Hi all,
Its been a long time since I’ve posted but I have a question I just can’t find anywhere else. Due to some circumstances, the possibility of inheriting a substantial amount of land in snow county is a remote but real possibility. If we were to ever move there we would definitely need a snowblower.
At present I own a JD 2038r, but I would likely upgrade to something like a 4066r with a cab. The ideal setup that I would want to have for snow removal (it’s a long driveway) would be a FEL mounted snowblower and a hydraulic actuated 3pt rear blade.
So my basic question is about getting hydraulic power to the FEL snowblower. The 4066r has 11gpm available for implements, but the blowers need something like 20 at a minimum and 40 is preferable. I know that there are rear PTO pumps, but they all seem to stop at 20 GPM.
Cheyenne Mfg has a blower with a PTO pump that claims to have a “T” to the regular power beyond system to boost the GPM rating. Are these PTO pumps, especially ones that feed back into the regular hydraulic circuit for real! Would they damage the hydraulics (as in too much flow). Also, could I still use the 3pt hitch and hydraulic controls for a rear blade? Am I missing something altogether?
At the moment this is mostly a thought exercise, but that possibility of moving, though remote, does exist and I am just wondering how I could set up such a FEL snowblower.
thanks in advance,
SI2305
Its been a long time since I’ve posted but I have a question I just can’t find anywhere else. Due to some circumstances, the possibility of inheriting a substantial amount of land in snow county is a remote but real possibility. If we were to ever move there we would definitely need a snowblower.
At present I own a JD 2038r, but I would likely upgrade to something like a 4066r with a cab. The ideal setup that I would want to have for snow removal (it’s a long driveway) would be a FEL mounted snowblower and a hydraulic actuated 3pt rear blade.
So my basic question is about getting hydraulic power to the FEL snowblower. The 4066r has 11gpm available for implements, but the blowers need something like 20 at a minimum and 40 is preferable. I know that there are rear PTO pumps, but they all seem to stop at 20 GPM.
Cheyenne Mfg has a blower with a PTO pump that claims to have a “T” to the regular power beyond system to boost the GPM rating. Are these PTO pumps, especially ones that feed back into the regular hydraulic circuit for real! Would they damage the hydraulics (as in too much flow). Also, could I still use the 3pt hitch and hydraulic controls for a rear blade? Am I missing something altogether?
At the moment this is mostly a thought exercise, but that possibility of moving, though remote, does exist and I am just wondering how I could set up such a FEL snowblower.
thanks in advance,
SI2305