jcmseven
Veteran Member
I thought about placing this in the snow removal section but felt I would get better John Deere specific advice in this forum, so here goes. I have been a regular poster but have been busy at work of late and not posting much. As some of you well know by now, I live in Western NC at 3710' on the side of a mountain that is almost exactly 6000' at the top. We have lived here since 2003 and only the past two years would I say we have gotten "significant snow" for this area. According to the natives, our past two winters have been more-typical of average snowfall here. It is certainly worth owning a piece of snow moving equipment here, even in slow snow years. I plow my private drive (300' at an average 15% pitch) plus plow about two miles of private service road for us and our two neighbors (on our road). I have an 825I Gator with 72" snowplow (JD) and rear hopper, salt spreader. It really plows well. My parents who have a high country home in Ashe County, NC (about three hours by car) have a similar setup with the Gator and plow. My father is 81 now, and he and my mother do not stay at their mountain place in winter if there is but one flake of snow, so this expensive plow (which I purchased) sits totally unused, and has for the past two seasons. I have a friend interested in the plow assembly and will pay me essentially what I have in it. Currently he does not want the Gator, and my father does use that, so it stays. I keep my little 2320 tractor at my folks' place and mow with it during mowing season for them. It is a good little tractor and has about 75 hours on it, just being used for mowing. I have thought, rather than letting it just sit during winter and not be used, to look at fitting it with a JD 54" snowblower and using it to remove snow, using it at both their place and/or mine. I figure it would not be nearly as fast as the Gator, but on our drive proper we have several areas where snow stayed this year until April in the large piles I made due to there being no place to put it. I would be nice to blow it away and make a clean edge on these areas and remove the snow totally from some of our limited space areas. I could fund at least a portion of this from selling the unused snow plow sitting in my parents' basement. My questions are therefore these:
1. How much should I expect to pay for this snowblower assembly?
2. Will the 2320 power it well in deep, wet snow in "A" range, even uphill?
3. Are there any drawbacks to doing something like this?
4. Would another model of tractor in this size range do a better job with this blower, or is the 2320 sufficient?
5. Any other considerations to think of prior to making such a leap?
I know that since I am thinking of this, it likely will not snow here for the next 10 years, but I figure I do not know that for sure just yet. Thanks for this advice.
John M
1. How much should I expect to pay for this snowblower assembly?
2. Will the 2320 power it well in deep, wet snow in "A" range, even uphill?
3. Are there any drawbacks to doing something like this?
4. Would another model of tractor in this size range do a better job with this blower, or is the 2320 sufficient?
5. Any other considerations to think of prior to making such a leap?
I know that since I am thinking of this, it likely will not snow here for the next 10 years, but I figure I do not know that for sure just yet. Thanks for this advice.
John M