Mahindra Snow Thread

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Heavy snow last night. Roughly 7in fell thru the day, i started clearing around 5pm and finished about 630.

No traction issues since loosening the chains on the rear tires. Got em to spin once, but that was my own fault. Bit off a little more than Max could chew.

Loader worked perfect, with bucket curl/dump working in float mode like it used to. Reached out to the dealer to let him know that the problem mysteriously fixed itself. Going to put this in a holding pattern until the next storm goes by.



-J

Shift; glad this resolved itself. Takes just a spec of debris to screw things up. I waited till this afternoon around 3:00 to clear mine. The rain made it like moving cement. Always felt moving 8" of wet snow was more difficult than moving 20" of fluff and this was no exception. As I have no paving, I hate it when the ground is not frozen hard and then we get a dump of wet snow on top of soft ground. I really tore up my gravel drive this run. This is the kind of stuff you want to remove as much as possible as it packs just like cement if you leave some down and keep rolling over it. It takes me 30 minutes to do my 100' drive and 5000 sq ft landing and 1000 sq ft street side with 8" of dry stuff. This one took 2 hrs. If your rear blade is bent as opposed to radiused, Wright's welding on Rt6 can easily copy the bend for you to create "extensions you can weld or bolt on to make it 6'. 12" long extensions (allowing for 6" overlap) should do ya and the price would be nominal..

 

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Shift; glad this resolved itself. Takes just a spec of debris to screw things up. I waited till this afternoon around 3:00 to clear mine. The rain made it like moving cement. Always felt moving 8" of wet snow was more difficult than moving 20" of fluff and this was no exception. As I have no paving, I hate it when the ground is not frozen hard and then we get a dump of wet snow on top of soft ground. I really tore up my gravel drive this run. This is the kind of stuff you want to remove as much as possible as it packs just like cement if you leave some down and keep rolling over it. It takes me 30 minutes to do my 100' drive and 5000 sq ft landing and 1000 sq ft street side with 8" of dry stuff. This one took 2 hrs. If your rear blade is bent as opposed to radiused, Wright's welding on Rt6 can easily copy the bend for you to create "extensions you can weld or bolt on to make it 6'. 12" long extensions (allowing for 6" overlap) should do ya and the price would be nominal..

Sad to report that my loader issue returned during yesterday's cleanup. I've been back in touch with Dubay and they are reaching out to Mahindra USA to get the ball rolling on a repair. I'll give a more detailed report on the forum i started about it.

Not sure if my blade is bent or radiused. It's an RB-5 by Woods. A few inches on each side would really do me justice. I have no experience with welding, so bolt on would be key. Is this the kinda deal where i can bring them my blade and pick it up done... or do they just hand over some parts and I do the actual installation?

You're not kidding about the snow. I was out about 9am right when the rain started to fall. Figured best that i get the bulk of the accumulation moved before it really got heavy. Even then... took me 1.5h to do all 1400ft and clear each end. The teardrop at the bottom takes a good while as it gets 2-3x wider than the road itself. The only part of my drive that's paved is right in front of the house... but the rest took a beating just like yours. On the plus side, exposing some gravel makes it easier for the wife to get up the hill in her FWD car. 2nd clearing around 3 after the bulk of the ice fell. That took just as much time as I put in extra effort to push the banks back.... just in case this storm Sunday is worth a dam.

-J

 

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Sad to report that my loader issue returned during yesterday's cleanup. I've been back in touch with Dubay and they are reaching out to Mahindra USA to get the ball rolling on a repair. I'll give a more detailed report on the forum i started about it.

Not sure if my blade is bent or radiused. It's an RB-5 by Woods. A few inches on each side would really do me justice. I have no experience with welding, so bolt on would be key. Is this the kinda deal where i can bring them my blade and pick it up done... or do they just hand over some parts and I do the actual installation?

You're not kidding about the snow. I was out about 9am right when the rain started to fall. Figured best that i get the bulk of the accumulation moved before it really got heavy. Even then... took me 1.5h to do all 1400ft and clear each end. The teardrop at the bottom takes a good while as it gets 2-3x wider than the road itself. The only part of my drive that's paved is right in front of the house... but the rest took a beating just like yours. On the plus side, exposing some gravel makes it easier for the wife to get up the hill in her FWD car. 2nd clearing around 3 after the bulk of the ice fell. That took just as much time as I put in extra effort to push the banks back.... just in case this storm Sunday is worth a dam.

-J

If you have the Woods (mine is the RB 6) then you have a radius or curve to the mold board. Don't know if Wrights can handle a radius on 3/16" thick metal but I'll ask him about it the next time I'm over there. Wright's would handle the whole thing and you'd just drill and bolt the extensions. Don't you love the way the weather people just love to get our juices flowing with talk about an impending storm that hasn't even developed yet. Sorry about the problem arising again. I can almost guarantee it is a simple problem that has hasn't been discovered especially that it seems intermittent.

 

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If you have the Woods (mine is the RB 6) then you have a radius or curve to the mold board. Don't know if Wrights can handle a radius on 3/16" thick metal but I'll ask him about it the next time I'm over there. Wright's would handle the whole thing and you'd just drill and bolt the extensions. Don't you love the way the weather people just love to get our juices flowing with talk about an impending storm that hasn't even developed yet. Sorry about the problem arising again. I can almost guarantee it is a simple problem that has hasn't been discovered especially that it seems intermittent.

I had to laugh at this. The local weather forecasters can only say "Accumulating snow" for this weekend. Give me a break. I take that in one of two ways. First, it's going to be all hype, no storm. Or the opposite... dad's old rule of "When they can't agree... we're f'ked". Either way I'm ready, nearly rolled max twice pushing the banks off the low side of the driveway. I puckered so good i think i have a hole in my seat now.

Thanks for looking into those extensions for me. What would be ideal is if they could incorporate the extension into a new scraper blade. No new holes, and likely it'd be more rigid having it be all one piece. The RB-5 is definitely curved vs crimped.... I gave myself a facepalm when i read your reply.

The service manager at Dubay told me that Mahindra suggests a hydro valve adjustment. Something they can do in site. I told him if it's relatively simple to forward me some instruction so i can try to make the adjustment myself. Give a man a fish... teach a man to fish.... If i get that info I'll be sure to post it.

One thing that I notice is no matter how much I adjust my top link, when my blade is angled the front is always lower than the back. Is there another adjustment that I'm not seeing?

-J

 

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One thing that I notice is no matter how much I adjust my top link, when my blade is angled the front is always lower than the back. Is there another adjustment that I'm not seeing?

-J

Shift, if your's is anything like my 3 pt, you should have an adjustment that allows one side to be brought higher than the other by screwing it up or down. It should be on the right as you are looking at the rear and looks like a short top link connected to one of the lift arms. If you cannot find it, I'll send you a picture of mine. My idea of the extensions, if they can seamlessly be incorporated into your present blade, would be stronger than the blade itself.

 

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Shift, if your's is anything like my 3 pt, you should have an adjustment that allows one side to be brought higher than the other by screwing it up or down. It should be on the right as you are looking at the rear and looks like a short top link connected to one of the lift arms. If you cannot find it, I'll send you a picture of mine. My idea of the extensions, if they can seamlessly be incorporated into your present blade, would be stronger than the blade itself.

I think i have seen those adjustments. For some reason i thought they were more side/side than an angle. I wont be home before dark tonight, or tomorrow... but i'll have a look back there on Saturday. What i might be thinking of is two silver "links" that adjust left and right offset... I'll have to take a closer look.

I'm def interested to see if you can get those wings made... keep me posted. PM me for a phone number if you feel that would be a better medium.

-J

 

[kootch88]

Love my snow blower for these larger storms in particular, it just does such a nice job in cleaning everything up. Plus I enjoy the spoft cab, makes it comfortable when blowing snow around at 5 degrees.

 

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Love my snow blower for these larger storms in particular, it just does such a nice job in cleaning everything up. Plus I enjoy the spoft cab, makes it comfortable when blowing snow around at 5 degrees.

Jealous of your cab...

Also starting to consider the blower vs front plow. I just worry that blowers leave that "little bit" on the ground. With my hill i think that little bit of snow would be worse than you'd think.

-J

 

[kootch88]

Jealous of your cab...

Also starting to consider the blower vs front plow. I just worry that blowers leave that "little bit" on the ground. With my hill i think that little bit of snow would be worse than you'd think.

-J

My blower leaves about the same as my plow did and I too have a hill, hence the chains. I have had no problem getting up and down the hill. I do wait until the storms are over to blow the snow as it does a nicer job when there are a couple of inches or more to blow.

 

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My blower leaves about the same as my plow did and I too have a hill, hence the chains. I have had no problem getting up and down the hill. I do wait until the storms are over to blow the snow as it does a nicer job when there are a couple of inches or more to blow.

Right on, thanks for the tip. One question, i know the blower frame ties into the draw bar area. Does it stop you from using the 3pt or rear PTO in any way?

-J