Snowblower 3 pt Snowblowers?

jimgerken · Sep 5, 2002

I am in the market for a snowblower for a J.D. 4100 20 Hp tractor. I will be putting something together on the front of this tractor. The J.D. product does not look all that impressive for the price. It is not much more blower than the $600 36" blower I have for a Honda tractor, but J.D. thinks its worth about $2K. How much does the Fair 48" weigh? I assume it is designed to work on 540 RPM. Is there a speed reducing/increasing chain drive inside the covers to power the two impellers? The reason I ask is that the 4100 has a mid-mount 2000 RPM PTO.

looch · Sep 5, 2002

Hey Derek. Were you around for the thread? Lcrans has a blower made bay <A target="_blank" HREF=https://www.lorenzmfg.com/snow.htm>Lorenz. I'll admit that the Fair looks great, but these sure do look good too - and they have front mount kits (although one for your particular model tractor is not listed on the site).

EFC · Sep 5, 2002

The blowers are 1:1 so if your PTO is spinning 2000rpm so is your blower. I would take a shot in the dark (short of talking to Fair) and say 2000 RPM is way to fast. We run a PTO pump and Motor combination for front mounts and put a front mount 3pt setup on. Works great but does up the cost. The blower’s weigh around 530lbs. There is a company that makes VERY nice front three points but they are spendy, but it gives you the general idea anyway.

http://www.buctraco.com/FrontHitches.htm

jimgerken · Sep 5, 2002

Thanks for the info. I own the JohnDeere Quick-tach for the front of the 4100, which gives lift, tilt, and power to the front end. I am fairly certain it could lift the 530 pounds. The front PTO speed is 2000 rpm, at full throttle. At your next convenience, ask the Fair guys what would be involved for me to take a stock 48" blower, open the covers to the chain drive enclosure, change the drive sprocket to a smaller one to allow using 2000 rpm input. I would then add the needed bracketry to make the Fair blower adapt directly to the quick-tach system. None of this worries me too much, but it would be great to hear the Fair engineers' or Sales guys' reactions. Perhaps it has been done and they would have a recommendation for proper max speed, sprocket size, etc. Let me know, I am shopping now and actually contemplating building from scratch (a more conventional blower) if I dont find something off-the-shelf that works.

Anonymous Poster · Sep 6, 2002

Does the First Choice tiller work good on your BX2200?

NY_Yankees_Fan · Sep 7, 2002

Gejlp.

It works great! I decided after much looking around to go with First Choice Tiller. It is 48 inches and weights in at about 375 lbs. Got it from Sweet Farm Equipment,
http://www.sweettractors.com , for $999 plus $79 for shipping, that was in March 02, I think he now is asking $1050 for it. This is a brand new tiller shipped ready to go. All I had to do was cut the PTO. The tiller does a GREAT job! The soil has no lumps just nice fine soil. Compared to my Troy Built walk behind tiller, and my old Ingersoll tiller, it was a lot easier and the finished product was just great. Did the garden in 30 minutes, 8 rows 4 feet wide by 60 feet long . Ken from Sweet Tractor was great to work with, answered all my questions via e-mail and phone. Walked me through the process of cutting the PTO shaft ( first time for me). Was a very positive experience. The trucker had a lift gate on the truck and was easy to get off. If I had to do it again I would definitely go with what I purchased.

I also looked at the Caroni tiller and was torn between it and the one from Sweettractor. But when I read all the fun some people had with setting the Caroni up and how it looked like it sat around for a while as the paint was faded and rusted, I went with the First Choice model, glad I did!

Tom