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Remove snow quickly from your driveway or parking lot with this residential, hitch-mounted snowplow. Pivoting, 3-position blade glides over uneven ground. Remote-controlled electric winch lets you raise and lower plow from your warm cab.
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Note: Due to the size of this item it ships via truck freight.
This Generation III Classic Personal snowplow is the most recent innovation from SnowBear. This plow conveniently slides into your vehicle's front-mounted trailer hitch (sold separately) for easy, convenient mounting. It has a remote-controlled electric winch that will let you raise and lower the plow without leaving the warmth and comfort of your cab. The pivoting blade makes this plow ideal for rocky or uneven surfaces because it can adjust to the terrain. Angled trip springs are also built in to help keep the blade from catching and tripping.
Simple, Hitch-Mounted Installation
This hitch-mounted snowplow simply slides into your vehicle's front trailer hitch receiver, making it a breeze to install. Unlike a plow that attaches to custom-fit brackets, which ties you down to just 1 vehicle, this hitch-mounted plow can be used on most trucks or SUVs with a 2" x 2" front-mounted hitch. As a result, this plow can be easily switched between multiple vehicles. And because it offers a nearly universal fit, you won't have to buy a new plow when you replace your old vehicle.
To install the Personal snowplow, just slide the shank of the plow assembly into your 2" trailer hitch receiver . Then use a pin and clip or a hitch lock (sold separately) to secure the plow in the receiver.
How to Plow
Once the plow is mounted on your vehicle, lower the blade and set it to the desired angle. To set the angle, exit the vehicle and manually position the plow straight ahead, or 22 degrees to the left or to the right. Angling the blade allows you to push snow off to the side where you want it without having to change the angle of your entire vehicle. This is especially useful on a driveway or private roadway where piling the snow straight ahead would create a barrier.
To begin plowing, just drive forward. When backing up to take another pass, be sure to lift the plow with the remote or the in-cab toggle switch, then lower it again before moving forward. When approaching a large pile of snow, be sure to decrease your speed. Slamming into a pile of snow can void the warranty on the Personal snowplow.
When you are finished, put your vehicle in park and lower the plow. Remove the plow from your vehicle after every use.
Easy Lifting with Electric Winch
The electric winch on this plow allows you to easily lift and lower the blade using a toggle switch that mounts in your cab. You can also use the included wireless remote control. The winch uses a durable nylon strap, which is much quieter than a chain, to raise and lower the plow.
Easily attach a variety of accessories to the front of your vehicle with this fully welded, corrosion-resistant trailer hitch receiver. Perfect for winches, spare tire carriers and more.
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Average Customer Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (22 Customer Reviews)
Remove snow quickly from your driveway or parking lot with this residential, hitch-mounted snowplow. Pivoting, 3-position blade glides over uneven ground. Remote-controlled electric winch lets you raise and lower plow from your warm cab. Easily attach a variety of accessories to the front of your vehicle with this fully welded, corrosion-resistant trailer hitch receiver. Perfect for winches, spare tire carriers and more.
Got this front hitch for my Nissan Xterra so I can push my boat into my garage. Access to the garage is in an alley and the only way to get the boat into the garage is to hitch up front and push it in. A front hitch gives you pinpoint control and allows you to maneuver in really tight spaces. Product was exactly what I needed, is made well, was priced right, and delivered promptly. Couldn't ask for more.
Did not fit the vehicle it was meant to fit, had to modify hitch and drill holes on frame. Have had good success with etrailer in the past, this was not.
Katrina D.
1/27/2024
Can you please elaborate on what was not fitting? I see that this hitch is a confirmed fit for the 2005 Nissan Xterra. Sometimes, if the hitch arrived flexed, it gives off the appearance that it will not fit the vehicle. I would be more than happy to further assist you with more
John G.
1/30/2024
It was an inch too narrow
Katrina D.
1/30/2024
I am so sorry that you had to drill holes into your frame. This is not normally done for this hitch to fit your 2005 Nissan Xterra. It sounds to me like your hitch arrived flexed and that can be resolved by bending the wings of the hitch back to a 90 degree angle with a vise. I have a link attached with more information on this for your reference.
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Front mount hitch arrived from etrailer.com with no delay. Unit installed in 40 minutes just as the instructions stated. Low profile hardly noticeable and very stable. Here is a photo with my surf rod holder attached.
Better than a snowblower!! Made very well, had it put together and mounted in a couple hours. Used it for two small snowfalls and it worked as expected. Great customer service from etrailer!
I bought a Snow bear personal plow and a separate Curt receiver hitch for the front of my 2012 F250.. after speaking with Erica W. several times due to blunders on my part, all was perfect. Quick delivery, price was right, items are super rugged. The stock photos don't do justice. My plow came in at 350 pounds without the receiver hitch. It's not a cheap toy plow. Get one, they'll fit nearly anything! Thanks Erica!!
Well made, sturdy. Needs an extension to accommodate most of my hitch items like bike rack, plow, etc. Easy to mount also.
Love this new addition to my fishing equipment. In addition to making it easier to transfer rods back and forth to my charter boat, it also performed great on the beaches at Nags Head even when taking a few mounds of sand head on. I did have to add a wood shim to remove all the free-play but that was easy and now it's firm.
Had to bend upper tabs out about 1/8" eahc to fit right. Otherwise pretty easy install. Suprised I could fit skid plate back in with no problems. GOOD PRODUCT!!
This hefty, well made, front hitch receiver mounted perfectly on our new 2015 Xterra Pro-4X. If your Xterra has a front skid plate (all Pro-4X’s do), you will need to remove it temporarily in order to install the receiver, and reinstall it afterwards. You will also need to permanently remove the vehicle recovery hook that is mounted to the front of the passenger-side frame rail (you will not be able to reinstall the recovery hook, as the two threaded holes in the frame are used to mount the receiver). I did this installation by myself, but I would recommend having a friend to help, if you have someone available. A couple of bolts and nuts are in tight places, especially the ones near the lower radiator hose. You will need to temporarily pop out the plastic clamp that holds the hose to the frame until the bolt is installed. You can then snap the clamp back in place. A BIG hefty rubber mallet is your best friend on this and most other hitch receiver installations. It is useful to tweak the hitch into position in order to get the hardware started, and to perfectly locate the receiver before you torque down all of the fasteners. The ground clearance to the lowest part of the receiver is 10”. This hitch receiver will decrease the maximum approach angle, but unless you are heavily into serious off-roading, it won’t usually get in the way. In a way, the receiver actually provides more serious protection than the flimsy, factory skid-plate. It will certainly “warn” you if you try to go over anything taller than 10”, before you fatally clobber the plastic lower facia items, or otherwise disembowel your Xterra!
Some of the many uses for a front hitch receiver include:
Great for jockeying a trailer into tight places.
Install a winch on a hitch slider. It’s not as sturdy as a frame-mounted winch, but it makes it so you don’t need to haul around that added weight of a winch all the time.
Keep a (front or rear) receiver-mounted recovery hook and pin in your vehicle (I heartily recommend the TR63044 “tow hook”, available on this website), along with a strong tow strap. Great if you need to pull someone out of a predicament, or give them a short tow.
An assortment of specialized sliders for specific uses such carriers for bicycles, scooters, etc.
Being that Xterras (and many other vehicles) are a really tall reach, as far as under-the-hood maintenance, I may even cobble a special t-shaped slider with a lateral tube that is about the width of the front of the vehicle, that can be temporarily mounted to give an elevated step area that is about a foot off the ground, for those times when you have lots of maintenance items to reach.
Make sure to live within the design ratings of the receiver. Although this is a very stout hitch, be careful when dealing with lateral forces (things other than a straight-line pushing or pulling).
the hitch was about 1/2 inch short of overlapping the frame, your service dept told me how to stretch the metal to fit. It was not in the direction. It makes sense to have the product built this way. It was very easy to mount if you knew all of the tricks.
Ron W.
5/15/2014
I use the hitch for my fishing supplies when I drive on the oxb also extra storage when family vacation while pulling my boat. This hitch will pay for itself in usage. Also I read below about mounting a winch on the hitch been thinking of mounting a hand crank winch on a 2 inch bar that I have that if one of my fishing buddies get stuck at the oxb that I can winch him out, before the tides comes in. This would be rare times but rather have it and not need it. Jeff could you also sent me that link with the info on winch Thanks Ron
Rachael H.
5/22/2014
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I used this as a replacement for the Nevada hitch the dealer took off the Xterra I bought after they took pictures of it being on it. I didn't have to deal with taking out any bolts, they left the rear bumper on with just 2 bolts. It was a very easy install, I didn't have to touch the exhaust system, I lowered the spare and moved it to the side, put the hitch up and wiggled it right into place. Put in the 2 12mm bolts in by hand and then the other 4 14mm bolts, torqued everything down to the provided specs, and I was done. I'm 60 years old, and did it in under 45 minutes, by myself.
This Front end hitch fit perfectly on my 2011 Nissan Xterra, and
made it sooooo much easier to maneuver my boat into my garage,
as "Pushing" it in enabled me to control the movements much better than my
backing it in--used previously.
Believe me-I'm thrilled that I decided to go with etrailer in purchasing this product!
I highly recommend it to others!
Good solid product and the fit for my 2011 Nissan Xterra
Is spot on. Bought this front hitch to mount a home snow plow
I think this is going to work very well.
The front hitch for the xterra made life so much easier, It was perfect. Easy to install. Went in exactly as stated in the instructions. No adjustments..... Should have purchased a long time ago.
installed in half/hour,used a floor jack to lift and hold in place.looks and fit are great,now i can put bike rack on the front so i can easily raise rear hatch.nissan xterra,
Delivered on time. Excellent quality, looks custom. Easy installation.
Not to hard to install
Installed without any problems. Works great.
20 minutes it was on and ready to go!
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Bryane
1/4/2024
Product has worked out 100 after a year of regular use and is hands down the best solution for my situation. I fished probably 20-25 times last year and it gets used every time.