Hi,
Wanted to get a sense of what a good price on a rear (~60") blower my be. I have different quotes on the Frontier SB1164; the best one right now is $2400 (out the door) but I need to pick it up about 100 miles away and I need to wait a few weeks for it to come in at the dealer. Does this seem like a good price?
I'm looking to add a rear 3pt snow blower to my JD 2320 for the following reasons and also wanted bounce it off everyone here to get thoughts on the direction I'm going in.
My (asphalt) driveway is 150' long and has a pad of about 50'x50'. I also plow 4 other similar driveways on my Maryland neighborhood and may end up doing even more later. We seem to get 3-5 light snows (2-6") each year which my 6.5 Myers blade seems to handle just fine (no loaded tires or chains) in about 5 or 10 minutes. Our recent heavy 10" snow (we get 1 or 3 of these a year) showed me that I needed to take almost 1 hour to do my driveway. This is because I could only push the snow about 15-20 feet before it stopped the tractor when I had to do 'left and right' side pushes until I could push forward again. Anyway, I had always thought rear blowers were not a good idea and that front blowers were better(hence the extra cost for them), until I realized that a rear blower could be used with a front blade on the tractor at the same time, plus help add rear weight too. I do not want to load my tires as I use this tractor to mow and do not want to 'tear up' the lawn? nor do I want to add chains due to 'tearing up' the driveway.
Any thoughts or insights are appreciated.
example of pushing 'heavy' snow taking a longer time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqaf8fGEyYM
Wanted to get a sense of what a good price on a rear (~60") blower my be. I have different quotes on the Frontier SB1164; the best one right now is $2400 (out the door) but I need to pick it up about 100 miles away and I need to wait a few weeks for it to come in at the dealer. Does this seem like a good price?
I'm looking to add a rear 3pt snow blower to my JD 2320 for the following reasons and also wanted bounce it off everyone here to get thoughts on the direction I'm going in.
My (asphalt) driveway is 150' long and has a pad of about 50'x50'. I also plow 4 other similar driveways on my Maryland neighborhood and may end up doing even more later. We seem to get 3-5 light snows (2-6") each year which my 6.5 Myers blade seems to handle just fine (no loaded tires or chains) in about 5 or 10 minutes. Our recent heavy 10" snow (we get 1 or 3 of these a year) showed me that I needed to take almost 1 hour to do my driveway. This is because I could only push the snow about 15-20 feet before it stopped the tractor when I had to do 'left and right' side pushes until I could push forward again. Anyway, I had always thought rear blowers were not a good idea and that front blowers were better(hence the extra cost for them), until I realized that a rear blower could be used with a front blade on the tractor at the same time, plus help add rear weight too. I do not want to load my tires as I use this tractor to mow and do not want to 'tear up' the lawn? nor do I want to add chains due to 'tearing up' the driveway.
Any thoughts or insights are appreciated.
example of pushing 'heavy' snow taking a longer time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqaf8fGEyYM