Plowing on ice?

[timjones]

I bought a UTV for this winter with a plow. I want to plow out onto the ice for ice fishing. Not sure how I should set the plow when I do this. For those of you that plow out onto the ice, do you let the blade run on the skids, or do you raise the skids and let the blade run directly on the ice?

[Eric Wettschreck]

Mine stay on the skids.

[MuleShack]

It also depends on the conditions. If your plowing your own road or ice rink and the lake froze all calm then you could plow a smooth level surface with no skids. But if your plowing over dead snow thats settled and been driven over then you would want skids to keep the blade off the hard base.

It also may depend on how much power you have behind it and traction (chains).

If your keeping the same road open for your use, then after the first time, you may get by with blade only.

[landscaper]

what kind of UTV and Plow did you get?

[timjones]

what kind of UTV and Plow did you get?

I bought a Polaris Ranger HD with the Glacier II plow.

[landscaper]

Nice, sounds like FUN!!

[JSK76]

I bought a 6' 8" poly Western plow for my Jeep and was surprised how useless it was on a lake even with good 33" MT tires and lift. If I angled the plow and got a good run at it I could make it about 10 yards before i was side ways and stopped and I did have the plow up off the ice about 10". The plow did great off the lake, the lake snow gets so hard from being wind blown. I hope you have better luck then I did.

[bak2MN]

JSK,try putting some chains on would make a big difference.