Snow Let's see your snow removal equipment

[Green Acres Homestead]

I live in NewBrunswick and run a snow removal business. I have a L4740 and it worked flawless even with the 7 feet of snow we had. Here is a few picks.

www.gaproperty.ca

 

[buffalofish]

My wife uses the setup shown in the attached pic - Meteor rear-pto driven snowblower behind our Kubota BX2660... I prefer to keep warm and use the Meyer plow on the front of my '98 Chevy Truck!

Oh yeah - we have a 1000' gravel drive and live in the hills south of Buffaly NY - aka the snow belt (120"+ per season)...

 

[4shorts]

Well this one got 5 hours on it and it's waiting for the snow.

 

[Davo20]

I have an 8' Curtis plow that I got with my used 5210 2 years ago. I have not used it and it is for sale! 2 cylinder angle fit JD 500 series loader.

 

[tiredguy]

Here's my way of handling the average annual snowfall of 135 inches where I'm at in northern Michigan. I bought it after the winter from **** when we got 270+ inches of snow and I hadn't bothered to get my plow truck out of the "back forty" before it hit. The single stage snowblower on my Power King Economy tractor couldn't handle it any more that the plow blade on the front of my Honda 500 quad that winter.

The only thing I had to get used to was "dressing down" so I don't sweat my butt off which causes the windows to fog up big time too :laughing:
Tired

 

[grsthegreat]

well its all new, and hasn't been tested in a winter here yet...but its all set up for this winter. We average between 100-120" per season here, and there expecting it to be wetter and colder than normal here. Well see. Chances are since i bought this rig well get NO snow.

 

[Mace Canute]

How'd you like to have this rig for handling snow?

 

[irvingj]

:drool: Oh, yeah... big snow, wet snow, drifting snow, small cars....

Saw one of those things once around Badger Pass in the Sierras- sounded like a locomotive as it approached --getting louder & louder-- from a mile down the road at 0500. Scared the &^$%% out of me!

Darn glad I was "camping" in my Blazer, which was at least tall enough to stick up out of the 4+ feet of snow we got that night!!

 

[Chooglin]

Not looking forward to the snow, but I am ready for it.

 

[RaydaKub]

How'd you like to have this rig for handling snow?

I have *NO* doubt that that machine would clear out a heck of a path. Sitting up high light that, the visibility of what your blower would be headed into would be better than any tractor. :thumbsup:

However, while you can see the blower better, a combine is a clumsy beast to use. You have extremely limited visibility from straight out the sides all the way around the back end. If you had to back up, it would be awful.

Also, I would question the sanity of taking a machine like that out in winter weather. A combine is *WAY* more expensive than a tractor. If you were going to scrap out an old combine anyway, then go for it, but I wouldn't want to take a new 1/4 to 1/2 million $ machine out to blow snow. The tank would fill up with snow (just blowing around, not "harvesting" it :laughing: ) and then the water would sit there and rust the bottom of the tank.