We purchased an HLA 1500 from GWT for our driveway. We have expensive pavers (with a modest undulating surface) with built in solar lighting and were naturally concerned about scratching the surface. I set the rubber edge down on the driveway and propped the shoes up ⅜” using a wood shim. We got about 2-3” of ice rain, snow, frozen snow and sleet over two days last week. I cleared our driveway three times using the pusher on our ‘orange’ machine and it worked excellently. Only a couple of light scrapes in places where the driveway was curved for drainage and because I have little experience pushing snow. Overall very pleased with the product. By the way, I put the new Carlisle Versa Turf tires on (replacing the R4s which were hard on the turf) and had no loss of traction issues whatsoever even though walking was treacherous.
Wanna buy a snow pusher? Get more info at these links and then simply call, text, or email me to place an order. Thanks so much for your support! www.goodworkstractors.com/product/hla-60-snow-pusher-with-back-drag-for-sale/ www.goodworkstractors.com/product/hla-snow-pusher/
I purchased the HLA 1500 60" with back drag from you last January. Best purchase I made for my 1025R. The 60" is great on curves. It gives me more area than 54" on turns.I have no issues with the 60" on the 1025R.
Great vid! One added huge advantage to a bucket is you can scoop heavy snow and use it for added weight for traction, it has saved me on my road with a hill in Maine. 3038E is my rig.., great job!
You kill me . Every time I watch one of your videos I want to purchase a tractor with a bunch of attachments . Yet I have no need for a tractor . LOL .
Good morning Courtney. Good comparison video. I have an HLA grapple - love their equipment. Enjoyed the video. Couldn't help but laugh there - :)). Cheers and all the best!
Another awesome snow pusher video! Cant wait to see that 1800 on your 4066R. I’m on the fence about getting one, I seem to be cleaning the driveway every 3 days or so this year! Keep the great videos coming!
I put a plastic edge on my 3320 which is a 60 inch bucket there are 8 bolt wholes I cut it to 60 inches and it works great I recessed the bolts in the inch thick plastic and I’ve used it for 2 years doesn’t scratch the driveway and works great about 30 plows on it and it’s only a quarter the way shot . Cost me 40 dollars for the plastic piece and 6 bolts . Works just as good as the snow pusher without scratching the driveway. Unless you use the plastic cutting edge . Both units full up the bucket area and leave a trail so Sahara the point at least with the bucket you can stack the snow 10 ft tall .
I own a pusher and bucket on a much larger tractor. For the pusher to make sense as a purchase it has to be wider than the bucket. For example, my last tractor had a 6' bucket and easily handled an 8' pusher. The tractor could have handled a 10' but my plowing area didn't warrant that size. That said an inexperienced operator can dig a trench if they hit unfrozen ground or scalp a driveway that is in marginal condition with cracks and heaves.
Your tractor is most likely equivalent to a 4 Series or larger. Even many 5 Series have 72" buckets. That's the very extreme end of my customer base and even beyond. Smaller tractors aren't built the same as their larger cousins. They can't easily handle pushers a couple feet wider than their bucket and I'm not in the market of selling my customers attachments that push the limits of their tractor's capabilities. Skid shoes are found on every plow, pusher, and snowblower for a reason....simply put...they are needed to allow the attachment to glide or slide versus dig in. Buckets don't have anything that allows them to slide or glide. Buckets are designed to dig, scrape, and hold. Different purposes all together.
As someone whobpliws with a skid, bobcat s650, my push box is far superior to the bucket in every way as far as clearing lots goes, especially commercial. Granted my push box is 10' and the bucket is 3.5-4', if my bucket was the same 10' id take the box. I can stack the snow higher and faster with a box, I use the "snow wolf ultra plow" I believe it's called, so i can separate the box and have just a blade so that helps. I only use my bucket for a very long sidewalk, and it's a little too wide so there is some turf damage for the spring lol, and if a pile gets too high and I need to move it to another spot, but then I use the push box to stack it.
Great video ! Picking up the 54” HLA1500 from my local Deere dealer this am for my 1025R 😃 gotta wait till second week of Jan for the back drag , they said they are on back order 😕
I always appreciate your videos. This summer 2021, I purchased a new John Deere 3033R with a snow blower and other attachments. I have the bucket on the front for snow removal and was look at a snow pusher, of course here in my part of Canada lots of wet snow. I do some plowing for customers and every now and then a side one wheel into a dig because my customer didn't put makers out. The bucket on my tractor has push/pull me out every time, could I push/ pull myself out with a snow pusher. Just want to know before I invest the money, thanks.
Nice comparison with buckets and pushers but how about telling your customers that painting the inside of their bucket or their pusher with graphite based slip paint will greatly reduce the snow from freezing in their bucket or pusher The paint is actually called EZ slide
Sounds like you just did? 😉 That does nothing to help the potential damage to the plowing surface or prevent premature wear on a non-replaceable cutting edge though.
I have been really considering a gator with a plow for our long drive way. I was a landscaper so I have a 60” toro zmaster i have always used on my 2 acres but I’ll be damned, you have me considering a tractors man. Never thought I’d say that.
Question - snow pusher or snow blower attachment for moving lots of snow? We get a lot of snow, and I'm tired of pushing my blower around, I'm wondering what would be better?
I deal with a lot of snow drifts ranging from 2-3ft deep and sometimes 30-40 wide. Would I be better off getting a pusher or a larger material bucket? I have used pushers before at work and they are awesome but never used one on large drifts. Thanks for any feed back or advice anyone can offer.
I still like a pusher or plow for drifts. Shoot, even a blower is nice. Not a big fan of buckets for snow removal, even snow buckets. I feel like they are inefficient compared to these other tools.
Personally I went to a rear blade for clearing our gravel drive and parking areas. Front systems have just been a pain in gravel as its hard to get a consistent height as well as its easy to push the gravel into your snow berm/pile. Useing a rear blade to pull the snow 90% of the way seems to allow me to move more snow less gravel. I use front attachment to push the snow into a berm . Front attachment seem to work best on smooth graded surfaces. Just my experience and what works best for me.
Our local John deere would not sell us a pusher for any compact tractor. They said the loader is not designed for the amount of side pressure that the pusher can create.
Did he explain what is creating side pressure as I don't follow that at all? A John Deere snow plow would create much more "side pressure" as the blade is constantly angled exerting more force on one side of the machine. A snow pusher evenly traps and distributes the load across the face of the pusher. That raises some red flags about that salesman if you ask me.
@@GoodWorksTractors he's said any turning of tractor would put to much stress on loader arms. Hogan ,Walker JD out of manteno Illinois. We purchased tractor new from them along with other attachments. We used it at a hospital where I worked for maintenance/ clearing snow .
Buckets are used for plowing and pushing while turning all the time. So are loader mounted plows. I think we'd have seen some significant issues in the last 30 years if this were true. Otherwise, there would be warnings by all dealers, warnings in the loader manuals, and John Deere/Frontier wouldn't sell any of those attachments for compact tractors. There would be forum threads all over the internet about this issue as well if prevalent. There will always be someone who finds a way to damage a tractor, but that doesn't mean it's commonplace. Anything can happen, but that seems a bit extreme to me.
Too bad nobody makes weights for a 1025r front with a loader on. Front wheels slide while trying to clear snow. Hard to clear snow without steering. Going to buy a small dumbbell rack to bolt to the front bracket and put 2 - 40 pound dumbbell against grill. Have to make shift myself.
Probably shown in a dozen or more videos in the last year. Specifically called out in many of them. Five 41 pounders. Thought of these off the top of my head. czcams.com/video/ZS8OCnH2obA/video.html Shown in this entire video czcams.com/video/K_wkWEuZ2a0/video.html and this one too czcams.com/video/QTD2PYBL_Vg/video.html
@@donmcmannamy3409 I much rather pick the snow up and move it neatly to another place then push it and piled it up somewhere on my property. I just think a blower does a better and neater job. But that's just my opinion, my neighbor uses a blade and loves it. I call it the grass and sprinkler head killer lol
@@donmcmannamy3409 When that happens I use the blower as a plow. Scrapes the ground very well. And once the blower is full then you turn it on and blowout the snow that's inside. works great!
@@Camden04843 but you still need to raise, curl and shake your bucket, then try to re-level again, I have edge tamers and the snow pusher wins every time.
I live in South Texas and have never seen snow, I don't know why I'm here but here we are boys
We purchased an HLA 1500 from GWT for our driveway. We have expensive pavers (with a modest undulating surface) with built in solar lighting and were naturally concerned about scratching the surface. I set the rubber edge down on the driveway and propped the shoes up ⅜” using a wood shim. We got about 2-3” of ice rain, snow, frozen snow and sleet over two days last week. I cleared our driveway three times using the pusher on our ‘orange’ machine and it worked excellently. Only a couple of light scrapes in places where the driveway was curved for drainage and because I have little experience pushing snow. Overall very pleased with the product. By the way, I put the new Carlisle Versa Turf tires on (replacing the R4s which were hard on the turf) and had no loss of traction issues whatsoever even though walking was treacherous.
Glad to hear it! I've got some Carlisle's on order myself.
Awesome getting your son involved. Good job dad.
Wanna buy a snow pusher? Get more info at these links and then simply call, text, or email me to place an order. Thanks so much for your support!
www.goodworkstractors.com/product/hla-60-snow-pusher-with-back-drag-for-sale/
www.goodworkstractors.com/product/hla-snow-pusher/
I purchased the HLA 1500 60" with back drag from you last January. Best purchase I made for my 1025R. The 60" is great on curves. It gives me more area than 54" on turns.I have no issues with the 60" on the 1025R.
Glad to hear it!
Great vid! One added huge advantage to a bucket is you can scoop heavy snow and use it for added weight for traction, it has saved me on my road with a hill in Maine. 3038E is my rig.., great job!
Great point! Thanks for watching!
You kill me . Every time I watch one of your videos I want to purchase a tractor with a bunch of attachments . Yet I have no need for a tractor . LOL .
Haha I await your call 😂
Good morning Courtney. Good comparison video. I have an HLA grapple - love their equipment. Enjoyed the video. Couldn't help but laugh there - :)). Cheers and all the best!
Haha, thanks GP. Merry Christmas 🎄🎅
💥 That HLA snowpusher looks very well built. I like that it has a top edge.
Keep on tractoring 👍
Yeah, their backdrag is really top notch. Have a great weekend Mr. Ritter :)
That's great the HLA makes a rubber edge for the back drag . That will be a value added accessory .
Yes, it is very nice to have that option.
Another awesome snow pusher video! Cant wait to see that 1800 on your 4066R. I’m on the fence about getting one, I seem to be cleaning the driveway every 3 days or so this year! Keep the great videos coming!
Glad you liked it Zach! Hopefully I'll be able to make a 1800 Series action video in the next snow or two. Have a great weekend!
With the rubber cutting edge it works great for pushing leave piles
Yes, I've recently been enlightened as to some of the other uses for these snow pushers. Good for more than just snow!
HLA is Quality, I have their forks I'm a welder and that is the first thing I look at , they are a Quality company
I put a plastic edge on my 3320 which is a 60 inch bucket there are 8 bolt wholes I cut it to 60 inches and it works great I recessed the bolts in the inch thick plastic and I’ve used it for 2 years doesn’t scratch the driveway and works great about 30 plows on it and it’s only a quarter the way shot . Cost me 40 dollars for the plastic piece and 6 bolts . Works just as good as the snow pusher without scratching the driveway. Unless you use the plastic cutting edge . Both units full up the bucket area and leave a trail so Sahara the point at least with the bucket you can stack the snow 10 ft tall .
Really like your channel,no bs very informative.
Thank you sir. I appreciate it!
I own a pusher and bucket on a much larger tractor. For the pusher to make sense as a purchase it has to be wider than the bucket. For example, my last tractor had a 6' bucket and easily handled an 8' pusher. The tractor could have handled a 10' but my plowing area didn't warrant that size.
That said an inexperienced operator can dig a trench if they hit unfrozen ground or scalp a driveway that is in marginal condition with cracks and heaves.
Your tractor is most likely equivalent to a 4 Series or larger. Even many 5 Series have 72" buckets. That's the very extreme end of my customer base and even beyond. Smaller tractors aren't built the same as their larger cousins. They can't easily handle pushers a couple feet wider than their bucket and I'm not in the market of selling my customers attachments that push the limits of their tractor's capabilities.
Skid shoes are found on every plow, pusher, and snowblower for a reason....simply put...they are needed to allow the attachment to glide or slide versus dig in. Buckets don't have anything that allows them to slide or glide. Buckets are designed to dig, scrape, and hold. Different purposes all together.
Hope you do a video on vee blade quickattach option also if you sell them . 👍
As someone whobpliws with a skid, bobcat s650, my push box is far superior to the bucket in every way as far as clearing lots goes, especially commercial. Granted my push box is 10' and the bucket is 3.5-4', if my bucket was the same 10' id take the box. I can stack the snow higher and faster with a box, I use the "snow wolf ultra plow" I believe it's called, so i can separate the box and have just a blade so that helps. I only use my bucket for a very long sidewalk, and it's a little too wide so there is some turf damage for the spring lol, and if a pile gets too high and I need to move it to another spot, but then I use the push box to stack it.
I really like the back drag design on this pusher though. But the way mines designed it just wouldn't work.
Hi Damian, some of the same reasons I prefer the box as well. Thank you for taking the time to comment!
Great video ! Picking up the 54” HLA1500 from my local Deere dealer this am for my 1025R 😃 gotta wait till second week of Jan for the back drag , they said they are on back order 😕
Nice, hope you love it!
I always appreciate your videos. This summer 2021, I purchased a new John Deere 3033R with a snow blower and other attachments. I have the bucket on the front for snow removal and was look at a snow pusher, of course here in my part of Canada lots of wet snow. I do some plowing for customers and every now and then a side one wheel into a dig because my customer didn't put makers out. The bucket on my tractor has push/pull me out every time, could I push/ pull myself out with a snow pusher. Just want to know before I invest the money, thanks.
I'm just glad I got my john deere in florida
😂
Nice comparison with buckets and pushers but how about telling your customers that painting the inside of their bucket or their pusher with graphite based slip paint will greatly reduce the snow from freezing in their bucket or pusher The paint is actually called EZ slide
Sounds like you just did? 😉
That does nothing to help the potential damage to the plowing surface or prevent premature wear on a non-replaceable cutting edge though.
I have been really considering a gator with a plow for our long drive way. I was a landscaper so I have a 60” toro zmaster i have always used on my 2 acres but I’ll be damned, you have me considering a tractors man. Never thought I’d say that.
Question - snow pusher or snow blower attachment for moving lots of snow? We get a lot of snow, and I'm tired of pushing my blower around, I'm wondering what would be better?
I prefer a pusher as long as you have space to pile it
@@GoodWorksTractors Thank you.
Thanks for the videos. Very informative. “Burp”....excuse me. Lol.
Ha! You're excused :)
Thank you.
Number 20, checking in.
Numero viente
Hey Courtney, what are your thoughts about using a snow bucket all year long for a 1025 120 front end loader.
Don't you guys specifically say Don't Back Drag with the till arms Hydraulics fully extended?
There's a significant difference between rough terrain and a smooth surface.
Nice job Owen!
Glad you noticed! I thought he did a great job as well!
I deal with a lot of snow drifts ranging from 2-3ft deep and sometimes 30-40 wide. Would I be better off getting a pusher or a larger material bucket? I have used pushers before at work and they are awesome but never used one on large drifts. Thanks for any feed back or advice anyone can offer.
I still like a pusher or plow for drifts. Shoot, even a blower is nice. Not a big fan of buckets for snow removal, even snow buckets. I feel like they are inefficient compared to these other tools.
Good Works Tractors thank you for the advice I greatly appreciate it. Really enjoy your channel!
At 2:15 Why didn't you talk about "Edge Tamers" to protect the driveway surface?
I can't talk about everything all the time, sorry!
The pusher frame to pusher can be installed at either 80 , 90 , or 100 degrees . Where do you set yours at ?
90 degrees seems to work best for us tractor owners. I believe the other positions are mainly for other types of equipment.
@@GoodWorksTractors Thanks for the quick reply. Happy Holidays.
How do I purchase one of these?
What’s the best way snow removal for gravel driveways?
Personally I went to a rear blade for clearing our gravel drive and parking areas. Front systems have just been a pain in gravel as its hard to get a consistent height as well as its easy to push the gravel into your snow berm/pile. Useing a rear blade to pull the snow 90% of the way seems to allow me to move more snow less gravel. I use front attachment to push the snow into a berm . Front attachment seem to work best on smooth graded surfaces. Just my experience and what works best for me.
Do they make one these for the X series? I have a x585 with a 45 loader
Hi, not that I'm aware of
Does it turn right or left ?
Good question, no it does not.
Good info ! Thx !
Thanks man!
@@GoodWorksTractors soooo many decisions on what would work best for my snow business...
I hear ya...several factors to consider for sure
If I buy a pusher from you does the TTWT discount still work?
I can provide a GWT discount
Our local John deere would not sell us a pusher for any compact tractor. They said the loader is not designed for the amount of side pressure that the pusher can create.
Did he explain what is creating side pressure as I don't follow that at all? A John Deere snow plow would create much more "side pressure" as the blade is constantly angled exerting more force on one side of the machine. A snow pusher evenly traps and distributes the load across the face of the pusher. That raises some red flags about that salesman if you ask me.
@@GoodWorksTractors he's said any turning of tractor would put to much stress on loader arms. Hogan ,Walker JD out of manteno Illinois. We purchased tractor new from them along with other attachments. We used it at a hospital where I worked for maintenance/ clearing snow .
Buckets are used for plowing and pushing while turning all the time. So are loader mounted plows. I think we'd have seen some significant issues in the last 30 years if this were true. Otherwise, there would be warnings by all dealers, warnings in the loader manuals, and John Deere/Frontier wouldn't sell any of those attachments for compact tractors.
There would be forum threads all over the internet about this issue as well if prevalent. There will always be someone who finds a way to damage a tractor, but that doesn't mean it's commonplace. Anything can happen, but that seems a bit extreme to me.
This video is good, ok?
Haha yes sir 👍
Why can’t you just bolt some skids on the bucket?
1 again for same video👍😂
does anyone have experience with the edge tamers with a bucket
czcams.com/video/1U6izJZUJvE/video.html
Too bad nobody makes weights for a 1025r front with a loader on. Front wheels slide while trying to clear snow. Hard to clear snow without steering. Going to buy a small dumbbell rack to bolt to the front bracket and put 2 - 40 pound dumbbell against grill. Have to make shift myself.
I have shown me hanging five 41lb suitcase weights on the front rail of my 1025r many times. This is with the loader installed.
@@GoodWorksTractors Bought a weight box because of you, but never seen you hanging suitcase weights on the front with the loader installed?
Probably shown in a dozen or more videos in the last year. Specifically called out in many of them. Five 41 pounders. Thought of these off the top of my head.
czcams.com/video/ZS8OCnH2obA/video.html
Shown in this entire video czcams.com/video/K_wkWEuZ2a0/video.html
and this one too czcams.com/video/QTD2PYBL_Vg/video.html
@@GoodWorksTractors My Dealer said I couldn't do that. Thanks again for the good advice!
Could here the audio
should have shown it in action instead of him backing it up into the garage
Need a tractor with a heated cab . I'd rather have the snow pusher.
I'm in full agreement!
Bucket is a waste of time, and packs off. Pusher pays for itself quick in time and fuel.
Neither!!! Snow blower.
That's for another video Pete! 🤣
Depends on how much snow you have
@@donmcmannamy3409 I much rather pick the snow up and move it neatly to another place then push it and piled it up somewhere on my property. I just think a blower does a better and neater job. But that's just my opinion, my neighbor uses a blade and loves it. I call it the grass and sprinkler head killer lol
@@petermarte70 some time there isn't enough to even plow. Add to that wet snow gets stuck in the shoot of a blower
@@donmcmannamy3409 When that happens I use the blower as a plow. Scrapes the ground very well. And once the blower is full then you turn it on and blowout the snow that's inside. works great!
Good info, but long winded. More concise information retains viewership
This video has my highest retention rate out of my last ten posted. Thanks for watching!
There might be a skid shoes and blade ad on for the bucket available. You might not want to shake your bucket, so do I for my wallet ;)
There's a thousand ways to configure and remove snow. Simply two options here.
It is called Edge Tamer and the internet reviews are very positive
@@Camden04843 but you still need to raise, curl and shake your bucket, then try to re-level again, I have edge tamers and the snow pusher wins every time.