Snow Let's see your snow removal equipment

[GlennaR]

My Kub is a L2800:

I first attached the used plow I purchased off eBay to the loader bucket of my L2800 but found that precise steering was difficult in deep or heavy snow. Also the overall length of the tractor was much longer when the plow was mounted on the bucket.

So the next year I had a plow push frame fabbed up at the local welding shop and re mounted the plow on the plow frame who's aft attachment end is much closer to the longitudinal center of gravity of the tractor.

I re plumbed the hydraulics a tad so I could lock the bucket position where last located and swing the plow with the loader curl n un curl command. Than I would lift the plow by placing a chain up to the loader bucket. However this made forward visibility horrible.

So for the next winter I had the same fad shop make up a cross member that replaced the loader bucket, maintained the loader arms rigidity and provided a spot to attach the plow's lift chain.

My plan for this past warm weather season was to take the cross member you see in the photo below to the powder coaters n have it painted, however as we all know, $.$$ is no longer good in our once great nation for all but the wealthy, so just a rusty old chunk O steel is mounted on my lovely Kub still.

So, in conclusion, after 3 + seasons of re design, the Kub now plows good, steers good, visibility is good and the Kub is lots shorter when the plow on. But the job just looks un finished thats all, I guess a small price to pay, however it does bother me a tad to not completely finish a job on such a nice piece of equipment.

Below should be four links to uTube videos of my Kub plowing snow. However these vids were made before I came up with the remove the loader bucket cross member idea in order to improve visibility.
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UTubeGlennAR's Channel - YouTube
UTubeGlennAR's Channel - YouTube
UTubeGlennAR's Channel - YouTube
UTubeGlennAR's Channel - YouTube
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[dennisgw]

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.

I was wondering if someone photo shopped the blower onto the combine. I agree, not the best machine to blow.

 

[Mace Canute]

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.

I was wondering if someone photo shopped the blower onto the combine. I agree, not the best machine to blow.

It's not my machine! Sorry, I should have made that clear in my first post. Some crazy old farmer here in Saskatchewan made it. Some of those old farts have more money than they know what to do with it and do stuff like this "because they can". No doubt it's not for use on a small acreage.

 

[RaydaKub]

It's not my machine! Sorry, I should have made that clear in my first post. .

And likewise, I didn't mean to question YOUR sanity. Only in general terms. If one were to have an old machine that you didn't want to keep harvesting, and had a large area to use it, by all means, gear up!

 

[Biocom]

Well This is new for this year - been pushin'... now I'll throw it. I have 1/2 mile of private road up on top of a hill, getting pretty icy.

L3400, HST, LA524 FEL, BX32 Chipper, B22-60 rear blade and the
Erskine FM-601, seat heater :licking:

 

[jakell2010]

2920B,,, the blower goes on the back 64",,, throws a 50' arc,,,sooo cool

 

[Jay4200]

Here's me 3 weeks ago on Halloween day, when for SOME reason 2 1/2 feet of the white stuff fell out of the sky. Kubota L4200 w/ 6' Econor blower. Check out those funky hydraulics .

JayC

 

[bubbacuse77]

JD 3520, Farm King 074 with Hydraulic chute rotator (deflector also in the works), New FEL plow build, and a shovel.

What about this makes us like little kids praying for snow?:laughing:

 

[irvingj]

Biocom, yer gonna love that blower! Curious: do you have a shark mouth to go with what looks like eyes on your Kubota's hood?:laughing: World's first P-40/L-3400....:laughing: Neat!

Jay-- I heard you guys got nailed...we only got about 9"... but that was quite enough, thank you! I can see by the snow exiting the chute that yours was real wet, too. I started to clear mine with the FEL, since the blower was still "in storage," but I quit after a bit and got the blower out. Worked much better.

 

[Gizmo2]

What about this makes us like little kids praying for snow?:laughing:

Never!