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Neil from Messick's here with the Land Pride Snow Push Box,
every once in a while around here we see a new attachment
or implement come through, and think to ourselves,
"Why didn't I think of that?"
This is definitely one of those things for me,
we've had push boxes come through here for years
for larger equipment,
but if you go through and look at what's used to
clear the parking lots of malls and big commercial properties,
airports they don't use plows,
they typically use push boxes.
The way a push box works is it's going to collect the material,
and the snow inside the box area
allowing you to sweep it off to the side,
and get it out of the way.
Land Pride recently came out with these small push boxes
geared towards popular compact tractors,
this one right here will fit right in the front
of a BX Series machine
allowing you to use that to clear your driveway.
It's a huge improvement over doing with a loader bucket
like many people do.
A common frustration we see with guys of loader buckets
particularly with once at newer homes
is that when you push that loader bucket down your driveway
the cutting edge of the loader bucket
is going to scrape up more of your driveway.
If you look at the bottom of the push box down here,
the BX Series one has a really heavy plastic cutting edge
on the bottom
in order to keep you from scraping up your driveway,
but give you a nice tool in order to be able sweep that off,
and clean it off.
Since Land Pride is owned by Kubota
they do make some unique mounting options for these
that aren't available on standard push boxes.
You could see these two right here
both have Kubota BX Series mountings on them
where you have the center cylinder
in order to tip the bucket
so here you mount your two
lower pins from your loader, and your center pin right here.
This will also accept the Kubota quick coupler
so, if you want it to be able to easily switch back, and forth
between this, and the bucket
you can use a BX Series quick coupler
at a nominal cost in order
to be able to slip this thing on, and off easily.
There is also larger models available as well
that come in a standard skid steer mount
that would go on to a B, or L Series tractor.
These are built a little bit heavier, and a little bit wider
they also get deeper and taller,
as well as the size of the tractor, goes up
because you can push a larger amount of snow in front of you.
The one other difference that you'll notice too
on this is they get bigger,
they also swap out the cutting edge for a different material
so, where the smaller box uses a plastic edge
this one uses about an inch thick solid piece of rubber.
On both of these models, this piece can be adjusted down
as it wears just by
loosening a couple of bolts and sliding it down.
Just a few notes if you have one of these,
and some operational tips on exactly how they work.
When you have the box on the front loader
typically you want to drop the thing on the ground,
and then push into the snow
collecting the snow into the box
then running off to the side of your parking lot or, driveway.
You use the rubber cutting edge down here in the bottom
to scrape surfaces clean.
We're out here in this parking lot,
and you could see from the areas that I've done
it doesn't get it the whole way down to the ground,
but it does a really good job of scraping off most of what's here.
It's a really slushy day,
and this is an extremely bad parking lot
it's in terrible shape,
but still, it got most of the crap off the asphalt so that's great.
One thing I was noticing when you're operating this,
you got to the thing dropped down flush on the ground
for it really works properly
so, I was doing that by kicking the loader
into the float position
letting it drop down on the ground,
and then popping it out of float.
If you're driving along,
and you feel like you don't have traction
on your front wheels
it's usually, because you're pushing into the box,
and the loader's picking your front wheels up
the ground a little bit,
and you can kind of get some of that front traction back
by rolling the box front, or back
and kind of adjusting the way that the thing sits on the ground.
Just from the quick spin that I did around the parking lot here,
I was pretty impressive, it worked pretty well.
It isn't quite as capable as a box on a skid loader,
we use those to clear most of our
parking lots here around the building,
and you can work faster, and more productive
with the larger machine and the bigger box,
but for the cost of these things,
and the fact that it has rubber edges on the bottom,
I think it's a really great choice for somebody that has a homeowner
or, a small office building,
or something that they need to take care of their own snow removal needs.
That's the Land Pride snow pusher
if you have any use for an attachment like this give us a call at Messick's
we're available at 800-222-3373,
or online at Messicks.com.
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