Snowblower rear mount pulltype blowers?

flyingcow · Jan 30, 2011

Anybody use these? I like my rearmount blower, but curious how well the pull type works. i understand if snow is deep, might be hard to wade thru on the first pass.

PILOON · Jan 30, 2011

I don't use one but have noticed that suburban contractors love them.
To note, they have perhaps 20 drives per street all 100 ft apart and with this set up they can contract 150 drives per tractor.
They back into the driveway flush up to owner's garage door, drive off and the drive is done.
Maybe twice or 3 times (if double wide drive) and those drives are all max 100 ft long.
It is all in speed, or how many drives per hour.

jenkinsph · Jan 30, 2011

As long as you can back over the snow you should be okay. I am planning on getting one for my 4520 for next fall. I suspect as long as you keep up with your snow removal you should be fine. This would be impractical if you have drifts and snow banks you need to blow forward of the tractor.

Where I live with maximum snows overnight of up to 24" (rare) it will work very well. Maine might be a different scenario.

rbargeron · Jan 30, 2011

My first tractor blower was a pulltype. It move a lot of snow. If your tractor can handle the snow depths the blower will work fine.

To move big piles back up the pile and shave it away. To widen plowed lanes put the FEL about a foot above the ground and drive along breaking down the snowbank into the road where the rear blower can launch it.

It seems the 2-stage pulltypes being offered today haven't been out there very many years. They are more expensive than back-ups so sales numbers may still be low. Hope more people chime in.

Carl Bert · Jan 30, 2011

I don't have one but have been looking at them for a while now. I have never gotten any good feedback about them, and I can't understand why. I have had many people tell me they are no good for the obvious reason of having to drive through the snow first, but in another sentence they are saying that nothing beats a rear blade when it comes to snow removal. Well aren't you doing the same thing with a rear blade, driving through the snow first? My first choice is a front mounted blower. I have one on my GX345 and its a pleasure. My B26 doesn't have a mid PTO so I am forced to choose between a rear blower (push or pull). I personally hate the idea of having to constantly turn around. It seems to take all the fun out of it. I just need to find someone who actually owns one of the pull types and loves it, JUST ONE, and I will be ordering one myself. Maybe we will find one with this thread.

grsthegreat · Jan 30, 2011

Carl Bert said:
I don't have one but have been looking at them for a while now. I have never gotten any good feedback about them, and I can't understand why. I have had many people tell me they are no good for the obvious reason of having to drive through the snow first, but in another sentence they are saying that nothing beats a rear blade when it comes to snow removal. Well aren't you doing the same thing with a rear blade, driving through the snow first? My first choice is a front mounted blower. I have one on my GX345 and its a pleasure. My B26 doesn't have a mid PTO so I am forced to choose between a rear blower (push or pull). I personally hate the idea of having to constantly turn around. It seems to take all the fun out of it. I just need to find someone who actually owns one of the pull types and loves it, JUST ONE, and I will be ordering one myself. Maybe we will find one with this thread.

There are front mount blowers out there that dont need a mid pto....ive been looking into them myself. can be kind of spendy though. one model i saw that attaches to the front of the tractor (after you remove the entire loader) and has a drive shaft that hooks mechanically to rear pto are about 6-7 grand....which is a little more than a 84" rear pull snowblower. One that mounts to the front loader skid steer and uses a hydraulic pump attached to rear pto are like 12-14 grand.....way past my pay scale. it would be nice though if i could afford that. as a loader mounted snowblower seems like a wonderful thing to have. Im still not sure what ill get for my new tractor...i have till sept/october to decide

leonz · Jan 30, 2011

Carl Bert said:
I don't have one but have been looking at them for a while now. I have never gotten any good feedback about them, and I can't understand why. I have had many people tell me they are no good for the obvious reason of having to drive through the snow first, but in another sentence they are saying that nothing beats a rear blade when it comes to snow removal. Well aren't you doing the same thing with a rear blade, driving through the snow first? My first choice is a front mounted blower. I have one on my GX345 and its a pleasure. My B26 doesn't have a mid PTO so I am forced to choose between a rear blower (push or pull). I personally hate the idea of having to constantly turn around. It seems to take all the fun out of it. I just need to find someone who actually owns one of the pull types and loves it, JUST ONE, and I will be ordering one myself. Maybe we will find one with this thread.

Hello Carl,

The issues with the rear pull type blower are more of power as the smallest one typically requires 80 horse power unfortunately so the B26 is not able to power a pull type rear blower.

SO saying that;

a rear mount is easily done as the hydro transmission will be easy to operate using a twisting slightly in the seat and adding a small firm pillow for your lower back if needed or a set of mirrors to watch the snow blower.

What is needed is a steering knob to reduce the effort needed to steer in reverse and by using the stering knob allows you easy steering in reverse as the tractor always, always, always follows the snow blower.

The reverse peddle is easy to operate with the left foot while you are in the seat and as the blower is on the ground, releasing the peddle will stop the movement of the tractor in reverse.

The suicide knob, steering knob reduces the effort required to steer the tractor in either direction.

flyingcow · Jan 30, 2011

Thanks for the replies. As someone pointed out, deep drifts and heavy storms might be a problem. What i like about having a blower is that unless i need to go out or in, I wait until it completely stops snowing. Not uncommon to have 3 and 4ft drifts. Near my garages, way higher than that.

Now, i have talked to these guys about setting up my rearblower to go on my front. But....
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leonz · Jan 30, 2011

I would check with Pronovost in Quebec as the offer a front mount kit with a reversing gearbox for three point P.T.O., implements

You may be able to do this for much less money.

Carl Bert · Jan 30, 2011

leonz said:
Hello Carl,

The issues with the rear pull type blower are more of power as the smallest one typically requires 80 horse power unfortunately so the B26 is not able to power a pull type rear blower.

SO saying that;

a rear mount is easily done as the hydro transmission will be easy to operate using a twisting slightly in the seat and adding a small firm pillow for your lower back if needed or a set of mirrors to watch the snow blower.

What is needed is a steering knob to reduce the effort needed to steer in reverse and by using the stering knob allows you easy steering in reverse as the tractor always, always, always follows the snow blower.The reverse peddle is easy to operate with the left foot while you are in the seat and as the blower is on the ground, releasing the peddle will stop the movement of the tractor in reverse.

The suicide knob, steering knob reduces the effort required to steer the tractor in either direction.

No the HP is not an issue. I already found one that fits my tractor. I forget the brand at the moment, but I will get back to you with it.

If it wasn't for the fact that I bought this tractor less then 7 months ago, and I would take about a 20% loss if I traded it back in, I would trade it for a B3030 or maybe the new B3000 when it came out. I would put a front mounted blower on it and be done with this nightmare. Who know maybe next year. Don't get me wrong, I love the B26. If the loader was removable and it had a mid PTO, it would be the perfect tractor for me. But it is what it is.