Just like anything else that has been designed in the past to make life easier, the MIBAR Powerlift came from a personal experience.

After a moderate 6" snowfall, I decided to use my ATV with attached snow plow to clear away the snow from my mailbox.  As soon as my front wheels dropped off of the curb and hit the concrete, it was over.  The blade on my ATV bounced up then back down only once, when I heard the crack of snapping iron.  Actually it was chunks of cast aluminum and motor pieces.  The plow bouncing from the drop pulled so sharply on the cable holding the plow blade up, that it completely destroyed my three day old "electric actuator" in one swift move.  For those of you who don't know what that is, it's what some company named a miniature winch that mounts directly to the plow.  I purchased the "electric actuator"  with the hopes that I would no longer spend more time fixing my regular winch than actually plowing snow.  The winch I have mounted to my ATV is how I lifted the blade before I purchased the "electric actuator".  Originally, I thought using the winch that I already paid for would now be serving a dual purpose getting me out of trouble, and saving me from using a shovel.

Boy was I wrong.  Moving snow was still a hassle.

When using a standard winch, you need catlike reflexes to control the switch.  Because of the speed of the winch, I couldn't just press the button up or down, due to the angle of the cable.  Trying to do this would tear the cable apart or at least rip off the U bolt that the cable hooks to. 

It's no fun attempting to rethread a frayed cable thru a new clevis to reattach a hook when you can't feel your fingers in 10 degree weather.

Lowering the plow with a standard winch cable is also problematic. If you let out too much cable for your plow, you may see some nesting occur, when the cable itself becomes a tangled mess.

So with the help of my son-in-law we devised as system that would use an "electric cylinder" (commonly known as an electric actuator) to do this job.  We renamed it here so no one would confuse it with the piece of junk "electric actuator" that I broke.

The electric cylinder looks like a hydraulic except it doesn't have the drawbacks like moving slow when it's cold or leaking fluid.  The electric cylinder has gears instead of fluid, and performs better in cold temperatures because the motor stays cooler.  The system was originally designed for a Moose Plow, pushed by a Yamaha Grizzly.  After using it for two seasons, and many requests from friends and family, I realized with a few modifications this could work on every ATV out there.  After further investigating I noticed this system could also adapt to almost all the other plows on the market.

After two years of research and many prototypes, we present the
Powerlift by MIBAR. 

Easy to use, and easy to install. It fits just about any ATV and UTV on the market today, and with an accessory bumper or brush guard, now just about anyone with an ATV and a standard plow can have the benefit of a cylinder lift with the added bonus of being able to put pressure down on the blade to cut down to the pavement instead of floating on top of the snow.