Recent content by BruceMc

Of course, at 0ºF, you should be plugging in. It's been discussed before, but most battery maintainers aren't doing much of anything when it gets that cold. The real enemy of lead-acid batteries is heat. Batteries are simply chemical reactions, and the rate of the reaction is temperature...

It's all relative. We hit -50ºF a few days ago. This morning it's +5ºF. I'm wearing shorts right now.

Still have the original battery in my 2014 BX25D. Used year-round, ~950 hrs, no maintainer, it still tests in the green. Never gave me a problem.

Just bumping this up to see if anyone has gotten an answer to this since it was last posted?

My driveway is similar to yours, and I plowed for 11 years with my BX25D and the 60" blade/fixed pin.I also plowed three neighbors. The BX is light enough that it got pushed around a lot until I combined it with a 60" rear blade. I'd run the front blade a few inches off the ground and clean up...

The inspector approves last night's cleanup. I've been plowing the same area since 2000, and this is the first year I'm getting to the limit for stacking snow.

A few years ago, with my BX25, I had the same experience and it was the first fuel filter coming off the tank. It's tucked up underneath and I had overlooked it during regular maintenance.

Block heater and silicone pad heaters on oil pan and HST is standard equipment from the dealer here. Pad heaters are relatively cheap and seem to last forever.

I only use the brakes when I have to stop quickly, or to hold position.

Snag YT is about 260 miles SE of here (Fairbanks). The coldest I've been out in is mid -70ºs. Hard to be exact, since reading most thermometers gets a little wonky at those temps. Hydraulic fluid can essentially freeze, metal gets brittle and shatters, rubber stops flexing. Even with an open...

About 99% of cars, trucks and equipment around here have a block heater (at a minimum). Standard in this part of the cold world. You don't say where your experience is, but the notion that you don't need one at -40 is silly.

Silicone pad heaters are pretty standard in this part of the world. They work on oil pans, transmissions, hydraulic reservoirs, etc. Relatively cheap and easy to install as long as you have a flat surface to attach them to.

Like NCL4701 pointed out - you want the grooves to hold snow, since snow sticks to snow. I grooved the R4s on my BX25 and it made a big difference. If I had to do it again I'd probably try to fit 2 parallel grooves instead of single groove centered on the lug. My new LX came with R14s. I was...

Yep. I have it all the way back. I have no cartilage left in the right knee, so it doesn't flex very well. It's mostly a problem planting my heel to reverse. In comparison to my BX25 it seems a further rearward. It's workable on the LX, but not as comfortable as on the BX.

Yes. I have a Schumacher load tester and it's solidly in the green.