How Do You Clear Your Drive?

Kubota m-95 with 8" blower and loader on front. Do not ever point shoot towards anything that you don't want destroyed.

I have the same snow thrower for the JD that oros35 has, doesn't work very well on 3/4 stone. Lots end up on the lawn and stuff (like windows) gets broken.

If I could get a backhoe and bucket for this thing I'd be in business.

It's my only piece of equipment. Bought it brand new in '05 - the very first year they came out with the 800, so I had the biggest baddest ATV for a couple years. Had lots of fun on it. Does more working than playing these days though. I can't afford the fines ...

Sometimes I work it a little too hard ....

Lots of JD garden tractors, fine little machines.

Smitty,
Nice looking 4wheeler, did Polaris make those models in yellow also ?

Don't recall Polaris ever having a yellow machine - just Honda with their EX & Foreman models, and now BRP (Bombardier) & Can-Am.

Here's a Can-Am. They also have a mud model with a snorkel, and a radiator mounted on the top where that storage box is - it's insane. Thing is absolutely nutso. Wish I could afford one - what a beast! Has a beast of a price tag too ....

Thanks, several years ago I had a yellow Polaris for maybe a week but I can't remember what cc it was, I do remember it was a twin cylinder though . I think I sold it to buy a KX 250 at that time, man it's hell to get some age .

Might have been a Sportsman 450 ...??? .. Not sure.

I used to wrench at one of the largest Polaris dealers in the country In Glendale, AZ back in '99 - and I still don't remember.

I used to have a 1996 6X6 Atv by Polaris. It was only a 450 cc machine, but worked well. It had an all-chain-drive which was its weakest point, because the double axle in the back had a hard time keeping the back chain adjusted right. The other issue was its turning radius. A Tri-axle dump trailer complete with cabbed tractor could turn around in less room then that thing could, but Mercy Sakes, switch that thing into 6 wheel drive and it would go anywhere. The dumping box on the back was handy too.

By the way Smitty, you CAN buy front buckets for ATV's now. What they do is have a small engine power a hydraulic pump that actuates the lifting and dumping cylinders on the front loader.

The problem with all that is, buy the time you buy everything, you end up with a ATV that costs as much a small tractor, yet is not really designed to take the punishment that a tractor can. I say that because I TRIED to cut wood with that 6x6 Polaris. Here we can still sell pulpwood in 4 foot lengths, so I would put a trailer or scoot on back of it and load 4 foot pulpwood on it and haul it to the road for a truck to pick up. It worked, but the ground clearance was an issue, and you could just feel the abuse when you hooked onto a stump or root. It just jarred the whole machine. In 1999 I got my tractor and the ATV sat unused until I sold it.

Of course I say all this like everything I have must earn its keep, and yet I bought a $9000 dollar snowmobile that gets about 2 months worth of use out of it per year! That is an expensive toy.

Smitty, do you miss the freedom of AZ ? I love that place ! Just go a little North to Flagstaff for some snow.

NoSmoke, wish I had a use for a snowmobile, those have came a long ways and are always fun to ride.

echos67 wrote:Thanks, several years ago I had a yellow Polaris for maybe a week but I can't remember what cc it was, I do remember it was a twin cylinder though . I think I sold it to buy a KX 250 at that time, man it's hell to get some age .

Yeah but you had the KX! Wouldn't want to plow with one but.......

Wood'nCoal wrote:I have the same snow thrower for the JD that oros35 has, doesn't work very well on 3/4 stone. Lots end up on the lawn and stuff (like windows) gets broken.

First year I spent many hours rakeing rocks out of my yard and landscaping!

For the next year I got smarter, and welded an extra wide pad on the skids and have it adjusted to about 2" high. Sure it leaves some snow on the drive, but better than rakeing rocks or replacing windows!

Last week I saw someone plowing their driveway with a huge ATV on TRACKS. This guy had an outfit the same colors as the ATV, and looked like he was ready to go to the moon. I imagine for what he spent on that rig I could buy a used front-end loader big enough to pick up a car.

They are a bolt on option that will only set you back about $4500. They are very popular here in Maine.

You can actually use them on the snowmobile trails here in Maine, but must register the ATV as a snowmobile to legally do so. Most of the snowmobile clubs mount the tracks on trucks (s-10's) so they can pull the snowmobile groomer through the trails, at least for the clubs who do not have have the cabbage for Pisten Bully 600's!

Atv tracks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjO0IG701os

This guy has the right idea for anyone with a few spare parts and way too much time on their hands!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n4dCZGhtkw