DMoneyAllstar
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I've recently upgraded my "little" home tractor from a Craftsman garden tractor to a Ford 1210 4wd with 540 pto. Plenty of power, weight & traction for snow. I've got a 180' long (5300-sf) driveway out in the country. Tractor also has a loader, but the loader doesn't "throw" the snow like the blower does.
Still have the Craftsman 46" 2-stage snowblower. It ran off the mower deck PTO with an intermediate pulley train that gears-down the mower's 3600rpm, then the blower belt goes out, up at a 90 around the blower drive pulley, and back down. So the blower drive pulley is vertical. If you were to stick a pto shaft stub on it, it'd point right at the tractor.
Wondering if it would be possible to adapt a PTO shaft onto the blower's drive pulley, add the cat1 pins and top link bracket, and run it with the little 1210's 540 pto? probably add some wings to gobble up a large swipe. It's a 13.5hp PTO
Fabrication isn't an issue. I can weld, have cad & cnc plasma, etc.
Just wondering if it's been visited? Show-stoppers? Etc?
Rotational direction might be it, but I have to double-check. It's August and all the snow-crap is put away.
Thanks,
Dan
Still have the Craftsman 46" 2-stage snowblower. It ran off the mower deck PTO with an intermediate pulley train that gears-down the mower's 3600rpm, then the blower belt goes out, up at a 90 around the blower drive pulley, and back down. So the blower drive pulley is vertical. If you were to stick a pto shaft stub on it, it'd point right at the tractor.
Wondering if it would be possible to adapt a PTO shaft onto the blower's drive pulley, add the cat1 pins and top link bracket, and run it with the little 1210's 540 pto? probably add some wings to gobble up a large swipe. It's a 13.5hp PTO
Fabrication isn't an issue. I can weld, have cad & cnc plasma, etc.
Just wondering if it's been visited? Show-stoppers? Etc?
Rotational direction might be it, but I have to double-check. It's August and all the snow-crap is put away.
Thanks,
Dan
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