Ready for Winter

[Killer_B]

They dropped off my slightly used Buhler 60" rear blower today. It seems to be a good fit for my 3320. I am hoping that the front angle blade will handle most of the snow falls we get here in southern Michigan. The blower should handle the rest.

KB

 

[kennyd]

That looks great! You REALLY need to get that thing dirty

 

[N1ST]

It does look fine. Sorry for the ignorance, but how do you snow blow with it You must go around in reverse - Doesn't that get tiring on the neck?

 

[Killer_B]

It does look fine. Sorry for the ignorance, but how do you snow blow with it You must go around in reverse - Doesn't that get tiring on the neck?

That's the idea, though I have not actually tried this yet. It is by far the most common set up for tractor mounted blowers.

As far as neck pain, I just don't know. It probably would have been on my last tractor. But this one is very roomy. It's quite comfortable to turn sideways and look back.

My last two tractors had interchangeable front mount blowers and angle blades. But you could only have one on at a time, obviously. It seems to me it would be more convenient to have both a plow and blower at your disposal, the former doing the majority of the work and the latter for moving heavy drifts.

We shall see.

KB

 

[N1ST]

I learn something every day. Let us know how it works out!

 

[gunmaker]

KB, I like the front blade on the fel. Does that operate off the joystick, or do you need a third function scv for that?

 

[RoyJackson]

Nice pics!!! Thank you!

Your drive looks to be about 50 feet or a little less. And, it's paved....why did you buy both a plow and a blower? Seems like with the little bit of plowing you have to do, one or the other would have sufficed.

 

[Killer_B]

KB, I like the front blade on the fel. Does that operate off the joystick, or do you need a third function scv for that?

The 3rd Function SCV does the angling of the blade. The joystick runs the loader as normal. I will probably switch the angle control to the curl function and the curl/dump function to the 3rd SCV.

KB

 

[Killer_B]

Nice pics!!! Thank you!

Your drive looks to be about 50 feet or a little less. And, it's paved....why did you buy both a plow and a blower? Seems like with the little bit of plowing you have to do, one or the other would have sufficed.

My parking pad is 60' wide. My driveway is 300' long. Even so, if it were just my drive, I would probably get by with the loader bucket and maybe a rear blower. But, I also have a side job doing three of my neighbors who have longer drives and larger parking areas than I do.

 

[JDFANATIC]

killerb,

Nice, though my hope is you don't get to use it this year and that sort of winter works it way into New England!