High Performance Blade Evaluation

The project began in the summer of 2019 and was completed in the winter of 2023. In this project, the research team investigated the wear of snowplow blades using three different sampling techniques. The first technique was large scale sampling that was completed in Idaho. The second sampling technique was small scale sampling that was completed in Norway. The third sampling technique was laboratory testing of individual snowplow blades. The results of this study provide the end user with a standard test protocol for testing snowplow blades. While the sampling size was limited, the results suggest that each of this sampling techniques are effective in measuring the wear of a snowplow blade.