leonz
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Snow saga continues
You should be fine with the Pewag chains and side binders-be sure to order spare links etc.
Two stage tractor snow blowers work very fast to remove snow falls, and leave little snow to make any mud at all.
You are better off buying a Pronovost 800 TRC snow blower for your tractor PTO horse power and a limited slip PTO slip clutch shaft to get rid of it the first time and not handle it again and you will not have to deal with mud issues or moving piles as the snow will be gone from the shoulders.
The snow blower has an 80 inch cut and a 34 inch hieght of cut allowing you to remove 400 pounds per foot of advance with with 21 pounds per cubic foot of snow pack.
The 802 has a drum that rotates and discharges directly from the impeller housing through its opening allowing much more flexibility in disposal with no spout required for the extreme left or right discharge positions which improves the discharge tonnage.
You have 5280 feet of lane milage in total assuming it is 16 feet wide a snow fall of 34 inches deep and 16 feet wide gives you
5280 *16*3 feet (rounded) gives you 253440 cubic feet times 21 pounds per cubic foot which is 2.700 tons rounded higher which must be removed.
If you advance at 2 miles per hour this is 176 feet per minute and you will be able to remove 400 pounds per foot of advance which is 35 tons per minute in one lane and dispose of it and have no snow banks or mud to deal with as you will not give it the time to melt and make a mess.
One pass with the Pronovost 800 will require 15 minutes time to remove 525 tons of snow per passage at 36 inch depth of cut with some spillage due to the 34 inch cutting hieght.
The Pronovost tractor mounted sidewalk snow blower is narrower and you would make 2 more passes but it will remove less tonnage per pass (it has serrated edges on the augers to cut snow banks with ice buildups).
I need to order snow chains for my TYM 603.
I am located in Colorado in mega snow country at 9400ft elevation on a mountaintop. Our STEEP road is a half mile long with 3 switchbacks. Let's just say, yes we know snow.
I have a 68 Chevy K20 pickup with a 7.5 Snow-Way plow that I use to plow the driveway. It works great for the long runs down the road but has taken me awhile to get the truck dialed in. I put a lot of weight in the bed (sandbags and railroad ties) and plow in 1st (granny gear) 4Wheel Low. Works fine when plowing fresh snow where I can keep up some speed and throw the snow to the sides and over the edge. But as the snow builds up on the sides (up to 5ft high during certain times of winter) it forms gutters which keep me from throwing the snow further out. When I was first putting chains on the truck, I kept shredding the chains apart (on the rear) and went through several different chain types (and of course having to repair/reinstall them all the time... a huge hassle). Finally, I got a setup that works... ice-bar chains on the front wheels and heavy-duty mud service chains on the rear that don't shred.
In the long run, the tractor will probably be outfitted and used for plowing the whole driveway, but for now I will continue to use the truck to plow and use the tractor for edge pushback as well as removing glaciers next to our house. The tractor has a backhoe on it and a toothbar on the 78" loader bucket. It worked well for edge pushback at the tail end of last winter (without the toothbar in place and no chains) so I know it will be a big help to have the toothbar to break apart glaciers (as well as the backhoe... with chains).
Question #1: I don't want to go through the hassle I had with getting the right chains on the truck. I don't want the tractor chains to come apart. Do you think I have to search for some heavy-duty mud service chains for the tractor or is the tractor tire torque so fundamentally different than the truck (because of the large rear tires/tractor weight) that the snow chains I've seen on the net won't shred apart and will be fine?
Question #2: I have seen large 'snow buckets' on the net (skidsteersolutions.com, etc.) and I know they are of a lighter construction than a dirt bucket. But I am wondering how they would hold up to heavy duty use. (Our snow here is massive with glaciers of snow/ice). Anyone have experience with these 'snow buckets'? Are they robust enough to ram into snow mounds and tear them apart?
Question #3: In the long run, I will probably put a snow plow on the tractor herself. I have seen dozer blades for a quick attach and thought about using that instead of just a snow-plow blade so that I could use the dozer blade in summer. Anyone have experience with this?
Thanks for your thoughts!
You should be fine with the Pewag chains and side binders-be sure to order spare links etc.
Two stage tractor snow blowers work very fast to remove snow falls, and leave little snow to make any mud at all.
You are better off buying a Pronovost 800 TRC snow blower for your tractor PTO horse power and a limited slip PTO slip clutch shaft to get rid of it the first time and not handle it again and you will not have to deal with mud issues or moving piles as the snow will be gone from the shoulders.
The snow blower has an 80 inch cut and a 34 inch hieght of cut allowing you to remove 400 pounds per foot of advance with with 21 pounds per cubic foot of snow pack.
The 802 has a drum that rotates and discharges directly from the impeller housing through its opening allowing much more flexibility in disposal with no spout required for the extreme left or right discharge positions which improves the discharge tonnage.
You have 5280 feet of lane milage in total assuming it is 16 feet wide a snow fall of 34 inches deep and 16 feet wide gives you
5280 *16*3 feet (rounded) gives you 253440 cubic feet times 21 pounds per cubic foot which is 2.700 tons rounded higher which must be removed.
If you advance at 2 miles per hour this is 176 feet per minute and you will be able to remove 400 pounds per foot of advance which is 35 tons per minute in one lane and dispose of it and have no snow banks or mud to deal with as you will not give it the time to melt and make a mess.
One pass with the Pronovost 800 will require 15 minutes time to remove 525 tons of snow per passage at 36 inch depth of cut with some spillage due to the 34 inch cutting hieght.
The Pronovost tractor mounted sidewalk snow blower is narrower and you would make 2 more passes but it will remove less tonnage per pass (it has serrated edges on the augers to cut snow banks with ice buildups).
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