Snow Push vs FEL for snow removal
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That particular snow was very hard...ended up making a hole through it by driving in as far as I could let the loader down with the bucket dumped and then back drag the snow out of the cut. Then used the blade an bucket to push/pull more out until I had it wide enough. Had to move it quite a ways to get it out of the way enough for the next one. This was a Feb storm here in IA w/ 8-10" and 25-30mph winds
Thomas
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Scootr2d.
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"I cannot find a TBN member named Haystack."
Sorry about wrong name..try
Try...The Haymaker....
Search thread...Snow pusher build
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jcmseven
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Keith in Alberta,
I like your set up. I do not doubt that you receive the lionshare of snow where you live, but I would say I love your X series machine for snow. I have had the following tractors: an X485, 595, 4310, 3720x2, 4520, and 2320 and believe it or not we receive a goodly amount of snow each winter. Our situation is worsened by the fact that there is not one inch of flat ground where we live and we usually get heavy wet snow. Of the tractors I mentioned the best machine I had for pushing snow was the 595, by a mile. On our hillsides, it would work circles around my 4520 which was roughly akin to plowing snow with a schoolbus. The reality for me is that compact tractors with R4 tires just do not move snow well unless it is perfectly flat or one is using chains.
John M
I like your set up. I do not doubt that you receive the lionshare of snow where you live, but I would say I love your X series machine for snow. I have had the following tractors: an X485, 595, 4310, 3720x2, 4520, and 2320 and believe it or not we receive a goodly amount of snow each winter. Our situation is worsened by the fact that there is not one inch of flat ground where we live and we usually get heavy wet snow. Of the tractors I mentioned the best machine I had for pushing snow was the 595, by a mile. On our hillsides, it would work circles around my 4520 which was roughly akin to plowing snow with a schoolbus. The reality for me is that compact tractors with R4 tires just do not move snow well unless it is perfectly flat or one is using chains.
John M
RadarTech
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Scootr2d,
BXPANDED had a link on here over the winter about one.. But it is not on their site..
maybe they will chime in..
J
RadarTech
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ah-- here is the link..
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/164278-front-end-loader-mounted-plow.html
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/164278-front-end-loader-mounted-plow.html
whistlepig
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I used a blade for years. We moved here three years ago. Flat as Kansas it is. This past winter I lost the blade verses loader battle. 30" of snow in a week with three days of 25 MPH winds. The blade just made a snow fence. It got to the point that the snow had to be physically moved with the loader. The loader will be my main defense this year. I am ordering chains and a ballast box.
