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Western V-Plow Durability & Cutting Edge Issue

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The Best Snowplow for a truck? Fisher, Western, Boss, Hiniker, SnowDogg, Sno-Power & Shortiron

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The speaker shares personal experience with Western V-plows, acknowledging a 'love-hate' relationship but praising the plow's overall durability. A specific incident is recounted where a Western plow was involved in a collision that totaled a car, yet the plow itself sustained minimal damage, affirming its robust construction. However, a significant drawback mentioned is the perceived low quality of Western's cutting edges, which tend to wear out quickly.

Goal: Evaluate the durability of Western V-plows and understand potential cutting edge limitations.

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And then the the second cutting edge lasted And then we got the heavy duty cutting edge, and that lasted one season. And in the same time frame, my Hiniker snowplow was on its fifth season, and it still had over half the cutting edge left. So, that's the difference between a heavy plow and a light plow. You're going to get more And you had It was a straight scoop, right? And it was also um What's that? Poly? Poly? Yeah. So, poly So, but there was no It depends on how much weight Okay, but there was no difference in it. Still plowed the snow, it scraped the lot the same as these snowplows did. Okay? And when it comes down to it, $700, $700 in cutting edges, and we did that twice before I even was thinking about changing a Hiniker cutting edge. Yeah, I think it was at like 150 or something. It wasn't It was It was pretty Yeah, the Hiniker cutting edge was like 200 bucks on top of it. I can't remember that. I always thought Western and Fisher were the same because they're made by the same company, but they're not. There There are some differences when it comes to the the Western and Fisher that we've seen. Um Do you have any here? I have a Fisher sitting right there or I have a Fisher stainless right there. Let's go look at it. Yeah, you were saying that the Fisher is a heavier duty plow. It They definitely have a heavier features on on how they're built. That's the one thing we noticed. Um their hookup is much as it may seem, you know, not as easy as grabbing the handle, flipping it up. There are so many people that are just tried and true that really enjoy this because when it locks in, it once it's broken, it does actually hook up really nice and most people they really don't they really don't take that into consideration. This isn't even the newest of the new, but this one here I mean just the gauge of how heavy everything is across the board. Looking at them, there's a lot of differences that you

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