grsthegreat
Super Star Member
After 15 years of open station snow blowing with my old JD870 i sold her off and got me a cab tractor with loader mounted 84" front blade and a 75" loader mounted snow blower. I will be ding 2-1/2 miles of flat gravel roads plus my own place.
Up unti now, I have not been able to use any of this stuf yet, as i only got it this year. However today, our association called me to clean up about 1/4 mile of our gravel roads thats in the trees. Some neighbors were complaining that the 3" snow from last night was causing their cars to drift ....even in 4x4 mode. The rest of the 2-1/2 miles of roads were squished down by vehicle traffic.
Oh well, time to try out my new toy.This stuff is really wet (40F here now) and i was rolling up giant snowballs. But the thing worked GREAT. i did some in high range, but mostly in medium range (6 mph). cleared out the wet stuff without any problem. I'm sure if it was dryer snow i would be able to move in high range without any problems. If i turned the blade to too sharp of an angle it pushed the front of the tractor to the side, so i just used a slight angle.
My plow has a swinging side gate on both ends. I set the innermost gate in position and this kept all slush from being pushed back into the road. Without the gate in place i was getting slush out over the side.
I LOVE this thing. Now i need some good deep dry snow. I need to earn $$ to pay this stuff back into my bank account
Up unti now, I have not been able to use any of this stuf yet, as i only got it this year. However today, our association called me to clean up about 1/4 mile of our gravel roads thats in the trees. Some neighbors were complaining that the 3" snow from last night was causing their cars to drift ....even in 4x4 mode. The rest of the 2-1/2 miles of roads were squished down by vehicle traffic.
Oh well, time to try out my new toy.This stuff is really wet (40F here now) and i was rolling up giant snowballs. But the thing worked GREAT. i did some in high range, but mostly in medium range (6 mph). cleared out the wet stuff without any problem. I'm sure if it was dryer snow i would be able to move in high range without any problems. If i turned the blade to too sharp of an angle it pushed the front of the tractor to the side, so i just used a slight angle.
My plow has a swinging side gate on both ends. I set the innermost gate in position and this kept all slush from being pushed back into the road. Without the gate in place i was getting slush out over the side.
I LOVE this thing. Now i need some good deep dry snow. I need to earn $$ to pay this stuff back into my bank account
