Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Pictures of your snow weapons

[FatTire]

a mule...oh my poor Fjord will never forgive you.

shes one of my Norwegian Fjord girls.

Oops, tell her "sorry". I am not familiar with Fjords, but just did a quick wiki to see what I could learn. I see why people like them.

 

[cschulz]

The more weight the better!!!!! Plain and simple.

Chris

Ok Chris, I took your advice and added some weight, I estimate the plates to be somewhere between 75-100LBS each. As you can see in the photo I used block of wood with a back plate bolted to it to rest the weights on & held them to the tractor with tie down straps. I took my tractor out for a ride to make sure they would stay in place and they seemed to be fine, I may look at coming up,with something more permanent next year. Oh, got chained up today also, FINALLY some snow in the forecast!

Thanks for the advise,

John

Thats what Im talkin about John!! The more weight the better.

Chris

 

[pizzaguy]

Here are my two. If the little one isn't big enough, the Kubota should be.

 

[ILLUMN8R]

We got 9" of heavy wet snow Wed. night & Thur. morning so I got to try out my set up! I'll tell ya what Chris, with that extra 200lbs and the blade height extension I fabricated that Cub pushed an amazing amount of snow. I was able to stack snow piles 6' tall by riding the bank up, the chained 23x10.5x12 tires hardly slipped at all!
I had wheel weights only on my old JD 210 and it didn't push as well as the Cub, boy are you right about weight, I had no idea what a big difference it could make!
Here are a couple photos, thanks again.

 

[Pixguy]

We received 4" overnight and I was out this am cleaning my steep driveway.

Love my little MF and blower.

 

[Piston]

Being old with a bad neck I find the inverted blower a big improvement when blowing long lanes. I made the hydraulic blade on the back so I can pull snow away from garage doors to avoid any shoveling. This will be my first year with the Kubota M7040. Previously I had an old Nuffield 465 2wd with very aggressive tire chains and had no problems pulling the 90" wide blower through deep snow.

Dave M7040

You sir, have my dream setup! That is one serious snow machine right there! I prefer the inverted blower as well, it makes a nice compact package when you take the FEL off too. Do you use it commercially at all? That looks like a Normand blower, 92"? How does the M7040 handle it?

 

[cschulz]

We got 9" of heavy wet snow Wed. night & Thur. morning so I got to try out my set up! I'll tell ya what Chris, with that extra 200lbs and the blade height extension I fabricated that Cub pushed an amazing amount of snow. I was able to stack snow piles 6' tall by riding the bank up, the chained 23x10.5x12 tires hardly slipped at all!
I had wheel weights only on my old JD 210 and it didn't push as well as the Cub, boy are you right about weight, I had no idea what a big difference it could make!
Here are a couple photos, thanks again.

Aint playin in the snow fun. Wish we had enough to play. Glad to hear the extra weight helped.

Chris

 

[grsthegreat]

we did receive 14" during the last storm that passed thru here 2 days ago. now its 35F and its turning to slush. this sucks.

The buildings all shed off, so i was able to blow that out of the way before it turned to absolute slush. the piles were over 4 feet tall under the overhangs.

The loader mounted snowblower worked amazingly good at removing these piles in short order.

 

[Piston]

Grs,
For your location and situation, you certainly have the BEST setup that I can think of! How bout a few more (new) pics?
At least some of you are getting some snow, we haven't had anything plowable yet.

 

[Mendonsy]

Here's mine!

 

[grsthegreat]

Grs,
For your location and situation, you certainly have the BEST setup that I can think of! How bout a few more (new) pics?
At least some of you are getting some snow, we haven't had anything plowable yet.

ill get the wife to take some next time i blow some snow. all i have are the older youtube post i made last year.

ive finally have gotten use to the front end blower, combined with the HST tractor, and man i LOVE it.

i cleared the 4' tall compacted,wet piles of snow in probably 1/4th the time it used to take me. i used to have to first knock down the piles with the bucket, then back up and blow. now i simply raise the blower, take off the top 2 feet, then gradually drop the blower as i remove the rest. When its real wet, i just have to remember to go slower.

Last week, the unit kept getting clogged. the snow on the driveway was REAL wet. i should have probably used the plow, but the ground still isnt frozen and i like my gravel. I ended up having to park the tractor in shop and hit the blower with my 250,000 BTU salamander heater to melt off all the snow. Man, there was ice all over this blower. After i got it all melted off, the blower was able to complete the job.

Yesterday i hit the sloughed snow before it had a chance to really thaw out in the 35 degree weather. Was alot easier to blow it 20-30 feet away without any clogged chutes this time.

My older back up style blower got clogged up alot also, so its just the nature of wet snow blowing.

When blowing dry powder, i can shoot it 30+ feet...a nice rooster tail. And it does a 79" wide path each pass...which is nice. It has handled a 2' deep path of dry snow in one pass, but have to take less of a bite out of the wet crap.

 

[Blast Chamber]

Here is my Trackless MT-5 with a 9-foot plow. I just used it to plow 16-inches of snow from my parking lot. Only one breakdown on the plow itself which required some quick welding with some assistance from the forklift.

Obviously it is still a work in progress. I have all of the rear sheetmetal sandblasted and painted. I just need to find the time to get it installed. :laughing:

 

[HeLa]

just finished mounting a 60" Warn ATV plow to by BX25 ... hope we get some snow this year!

 

[bjflymed]

Here is mine cab coming in this week

 

[hgl1tbn]

These were last year and we had no snow to speak of.
This year I have been out a few times and they work as expected and better.

 

[whistlepig]

Supposed to get some snow Wednesday. Here are mine:

 

[8n Bruce]

Here's mine , some of my trails aren't frozen yet,1951 & still doing the job .

 

[MIKE R]

Here is mine.

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[grsthegreat]

well, i wanted to get some new video, and was hoping to after the storm yesterday. but the promised 8+ inches turned out to be between 3-4 actual inches of snow.

I took some video anyways...for what its worth. i spliced in a vid of last year blowing thru 8-10" snow in the beginning 30 seconds of the video.

Its pretty hard to run a tractor and a video camera at the same time, so quality is soso.

anyways, here goes.

Snowblowing with loader mounted quick-attach blower on Dec 24 2012 - YouTube

 

[whistlepig]

well, i wanted to get some new video, and was hoping to after the storm yesterday. but the promised 8+ inches turned out to be between 3-4 actual inches of snow.

I took some video anyways...for what its worth. i spliced in a vid of last year blowing thru 8-10" snow in the beginning 30 seconds of the video.

Its pretty hard to run a tractor and a video camera at the same time, so quality is soso.

anyways, here goes.

Snowblowing with loader mounted quick-attach blower on Dec 24 2012 - YouTube

Great video! That's a snow eating beast for sure. Thanks for sharing.