Oramas

Pedal Powered Snow Plow

exile

That's awesome and seems to work well. Are you trying to get a job with your city's road maintenance crew? It never ceases to amaze me the ingenuity of people.

p.s. your neighbors only think your odd because they hadn't thought of the idea. Or their pissed because you are done in 1/4 of the time that they take.

Oramas

Nope, not even me in the picture or article. Just thought it was a interesting Kluge way of moving the snow around.

Thulsadoom

Steering wheel for a handlebar? As if the plow wasn't unique enough...

Hezz

This is more of what you need: With the BB moved down stream a bit.

M.Alex

LOL.

You have to be breaking into a sweat after using that. Doesn't look like fun =[

Carley P.

I feel like making that bike fixed would make it more useful. It would be a lot easier to reverse. Also, I would think the plow would be at more of an angle so that you could push the snow off to the side. It actually doesn't seem like too bad of an idea. It could be improved to make it more practical.

I would never have the space to store a trike-snowplow for the few times I would actually use it though. Regardless, it's nice to see DIY things, and they're almost always really fun to do.

Hezz

Not meant to be fun. It's meant to do real work. So you are going to sweat. You sweat on a bike ride anyway. It's geared so low you can only go 2-3 MPH. It's made to clear a bike path with 4 inches of snow or less.

Hezz

The only problem is that it is ridiculus. It would be harder to move snow with that thing than to shovel it by hand. IT won't work with more than an inch or so. Or if the snow is really heavy.

gerv 

If you have a bike, why do you need to clear driveways? Just take a little air our of the tires and you will "float"over the snow.

tjspiel

There's enough snow piled up in front of the plow to stop me dead. And yes, you need to be able to back up.

I agree with Hezz. My feet and a shovel would work better.

Doohickie

This is an interesting design. It drags behind the bike.

electrik

Watch out for heaved concrete and potholes... get your plow to my bikelane soon!

vXhanz

Here is a link to the guy that actually made the snow plow above, at least he admits that it's worthless with heavier snow fall. Pretty creative though.

https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/20/...ered-snowplow/

vXhanz

I wonder if there is any weight attached to the plow on the top to keep it from "floating" above the packed snow. I like the idea, almost seems like it would be like riding a trainer or doing your own tractor pull.

Amesja

That's a snow-mover -not a snow plow.

Sure, you can probably move a limited amount of snow around -especially on virgin ground with light fluffy snow. Try coming back next time after you've made a pass and a bank and plowing more the second time, or the third time or the 20th time in the season.

It can't even back up. Anyone who has ever plowed snow seriously knows this is just a toy/conversation piece. It's got absolutely no practical use other than for a photo op or maybe a short video (as long as the camera operator is being generous and the snow is very light. A shovel and a strong back will work -this toy won't be able to finish the job even once.

Even a heavy-duty ATV with 4WD is insufficient to plow any but the smallest driveway or sidewalk for the whole season in places where it actually snows enough to accumulate. Once you make a snow bank the first pass it gets harder and harder to move the snow and push it off the area you are trying to clear. Most folks that use ATV's with a snow blade to clear their own residential driveways have to hire a real snow plow truck once or twice a year to push the bank back because they lack the grunt to do it themselves. At least that is the case around the Midwest where it actually snows and accumulates. Snow is HEAVY.

But hey, were bike people and want to prove to the world that that internal-combustion vehicles are unnecessary and everyone should use bikes for everything -so a bike plow makes us feel special, right?

kenji666

What a great idea! Now, make a slight design modification and put a lawnmower on your bike and come over to my house this spring for a test ride.

clasher

Good thing we've got BF's detectives on the case or we'd never realise that this guy just made this for kicks and small snowfalls... I mean, it's not enough that the guy that made it said "Totally useless with larger snow falls, but the light ones make snow removal fun.", nope, we need a thread full of snark and useless blowing of hot air. If you think the guy that made this bike plow did it for anything other than a few laughs and something to do one night, you're sorely mistaken... let me tell you, SON, SNOW IS HEAVY!!!!!!!!! HUR HUR HUR!

Amesja

You are probably right, but a lot of folks look at this and don't seem to get that.

If the guy did it for anything other than a quick laugh and a photo-op then he soon learned otherwise. I'd be willing to bet that this bike is no longer configured as a "snow plow" as it would be absolutely worthless as anything but garage filler and/or display purposes.

And the correct wording is "Herp Derp!" -silly candidians...