Snowblower What snowblower to buy?

[Builder]

Afetr seeing where you live, I know you get a lot of snow and it's a long snow season.

Instead of an attachment, If it's within your budget, I would suggest a good sized used skid steer with a heated cab and a front mounted snowblower. Seems like to me you need a dedicated snowfighting machine. Used skid steers are going for peanuts right now.

A guy in my area has an older Dodge Ramcharger with a 7' snowblower mounted to the front instead of a plow.

 

[biffnh]

I highly recommend the JRW for a 3-pt. attachment snowblower. I have a 60" that I have used with my B7800 Kubota for the last six winters. I have over a mile of gravel road with over 300 feet of altitude change and it has made keeping the road clear easy. It is a well-designed and built machine. Shear bolts, when they break, are easy to change. The machine still looks like new after 20 plus storms a year and plenty of snow blown. I paid $1700 new in 2003 and it has been worth every penny.

 

[Northland]

I have a Agrotrend C60 that is very well made but then any of the Canadian made products are good as we get a lot of snow up here

 

[skidsteer.ca]

I would encourage you to look at the Erskine Attachments front mount blower if your thinking front mount. They are more then a rear mount of course but you neck will thank you.
If your snow is dry they also have a rear pull blower (you drive forward) that works well in that situation. Both are welll built pieces of equipment.
Ken

 

[Just Bob]

My $0.02 worth. I picked up a mid eighties Kubota L275 with a Kubota branded front mounted snowblower. From the look of the PDFs I can find, I suspect it was built by Buhler / Farm King. It is 60" and has an "open" gearbox.

I would recommend a sealed gearbox. In rehabbing this unit it is evident that the torque from the open gears has worn the bearing carriers significantly.

I haven't used it yet - still rebuilding and bringing up to my **** level of mechanical hygiene - but still, a sealed gearbox seems the way to go.

 

[smfcpacfp]

Kubota makes very good snow blowers, but I didn't see one for your model tractor. I know one thing, as someone else mentioned, blowing over your shoulder for as long you will have to session on a twisty road is a disaster waiting to happen. I would, and do have a front blower. It is too much agony to blow looking over your shoulder.

I am not quite sure why you would plow and then blow snow. It is clearly a double effort. It is quicker to plow, but you won't save time overall by plowing first because it will take longer to blow the packed snow, than if it wasn't packed. With a cab and good lights, I can blow anytime, so if I wanted to get my mile driveway done before it got light, I would just get an early start.

 

[WilliamBos]

Kubota makes very good snow blowers, but I didn't see one for your model tractor. I know one thing, as someone else mentioned, blowing over your shoulder for as long you will have to session on a twisty road is a disaster waiting to happen. I would, and do have a front blower. It is too much agony to blow looking over your shoulder.

I am not quite sure why you would plow and then blow snow. It is clearly a double effort. It is quicker to plow, but you won't save time overall by plowing first because it will take longer to blow the packed snow, than if it wasn't packed. With a cab and good lights, I can blow anytime, so if I wanted to get my mile driveway done before it got light, I would just get an early start.

I am not sure about the Kubota rear blowers, but the front one is made by RAD technologies in Quebec, infact all colours are made there.

 

[Just Bob]

I've read they're made by RAD but this one is pretty old - mid eighties, model L322 - and looking at the RAD products it really looks more like the Farm King.

I'm hanging on to my rusting Bronco and 7 1/2' Western Pro Plow until I use the blower / tractor setup to get confident in its durability. Then, hopefully I'll never have to push piles again.

Here's the machine;

 

[D7E]

...Schulte...!

 

[Builder]

I've read they're made by RAD but this one is pretty old - mid eighties, model L322 - and looking at the RAD products it really looks more like the Farm King.

I'm hanging on to my rusting Bronco and 7 1/2' Western Pro Plow until I use the blower / tractor setup to get confident in its durability. Then, hopefully I'll never have to push piles again.

Here's the machine;

VERY NICE. Retro-Cool!!!

Reminds me of my old 245DT. Man I miss that tractor......

Are all front PTO blowers run off a belt & pulley like that? Seems like a great way to protect the driveline.

Heat in the cab???