Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Pictures of your snow weapons

[PILOON]

We only got a inch or two but the wind was howling all night and by morning I had some 3-4 foot drifts. They were fun to clean up.

I have decided next year I'll have a blower for my tractor, I'm running out of room to push the snow. If I blow it away it'll be better. :thumbsup:

Yep blow it way way away.
BUT then like on my property the pile gets so high that the snow just falls back.
Had my roof shoveled as there was about 4 ft of compacted accumulated snow and that included 3 ice crust layers due to some thaws.
What a mess.
Many houses are looking like some of those Alps photos we often see in the news.
Canvas car shelters are collapsing all over the place.

Darn, as I look out it is snowing again and they predict warmer tomorrow with probable freezing rain.

 

[K man]

We got about 18" of snow overnight on Tuesday into Wednesday. I blew the driveway out and that was a lot of snow. My Kioti CK 30 HST performed well at low range and 2400 RPM to run my front mount blower. After clearing my driveway went out into the neighborhood and all the driveways and road where so banked up and most had no room for this snow. I am thank full for my blower cause there are no snow banks on my property, the snow is blown into the bush and fields. When I see members here with FEL working the **** out of their tractors pushing and banking snow I say to them get a blower just saying

 

[skills4lou]

skills4lou
The hydraulics were slow, and the drive by wire pedal system left a lot to be desired.
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Would higher RPM's make a differents?

I don't think so, I was running from 2k to 2500. They just wasn't enough flow to do more than one function on the loader. As for the pedals... Not much you can do when the computer takes that long to make up it's mind.
I want to say the model was NV4510, but not certain on that. It also has the "linked pedals" option, which was ok for using the front blade, but I had to switch back to normal for the bucket.

 

[skills4lou]

Round 476 today...

 

[MAD777]

Round 476 today..
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How is the combination of back blade and FEL working for you? I'm thinking of going this route to avoid the expense (and looking backward) with a snowblower. I'm in New Hampshire with probably not quite as much snow as you. I have 400' of gravel driveway going downhill.

 

[shaeff]

How is the combination of back blade and FEL working for you? I'm thinking of going this route to avoid the expense (and looking backward) with a snowblower. I'm in New Hampshire with probably not quite as much snow as you. I have 400' of gravel driveway going downhill.

You’d be better off with a plow, at the minimum. If you have gravel, cut a slit in a piece of 2” pipe and pound it over the cutting edge to stop from digging in/moving g gravel around.

I did a few storms using just the loader. I wasn’t a fan of it at all. Not even for pushing banks up. The loader mounted plow worked much better all around, and is lighter so it doesn’t dig in, is easier on unlevel ground, and angling it really helps.

 

[MAD777]

^^^^
Thanks!

 

[beenthere]

Agree with shaeff.
The early snowstorms that come before I'm through using the FEL and need to get rid of some snow, I find the bucket process gets old in a hurry..
Much better to drop the FEL and hook up to the plow (20-min task) to remove snow in a hurry. Have the 800' drive and another 1/4 mile to clear and using a bucket is like emptying the pool with a teaspoon.
And can't pile it much higher than I can with a blade. Don't consider a blower for a couple reasons.. don't have a cab and don't want to deal with the excess residual snow packed in with a blower.
But it all comes at a cost.

 

[Thomas]

MAD777.
Also agree w/plow...quicker easier pushing back banks if not frozen also high banks,plus dealing with snow drifts.

 

[fruitcakesa]

One of the keys to plowing ,if you have the room, is pushing all your piles as far back as possible starting with the first snow.
If you wait for too many storms you can't push them any farther back and will have to move them with the loader which in a snowy year you likely will have to do more than once.