Thanks BC! That's good to know, and appreciate that sharing. It would seem that the recommendation is geared towards a front mount plow. Time will tell if I should have heeded the warning though.
For me I substantially (and now) am using it as a rear plow. Looking at it similarly to a trailer "push\pull, tongue weight, force" thing, my hope is that it will have less of a stress impact on the truck in the rear.
Fortunately so far I'm limiting my plowing to a flat, paved 40' x 50' driveway... and try to plow with it in shifts when heavy snow falls are expected.
Todd T - It's a manual lift and drop of the blade (not very heavy ~ 40 lbs). Photo #1 is the plow blade up on the frame rest, and photo #2 is with the blade down on the ground. The concept of this blade\plow design is a 'push to plow', and then when I go forward the plow blade drags back at an angle. Go in reverse to plow again and the blade straightens up to push the snow. There is video or two out on the net (on the snowsport.com site I think) that shows the plow blade in use. You can purchase at additional cost fixed angle deflectors (to have the blade angled left or right). I just went with the straight base setup. I've used a wireless backup camera as an aid.
The big design knock as I see it is how effective is it when the blade push doesn't make a clean path, and then in the drag back rides over and lightly packs down the thin film of snow that remained. Only a raise\lower 'real' plow system can do the best job in my opinion. I have been finding that if I plow with this unit on asphalt and before you start driving over and packing down the snow, it does an acceptable job. Hope this info has helped some. I'm not looking to sell this plow blade. If we get an early snow fall this year I'll try to do a short video and post it.
