80" of snow this week.

[screamin400]

Which Nokian tractor tire? They sell 10 tread types.

Hakkapeliitta​

 

[Tpondel]

Yikes ! Perfect homeowner machine though !

That you Jeremy Renner?

 

[RayIN]

Hakkapeliitta​

OK, there's about 10 versions of that, which number specifically?

 

[screamin400]

OK, there's about 10 versions of that, which number specifically?

OK, there's about 10 versions of that, which number specifically?

. Take a look at Petes Tire Barn.

 

[screamin400]

OK, there's about 10 versions of that, which number specifically?

I have never seen more than one for a tractor.

 

[RayIN]

I have never seen more than one for a tractor.

Nokian Farm and Tractor Tires

www.petestirestore.com

I about fainted at the prices:

710/70R42 Nokian Ground King Radial Tractor Tire (179D)

 

[screamin400]

There is only one Hakk. that I know of. Many Nokians. I am 11k in on my tires.

 

[BadgerCheese]

I expect most have heard of the snow storm in Upstate NY. I am in the place you read about. My house got 80" in a few days. It was pretty intense. I run a Kubota M6-111 hooked to a Cyclone 92" inverted blower. I hear everyone saying the inverted is no good in deep snow. Maybe it is not the inverted so much as the tractor it is hooked to. The inverted held it's own all the way through. We had a 10 hour span that produced 24 inches. Tractor and blower had no issues. I am running Nokian tires all the way around. R1 are far too slippery on the road as my route is over 25 miles doing 65 driveways. I have been opening up driveways the last couple of days where the plow trucks could not get through. I did one that had a drift that was over the front of my tractor. I just backed into it like pac man. Drift was gone quickly. The inverted blower can back up to stuck cars and pull away from them without leaving a hard pile there.Folks do not want to pay and then have to shovel that. It can back up to the garage door. If you have an inverted blower and having issues check your tires. A back up blower will probably work with any tires but the inverted will require more traction. That does not make it a bad blower just different. It can eat the snow.

We get about 200-240" of snow each season. I run chains all the way around (square alloy on back, 3/8" studs on the front) and a frontier 72" blower off the back pto. The R4's on my tractor are useless after the first snow without chains. My LS has two remotes on the back, and I use one to control a hydraulic top link and the other to operate the chute rotation/direction. The adjustable top link is very helpful in setting the blower to allow the building of a snow mat, and later in the season to tip the unit down to dig into mat. BTW, so far this season we have 140".

We got a 22" overnight dump a couple of seasons back and there's no way an inverted machine would have worked for me. My tractor would have gotten stuck. As it was, I had to put the machine in the lowest gear because the 24" height of my blower was getting a mouth full of that 22" snow. My road is a 1/2 mile long, and it took quite awhile to blow it in both directions. But with a thermos of coffee in a heated cab with some music playing, it was more quite tolerable.

Having the right equipment for the job is 80% of the solution. Knowing how to use it is the rest!

 

[screamin400]

We get about 200-240" of snow each season. I run chains all the way around (square alloy on back, 3/8" studs on the front) and a frontier 72" blower off the back pto. The R4's on my tractor are useless after the first snow without chains. My LS has two remotes on the back, and I use one to control a hydraulic top link and the other to operate the chute rotation/direction. The adjustable top link is very helpful in setting the blower to allow the building of a snow mat, and later in the season to tip the unit down to dig into mat. BTW, so far this season we have 140".

We got a 22" overnight dump a couple of seasons back and there's no way an inverted machine would have worked for me. My tractor would have gotten stuck. As it was, I had to put the machine in the lowest gear because the 24" height of my blower was getting a mouth full of that 22" snow. My road is a 1/2 mile long, and it took quite awhile to blow it in both directions. But with a thermos of coffee in a heated cab with some music playing, it was more quite tolerable.

Having the right equipment for the job is 80% of the solution. Knowing how to use it is the rest!

You are right. I am set for deep but seldom use it. Everyone is all up in arms on youtube that a different blower would have worked better. You know what you and I do? We use what we own. Neither going out to spend money for one storm. I bet you have a sweet setup there.

 

[tjandrews]

I live in Pompey, NY, in the hills southeast of Syracuse. We don't usually get Tug Hill snow amounts, but we have our moments. Coastal storms, like the Blizzard of '93 (The "Storm of the Century") tend to hit us harder than they do Tug Hill.

The JD 4600 and the 1165 snowblower we have now will move a lot of snow. I wish we'd had it back in '93. Officially, Syracuse got about 4 feet at the airport, but we're guessing we had about a foot or so more than that. It was difficult to measure, as it was blowing around a lot. At the time, all we had to move snow, other than shovels, was a homemade plow on the front of my grandfather's Case SC tractor. With a 10-foot drift across the driveway, it took us half a day just to open a 100-foot path to get the tractor from the barn where we keep it to the road, where we could cross and attack the house driveway.

 

[screamin400]

I live in Pompey, NY, in the hills southeast of Syracuse. We don't usually get Tug Hill snow amounts, but we have our moments. Coastal storms, like the Blizzard of '93 (The "Storm of the Century") tend to hit us harder than they do Tug Hill.

The JD 4600 and the 1165 snowblower we have now will move a lot of snow. I wish we'd had it back in '93. Officially, Syracuse got about 4 feet at the airport, but we're guessing we had about a foot or so more than that. It was difficult to measure, as it was blowing around a lot. At the time, all we had to move snow, other than shovels, was a homemade plow on the front of my grandfather's Case SC tractor. With a 10-foot drift across the driveway, it took us half a day just to open a 100-foot path to get the tractor from the barn where we keep it to the road, where we could cross and attack the house driveway.

I remember the storm. It got us for something like 3-4'. We are hearing this one dumped more than the blizzard of 66 right here. I cannot confirm just what I hear.

 

[fishhead]

There is only one Hakk. that I know of. Many Nokians. I am 11k in on my tires.

he might be seeing car and suv models - i have studded 11's on my car

 

[tjandrews]

I see where Adams is getting hammered again. Something like 2 feet overnight, and continuing to fall like that almost all day today.

 

[screamin400]

I see where Adams is getting hammered again. Something like 2 feet overnight, and continuing to fall like that almost all day today.

buddy of mine is heading up there

 

[BadgerCheese]

You are right. I am set for deep but seldom use it. Everyone is all up in arms on youtube that a different blower would have worked better. You know what you and I do? We use what we own. Neither going out to spend money for one storm. I bet you have a sweet setup there.

I lost the shear pin on the gear box yesterday (first time in the 4 years I've owned the blower) and about 20 minutes later, the shear pin on the drive line broke. Both are 3/16 grade 5 bolts. The snow was heavier than I thought and my speed was probably too fast.

I have neighbors with snow plows on their trucks that clean up the road on their way out in the morning or in later in the day. Also happens they are partners in a logging operation in the area, and when the road starts to close in they bring in a grader, put the wing up high and move the banks back. My equipment could do it, but it would be a multi-pass project (undercut pass, and a clean up pass). No fun.......

If in the future they're not around or in a nursing home, I'll have to upgrade my equipment. Heck, I might be in there with them! But what I have is more than functional for now, and still worth more than I paid for it!

 

[screamin400]

I lost the shear pin on the gear box yesterday (first time in the 4 years I've owned the blower) and about 20 minutes later, the shear pin on the drive line broke. Both are 3/16 grade 5 bolts. The snow was heavier than I thought and my speed was probably too fast.

I have neighbors with snow plows on their trucks that clean up the road on their way out in the morning or in later in the day. Also happens they are partners in a logging operation in the area, and when the road starts to close in they bring in a grader, put the wing up high and move the banks back. My equipment could do it, but it would be a multi-pass project (undercut pass, and a clean up pass). No fun.......

If in the future they're not around or in a nursing home, I'll have to upgrade my equipment. Heck, I might be in there with them! But what I have is more than functional for now, and still worth more than I paid for it!

Everyone doing what I do have moved to grade 8 bolts. Sometimes I purchase a little bit longer bolt and grind it down a bit so no threads are being used in the shear area. We still break them though time to time.

 

[grsthegreat]

My neighbor swapped his walk behind shear bolts to grade 8, he destroyed the drive case. Absolutely broke to pieces.

 

[screamin400]

My neighbor swapped his walk behind shear bolts to grade 8, he destroyed the drive case. Absolutely broke to pieces.

It can happen.

 

[wolc123]

Nice tractor. Would he mind if you put 1"-2" spacers on the back wheels to keep the chains from rubbing ?

It took me a while, but I finally got the wheel spacers on dad’s JD 770 today. The lug bolt size was 16 mm x 2 mm. The shortest ones they had at the store I checked were 70 mm lg. I paid about $ 40 for 12 of those.

I used std 3/4” hex nuts as spacers, which are about 5/8” thick. That was plenty to stop the tire chain from rubbing the fender on one side and to stop the rear plow from hooking the tire chain on the opposite side. I also reused the original 16 mm lock washers and added a std 3/4” flat washer on each bolt to take up the excess non threaded length.

It was a little more than I wanted to spend but my dad gave me $ 20 towards it (that’s what I told him the bolts cost) so it wasn’t too bad. His tractor is an inch and a quarter wider now, and no more annoying chain rubbing on the fender or plow blade hooking.

I saved the original lug bolts, which were only about 25 mm long and had slightly larger hexes on the heads. The new 70 mm bolts are long enough, so that I could have fit a second 5/8” thick spacer nut on each, had I needed it. I doubt I’ll ever take them off again.



That tractor is a little more stable now, and plows snow better than it ever did. I wish I could say that for my Farmall Cub here at home. It’s out of commission with a “no spark” issue. I’m hoping it’s the coil, but still unknown at this point.

Fortunately, I’ve got a larger diesel, American made John Deere of my own here, to get the snow plowing done. Not as fun plowing with that as the Farmall though, but it gets the job done a lot faster.

 

[oldnslo]

Wolc,
Does the rim sit on the pilot at all with those nuts as spacers? I would be worried about the rim moving on the bolts if not engaged on the pilot and potentially wallowing out the holes in the rim.