B2920 loader mount snowplow width recommendation?

[Thomas]

If you plan on 45 degree plowing consider wide enough clear rear tires.

Just about anywhere in VT a snow belt..blower w/wind deflector of some sort.

 

[steve bumpus]

It comes down to your conditions and what works best.......I've been struggling and I just bit the bullet with my N.Holland TC 35 FEL. I have a local weld shop that also deals in used truck plows. I just had bracket bolted into bucket with bracket on top of bucket to hang chain, not sure if needed, but it's there! the rams/hoses are now hooked together with ball valve that I can open and manually spin 7' snow blade(on a 6' bucket) not that I need to flip angle much.....could hook up pump if it gets to be nuisance!! If need be, I pull chain and 2 pins and, voila, I have bucket back!!! next snowstorm will be the big test, but recommendations here have me ordering front chains and probably tack together 55 gal. covered drum which I'll hook to hitch/ arms, and slip in tube sand as needed.here's the best news--cost me $500. for blade, and I was agonizing over $2000.00 aftermarkets out there that appeared more work to hook up. My drive is 700', so the 11 yr old j.d. blower, the16 yr old polaris blade, and 53 yr old kid decided it was a de-stress situation to upgrade to a viable machine. Next year......some type of enclosure! Gone the truck/plow route, but that became nightmare on road, and needing to swap vehicles (upgrade) at some point, so I think I'm gonna be all set with this set-up!!!!

 

[leonz]

With the snow you have a front loader and a snow blower

will be a better fit.


If your worried about neck strain buy a cab cam kit and

a suicide knob or two and you will be fine.


A plow will put a lot strain on the loaders arms; you have to remember the

loader is ment to be used for lifting and dumping loose materials.:thumbsup:

 

[bandit67]

Now, my question is about whether I should be considering a 5' vs 6' loader mount plow - if, indeed, that's the route I go! Again, I have a B2920, so power shouldn't be an issue. I have $500 Norwegian diamond-shaped rear chains that give amazing traction. I have loaded rear tires and would be using a rear-ballast box...

Do you all think I could go with a 6' plow? I ask this because I tend to keep attachments - not tractors. If I invest $2500 in this plow set-up, I want to be able to keep it for years, from tractor-to-tractor, or even if I move to another house.

I run a 6' Meyer plow attached to my FEL QA on my B3030. I would not go bigger on my machine. My machine is quite a bit larger than yours, so I'd say a 5' plow would work best. I'm sure you get a lot more heavy wet snow than I do, but during our heavy wet spring storms, that "concrete" can push the front end of my machine around, even with chains up front.

As for the FEL arms being strong enough, I regularly dig with my loader, which is much harder than anything I can do while plowing, and there are definitely times that while digging, I hit something solid on only one end of the bucket, similar to the way you might hit a solid obstacle buried in the snow while plowing. I typically do not plow snow in high range, and could really only see tweaking the FEL arms if you are plowing downhill in high range at top speed and run into a berm, boulder, etc.

The issue I'd see you having is pushing a foot of heavy wet snow on concrete or asphalt and all that snow in front of the 6' blade being too much for that machine.

As a side note, I did the larger rear blade thing on a subcompact thinking I could keep it if I purchased a larger machine, but when I did purchase a larger machine, I decided the existing rear blade was too small for the new machine. The Curtis setup could be as simple as buying a 6' moldboard and swapping it with the 5', enableing you to keep the rest of the plow setup for your new larger machine down the road.