Frontier Front Blower

[Spudland_Dave]

Suprised nobody noticed this new addition to the frontier lineup..
John Deere Ag - New Equipment Features for SB21 Series Loader-Mount Snow Blower

Nice powerpack setup...

 

[Tattooz]

I have to say I had the JD blower on my 2305......
I must have got a lemon, I spent more time changing pins than I did blowing snow!
What was happening was the first fan was slipping on the shaft and sliding back into the housing and hanging up *SNAP* My dealer tried twice to fix it...
I had them take it away, now I just use my bucket for all snow removal...

 

[Spudland_Dave]

I have to say I had the JD blower on my 2305......
I must have got a lemon, I spent more time changing pins than I did blowing snow!
What was happening was the first fan was slipping on the shaft and sliding back into the housing and hanging up *SNAP* My dealer tried twice to fix it...
I had them take it away, now I just use my bucket for all snow removal...

These Frontier blowers are VERY well built...nothing at all like the other JD Blowers...thats what Killed the front blower for me, that 59" Front mount IMO is quite flimsy and not the best one out there. Deere went to RAD Technologies (Blizzard) for these blowers.....

 

[Scooby074]

$9000...Yikes

 

[JDeerekid]

I noticed it at the Farm Show in Seneca Falls, NY a couple weeks ago. I took some pictures. It is a nice looking setup and I wouldn't mind having one but my rear blower cost me alot less than this one.

 

[Ductape]

Its pretty interesting. I like that you could (at least in theory) raise the blower high enough to blow through the tallest of snowbanks. But....... at 9 G's I can't imagine it'll be a hot seller. RAD makes nice stuff though..... gota give 'em that.

 

[Spudland_Dave]

But....... at 9 G's I can't imagine it'll be a hot seller. RAD makes nice stuff though..... gota give 'em that.

Gotta agree....I'll gladly turn around and look at the 3pt version for a 6k price difference.
I will admit I was pleasantly suprised by the pricing on the SB1174....only problem is they're a year too late! I ended up getting the RED Version of that blower when the JD Dealer couldnt give me a firm price nor ETA (God bless their honesty because as it turns out I wouldnt have been blowing ANY snow last year with the green one)

 

[Karl2]

But....... at 9 G's I can't imagine it'll be a hot seller.

It won't be because it's a limited-application implement, those are always very costly for obvious reasons.

I can see such a blower being quite useful mostly in estate maintenance applications, for people who have relatively large areas to clear and plenty of room to directly blow snow into.

However in most commercial snow removal situations, barring the use of TVM type tractors, having a reversible snow bucket on the FEL and an industrial blower at the rear is the most efficient configuration both cost wise and time wise. Having a front blower requires one to pull/push snow with a rear blade which can often be quite unpractical, forcing the operator to spend about 75% of his time looking behind him. The blower is mostly used to blow snowbanks gathered by the bucket or blade so better have those up front.

But on a TVM... wow!

 

[Karl2]

I ended up getting the RED Version of that blower[...]

OMG that must look quite disconcerting, please accept my sincere sympathies

 

[Spudland_Dave]

OMG that must look quite disconcerting, please accept my sincere sympathies

Yeah....given my options it was the best I could do for the blower I wanted, I had 3 choices for paint jobs on the same exact blower...RAD/Blizzard ... Orange (Kubota), Red (Blizzard), or Green (Frontier)... Orange & Red were the same price, Red dealer could promise me in stone delivery by Mid October at the absolute latest, Orange dealer was pretty much the same. Green dealer said "good bleepin question" as it turns out, the first green ones I saw were 2 weeks ago...the thought did cross my mind to sell my red one, but then my wallet kicked in saying "why go thru the hassle for a paint job"...