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- Kubota B3030HSDC
Bought the B3350 and the B2782B for the upcoming season. I had one friend who owns 3 tractors take a look at the blower and he said it doesn't sound right, maybe the chain was too tight.
I checked the gear box and lubed everything I could. I'm new to tractors and not very experienced when it comes to mechanics. I haven't taken it apart and rebuilt it yet.
I've done as much searching as I could without truly finding out what is and isn't normal. I've sent an email to the manufacturer to get their answer, if they decide to respond.
What gets me is that I had this loud sound stop momentarily and the chain was flowing smoothly, then it went back to the screeching sound you hear in the video.
I am waiting to hear back from the dealer but it will take another week or two before I get a visit from his mechanic.
I hope to find a person with a a working B2782B that can upload a video documenting the sound, or any other advice someone is willing to impart.
Please visit this link to a youtube page I just created for the sole purpose of sharing this issue.
Thank you
https://youtu.be/7-dCmiC_u_0
You sent me a personal message regarding your tractor and blower problem. I have the predecessor tractor (B3030 HSDC) and blower (B2782). I have a male quick hitch & subframe (B2791 to convert the mid PTO to drive the front mounted blower). I assume you also require that part. I listened your video several times. I assume that the noise occurred when you engaged the PTO drive lever, not intermittently as Citydude above implied. I have been using it for 8 winters. We get 15 to 30 feet of snow a year and it seldom gets above freezing from late November until the end of March, so the snow comes and stays. I have never used it less than 20 times a season usually about 3/4 of an hour each time, unless we get a lot which isn't weird for us. It was one year old when I got it and had about 70 hours on it (don't know how much it was used for snow blowing). I have a little over 400 hundred hours on the tractor now.
I don't think mine was ever that loud, but the pitch of the noise is familiar to me. Certainly it was not that loud inside the cab. I would want the dealer to look at it as you plan on doing. I have never adjusted the chain and do lube it occasionally, but not as often as recommended in the owner's manual. I do change the gearbox lubricant every 2 years and make sure the level is correct and grease all of the grease fitting once a year.
Here is a movie that I made last November made inside the tractor under load, however. I should tell you that I always wear headphones to quiet down the noise as it is quite loud, but as you can hear it doesn't make the grinding noise your does.
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Here is another movie I made in 2008. It is 8 minutes long but it starts out with the tractor running inside my garage under no load. It is loud but you don't hear the grinding noise. I think this movie was made at the end of my first year of use. The snow was deep and the temperature was around 30F when I made the movie.
- https://youtu.be/6h2kjvWF2uU
Regarding your other issues - joystick My joystick is on the right side of the cab and I am left handed. It is slightly harder to rotate to the right as you are rotating away from your body to turn right. To go to the left, I rotate my arm to my body which is always a stronger move, so yes for me it is somewhat harder to rotate the chute to the right. Incidentally, I have taken off the chute rotator hydraulic motor to replace the seals which started to leak last winter. I am doing that and all of the maintenance tomorrow (greasing, replacing gear housing fluid.
- Plowing v snowblowing If I lived in an area where we got small amounts of sporadic snow and most of it melted between snow events I would have a plow. However we get lots of snow and it seldom melts until sometime in late March. Consequently it gets to be 5+ feet deep and very dense. The more permanent snow you get, the better it is to have a blower. I would not consider having a plow even though I live in the woods in the boondocks with plenty of room to push snow. It takes a little longer with a blower but I am retired.
- Rear weight My rear tires are fill with a liquid that doesn't freeze. I have a back box which I may put of the tractor, but because snowblowing for me involves going around corners and obstacles and backing up regularly, I prefer to keep my tractor as short as possible, so I probably won't make the tractor longer by putting anything on the rear. My snowblowing area is fairly flat and I have what I think are called "industrial" tires, so I don't need chains.
Since you are new to snowblowing I recommend that you read a posting which I made several years ago called, "Snowblowing rules of thumb" which I did several years ago based upon my experience. It is the first sticky item in the SNOW REMOVAL FORUM.
Below are pictures of my tractor in the main part of my driveway