Anyone who has plowed a long driveway with a manual-turn blade knows the routine. Stop. Out of the seat. Pull the pin. Swing the blade. Drop the pin. Back in. Do it again at the other end. In February, in the dark, forty times a winter. The Moto Alliance DENALI Hydraulic System for UTV Snow Plow with Joystick deletes that routine entirely — it turns the blade side to side hydraulically without you getting off the machine.
Read the compatibility line first
This is the one thing to get right before you spend $850, and Moto Alliance states it in bold on the listing. The Hydro-Turn system is for use with DENALI Standard and Pro Series UTV plow pushtubes. It will NOT work with the DENALI Universal 72 Plow System. Those are different pushtubes, and no amount of hardware bridges the gap. If you are running the Universal 72, this is not your part.
If you are on Standard or Pro Series pushtubes, the good news is that no modifications are necessary — the hydraulics bolt directly to them.
Sealed for life is the real headline
Hydraulics on a plow have a reputation, and it is mostly about maintenance. Reservoirs to top off. Lines to bleed. Fluid to buy and change. Fittings that weep in the cold and leave a stain on the garage floor. The DENALI Hydro-Turn system sidesteps all of it: the hydraulic system is completely sealed for life. No hydraulic fluid to purchase, no lines to bleed, no reservoir level to maintain, no fluid changes — and, as they put it, no chance of leaks.
For anyone who plows a few times a year and stores the machine the rest of the time, that is the difference between a system that works every November and one you have to recommission every November.
What you actually feel using it
- Angle the blade while driving — full radius turn in just 10 seconds, so you are windrowing instead of stopping
- One controller for two jobs — the included joystick runs both your winch and your snow plow, so there is one thing to reach for instead of two
- Holds fast under load — Moto Alliance's claim is that it holds when you hit even the biggest snow banks, which is where a manual pin setup starts to move
- Overload protection at 4,000 lbs of extension force and 3,500 lbs of retraction force, so a hard hit stops the cylinder instead of bending something
That last spec is the one worth pausing on. Published overload limits mean the system was designed with a failure point in mind rather than hoping you never find one.
How it is built and how it goes on
- Heavy-duty chrome plated 3/4" cylinder shafts
- Two bolt installation of the hydraulic cylinder and pump
- Wire harness uses weatherproof connectors
- Backwards compatible with the manual turning system
Two bolts is not marketing shorthand for "easy" — it is the actual count for mounting the cylinder and pump. The weatherproof connectors matter on a machine that lives in salt and slush, which is exactly where a plow accessory lives. And backwards compatibility means you are not burning a bridge: if something ever needs to come off mid-storm, the manual setup still works.
What comes in the box
- Pre-assembled hydraulics package
- Mounting brackets
- Contactor
- Wiring harness
- Joystick with bracket and wiring
- Installation instructions
Pre-assembled is the operative word — the hydraulics arrive as a unit, not as a pile of fittings and a diagram.
Order it at SxS Outpost
The DENALI Hydraulic System for UTV Snow Plow with Joystick is $850 and carries a 3 year warranty. It ships direct from Moto Alliance with their warranty — confirm your pushtube series before ordering, since it will not work with the Universal 72 system. If you would rather have a flush-mount dash switch than a joystick, Moto Alliance builds that version too. Browse the rest of the Snow Plows lineup for blades, pushtubes and mount plates, see everything from Moto Alliance, or pair it with a winch from the Winches collection so that joystick has two jobs to do.