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  1. Introduce Yourself to the Community
    Hey guys, First time pusher, long time fan. I am new to the plowing industry. Own a contracting company that does alot of commercial landscape maintenance and we just jumped into the snow/ice management side of things. Curious to know what you guys would recommend for a UTV plow setup. Any...
  2. Business Fundamentals
    I am new to snow removal and have some questions What depth do I come out to start plowing? Do I come back at x number of inches to plow again? What % do I increase price to as depth of snow increases? Do I wait until it the snow has stopped falling to come out and plow or do I start at 2...
  3. Bidding & Estimating
    I am new to snow removal and have no idea what to charge. They would like me to price the lot just to plow it and to plow and salt both. I believe it is roughly around 24,000 square feet. Should I charge by the square foot or by an hourly rate? And how long does and job like this usually take...
  4. 🔧 Truck & Equipment Repair
    We have three Cat 262D3 for snow plowing. We have taken on a residential customer that bought a two auger Muskox snowblower for our operator to use each snow event. This means that during the snow event, the operator will need to switch attachments from the snow plow to the snow blower and back...
  5. Ice Management
    Hi all quick question, I have a private road for this season (narrow and about 250 yards long) that I need to sand at the end of each storm. The problem is I don't have a sander and Im not in the market for a big or expensive sander. My original plan was to spread it by hand, by filing the bed...
  6. Bidding & Estimating
    Greetings everyone. I live in NJ and am a small/new business owner. I do landscaping through the warm months and hope for snow in the winter here in the cold ones! This is my second season snow plowing running a legit business (I’m 22). I was given some commercial snow plowing accounts locally...
  7. Commercial Snow Removal
    Hi everyone, I am a fairly new (second season in business) snow plow contractor during the winter months. I need help with a contract. Typically my full season customers pay for their service up front, and are covered for the winter. I recently was approached by a customer asking to have his...
  8. Used Plowing and Truck Equipment Forum
    2021 Purchased February New from fisher dealer. Used for residential properties only. We are transitioning to brine and no longer using hard product. Comes with all wiring, hopper, added led work lights, led safety flashers in Amber, plus a brand new controller. (Had to replace due to former...
  9. Bidding & Estimating
    Hey Guys, got an offer to bid these to properties in Hudson county New Jersey, I am running a 15 Tacoma with a snoway 22 series 8' plow with down pressure. with my truck im comfortable clearing every 2-4'' max, over that it just isn't heavy enough to push through it. no salting is required just...
  10. Bidding & Estimating
    Hey Everyone, we are a some what new company in the snow removal industry and this year we are having to turn down a lot of contracts due to them being inconvenient locations. We only have skid loaders currently so having to trailer them is not ideal which leaves us only doing very local...
  11. Ice Management
    So I bought a tgs07 this year. First year we’re doing sanding as well as plowing. We got all the wires run and the sander set how we want it in the hitch and on the bumper. But when we hook up cotroller only the vibrate works. The spinner doesn’t spin at all and the controller keeps popping up...
  12. Bidding & Estimating
    i got a call to plow a private drive road witch is about 1 km long in central Ontario Canada and I’ve never had to price out a private road before and just government contracts so any suggested on how much I should charge? I got told from friend that they would charge $1000 a month but they...
  13. Business Fundamentals
    I am looking into how far certain company's would go for their client and please leave suggestions, comments or stories of how far you once went with a client.
  14. Used Plowing and Truck Equipment Forum
    Selling my snowex minipro575x tailgate salter(s).. total of 3 for sale. They are all practically brand new and in perfect working order. We are a father/son business and are getting out of the plow business due to my father being diagnosed with cancer. We are moving to get him the best care...
  15. Networking
    I have a few full routes that I am looking to sub. Let me know if you're interested.
  16. Networking
    I have residential snow accounts from Denver to Colorado Springs that I am looking to transfer to someone else. It's for a property management company so these are vacant properties and have a 24-hour service window which is easily the most lenient I have had. You don't have to show up at the...
  17. Business Fundamentals
    Hi, I’m trying to get about 15 residential driveways for when it snows, currently I have 6. So far in the past week or two I’ve passed out about 750 flyers (advertising both lawn care and snow removal) but I’ve only got 1 snow removal call and one lawn care call. Does anyone have any ideas...
  18. Ice Management
    Looking for a better deal on salt this year Allentown and Bethlehem area of anyone has a few recommendations I just found horwith they have 85 and green is 95 per ton I’m just not sure how they are during storms ect!! Just looking for other options throughout the area possibly to save travel...
  19. Employment
    Looking for extra work can hire shovelers and what not. Diesel f350 with fisher plow availed ready to go willing to do residential commercial etc call/text (203-460-0997) or email @ gsz13@hotmail.com Thank you,
  20. Employment
    Looking for a few subcontractors with plow trucks to fill routes in the western suburbs of Chicago. in addition, we are also looking for a few more sidewalk crew members in this area as well. Work provided for class A office buildings. If interested or for additional information, please...
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