7 ft snow blower

[cb781]

lucknow 7' snowblower. My question is would this be to much of a snowblower for a New Holland tc33da. Lucknow website rates this snowblower in the 40-70 pto hp range. My tractor specs say 26.9 pto hp. It would seem that this snowblower would be to big. Is this the case in real world applications

 

[DarkBlack]

If you have a good deal on one used or a great sale on new go for it. If you are buying normal priced new go smaller.
Your 33HP is going to throw the same volume/time of snow, be it a 7' or a 3-1/2'. You'll just gear down to 1/2 the drive speed with the 7'.
There's hardly any mechanical no-load losses with these blowers, so it's all about how fast you stuff how heavy snow in it.

Wisdom I can pass on is to try to get a size that allows you to do your driveway/road in just 2 passes, that being just over 1/2 the width, to allow for some overlap.

 

[smfcpacfp]

If you have a good deal on one used or a great sale on new go for it. If you are buying normal priced new go smaller.
Your 33HP is going to throw the same volume/time of snow, be it a 7' or a 3-1/2'. You'll just gear down to 1/2 the drive speed with the 7'.
There's hardly any mechanical no-load losses with these blowers, so it's all about how fast you stuff how heavy snow in it.

Wisdom I can pass on is to try to get a size that allows you to do your driveway/road in just 2 passes, that being just over 1/2 the width, to allow for some overlap.

Good advice but I have a problem with your "wisdom". I have a driveway which is 20' wide and about 600' long. I would need a 10' wide plus blower which would required a very big, expensive tractor. I guess if I had a very long driveway, it might make some sense, but it probably takes four minutes to make a pass, so I could probably save 10 minutes with a 10' blower verses my 63" blower.

 

[cb781]

There is a used one close by about 1/2 price of new and looks to be in good shape. I suspected it would work at a slower speed. I would prefer something around 6'. this would allow me to do my driveway in 2 passes and less stain on my tractor. Thanks for the reply

 

[Gary Fowler]

The only time it would be a strain on the tractor would be the first pass, after that you could take a smaller bite if needed. If you can pull a 61" with out issues, then a 72" should work, just may have to go slower if the snow is wet or thick. This is same philosophy for bush hogging. ROT is 5 HP per foot, but you can load a 70 HP tractor with a 6 foot BH if you have tough enough material and go too fast, same with your snow. If you can travel in high range wide open with your current blower regardless of type of snow or depth, then you don't have enough width, by same token if you have to barely creep and still stalling, you need less. Only you can determine if you can use more width.

 

[The Fred]

I have a driveway which is 20' wide and about 600' long


DUDE is your wife blond? Why so wide? Holy moly.

Just kidding, Fred

 

[JerryK]

If you have a HST trans in that DA, you should be good to go. Since you are getting a fairly good price, you could use it for a winter.. take care of it.. and always sell it for what you paid for it and go to one more to your likeing. The larger blower MAY line up better PTO shaft wise, and might have a bigger fan... which is what you want in a blower... I on'ly clear about 12' or so wide, and widen it out in the spring when things start to melt.

 

[rayclar]

Fred , i think our friend from marquette enjoys blowing snow?? This year will be my first year with my front mount erskine snow blower and i will be keeping all the drive ways as wide a possible too?? AND NO MORE SORE NECK. ray

 

[compact]

You're probably OK with a 33hp engine, esp. with hst, just slow down a bit. If you have any hills a heavy blower can be a challenge for a small tractor with an icy base, you can try to partially pick it up with the 3pt but you'll make it dig on gravel as it will tilt back when partly lifted on a 3pt, that or it will ride up when the 3pt is all the way down. The experience is a bit like backing a front wheel drive uphill with bad traction, the front end can get interesting.

 

[JJZ 109]

I have a driveway which is 20' wide and about 600' long


DUDE is your wife blond? Why so wide? Holy moly.

Just kidding, Fred

I just put in a driveway and some stone for a storage building that will be going up in spring. Went with a 16 foot wide sluice pipe. Figured that's plenty. The building's only going to be 16x24. Then the county right of way guy comes along and says that by their rules it's supposed to be 30 feet wide. Crazy. But they let me get away with the narrower one, just had to put end sections on the sluice pipe.