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Old 10-30-2008, 10:37 PM
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Default NID snow plowing business

NID is on the short list of our retirement locations. I was knocking around the idea of a small house and big shop that could hold a 5th wheel and big pickup to haul it. Then the idea to put a snow plow on it came to me. Can you make some extra bucks with a snow plow up there or does everybody already have one? Is the market saturated?
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Old 10-31-2008, 03:00 AM
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There are a lot of folks plowing driveways...but not enough RELIABLE guys IMO...at least that's what I found, so I bought a plow for my Honda Rubicon, which is what a LOT of folks do here. But old pickups with plows mounted are pretty common...
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Old 10-31-2008, 09:31 AM
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You can definitely make extra money. My husband did it several years ago to make his new plow pay for itself. He had way more business than he wanted. He paid for the plow in no time.
We didn't find that our heavy ranch 4 wheelers had (Honda Foremans) enough weight to plow our long "driveway" so we added the big plow to the old Suburban. We eventually sold that and now plow with our tractor that also has a huge PTO driven snowblower on it that flings the snow about 30 feet away. We couldn't have kept our road open last winter without that. We ran out of places to push the snow.
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Old 11-01-2008, 02:09 PM
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Yeah, I agree on the 4 wheeler. This past winter, I had to have a skidsteer come about every 6 weeks and push the road open wider, then with the 4 wheeler I was able to keep it clear by getting on it often and early...
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Old 11-01-2008, 08:53 PM
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We have a skid steer on tracks this year and our tractor. Bring on the snow! (not really)
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Misty lets some some pictures of that tracked skidsteer when the snow starts flying.
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Misty lets some some pictures of that tracked skidsteer when the snow starts flying.
Absoluteley!!!
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Old 11-02-2008, 10:49 AM
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No problem...but I'm hoping the snow will hold off a while longer.

Elousv: I'm no mechanical expert myself but I remember my husband talking about how hard snow plowing was on a truck's transmission. You might want to consider that if you're planning on using a "good" truck for commercial plowing.
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