3Bladz
Silver Member
- Joined
- Aug 12, 2008
- Messages
- 118
- Location
- IL
- Tractor
- a real 4320JD and a 3720JD 5610 Toolcat "Luigi"
I hooked up my 74" pto driven snowblower today. The 5610 ran it better than I expected for the 25 hp rated pto. It seems like it powered it better than my JD 3720. It for sure ran a lot smoother. It is kinda hard to keep the pto speed at 580 and real easy to over speed it. I does stick way way back there - with a blade on the front, it would be longer than my superduty with plow.
I ran it along the street where the snow was windrowed so it was deeper and denser than the 4.5 inches of new snow we had yesterday. I also had a 6 foot high pile that I had pushed up with the truck and I snow blowed it to oblivian. That was pretty impressive, the snow was going up in the air twice as high as the powerlines, so prolly 25 feet high. I did have to pick it up about a foot to get enough traction to push through it as it was fairly set up.
I believe it would be more than adequate to handle a drifted driveway. It is definately slower than pushing though. I wouldn't try it for commercial use, but somebody not wanting to spend big bucks for a hyd front mount could definately get by.
I ran it along the street where the snow was windrowed so it was deeper and denser than the 4.5 inches of new snow we had yesterday. I also had a 6 foot high pile that I had pushed up with the truck and I snow blowed it to oblivian. That was pretty impressive, the snow was going up in the air twice as high as the powerlines, so prolly 25 feet high. I did have to pick it up about a foot to get enough traction to push through it as it was fairly set up.
I believe it would be more than adequate to handle a drifted driveway. It is definately slower than pushing though. I wouldn't try it for commercial use, but somebody not wanting to spend big bucks for a hyd front mount could definately get by.