[mnglandscaper]

Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone could give me a link to a website or some reference material that could give me some estimated production rates for snow and ice management equipment. This is gonna be my second year at snow removal and I want to step it up a bit. It is not turning out to be much of anything again because landscaping takes up 98% of my life, but I want to start building the snow removal division properly right away. I have been to SIMA's website and cannot find anything. There is some software, but I have some if it already and the rest I cannot afford. I am just looking for average production rates for 8' straight blade on 1/2ton truck, shovel, blower, salt spreader,etc.
Any advice would be well appreciated.

thanks!

[cutntrim]

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.