Snow brings us joy, but it also brings a lot of inconvenience to our travel. Many traffic accidents happened at this time. For the safety of our lives, after the heavy snowfall, we must clear the traffic road in time.

As an important equipment for snow removal in winter, snow plows have major advantages such as high efficiency, economy, and environmental protection. With the growing economy and continuous social progress, snow removal equipment is gradually popularized and used in various places to help us live a normal life.

They are known as winter service vehicles, especially in areas where there is a lot of regular snowfall each year or in specific environments such as airports.

Some areas with infrequent snow may use motor graders to remove compacted snow and ice from the streets. Snowplows can also be mounted on trams or locomotives to clear rails.

The snow plow is easy to operate and has high work efficiency. One snow plow is equivalent to 20 manual labors. And the snow throwing distance and snow throwing direction of the snow plow can be set independently. Snow plows are equipped with lights, which can be operated at night or in the early morning, which is very convenient.

The biggest advantage of snow plows is that no matter what kind of snow is removed (floating snow, solid snow, ice), there is no need to use salt or snow melt. It can adapt to different road conditions, and can operate smoothly no matter what form of ice and snow, and clean the road at one time without damaging the marking line or the road surface, and the snow removal efficiency is over 95%.

The small mechanical snow blower is mainly composed of prime mover transmission device, snow collecting device, snow throwing device, walking system and operating system.

The prime mover can be a motor or an engine, most of which use a gasoline engine or a diesel engine. Snow collection devices are used to collect snow, mainly using snow shovels or screw augers.

Snow throwing equipment is to throw the collected snow on the side of the road or into the collection device. The main methods are snow throwing impeller and drum machine.

The walking gear is to realize the advancement of the machine, and there are two types of hand-push type and self-propelled type. The operating device mainly controls the operation and direction of travel of the equipment.

In many countries, small snow blowers are mounted on the bogies of railway locomotives. Of course larger snowplows also exist, which tend to be retrofit vehicles rather than purpose-built vehicles. It takes steam locomotive tenders, large diesel locomotive bogies and various freight vehicles as the main body, and then installs the snow blower on the original frame.

In Canada, areas with heavy snowfall during winter use dedicated snowplows. You may sometimes see one or two locomotives running with snow plows at either end. That way, if the snow train gets stuck, it can quickly reverse direction. In addition to this approach, a single locomotive with a bogie plow can act as a self-propelled snow plow by running a light engine.