etrailer | SnowBear Proshovel Snowplow Review

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Today we're going to be taking a look at the SnowBear Proshovel Snowplow for 2" hitches, with the electric actuator. These are available in three sizes starting with 82" wide by 19" tall, 84" wide by 22" inches tall, or 88" wide by 26" tall. Now the SnowBear Proshovel plow is going to offer complete steel construction. It's got a powder coat finish on it so even with the salt and the snow, the ice, and things like that, this is going to last a long time. Here across the top you do see the rubber deflector. As the snow comes up on our plow it's going to hit that, and that's going to prevent it from coming up and hitting our windshield and impairing our visibility. Now for common use on concrete parking lots and driveways, you'll see the steel lip that runs all the way across the bottom here.

There is a poly blade or a poly lip available if you plan on using this for decorative concrete surfaces or even if you need to plow some snow on the lawn. Now they do not recommend the use of a snow plow, any snow plow really for that matter in a gravel style parking lot or sand. Another great thing about the plow is that whether it's a large crack, or maybe a hole in the parking lot, or maybe one of the curbs along the outside, if we do happen to hit something solid, our plow is designed to flex and absorb the energy in the springs, rather than transferring it back into the vehicle. You can see that forward rocking motion is going to allow us to have a much smoother plowing experience. There's another nice feature of the plow. We have multiple, adjustable angles going both ways. It can be set to five positions.

Right now we've got it set to stay flat with the front of the vehicle. Got a lever right here, we'll just pull that forward. Now we can adjust this to an 11 degree angle, both left and right, or to a 22 degree angle, both left and right. As you can see the plow also has a nice pivot for that uneven terrain. It's going to slide over the road surfaces very nicely, but you're not going to have to worry about it digging in on one side or the other. Now we've also got a safety chain located right here.

For transportation or for moving, we'll want to bring out plow all the way up, just come to the back side here, we have our safety chain connection point. Now we want that to be as tight as possible. Simply take the pin out of our clevis there, bring that up to the appropriate height. We just want to keep in mind that we do still need to operate our carabiner. Run that back in.

Still got plenty of room there. If our main support chain we're to ever fail, that's going to pick up so our plow is not just digging down the road as we drive. Now this plow is designed for use at under 10 miles per hour in parking lots and driveways, things like that. If you do plan on driving with this down a public roadway, you would check your local laws. Make sure that you don't require lights to be on your plow, which some states do require that. You want to make sure that they don't require a safety chain from the plow to the frame, or to the receiver hitch of the truck. There just a few little laws there you want to be sure you're in compliance with, so you don't see any troubles. Now we have a worm gear driven motor. That's going to give us superior strength and durability. The nice thing about it is that it is clutched. From inside of the vehicle, we might not be able to see that ram is fully one way or the other, so in the event that we do go too far, it clutches out so we don't do any damage to the motor or the gears. It'll be a clicking noise that you'll hear. Just like that. That's protecting our motor so we don't have any issues. Then in the case of an accidental failure, our safety chain will prevent that plow from going to the road. You can see that would be just like our chain coming disconnected there, and it holds it nicely up off the pavement. Now with our plow fully lowered we're going to remove the pin, allow these to come down, and we'll want it to be just before the lowest setting, so just before we make contact with the ground, we've got our pin and clip out of the shank. Now we'll just p