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Old 10-11-2006, 09:58 PM
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Well, a time/motion book I've got says 50,000sq.ft./hr for 4" of snow with an 8' blade and 5 min to salt the same size lot with a 3yd sander.

Take those figures with a grain of salt (no pun intended) though...because 50,000sq.ft. unobstructed lots with exactly 4" of light, non-compacted snow are few and far between, and not every driver plows as efficiently as then next guy, nor is every plow type the same either. Wings add productivity, as does a V-blade, or a Blizzard blade.

If you plowed last winter, go back to the lots you did and measure them then compare your times to the amount/type of snow that you of course recorded on your log sheets each time out. Figure an average and that'll be of more use to you than anything any of us (or our books) can tell you.
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