Land Pride RB1560 backblade skid shoes?

[BillK01]

Anyone have any experience with the add on skid shoe kit for the RB1560? Mainly wondering if they’re worth the price for snow removal on a concrete driveway when there is not really enough snow for the snow blower? Will they help with not marking up the concrete vs the blade by itself?

 

[rjcorazza]

Shoes generally concentrate the weight of the blade over a smaller area, and will still likely scratch concrete. Their only advantage is that a shoe doesn’t have an aggressive edge like the blade.
My previous snow use rear blade was a lightweight 7ft County Line blade that was reasonable on blacktop, but hard on concrete. I recently replaced it with a Land Pride rb2684, which is about 2x the weight. The edge was too hard on any surface for snow plowing - shoes or not. I ended up putting a 1.5” thick polyurethane edge on the blade for this winter. Hopefully I will get a few years of service out of it.
Concrete and steel has never been a good combination, but perhaps if the shoes have a large surface area you could get away with it.