Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Pictures of your snow weapons

Unregistered2013 · Sep 30, 2010

new cab this year --

-- my dad and i are putting the wiper and heater together this weekend -- :thumbsup:

Lt CHEG · Sep 30, 2010

rider9403 said:
I parked my plow truck last winter, the snow gets too deep and then no where to push it. This is what we use now and it's great.

Beautiful rig. I love my New Holland but red is my favorite color so I'm really partial to my Case/IH twins too. If you don't mind my asking what does a front mount snow blower setup go for on a tractor like yours? I've got basically the same tractor as yours but in blue (NH Boomer with cab) and am looking at a blower of some sort in the future, however the pricing on the NH website depending on which options are necessary has me thinking that the rear mount would be the way I'll want to go. Thanks, and again nice rig.

Qapla · Sep 30, 2010

What can I say - the picture says it all. I will admit, it has worked quite well for the 50 years I have used it.

klausb · Sep 30, 2010

With the help of this group, my new weaponry for this year is a Bobcat S185 Turbo, High Flow with a 73" Erskine ES2410 blower. I'll be clearing about 1 mile of single lane road of 500" of annual snowfall. My blower should be about ready to be loaded on to a truck for delivery here about the end of next week. I'll post some pictures once I get it here and onto the Bobcat. For an idea of what 500" of snowfall ends up looking like:

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Thomas · Sep 30, 2010

Snow blow the paths than L2800HST w/nice smooth cigar.

rider9403 · Oct 1, 2010

Lt CHEG said:
Beautiful rig. I love my New Holland but red is my favorite color so I'm really partial to my Case/IH twins too. If you don't mind my asking what does a front mount snow blower setup go for on a tractor like yours? I've got basically the same tractor as yours but in blue (NH Boomer with cab) and am looking at a blower of some sort in the future, however the pricing on the NH website depending on which options are necessary has me thinking that the rear mount would be the way I'll want to go. Thanks, and again nice rig.

Lt CHEG,
Thanks. The blower was around 4,400+-. It was more the a rear mount but I have a long drive way and I take care if my parents and mother in laws place also. It's to much backing up for me to do with a rear mount and we get alot of snow. The case and new holland are great tractors and the cabs are the best. The snow blower and its frame are made very well.

Roger2561 · Oct 1, 2010

rekees4300 said:
Roger good for you helping out your neighbors. :thumbsup: I have a rear 64" Frontier blower on order that should arrive any day now. Will post picture. Driveway is 900 feet, narrow, and gravel. Been using front blade for several years. It works okay until heavy snow then it builds up on the sides with no place to push it. Hopefully the blower will solve the problem.

rekees4300: Be sure the gravel is well packed before snow falls. Take it from me, a blower will move that stuff where you didn't think possible. What I used to do before my drive was paved was leave the shoes on the blower so it rode a bit off the gravel. After a couple of storms the gravel was covered over and a nice layer of packed snow covered everything. Then I would remove the shoes so it would run on top of the packed snow. It looked really nice.

What amazes me more than anything is watching the snow pile the plow operator left at the end of the drive disappear as you're pushing through it and being deposited 40 to 50 feet away. With the heater I have in the cab, I remove my heavy coat and work with the sleeves of my sweatshirt rolled up. Life is good! Roger

soulasphil · Oct 1, 2010

To get snow, we will have to travel to the mountains (the Alps). These are the only weapons I intend to use with my family.

rekees4300 · Oct 1, 2010

Roger2561 said:
rekees4300: Be sure the gravel is well packed before snow falls. Take it from me, a blower will move that stuff where you didn't think possible. What I used to do before my drive was paved was leave the shoes on the blower so it rode a bit off the gravel. After a couple of storms the gravel was covered over and a nice layer of packed snow covered everything. Then I would remove the shoes so it would run on top of the packed snow. It looked really nice.

What amazes me more than anything is watching the snow pile the plow operator left at the end of the drive disappear as you're pushing through it and being deposited 40 to 50 feet away. With the heater I have in the cab, I remove my heavy coat and work with the sleeves of my sweatshirt rolled up. Life is good! Roger

Roger, with a heated cab and paved driveway your life is good indeed!

The Frontier blower has adjustable shoes so I'm going to set to the highest level and also shorten the top link to elevate the cutting edge. Hopefully that technique will limit the gravel pickup. If not then I'll explore using casters. Not sure the packed snow tip would work around here since the snow tends to become ice after being packed. Guess our temperatures and/or snow type are warmer/wetter than N.H.? Driveway also has hills, get ice on them and even my tractor in 4WD is useless without chains. Got chains last year after using pick axe to manually chop a path up a hill so the tractor had enough traction to make it. Not fun.