Front End Snow Blower for 2720..how much$$
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OneMarineE5
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Perhaps you have already seen this video...if not, it may be worth your while.
JohnDeere 2000, 3000, and 4000 TWENTY Series Compact Tractors
I am considering one of these myself!
JohnDeere 2000, 3000, and 4000 TWENTY Series Compact Tractors
I am considering one of these myself!
kennyd
Advertiser
You are looking at around 4k to get a front snowblower. You can go through the "build it Yourself" pages on the JD website to see the retail prices.
jcmseven
Veteran Member
They are expensive, but they are really nice. We do not get that much snow where we live, but have many of the problems associated with living in the NE on our mountain. We get several 4+ inch snowfalls each year, and one or two 10+ inch snowfalls on average. My roads and drive are narrow and run along steep hillsides. Last year in particular we had a hard time finding a place to put the plowed snow. I have convinced my wife that we should consider a blower if we have some rough winters in a row, and I would go with the 54" for my little 2320 also.
John M
John M
jimjo2
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I purchased an almost new 54 snow blower for my 2320 and I love it. I got lucky and found a unit on Craigslist, I paid $2,500.00 The previous owner kept it waxed and it is in perfect shape. I had to purchase the attach brackets and make a new drive shaft as the previous owner had it mounted on a 2520. I haven't yet found a snow pile I couldn't move. I used a blade at first, that works well on light snow but you have to be careful not to damage hard surface driveways and grass areas. I do not use the blower on my 300 foot gravel drive to my barn; I save that task for the blade on my 2520.
The front blowers are great! I've used a 47" on my 2320 for several years in the Catskills with all kinds of snow and all depths (4 feet!). I liked it so much I went for the big bucks 59" front blower for my 3320.
Rob
Rob
Blowers are nicer, especially when you have no place to put a couple of feet of snow fall.
J
JCB
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Brian,
The blower is gonna cost you $4k, no joke. There are faster ways to move little snow, but no better way to move big snow.
With a big driveway, in you're area of the country, I'd put pen to paper and try to work out a way to get one.
Joe
The blower is gonna cost you $4k, no joke. There are faster ways to move little snow, but no better way to move big snow.
With a big driveway, in you're area of the country, I'd put pen to paper and try to work out a way to get one.
Joe
Deadman
Veteran Member
i have 7 acres too, and still no place to put the snow! and i hate plows on trucks, too much damage to my gravel driveway and lawn.
w/ the blower, i can keep it high for awhile and build up a good hardpack, then lower it down. minimal damage to the stone or lawn. and no piles.
w/ the blower, i can keep it high for awhile and build up a good hardpack, then lower it down. minimal damage to the stone or lawn. and no piles.
not exactly. until the ground is frozen, NONE of them do anything. it's easier (for me and apparently the ppl that have plowed for me) to keep the blower up off the ground a bit until it IS frozen.
1st time this year w/ the blower, i set it down and went, figuring the wide skids i made would float it...it sunk.
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I experienced the same thing, the plow required that I keep my speed up or I would lose traction when the push got heavy, this would cause the plow to dig in whenever I hit a bump. With the snow blower I could go slower and adjust the height of the blower as needed, I still got a touch of dirt sometimes but it was way less then the plow.
It's not about how much land you have, I have a lot more than you but I have drainage ditches along my driveway. My friends with plows call me up for help when we get big snows here. Besides I have this aversion to pushing half my driveway off my driveway before it freezes. Before I got the blower I used to have people come over with plows, guess what? They couldn't do it. A couple of them even gave up. A downhill slope into a county route. Where do you push the snow? What knock down my animal fencing?
rob
Deadman
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The ground freezes here WAY before we get snow, so frost is a non-issue in our cold climate. We already have almost 2 feet of frost in the ground and there is 15 inches of snow insulating it.
Guys will be driving their cars on the lakes this weekend I'm sure, so its a whole different climate.
Skid shoes on anything ride on the frost, so thats y plows work so good here. It was -26 F AIR TEMP a couple nights ago, and with the wind, I hate to guess what the wind chill might have been. :laughing:
Guys will be driving their cars on the lakes this weekend I'm sure, so its a whole different climate.
Skid shoes on anything ride on the frost, so thats y plows work so good here. It was -26 F AIR TEMP a couple nights ago, and with the wind, I hate to guess what the wind chill might have been. :laughing:
We've had single digits for the last couple of weeks but the ground isn't frozen. I dug a 4 foot deep hole yesterday and the frost wasn't much below the surface.
I'm not a big fan of the cold. I did a run today because it was in the high 20's, any colder than that I get on the treadmill!
Rob
I'm not a big fan of the cold. I did a run today because it was in the high 20's, any colder than that I get on the treadmill!
Rob
We haven't seen 20 degrees in almost 2 weeks now!
Well I used to live in Hawaii. I won't say it wasn't a paradise back them (late 60's) and fighting the elements sure made life easier but I went back in the early 90's and the place was a mess. Too many people for me! I thought about moving south but everyone is doing that it seems and as much as I don't like the cold I like chiggers, ticks, copperheads etc. a lot less. I have a friend who works with quarter horses, he went to Kentucky, walked into a field and he and his wife got covered with ticks. Not for me, we're in the gardens all summer long without a tick or chiggers.
Short answer... I'll live with the cold, no crowds, a lot fewer bugs, good land and soil and not a neighbor in sight.
Rob
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