Plowing snow with front & rear lockers???

[Highfinance97]

My father is going to be plowing snow with the 93 this year and we are a little worried about the lockers and what the truck is going to do when pushing snow.



Is it going to be the ultimite snow plow??

Or is going to want to walk allover the place??



Also how will the lockers be on the highway in the middle of a blizzard??





Michael

 

[EKlem]

You will certainly be able to move a lot of snow in a straight line. What does it have in it for lockers?



The biggest problems that I can see you having are starting on a side slope and turning. The times when you are plowing, it is usually slick enough that I doubt you will destroy axles shafts. Starting on a side slope, if you accidently start spinning, you will be going sideways down the hill very fast much worse than if the diffs were open or limited slip. The locked rear is going to make it so that once you are moving, the truck really will only want to go straight. Maybe with a front locker, you will be able to pull the front around. I don't have any experience plowing with a locked up front, only rear.



My old truck was locked at both ends but didn't have a plow. It wasn't very good for driving around when the roads were only slick but it dominated once the snow got real deep. Basically, because of being locked it was always skidding which isn't a big deal once there is a lot of snow but is real annoying when there isn't much snow.



Who knows, maybe we won't even get snow this year the way the weather seems to be going.

 

[Highfinance97]

You will certainly be able to move a lot of snow in a straight line. What does it have in it for lockers?

Detroit Lockers.





Michael

 

[TRAMPLINEMAN]

I've never plowed snow with lockers, but if it handles snow and ice anything like the truck I had with lockers, he's in big trouble. Any time the tires would break loose, the truck would NOT go straight but instead it would go sideways. From a stand still, if I floored it, the truck would go sideways and sometimes backwards. Highway driving during winter months was a nightmare. Any slippery spot on the road and you never knew which direction the truck was going to go.



This was with front and rear lockers.

 

[Highfinance97]

Thanks guys thats what i was kinda afraid of.





We will see i guess





Michael

 

[DRadzierez]

take it pulling---youll most likely break one or the other then it wont be locked front and back anymore.

 

[Highfinance97]

take it pulling---youll most likely break one or the other then it wont be locked front and back anymore.

Dont give me your crap :-laf



Come get your cylinder head??,you know possession is 9/10ths of the law :-laf







Michael

 

[DRadzierez]

Dont give me your crap :-laf



Come get your cylinder head??,you know possession is 9/10ths of the law :-laf







Michael

Yea I know but,being able to come and take it when I have to is the other 10th. LOL

 

[Yooper1]

IMO I have had a Detroit Locker in my last plow truck. I loved it, however there is a true learning curve as to driving the truck. It I down shifted in snow/wet roads the back end could come around. But great for almost everything else.

Now the down side, the only times the truck ever got stuck, was due to the Locker. I would be in deep snow and could not "Back Up" turning. No made what the front wheels did it would pull the truck "straight" back. Twice there was another car. (Stuck :{ ) the other time was my own mail box. If I had to do it again, I would get another Detroit Locker. But not for the front.

Hope this helps.

yooper1

 

[the whale dog]

Michael I plowed for years and the only locker I had was in the front gave great directional control I used chains for a while on the front only again for directional control

and if you can unlock one hub it basically makes the front open as only the locked hub will drive if you are on side slopes alot get chains for both ends