loader snow blade on scut, yey or ney?

[CobyRupert]

Yes, the weight of the blade isn't much when floating plow, but the weight of what is being pushed , or an immovable object that can't be pushed and momenetum, that is the concern.
Trip springs are your friend.

Just don't do this:

 

[Jchonline]

Well at least it tripped...


Perhaps it is most important to know your landscape under the snow the first few times...so put stakes in the ground (those long fiberglass reflective ones) so you know where the curbs or bumps are. I doubt you will have any issues.

 

[zzvyb6]

I run an 8' blade on a frame mount with the loader hydraulics. You need weight on all tires for traction. I also use Left or Right braking to maintain direction and to turn around on a quarter [Can't see a dime on the ground]. It doesn't take much power, but you need to keep the machine moving because snow and slush have a lot of friction to break out of. A crawl doesn't cut it.

 

[polarred21]

And a scut goes about 8mph? Is this enough speed for this type of blade?

 

[Thomas]

As other side trip springs go slow until you get the hang of operating with plow and extra carful frozen snow banks.... been doing 25 years.

 

[GeneV]

And a scut goes about 8mph? Is this enough speed for this type of blade?

Plenty, man! My winter setup up until now has been a garden tractor with a snow blade, it did fine.

This my first year on the massey tractor, I cleared snow twice now with the bucket with a rachet rake snow edge on it. Actually, that's been working out ok, but I'm just pondering about a plow setup down the road, so we'll see.

 

[GeneV]

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SS Mount blade built to reduce length out front.

That thing looks pretty serious.

 

[GeneV]

Kubota offers a factory ssqa mount blade fr the BX series tractors.

Yup, that's the one, it's pretty sweet. Titan also makes one, hydraulic only. Kubota has a hydraulic angle and manual tilt.

 

[GeneV]

My recollection is that this issue has come up several times and no one seems to know of a situation where the plow damaged the loader arms. As others have noted, a proper sized plow and trip springs are a must. If you can frame mount it, it's better not because of danger to the arms but because you get less side thrust on the tractor and the whole unit is much shorter, making it easier to maneuver. On my 24 hp tractor, I have a 6'-4" blade frame mounted so it just clears the front wheels when angled and it works very well.

My one issue is, ain't plowing with such a setup kinda diving into piles of dirt with one edge of the bucket? I assumed that's why all the scut mfg's have options for snow blade kits mounting on the frame. But me neither, I haven't heard of anybody ever really damaging the arms just by plowing and never ramming into anything.

 

[BoylermanCT]

I run a 7.5' plow on my 28hp tractor, and the only time I hit an immovable object was when I was trying to widen the end of the driveway and one end of the plow clipped the frozen snowbank. The tractor spun around and the plow broke. The weak link was the 1" pin holding the plow to the A frame which sheered.