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I wouldn’t even consider putting a plow on my Bronco. I’ve owned multiple from full size Westerns to a mini fisher and I’ve only put them on old secondary vehicle pickups.
Exactly. I plowed for years and putting a plow on a main ride is a mistake. Driving with one causes all kinds of issues: Overheating if the plow is not slanted just right to allow air flow, and then a dip in the road can cause the plow to ground (exciting at speed). Strains the front suspension, screws up handling and braking and puts a strain on the whole vehicle. Quick disconnect is a joke. Even with a garage, sitting on cold concreted strugling to pull pins and cables, making sure the jack stands are in place (dont drop it on you!) sucks. Add some frozen slush and crud and get ready to curse. Buy an old 4wd beater, buy a decent plow, and use it as needed. A nice snow blower may be a better answer. Or pay someone to do it. Divide the cost of buying/installing a plow by how much it costs to get your driveway plowed and it could take years to pay for its self. Good luck!
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I want to put a plow on a new Bronco, that size of vehicle makes a PERFECT plow vehicle for the tight and nasty driveways I plow here in MN.

I've plowed for years with my 96' FSB and love it - front Aussie locked and a tight Trak-loc out back on 32's makes mince meat of anything.... well, axle shafts, it makes mince meat of those if I'm throttle happy. I've put airbags on one plow Bronco and not on another, made nearly no difference besides the headlights being a little higher up.

I'll be ordering a 2DR Badlands and would really like the idea of retiring the old truck/s and multi-purposing the new rig. I've had zero issues with the IFS and the control arm suspension is lightyears ahead for durability compared to the stock TTB stuff.

I've already got a pile of vehicles, I don't exactly want yet another truck to maintain to get a newer plow vehicle...

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Exactly. I plowed for years and putting a plow on a main ride is a mistake. Driving with one causes all kinds of issues: Overheating if the plow is not slanted just right to allow air flow, and then a dip in the road can cause the plow to ground (exciting at speed). Strains the front suspension, screws up handling and braking and puts a strain on the whole vehicle.
On the other hand......

Parking is SUPER EASY. Just drive towards the edge of the lot, drop the plow, hit the bank, parked. No brakes needed.

And you never have to worry about people cutting you off, pulling out in front of you, or opening their doors as you're driving by.

All of the above is my experience driving with a plow on a Ford Ranger, no less! (Of course, Ford used the name "Ranger" on my dad's F-250 back in 1977. That truck was a monster.)
 

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Exactly. I plowed for years and putting a plow on a main ride is a mistake. Driving with one causes all kinds of issues:
I'm in my second season of using my main ride (half ton pickup) to plow my driveway. It's only for personal use, so I don't drive around with it, which avoids all kinds of issues. Just cleared 14" yesterday, and another few today.
 

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Exactly. I plowed for years and putting a plow on a main ride is a mistake. Driving with one causes all kinds of issues: Overheating if the plow is not slanted just right to allow air flow, and then a dip in the road can cause the plow to ground (exciting at speed). Strains the front suspension, screws up handling and braking and puts a strain on the whole vehicle. Quick disconnect is a joke. Even with a garage, sitting on cold concreted strugling to pull pins and cables, making sure the jack stands are in place (dont drop it on you!) sucks. Add some frozen slush and crud and get ready to curse. Buy an old 4wd beater, buy a decent plow, and use it as needed. A nice snow blower may be a better answer. Or pay someone to do it. Divide the cost of buying/installing a plow by how much it costs to get your driveway plowed and it could take years to pay for its self. Good luck!
Boy idk what kind of plow you're used to but the new Boss plows take 30 seconds to hook/unhook. No laying on the ground needed.

They definitely used to be a PITA and I agree with your other points.

I personally wouldn't put a plow on anything less than a Super Duty or an old beater.
 

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Nope, doesn't work that way.
I guess you haven’t seen our township plow vehicles front ends all out of wack and alignment from snow plowing
 

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Buy a Deere with a loader mounted plow or a blower.
 

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I guess you haven’t seen our township plow vehicles front ends all out of wack and alignment from snow plowing
Sounds like operator error... very common when the vehicle is driven by someone other than the owner.
 

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Buy a Deere with a loader mounted plow or a blower.
I was shopping for tractors as an option for my personal snow removal needs. I concluded they were way to large of an investment for only personal snow clearing about a dozen times a year. I have no other use for a tractor. If you're running a business, and making money off of it, maybe the price is not so crazy.
 

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I was being a little sarcastic with my comment. We sell tractors to a lot of people for personal snow removal but it is hard to justify if you have no other use for them though I do believe they would be better than any vehicle for that purpose. It is amazing how many people are living in the mountains here now that need snow removal from Oct - April. They have no other choice than to do it themselves and some have 1/2 to 1 mile of driveway. It seems that for a lot of those people, money is no object. They also are unprepared for 5' or more on the ground all winter. Total snow fall could be over 10'. Not like Tahoe but still a lot.
 

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We sell tractors to a lot of people for personal snow removal but it is hard to justify if you have no other use for them though I do believe they would be better than any vehicle for that purpose. It is amazing how many people are living in the mountains here now that need snow removal from Oct - April. They have no other choice than to do it themselves and some have 1/2 to 1 mile of driveway. It seems that for a lot of those people, money is no object.
Yeah, I agree for those with properties at higher elevation, and receive a lot of snow fall, a tractor with a blower on it is the way to go. With plowing, you can quickly run out of room to push the snow to, when you receive 5-10+ ft of snow. However with blowing, that's much less of a problem.
 

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Motion activated blade? Means as soon as you start to back up the blade drops? Be fun parallel parking or even backing out of a spot
 

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Fisher has a mount for the rangers, I wonder if a little fabra-cobbling could make it work.
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