which snow blower is better?

[GManBart]

I can get closer to buildings with the backup blower than a drive through blower can.
Even with the top link shortened and the auger scraping the driveway build up still occurs depending on the type of snow and weather. riving through the snow first would just make the buildup worse.
Our municipality wings back the snow and/or uses a non drive through snowblower to keep the shoulders clear and the road full width.
I don't have a problem withsnow mist as I keep the tractor up wind and rotate the chute as required.

Then you haven't used a good inverted blower. Many mount a small blade at the very back that allows you to get right up to something like a door, drop the blade, pull the snow forward a foot or so, then back up, drop the blower and clear that space. You can't get that close with a conventional blower.

 

[kco]

I can get closer to buildings with the backup blower than a drive through blower can.
Even with the top link shortened and the auger scraping the driveway build up still occurs depending on the type of snow and weather. riving through the snow first would just make the buildup worse.
Our municipality wings back the snow and/or uses a non drive through snowblower to keep the shoulders clear and the road full width.
I don't have a problem withsnow mist as I keep the tractor up wind and rotate the chute as required.

This photo shows the garage and carport that I hand push the snow 4' (i.e. no lifting or shovelling) so I can get it with the pull-type and pull toward the place from where this photo was taken:



This is a photo showing a side-on shot of the garage/carport area.



My point is, with a pull-type blower and the snow 4' out I can completely pull the snow away. With a normal blower pushing toward the garage it will leave a ridge of snow that I would have to hand-clear. It does not matter how close I could get to the garage, it will leave a ridge that I have to shovel by hand over the retaining wall.

When I back up to the garage for another pass from the place where the first photo is taken I always get some spray from residual snow in the blower as I drive through it. You can see such the spray in the third photo in the thread I linked to in my previous post. I left the blower running while I snapped the photo.

I get virtually no wind in my area but there can be a very light breeze. I travel up and down the driveways while blowing and there are many corners and turnarounds on the driveways. So it is impossible for me to control the direction with respect to the breeze.

I guess our snow and weather conditions are quite different. I do not get a buildup of snow on the driving surface throughout the winter, and the blower clears as well as a pull-type blade.

A blower is not an option for the municipality to clear snow from the shoulders. There are no shoulders and two cars cannot pass in some places, particularly in winter. If you go off the driven surface you are in big trouble, in places 30' almost straight down through the trees.

For my conditions a pull-type blower is the best solution. The second best would be a cab tractor with a front blower. I would not have a push type blower because it would require too much looking back at the blower. I can see a pull-type would not work if snow conditions make it impossible to drive through first. In fact, I have a lot of hills and a pull-type would often not work for me, or I would at least have to blow only downhill, if I did not have chains.

To each his own--I'm still a pull-type fan.

 

[Al 2]

Check out the Pronovost PXPL pull push type. Looks like a good unit to me.
Look here: Pronovost PXPL Snowblowers - YouTube
Al

 

[Egon]

Folks, it's summertime, time to do some fishing.

 

[Egon]

Here's some Folk that may be able to answere snow moving questions! Heck they even use a hoe.

 

[leonz]

Here's some Folk that may be able to answere snow moving questions! Heck they even use a hoe.

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Can you imagine what would happen Egon if they received that much
high moisture ocean air generated snow over here as they do in Scotland
where the photos were taken?? It would be total chaos.

 

[leonz]

Thank you for your experience. These days I watched so many videos on youtube. For the "pull" type snow blower, it really need big tractor, I see the tractor in this video with "pull" type snow blower, the tractor is a little bit slipping when run forwarder.

By the way, how thick the snow will be in USA?

Hello Mr. Yuan,


The amount of snow and the type of snow depends on many factors due to our geography and the Jet streams behavior.

The Great Lakes is a huge driver of our weather patterns in winter which will depend on the water temperature which can create huge heavy snow snow storms that can stop everything for days on end due to low visibility
high winds due to the Jet Stream if the Great Lakes are still warm enough to evaporate where this moisture is picked up and carried eastward. If one or more of the Great Lakes are frozen over which does not happen very often we have very small snow volumes.

Lake Eire and Lake Ontario are huge weather generators the year round unless they are frozen over.
With Lake Erie Being an average of forty feet deep(12 Meters on average) it will freeze first if the
weather is cold enough.

The same thing can occur in the Eastern Coastal areas due to the Gulf Stream and the Northern Canadian Maritime's creating a huge potential for warm ocean fed snow storms being created by winds from the west or due to high south wind storms bringing moisture coming from the Mid Atlantic or Carribean ocean areas.

 

[buickanddeere]

First off, you have no idea how much snow I have moved, so don't bother trying to use that as a qualifier. I've lived in 8 different states and moved snow in all but one of them.

If inverted blowers didn't work well, they wouldn't have essentially been invented in Canada and continue to sell there....lots of them. If they didn't work well, people wouldn't be posting in this thread to say they have no problem using them when there's a a couple of feet on the ground.

Don't see them around here because they don't work as well as a front mount or a backup blower.

 

[buickanddeere]

Then you haven't used a good inverted blower. Many mount a small blade at the very back that allows you to get right up to something like a door, drop the blade, pull the snow forward a foot or so, then back up, drop the blower and clear that space. You can't get that close with a conventional blower.

We use the loader bucket which will blade scrape and also lift buckets of snow.

 

[buickanddeere]

Hello Mr. Yuan,


The amount of snow and the type of snow depends on many factors due to our geography and the Jet streams behavior.

The Great Lakes is a huge driver of our weather patterns in winter which will depend on the water temperature which can create huge heavy snow snow storms that can stop everything for days on end due to low visibility
high winds due to the Jet Stream if the Great Lakes are still warm enough to evaporate where this moisture is picked up and carried eastward. If one or more of the Great Lakes are frozen over which does not happen very often we have very small snow volumes.

Lake Eire and Lake Ontario are huge weather generators the year round unless they are frozen over.
With Lake Erie Being an average of forty feet deep(12 Meters on average) it will freeze first if the
weather is cold enough.

The same thing can occur in the Eastern Coastal areas due to the Gulf Stream and the Northern Canadian Maritime's creating a huge potential for warm ocean fed snow storms being created by winds from the west or due to high south wind storms bringing moisture coming from the Mid Atlantic or Carribean ocean areas.

Don't forget about Lakes Michigan and Huron. Georgian Bay is pretty much lake sized too. Buffalo New York is one of the most notable municipalities for being buried in snow.