Agri-Fab LBD48D 48 Inch Front Mount Universal Snow Plow Blade; Fits many Lawn and Garden Riding Lawn Mowers/Tractors

Easy to use, good value for money. Seems well made. Assembly generally ok, a few steps were confusing.

It took a couple hours to assemble for my mower, but once done it can be attached or detached in five minutes or less. With chains on the drive wheels. I was able to easily clear the driveway of five inches of snow, and a later two inches. It is easy to adjust from the driver's seat and did a beautiful job.

Hope you have nothing to do ALL day because that’s how long it’s going to take to assemble with these directions. The bolts should be in individual bags and labeled. I spent half the day questions is this the right bolt? The parts are thin metal and junk. I don’t see this last more than two Northeast winters.

I bought this figuring I'd save a little money and just outfit my lawn tractor with a blade and it would make clearing snow quick and easy.Wrong.Assembly was a chore, with many little parts needing to be assembled. Some bolts/nuts were missing (par for the course for Agri-fab products in my experience, I once had a lawn aerator arrive missing the main shaft that all the core augers mounted to) making me have to run to the hardware store twice to get replacements for the missing bolts/nuts. Putting the brackets on my lawn tractor made me have to take off the hood, muffler and other bits and pieces just to get them mounted.I went out to use it and found that even in powdery snow over 5-6" deep, the plow would lift by itself if you got much load on it and you'd end up driving over the snow rather than plowing it. Then you have to back up and push it again and again. A single pass turns into a repeated forward-stop-back up-stop-forward loop that sucks up time and energy.But the worst part of this product is that it's weak. Considering the design that runs under the tractor, I though it would be sturdy. Then I tried to take a "nibble" with a the edge of the blade off of an older wetter snow berm it would be able to handle it. Instead it just immediately bent the plow support arms like they were made out of plastic, making one side of the plow dangle and drag on the ground. I spent an hour outside in 15F temperatures trying to clear a 20'x30' long driveway and all I got for my efforts were chattering teeth, chain scratch marks on my driveway, and a bent plow.For anyone considering putting a plow on a lawn tractor, please realize that traction is a huge problem as well. Despite having my rather large self sitting over the rear tires and with chains, I still got stuck in the first few feet of plowing and had to back up and get a "run" on it. There are still scratch marks on my driveway from spinning the tire chains as they dug through the powdery snow down to the concrete.Just buy a snowblower for a few hundred bucks more and save yourself the aggravation. This product is only useful in my opinion for those of us with not much snowfall and a place to put all the snow. If you had perhaps a long gravel driveway and you only get 2-4" of snow at a time that immediately melts, this might work. For your average homeowner with a concrete driveway to clear in an area you get dumped on with snow regularly, a snowblower is a much better choice and it solves the problem of where to put the snow after you get a parade of snow-storms one after the other without any of it melting.

I have a "d" series John Deere. There are very clear directions for a variety of mowers in the manual. Not sure why all of them aren't mentioned in the manual. But hey.. I'm not getting paid for this so... Not my problem.Lost one star because it was missing a few bolts. Went to home Depot bought some. All good.

Takes awhile to construct but seems to work well

I bought this for the price thinking surely it will fit a husqvarna. There were directions for a lot of different brands. None that were close to being easy to follow so I looked up the husqvarna site to see how to attach it. None of the brackets needed were there . I'm not going to spend a weekend trying to decipher directions that are virtually impossible to follow. Returning it and getting the name brand.

I've had this blade on my Cub Cadet for two winters now. Weights and chains are effectively required to use it, but overall, it does a pretty good job of moving the snow. I was concerned about the manual lift and tilt, but you get used to it and 90% of the time it's not an issue. What I DO have an issue with is that the front mounting bracket keeps getting bent, causing the blade to sag in the front. Because of this, it doesn't always tilt or lift as much as it should. Maybe I'm trying to push too much snow with it....Finally had to have a neighbor clean our driveway with his 4 wheeler with a blade. In summary, it does well if you don't get a lot of heavy snow and you push the snow before it gets hard. Might need some reinforcement here and there over time.