I believe another Canadian was saying something like $19K for a CK30 with loader. So price isn't that far off. Why not a 3PH snowblower? Much cheaper and you can leave your loader on too.
I believe that was me, $18,999 I believe is what my dealer told me the LIST price of a CK30 HST was. I didn't pay anywhere near list.
It is safer to be looking and facing the direction that you are traveling and blowing the snow.
I have a 2011 CK30 HST, with Kioti comfort cab and Woods BH-70x. If I had it to do over again, I would not have the same set up.
The comfort cab is nice and probably as close to a factory cab as you'll find for any tractor. It is still a dealer installed cab, and even though it's close to factory, it's not a factory cab (no A/C either). I got mine when Kioti offered $1500 off last fall, I don't know exactly how much I paid with tax and install because I had a second set of remotes added at the same time, the the total was about $6800 with about $500 or $600 of that for the remotes. I also had a rear wiper kit added as well as rear work lights. You will probably want a second set of remotes added as well so you can have deflection and rotation from inside the cab while you're blowing snow. My dealer says (and I believe him) that you need to take the cab off to install a second set later, so that made my decision easy.
My suggestion for the snowblower is to get a 68" Meteor pull type (inverse) snowblower,
http://www.walcoequipment.com/file/walco_snowblower_meteor.pdf (see the last page). They are around $3500 new and there will be a reasonable supply of used pull types to choose from (depending on your terrain, you MAY get away with a 72") Oh ya, get the CK30, it's only $700 more and will give you that extra little PTO hp you'll need for blowing snow. An inverse snowblower lets you drive forward. It also eliminates the cost of the mid PTO ($350).
With the set up described above, you'll be able to get a DK35HST cab (factory cab at that), if you can still find one as 2011 is the last year Kioti is offering them (RUNNNNNNNN!). If I could waive a magic wand, I'd personally go for a DK40 or DK45 HST with factory cab. The KL401 loader has a breakout force of around 4,000lbs instead of the KL130's breakout force of 2,000lbs. For the first time, they are offering the free loader on the DK series. The physical size of the tractor is not that much larger than the CK27/30/35.
For the set up you described, I don't think $32K is out of line, but I don't think it's a great price either. That's around what I have in to mine and the BH is worth a little more than the blower and I have the CK30, although with my trade and doing the cab separately with remotes, I'm loosing track a little bit. At the very least I'd answer back that you want the CK30HST for the price he quoted, but the price to move to the DK35 with factory cab is not much more, and that's the route you want to go. At a minimum, get a price on the DK35 cab and the DK40 cab.
PM me if you want to discuss more. I'd happily give you my phone number and we can discuss if you like. If you're in the Ottawa area (not sure how "Northern Ontario" you are) you're welcome to come see a CK30 with comfort cab installed, I've yet to see a dealer stock one that you can go see. Also, I'm sure my dealer would beat that price and the difference shipping a tractor 3 hours vs 4 or 5 hours is probably non existent.
