Can your Bobcat equipment handle the winter workload? Is there a way to keep up with all the snow you could be pushing around with your Bobcat equipment?

The winter months provide lots of excellent opportunities for you and your Bobcat equipment to turn the white stuff into some green stuff. But if you are going to get serious about clearing snow, what Bobcat equipment attachment is best?

There are plenty of snow-clearing attachments available for your Bobcat equipment, including traditional snow plows as well as the skid steer-mounted snowblower. But if you want to clear lots of snow in a hurry, look no further than a Snow Pusher.

Made in widths of 96, 120, and 144 inches, the Snow Pusher is similar to a plow, but is more like a fully-enclosed, double-bladed scraper. Instead of being pushed to the sides, the snow is trapped in the giant box-sled, and shoved off the parking lot or driveway without a lot of extra work.

The problem with traditional plows is that, while some of the snow churns around and stays in front of the single blade, for each run you take, a lot of the snow is left in “spoils” off to the sides of the skid steer snow plow. You basically chase most of the snow you plow to the side, one strip at a time.

The skid steer snow pusher allows very little of the snow you push to escape off the sides. This is the main reason that, when you purchase a skid steer snow pusher, it is recommended that you use tracks or chains on your Bobcat equipment, because the sheer volume of snow is so much greater with this system.

It has been estimated by skid steer attachment experts that if you use the snow pusher to clear a parking lot or driveway, you will have the area cleared 35% faster than with a traditional snow plow. And in the winter months, when there are fewer jobs for you and your Bobcat equipment to get out there and tackle, time is money. Now you can charge by the job, not by the hour!

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