Avenger
Veteran Member
You'd think the only difference is the hitch placement. Kinda strange its so much heavier.
For me, I think the best thing is faster fan speed in heavy snow. The tractor doesn't really lug down (unless I come into a deep pile or going to fast). I typically keep my RPMs up a bit faster than 540 pto rpm to help. It just needs to spin faster.
I've only sheered two pins so far (I need some wood to knock on). The first one is what I talked about in the video, where I didn't notice and pugged the entire thing up pretty tight. The second time I noticed right away. It was much less severe and was easy enough to get back up and running.
But I plug quite often, especially blowing wet snow. I'm guessing thats a check in the win column for the regular type snow blowers, is the ease of access for unplugging the chute. I keep a hand scoop shovel, garden trowel thing in my cab during the winter. To shovel out the snow. Accessing the fan from the underside is extremely difficult, so scooping out the snow and slush from the top of the chute is where I spend the majority of the time. A few days ago I plugged up just as I was finishing. I knew the next few days were going to be very warm, so I just left it to melt.
