Inverted Plows, Is this just a Canadian thing ?

[skyhook]

Like CDN Farm boy said.....these rear pull blowers are NOT for the little machines.
If your machine can drive over 2 feet of snow without issue's,,
then, this is the blower for you.

 

[MHD1815HST2007]

Thx so much...Really appreciate...I'm going to do some search on it...Thx again, Tony

 

[boggen]

2 foot snow drifts are easy norm here on the farm. and that is with the last 3 years of weak winters with hardly any snow. 3 to 6 feet are the bad winters, and talking 10 to 100 foot in length, by 2 to 14 feet in width. i would most likely be stuck up on the belly, and tires just a spinning if i had to drive over the stuff to get it to the snow blower.

i would imagine canada gets some pretty nasty snow regardless. (worse than what i get), and reason why i am having a hard time with the inverted plows / this thread. it just not clicking.
i'am so use to using FEL to dig out snow drifts and move it some place else, so i am not driving over top of the snow. exception a little bit on the ground, that a rear blade or a quick back drag of FEL would clean up.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

Boggen, as far as an inverted plow goes, it seems like no one but the OP has ever heard of them. But and inverted blower as many of us have stated from experience are FAR superior IF you fit within the 2 parameters I mentioned a couple posts back. A 100+ HP tractor 'should' be able to drive thru 2' of snow. I'd think that at 3' you are pushing it and I doubt anyone would argue you wouldn't be able to drive thru 3-6' sustained. That would put you outside the application of an inverted blower. It doesn't mean they don't work....just not right for you.

Let me ask you this... With the amount of snow you have why would you dig it out and carry the snow away with the FEL rather than backing into it with a conventional blower and being done with it? That I don't understand.

 

[paulfun9]

I can easily see how they are not a good match for a small tractor or in places where you get lots of high drifting (Like my Driveway) What I have noticed is that most of the video I see posted is from the suburb areas where they are doing relatively short driveways without very much drifts. This leads me to think that for the long driveways (roads) some of us have out in the open fields will still be best done with a traditional rear mount blower

I haven't yet had the pleasure of running my DK in the snow but from the looks of things it should do pretty good but I doubt I would take the risk of buying an inverted blower with the distance and amount of snow drifts I have experienced here in the past. The rear mount blower makes short work of the big drifts compared to working them with the loader so I will be sticking with the traditional rear mount. Besides I am well under 100 HP !

 

[Winmac]

The back drag front blade has one main purpose commercial snow removal in suburbs, drives are 15-20 ft long with no place to put snow ,it must be moved out to the street. As mentioned by a operator it's not uncommon to clear 100+ drives in a shift.

Yes, The current trend is toward pull type convert able blowers, but they are expensive close to 3 times the price of a conventional blower, these are relatively new and the pull back blade has been around for a long time.




http://youtu.be/kFloGYWby60

 

[boggen]

Let me ask you this... With the amount of snow you have why would you dig it out and carry the snow away with the FEL rather than backing into it with a conventional blower and being done with it? That I don't understand.

between 2 sheds, between hose and one of the sheds, behind one of the sheds, and fuel tanks/grain bin... basically no were to blow snow even if i wanted to. wind generally just hits things just right and covers a good portion of everything in a large snow drift right in middle of the driveway paths needed to get to and from both sheds and house.

only a handful of spots to pile up snow, without completely covering something up within snow. hence FEL and bucket full at a time.

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i think "paulfun9" last post is what did it for me. "suburb" and short drives.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

between 2 sheds, between hose and one of the sheds, behind one of the sheds, and fuel tanks/grain bin... basically no were to blow snow even if i wanted to. wind generally just hits things just right and covers a good portion of everything in a large snow drift right in middle of the driveway paths needed to get to and from both sheds and house.

only a handful of spots to pile up snow, without completely covering something up within snow. hence FEL and bucket full at a time.

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i think "paulfun9" last post is what did it for me. "suburb" and short drives.

Ok makes sense for you not to have one. You are screwed on both parameters of when then won't work.

paulfun9's comment about suburbs is only partly accurate. That's definitely where most of them are but not exclusively by any means. Rural guys around here use them too where the average lane exceeds 500' and 1/2 mile isn't uncommon.

 

[Dave M7040]

In addition to the lanes of friends and family, I maintain walking trails through my farm and my brothers farm. These are along fence lines where drifting occurs and up and down hills. We enjoy walking with our dogs 2x a day and not having to struggle through any snow to do so. Being old gives one some spare time!

Years ago I did these trails with a double auger McKee 720 on my Nuffield 465. It was hard work compared to the inverted blower even with only the 2wd Nuffield. Of course good chains were a must. On the 4wd Kubota M7040 no chains are used on industrial tires although I have been thinking about screw in tire studs but my brothers don't want scratches on their nice paved driveways
Dave M7040