Is a SNOW ROLLER, better than a SNOWBLOWER ?

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  @VinyB57 · 1 year ago · pinned

  Link to website and plans: <a href="https://57design.ca/">https://57design.ca/</a>

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• JO

  @joemack6628 · 2 years ago

  Bro just wanted something to do

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• BR

  @briandavis8629 · 2 years ago

  Red Green reference that&apos;s great 😂

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• MA

  @Markus314159 · 2 years ago

  Those are the &quot;top link&quot; and the &quot;lift arms&quot;

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• AD

  @AdrianJayeOnline · 2 years ago

  I wish I had as much time on my hands

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• RO

  @robertheinkel6225 · 2 years ago

  When I was in the USAF, temporarily stationed in Alaska, we landed our KC-135A in -60 degree weather. &nbsp;The parking ramp was about a foot thick in packed snow. &nbsp;They only removed all the snow off the runway. &nbsp;In the parking areas, they just leveled off the snow and parked the aircraft on top of the snow. &nbsp;They even painted new taxi lines on the snow.

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  @MrDaneBrammage · 2 years ago

  Establish the base layer, but don&apos;t keep compacting it all winter. &nbsp;If you have too thick a compacted layer, a few thaw/freeze cycles leaves you with very deep frozen ruts that are not fun to drive in.

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  @cabaneencac5168 · 2 years ago

  Before Mr Sicard invented his snow blower, this is what we did here in rural Québec until the 1940s. That is: rolling the snow, it was easier to move around for the snow sleds as well as for Mr Bombardier&apos;s snowAutomobiles to ski-doing on it . <br>The problem was in spring . The snow rolling all winter lasts for a very long time in spring creating a very compact and hard surface base which will take forever (until St-Jean Baptiste , 24 juin ) to melt.

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• MA

  @MattnUska · 2 years ago

  Compacting the snow makes for a nightmare in the spring if you live somewhere where snow sticks around all season. I don’t have time to finish this right now so maybe you mentioned this.

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• SM

  @smithderf · 2 years ago

  Tangential to your video which purpose is to keep gravel put, I&apos;ve come up with another method to do so. I use an ATV with a winch operated snow plow. To keep from plowing gravel I use a length of rubber for the bottom edge of the plow. In practice I adjust the plow to just touch down, and then the added rubber folds backward which keeps the plow from grabbing any gravel. I purchased an inexpensive horse mat for the rubber stock. The rubber ends of the plow wear out quicker than the middle. So I split the plow edge into three sections. Two of which are foot long sections for the right and the left end of the cutting edge. Ten years of plowing two tenths of a mile in Michigan and my gravel for the most part stays in place.

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  @stephenporter7555 · 2 years ago

  Around here they use rollers like that for packing snowmobile trails. The only difference is instead of a 3 point hitch they use a trailer type hitch

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• GH

  @ghostshadow9046 · 1 year ago

  37 years in Alaska, there is a really simple way to NOT suck up all the gravel out of your driveway, have either large castor wheels on the blower to set height to keep scraper from grabbing gravel or a set of skids like used on Meyer snow plows.

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