Yamaha Grizzly 700 w/EPS - fun n' plowing

Taken over a couple days. We got some good winds and snow one night so I decided to take the Grizz out to push through some snow drifts. The next day we had over a foot of snow that fell so I put the Grizz to work.
The plow is a Warn Provantage front mounted 60" straight blade.
Excuse the glitchyness of the plowing vids, they were recorded from a phone.

[@GRIZZLYRIDERS2010]

I'm jealous...We didn't get any snow here this winter. Love riding in the snow. I like your song choice too :)

[@blazin9683]

I wish we would've gotten some snow this year. That looked fun!!

[@tgardone]

Nice vid man, I don't even know what snow looks like anymore.....lol

[@xhyway01x]

@mikren705 Thanks for the compliment. The mount on the rack is just a couple pieces of 2x4 screwed together, and eye bolt going through the center. I mounted it to the rack with a couple bolts and washers and a U-bolt. Its to distribute the weight when I lift the plow with snow on it. I bent my rack awhile ago from just attaching the hook to it, so I came up with the 2x4 idea. You're right in it facilitating the plow travel, it makes it more controllable and slower.

[@xhyway01x]

@cubbeezx Thanks! The BH's do really well in the snow. The girlfriend and I are going to get another quad and gonna try out some Zilla's for it. I just got done watching your vid and was impressed with your Zillas.

[@xhyway01x]

@GRIZZLYRIDERS2010 Thanks! We didn't get a lot this year but its more than most people! After reading your comment I remembered that I heard that song on one of your kick ass vids. Didn't mean to jack it on ya lol...its one of my faves and always wanted to use it. Cheers.

[@mikren705]

ooohhhhh I see it now, you have your hook into the eye bolt.

[@xhyway01x]

@BAMGADE800 It's from a Droid 3. The whole vid was taped with it. Does pretty good HD.

[@xhyway01x]

@mikren705 The cheap plastic piece broke on the push tube so I just fed my Amsteel rope through the pin and hooked to the eye bolt. The last couple times i've tried out a cheap pulley block attached to the push tube to feed the winch rope through and would be good for a wire winch line.

[@xhyway01x]

@blazin9683 It was a blast. I don't get to do that stuff often.

[@xhyway01x]

@mikren705 Yeah that was my bad. I took it off prior to plowing that day. I woke up to tons of snow so I was a bit excited to get started. Remounted the 2x4s wrong (further back on the rack) and didn't realize it till I put my tools away and tried to hook it up. The hook and stopper would have crushed my plastics. So I said screw it and started plowing lol. When I did have it mounted correctly, it held an impressive amount of weight because it distributed it well across the rack.

[@xhyway01x]

@Slyder695 I'll have to check it out. I'm always looking for more options to add to vids like awesome looking titles and more effects.

[@GRIZZLYRIDERS2010]

@xhyway01x lol, One of my favorites too. Later!

[@xhyway01x]

@Slyder695 Thanks man! It's my first time using slow-mo in vids. I figured going through them drifts would look killer if I could slow it down. I just found a new program called VideoPad. It's free for 14 days...gonna try to find a free one soon.

[@mikren705]

nice vid....I have the same bike and same front mount set up you have. Looks like you made a mod to the plow lift set up. Anyway I can see this up close, how it's mounted and what not ? It looks like it's to faciliate the ease of the plow travel. Me interested :)

[@Slyder695]

Nice vid bro... Like the slo-mo.. What editing software you using

[@xhyway01x]

@mikren705 Yup, you got it.

[@davonwallace6567]

need to get a snowmobile

[@mikren705]

ok wth ? looking at it again you have the cable hook on your front rack. there is nothing on the eye bolt. I see what you have done now...it's like the warn's plow pulley upgrade kit...but home made. great idea, but what's with the 2x4's and yey bolt if you got nothing on it ?

[@scottfurlong5475]

What plow brand do you have? Right now, I'm using an Iron Baltic front plow/winch mount on my 2018 Grizzly but I'm not satisfied with the mount because it bent the second time I plowed the driveway. I've never had a mid-mount plate bend and I think the middle of the quad is much stronger than the front so I think I'm going back to a mid-mount for my plow next season.

[@xhyway01x]

East Coast Resident I'm using a 60" Warn Provantage plow with the front mount. Been using it for years without issues.

[@MrBrandonh98]

I'm curious about your plow setup....why do you have the winch cable hooked to that piece of wood mounted to the rack? Just curious if that helped with the rope breaking.

[@xhyway01x]

Brandon Harris Yes I used it to hook the winch rope. It just helped in slowing down the speed of the raising and lowering of the plow. It made it more dexterous. With it hooked up direct to the plow it was more jerky and felt like I had less control.

[@MrBrandonh98]

Thank you...I like that better than just hooking it directly to the rack. Happy plowing this year!

[@Slyder695]

@xhyway01x if you want to spend money i use avid studio, you can also buy it at best buy. It comes with tons of extras. Excellent video software for the price

[@mikren705]

so is you cable just running through the eye bolt ? no pulley wheel ?

[@MrJeremys2388]

nah atvs are way funner than sno mo bils