your pusher.Limited Stacking: Snow pushers are very close to the machine compared to angle plows, especially on skid steers, and that limits your ability to stack snow.Unless you purchase a pull-back accessory, you really can’t get close enough to a building or garage door to be effective. Limited Backdragging Ability: Backdragging is somewhere between inefficient and impossible with a snow pusher because of their fixed sideplates.This forces you to go back and clean up windrows which, again, equates to lost time, productivity and profitability. Windrows: Because a snow pusher can’t angle, it often overfills and loses containment.We did a head-to-head comparison with an angle plow to demonstrate this. From an efficiency perspective, you want to maximize cutting edge “down-time” if your cutting edge isn’t on the ground, you’re not moving snow. That’s time, productivity and, ultimately, profitability lost. This means you spend somewhere up to half of your time going in reverse. Typically, you start at the storefront and push the snow to a pile on the opposite side of the lot. Say you’re in a large commercial parking lot. Because a snow pusher cannot angle, you generally only can plow in one direction – toward the pile. Cutting Edge “Up Time”: If you’ve used a snow pusher before, you’ll relate immediately to what I’m about to say.Steel-edged pushers don’t have this weakness, and they’re gaining popularity for that very reason. It won’t scrape the plowing surface properly, so you often need to scrape the lot twice or use a lot of extra salt. ![]() Frankly, trying to scrape with a rubber edge is like shoveling with a squeegee.
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