[AT] O/T Meyers or Western plow

[Edward Tabor]

Is it a law of something that the front parts can't stay on year 
around?  I have several friends who leave theirs in at all times.  (BTW, 
I live in MD)

ED

Mike Reggie wrote:

>
>  Hello Richard, and list
>
>  Though I've been a member of the list since the fall of 1999, and I 
> enjoy reading the list every day, I don't post too often, however I do 
> try to participate when I have some information to contribute, I do 
> believe this is one of those times. I have been plowing and doing snow 
> removal commercially for over 25 years, over that time I have had 
> quite a few different brands of plows attached to all the different 
> brands of trucks, and as you will have different opinions on truck 
> brands, so will you on brands of plows and everything else[maybe even 
> brands of antique tractors] however, I have in the last ten or so 
> years realized there is only one brand of snowplow, and it is the 
> Fisher. I could no longer even consider purchasing any other brand, 
> case in point, when I bought the truck I am currently using in 1997, 
> the dealer had about a half dozen of the truck I wanted, but they all 
> had the Meyer brand plows on them, I explained to the salesman that we 
> could still make the deal on the new truck, however he would have to 
> switch the new meyer plow to my trade in and put my well worn Fisher 
> on the new truck, both he and his manager could not believe this, but 
> after a short time were able to get the truck in and have the meyer 
> plow switched over for a Fisher and we made the deal on the new truck. 
> I hate to be be the descending vote  against the Meyer and Western, 
> but I just haven't seen a lot of service delivered from either one of 
> these plows.
> I mean no offense to anyone, however, I believe the Meyer should 
> actually come with one of those warning stickers that seem to get 
> plastered onto almost everything except maybe bagged feathers, but 
> this one should read  "DO NOT EXPOSE TO SNOW FOR MORE THAN MAYBE AN 
> HOUR OR SO, AS EXTREME FRUSTRATION WILL OCCUR".
>
> The Western is not a bad plow, but that is precisely it, it's not bad, 
> it, like the Meyer and many others it still uses regular vertical type 
> tensioning springs and allow [or more so, promote] the whole blade 
> folding foward and remaining that way during the foward push which 
> makes it not float as is ideal, but make it go "light" to the point 
> you actually can not feel it and the load, most of which it's dumped 
> and you have now driven over.
>
>  The Diamond, when this plow first hit the market, I quiclkly bought 
> one, the reason being it was everything I liked in a plow and none of 
> the stuff I didn't. I'll explain what I mean..........
>
>  When The company that now owns both Fisher and Western bought these 
> companies, Fisher put a few stipulations on their selling, the main 
> one being that the new company would not change the design of the 
> actual Speedcast snowplow, and that it will not be made in an electric 
> over hydraulic design. Unfortunately due to the motor vehicle 
> regulations just a few short years later, it was mandated that the 
> front headgear for snowplows could no longer remain on the vehicle 
> year round, and so the unimount design[also a Fisher design and 
> innovation years ahead of everyone else]  became the standard for all 
> plows.......
>


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