Snow Snow removal: bucket, blower, plow?

[Devi8]

That's quite an exaggeration.




Why buy a ballast box? Then, take the B/H off and install the ballast box, find a place to store the B/H, for the winter, take the ballast box off, find a place to store that, and put the B/H back on in the spring? Especially, when you already have the B/H, and it's sitting on the back of the tractor?



That's probably true in some cases. GC's are "estate" tractors. They were designed for property maintenance. This is exactly what they had in mind. Not sure why it doesn't make sense to use it, if you own it? That helps justify the $15,000+ investment in it.



Again, buying something, maintaining it, and storing it, when you already own a tool that can do the job? To each his own.

With the backhoe off I can fit the tractor in my 2 car garage with 2 cars. Backhoe on TLB unit takes just about takes an entire bay itself.

Added ballest box, more traction on rear. Can make turns without bashing the backhoe it the house, truck etc, hard to look back when your all dressed out.

OP started thread with just buying a TL, and was worried about plowing a long road. Plow truck would be the best tool and cost 1/4 of the price of a new 1705 / plow or 1705 / blower

 

[eagle5473]

I found a used John Deere 54 inch hydraulic plow made an adapter to mount it and extended the hydraulic lines for about $500

 

[pwhite42]

I have a snowblower on my GC 2300. It's either clogging or breaking just about every time I use it. Too bad, when it is working, it is good. If you have mostly dry snow it might work better than here in Massachusetts with our heavy, wet snow. I'm thinking of getting the hydraulic dozer blade.

 

[ray66v]

I have a snowblower on my GC 2300. It's either clogging or breaking just about every time I use it.

You forgot to mention the ability to turn an exposed operator into a snowman. :laughing:

 

[irvingj]

"You forgot to mention the ability to turn an exposed operator into a snowman."

Yep, got that right! I've developed an entirely new appreciation of wind direction & strength as a result of mastering (sort of) blower operation, Ray! Most of the time I can work around --or with-- it, but get surprised once in a while... all part of the fun!

 

[check]

"You forgot to mention the ability to turn an exposed operator into a snowman." Yep, got that right! I've developed an entirely new appreciation of wind direction & strength as a result of mastering (sort of) blower operation, Ray! Most of the time I can work around --or with-- it, but get surprised once in a while... all part of the fun!

Yup. I have a rear blower and an open cab, and it is a real trick to find and "go with the wind". But, a blower can't be beat when you are blowing down the driveway with trees on either side. Plowing builds up snowbanks very fast, and then where do you put them? Also, blowing down the driveway with trees on either side generally avoids most of the wind.

 

[MossRoad]

"You forgot to mention the ability to turn an exposed operator into a snowman."

Yep, got that right! I've developed an entirely new appreciation of wind direction & strength as a result of mastering (sort of) blower operation, Ray! Most of the time I can work around --or with-- it, but get surprised once in a while... all part of the fun!

Off topic... is that a tri-pacer?

 

[ray66v]

Plowing builds up snowbanks very fast, and then where do you put them?

That's where a loader mounted plow is superior. You can push the top off the piles easily.

My wife drives a Civic, you can't see over anything in that. I can easily knock the tops down for her.

 

[ray66v]

"You forgot to mention the ability to turn an exposed operator into a snowman."

Yep, got that right! I've developed an entirely new appreciation of wind direction & strength as a result of mastering (sort of) blower operation, Ray! Most of the time I can work around --or with-- it, but get surprised once in a while... all part of the fun!

Yeah, fun, ye ha.

I'm still not blowing snow without a cab.

As long as my driveway is gravel, it's a moot point anyway.

 

[MossRoad]

That's where a loader mounted plow is superior. You can push the top off the piles easily.

My wife drives a Civic, you can't see over anything in that. I can easily knock the tops down for her.

That's what I've got on my little PowerTrac PT425. 5' power angle snow blade on the FEL arms. Lifts, dumps, curls and angles. The little machine can pile snow 6' high and its really easy to knock back piles along the edge of the driveway. :thumbsup: