Snow Attachments Survey - plowing snow with a rear blade

[zenmek]

Cheap TSC 6' blade
JD 770 (with turf tires..gets fun sometimes)
330' gravel drive & fairly steep (I push snow downhill!)
no shoes
I use the blade for everything!
We don't see alot of snow in KY, but it has been known to close us down for a week with just 17"
P.S. I'm originally from NE Ohio (had a plow truck there /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif!)

 

[frank_f15]

????6FT.(HEAVILY BUILT)
Kubota b2400
r4"s not filled
100ft. paved with 20'x34 apron at garage
no shoes
some landscaping(more next spring)
used in conjuction with fel(we get lots of snow)

 

[Anonymous Poster]

JD blade, was for a 100+ HP. tractor, cut down to 7' nicely done, I can't tell it was even done, tilts and adjusts to nearly any angle imaginable and built like a tank, heavy duty! Attached to Kubota L2550, 4x4, R1 filled, 1 1/2 miles of gravel to keep free of snow with our cold North Dakota long winters and Lots of snow, when it gets too deep I pile it up with the loader, got 10 feet in piles last winter, took forever to melt.

 

[Von]

old Heavy duty Massy-Ferg. 8ft. (See attachment)

Kubota B2710 now used my B8200 last year (tractor in photo)

300ft. paved driveway and 145' x 90' ice rink

Have shoes, but don't use them anymore now since paving the driveway.

Have used the blade for all kinds of landscaping chores.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Von,

That Massey blade is unique... were the two moldboard 1' extensions customized by someone?

What kind of support is in the rear of those sections... I was wondering how the "ends" would hold up under "ditching" conditions with the severe stress and "broken" up wear bar and moldboard...?

 

[Von]

John,
The two extensions are factory made and they are made to be bolted on. The wear bars are reversible and have never been flipped until I got it, the one side is worn right down to the bolts that hold it on! There is a very stout brace on the back, and there is some bar stock that has been welded on as well. It has held up to some of the most severe punishment I could dish out with my old Oliver 550. I have used this blade once to did out a foundation for a building with an old MF TO30. The only thing that I have had to change is the part that allows it to lock it into position. My grandfather left the blade lay down in the mud on the locking lever for years and it rusted shut. I had to use a torch to cut it free so it would spin and then make a new locker slide on the opposite side. I have added skids to it from an old snow plow and I can remove them when doing the ice rink. My best guess is it weighs about 500 lbs. and it will stop the tractor in a hurry when I hit a snow bank! I got a 5 ft. Lucknow snow blower with my B2710 so I don't know how much I will use the blade this year. I will have to see how much faster/slower the snow blower is and then go from there. It won't be long now till we are moving snow! Here is another view of it, and you can see the bracing on the back of the blade. (see attachment)

 

[JohnMiller3]

Ford MD 96” Rear Blade- 3/8" Moldboard w/ skid shoes {Someone said this has been superseded by NH 786b}
Multiple Tractors used: JD5205 & MF165
Snow removal, Commercial parking lot {shopping center snow clearing~3 acres}
A number of Senior Citizen driveways gratis…
Extensively used for ditching, drainage, leveling, moving lots of dirt…
Can offset 24” R or L with pins, tilt, can turn 180 degrees mounted on 3-pt

"You are what you eat, drink, think, say and do..."

 

[Anonymous Poster]

TSC 5 ft rear blade
B7100 HSD turf tires wheel weights and chains
gravel drive use shoes until drive get good snow pack on top.

 

[Corm]

- 7 footer (made in Alabama, can no longer read the manufacturers name). 14" high moldboard, swivels 360 degrees, can offset 18" to either side, no hydraulics on it, everything is manual
- 1999 Cub Cadet 7260
- 1/4 mile gravel driveway
- tried using skid shoes. Didn't like them, took them off
- I have used it for landscaping

Corm

 

[bpence]

5' back blade from TSC (kind of a cheapie)
Kubota B7100 HST
Driveway - 350' plus another 200' to the barn
No skid shoes
Used the blade for both grading the drive and landscape work

Do we get a valuable prize for doing the survey?

Bob Pence