I noticed there are a lot of videos of people plowing 2 inches of snow... So I just had to contribute... Fast forward to 4:10 if you're impatient. Be sure to subscribe if you want to see more videos of me making a fool of myself!
Why would you get up at 3am to plow your driveway only to have to plow it again in the morning? I'm guessing you don't live in a snowy climate but these machines can do this for years, my 86 fourtrax is still plowing out harsh Canadian winters. Plus pull 10 cord of wood per year and be driven all year round.
@@ec6052 if thats your mindset stick to hiring professionals lol. I work with state of the art equipment. The most durable machines gets ABUSED in conditions like this. Think of how heavy that snow is especially on a small sidewalk machine like this. For one he’s already gonna need a new cutting edge. Especially if you get a temp drop and it all crusts over fast.. then your screwed. You must be new to a snowy climate if shoveling every 4-6 hours seems redundant.
@@WorldSpeculator Lol You're funny kid. If that's your mindset then you obviously don't live North enough to see any snow. What do you call specialized equipment? Sidewalk crawlers? LMFAO We use 12' blowers on front end loaders because after two storms there's no room left to push it and nothing else can do the job but Everyone uses ATV'S with plows or snowblowers on their property... People with miles of roads do. I'm positive my 7 year old has moved more snow than you've ever seen because you definitely don't live in the north if you don't think ATVS can do this lol That was your giveaway because thousands in my province use them regularly for this LMAO 🤣 (FYI the population is only in the thousands)
My man what a challenge there !, it actually looked like more than 3 feet of snow, you certainly conquered it though, well done, and thanks for sharing !.
On a atv it is fun. If you have a shovel you will hate snow and winter with a passion lol. Especially when its below zero and you have to scrape the ice off your windows on your car, and you don't have gloves because you forgot them or there wet from the previous day you scraped the ice. Then your car door is frozen shut so you have to get a bottle of hot water to thaw it out. Then it freezes again by the time you get to work so you have to slam your body into the door to get out of the car. You get mad because you got frozen inside your car so you get out and slam the door and when you do you slip on ice and fall on your ass. lol other than that is ok
If the snow fell that rapidly, there's a good chance it was as fluffy as it appears in the video. In fact, that's sometimes harder to snow than if it had been wetter, denser snow, because it flows all over the damned place like water. You can't corral it as easily, and it doesn't go where ya want. I've been using a 700lb ATV, with a 210lb "me" riding it, with a 4-foot plow attached, to clear off my Wisconsin driveway for 20 years. It works great most of the time, and is very fast. We do get our share of heavy snows (not "mountain pass nightmare-strength" snowfalls, but still pretty ugly). But damn, when it gets this bad, or you get 15-20 inches of the wet heavy stuff, it's not nearly as much fun. Actually turns into WORK!! It's even less fun when it's -10F!! Props to Mountain-Adventures for pushing the envelope. I would've given up sooner, had my snowblower out for 30 minutes first, to get a viable path started, so the snow had somewhere to go, and minimize the ATV bottoming out. Then I'd go back and finish the job with the ATV. You just dove right and and gave 'er hell. As for people saying "get a truck"... well, I have a 4x4 truck. It fits in my driveway. It fits in my garage. But it does NOT fit everywhere I have to clear snow!! Fixed obstacles and tight spots exist! Sometimes you gotta make do with the next best thing. I'm actually pretty impressed with how he managed, given the depth of that snow.
That's a lot of determination. I don't think your problem is the 400, you just need chains. You won't believe the difference. I use a Honda Foreman with 432cc 4x4. Haven't had more than a few inches but I plow up some steep gravel driveways. Never slipped an inch. I prefer to finish a bad set of tires through the winter rather than put use on new tires. With v - bar chains it just doesn't matter. Good luck.
man, screw all the "professionals" this is the most fun I have seen on a 4 wheeler plowing.... Most I did with mine was 15"... this looked like a good time, not sure if you got anywhere with it.. but at this depth, it doesn't matter!! cheers from Montana!!!!
Kawasaki 360's and 400's were/are bulletproof machines. Good weight, good power. All a bigger cc'd machine will do with the same size plow is spin the tires faster. Good job!
WOW - good Job! I start up the D4 when its that deep. it dont even care if there is an ice burm in its way. yeah got a truck too, But the 4 wheeler plowing has really peaked my interest as it might not plow a wide swath, then the CAT gets to come out and play ;) Great video - WOW I never thought the wheeler would do so well! thanks for showing that it can be done. :)
I got 18 inches at my house one storm this year. I plowed it with my ATV because my truck was broken. Never again will I plow that much snow with an ATV. It takes forever and makes a mess. You can find plow trucks for under 2 grand on CL. That is is the way to go if you ask me.
Good vid and impressive little machine. All the youtube experts are just jealous they still shovel. With that much snow all you can do is beat down a path and keep working it. My sportsman 550 is a absolute tank and i put vbar chains on the back. Much more maneuverable than a pick up and can push banks way back where the truck would just get stuck
I agree with you on the snowblower. I use a 420 Honda Rancher with a 60" Moose plow and I can clear my entire driveway and our backyard in about 30 minutes, vs about 3 hours with the snowblower. Moving 3 feet of snow with a snowblower would take forever....not to mention it's not as much fun. Give me the atv any day.
Damn bro when is the last time you had the valves adjusted???? Sounds like a sewing machine from the 70s my grandma used to run. Thats some serious snow pushing though. Cheers 🍻
That's what a CVT belt-drive sounds like with 14,000 miles on it. It's not the engine, the belt drive clutch gets loose and noisy with that kind of mileage. I've since replaced it with a Comet clutch.
That's one major dump of snow. No critique on the plowing, but in cold weather, you need to let the machine have a 5 minute warm up before you work it like that. It will save your engine a lot of wear. Nice job though. I have a 28" snow blower, but my Grizzly with Warn plow does the job in a fraction of the time on a 5 car length double wide driveway. And I'm in Ontario and we DO get some snow here.
@@forreststump11 Take smaller bites with the blade lifted so you're not pushing so much weight. If he keeps at it this way he's going to blow that thing up in no time!
@@forreststump11 depends on the area. I have a long narrow drive and after a couple big storms i run out of space with the pick up. The wheeler i can get sidways any where and really open it up. I would have been out a few times before letting 3 ft pile up though.
I used to use a 03 sportsman to do my long driveway and it worked great. But if we ever got more than 6 inches I would do it several times so I wasnt overworking the machine. One time we got 28 inches and I called a buddy to come with his truck to avoid any damage. Pushing that weight and working the machine creates alot of heat.
Nice work, I just hooked up my Grizzly with a plow and cant wait for the snow to even drop a few inches, most of my neighbors have snow blowers and I cant wait to see there faces when they see me push the snow off my driveway in no time flat sitting on my ass..
Have you tried chains out? see if it helps? It doesn't look like the torque is having an issue with the snow but more the weight and the traction. I wanna get a quad and try doing this lol. Also try putting some sandbags on it. Since you have a cargo holder it seems.
Might want to look at the date the video was posted before making troll assumptions. This video was made in 2012 and I have put thousands of miles on it since then, it's currently at over 15,000 miles and counting. Hasn't given me a SINGLE problem in all that time except for replacing a rotted fuse holder. And the porch is still intact, I'm as surprised about that as you!
Given this would exceed recommended capacity, ratchet strap 3 bags of salt on the front and 5 in the rear, Im curious to see the difference in traction.
After a few more like that, you will get a blower. Fun, but you will learn if you get enough snow. Plus that's not even 36 inches! Just fun, but if it gets hard at the berms, then what are you going to do?
Everyone talking about him blowing his bike up LMFAO Bunch of wimps! There's at least a dozen Hondas from the 80s in my neighborhood alone doing this through Northern Canadian winters... since the 80s.. Mine's an 86! Little harder on bearings but everything else wore normal. Engine is stock, never even adjusted the valves in it's 35 year life(so far). All the gears are good. Runs like a top, 5ows 5-8 cord of logs EVERY year to boot. Just finished maintenance last night to get ready for her 35th year plowing and in the woods but yeah that's going to blow up his bike... Get a Honda I guess? Or a "Kawi" apparently lol
You're need a plow truck ATV with plows are a JOKE ..... Plus Kawasaki have slip 4 wheel drive ....You need a Polaris with true 4 wheel drive no shitty slip drive
when you do this for 4 years like i have done in the UP of Michigan the ATV plow setup works great on small driveways,but it does amaze me how well they work and easy to get in tight places
Obviously people commenting here don't live in big snow country. This guy made a big mess and was trashing his machine. If your trying to learn how to plow snow with a 4 wheeler don't use this as a proper tutorial.
I had a 4x2 Honda with rear chains and a shingle bundle on the back rack for weight, and plowed this stuff...got a upgrade 4x4 rancher and now its a breeze...
Such amount of snow... How much time does it take to clean snow with snow shovel only? Or how many property owners (when 1st one will die because of exhaustion)?
Haha, I love your interest in analyzing this! It's an impossible amount to clear with a shovel, believe me I've tried. That snow is heavy, despite the fact that it looks fluffy when the plow is pushing it away. And I'm an athletic person. I have occasionally had to shovel the snow off of my roof when it gets above 4 feet, as the weight becomes dangerous to the structure (for instance, doors in my house will no longer close because of the pressure on the frame from above). Shoveling the roof only involves pushing it off the side, which is much easier than lifting it and dropping it somewhere else. Even so, it is absolutely exhausting. The best solution environmentally is to just wait for it to melt, but in some situations that is just not an option.
Don't wait til the snow gets that high. Do it every 6 inches or so isn't so thick all at once. Much easier to do it that way and most likely save time in the long run.
Yeah I totally get that, it is ture what you said that snowblowers pick up stones and gravel. I run mine on a gravel driveway and every year I rake bake the gravel but if I used a plow then I'd push all the gravel up and away and do the same thing. i learned how to control it uptake of stones and it seems to work. In all I'd use a snowblower on blacktop as it does not scratch Best thing really is not be lazy and shovel it. In winter most get fatter then and any exercise is good.
at my farm, several years in a row, it drifted in up to six feet deep, thawed and refrozen layers. My boss plow wouldn't move it at all unless i shaved it...then limited to where i put the snow. so i got a skidsteer with heated cab, snowblower, and still just have utility bucket...but now it hasn't snowed much for two years. if i had a nice fouir wheeler like that i would just drive on top ha ha
The video was made in 2012 and I have put thousands of miles on that Kawi since then (showing a little over 15,000 miles right now), still running strong and literally hasn't given me a single problem in all these years except for one rotted out fuse holder. But you are correct that it's more than that plow setup is made for, but we don't have multi-footers that often anymore. Since then I've also built a hot-rodded snowblower that handles some of the work.
Clearly like NCDanV said, this is a waste of time and gas and an environmental disaster. If you like playing with your ATV in the snow, its one thing but this is inefficiency supreme. There are much more efficient way to clear snow and yes, I live in Central Ontario and I deal with more snow in one fall than most people see all year.
Looks like more fun than shoveling all of it. We had an 85 Honda 110cc three wheeler, so much fun towing saucer sleds hooked to a rope behind it in the snow. Play king of the sled, get the sled whipping and people diving at you was awesome! 🤘
just a tip if you don't know try not to make your bike hop when your going along sometimes i noticed it was doing that a few times it will break something. but other than that great vid!
I have a 2002 Honda Forman 500 with a County Plow and love it. Never had any issue with getting through the snow we get here in Southern Wisconsin. But I have never had 3 ft to go through yet. Great video of your machine and as far as anyone goes that says bad things about this video your just jealous because you dont have one. What state are you in. UP of Michigan?
This is confirmation that a 400 n ⬆️ machine can handle plowing large snow fall… 3ft snow storms are rare in 95% of 🇺🇸 Knowing this size class machine can handle it.. good to know
If that is the case then you have to adjust scrapper higher. TORO snow blower does not have shear bolts to be broken because they built heavy duty augers.
Looks like you slept in a little too long. Kinda deep, surprised a 400 can do that! I just bought my first four wheeler and put blade on it for commercial use this winter. Hoping it does this well. Good video
