Heavy-duty plow trucks

Lake-effect snow is heavy and wet, which is the whole reason a consumer-grade setup fails here by January. Route trucks run straight and V-blades with adjustable wings, hydraulics sized for repeated cycling through a twelve-hour storm, and ballast matched to the blade so the truck still stops.

Blade shoes go on where a surface calls for it — pavers, newer concrete, gravel — and edges are staked during the fall property walk so the operator knows where the driveway ends even when everything is white.