WinterDeere
Elite Member
Taking delivery on a new Deere 3033R this week, and re-evaluating my snow removal options. This is just for my own house, and occasionally helping a neighbor or two, not a commercial operation. BUT... my goal is to get snow removal done very quickly and easily, so as to not make me late for work every time I wake up to snow in the morning.
Driveway = 450 linear feet x 12 ft. + parking = 7000 sq.ft.
Single storm = typically 4" - 12", often wet, but occasionally 30"+
Lots of wet messy icy crap, we're in the mid-Atlantic region, between Philly and NYC.
My current setup is a 64" 3-pt blower + 61" bucket on the loader. This has actually worked pretty well, although the blower often covers me in the mess (no cab), and takes time to retrieve from the shed and hook to the tractor. I usually use the bucket on the loader for anything under 12", and hook up the blower for anything over 12".
The bucket means many, many, many passes up and down the driveway, using it as a poor-man's pusher at speed, since it fills and spills off both sides very quickly. I'm thinking that, since the new loader is quick-change, it might make sense to get an angling blade to do the plowing of anything under 12" deep, and continue using the blower for anything over 12". I wanted to get thoughts on this, or hear any other ideas you fine folks may have.
We get only 4 - 10 snows per year, and usually enough of a warm spell between each that accumulation at the edges of the driveway are not much of an issue, it usually nearly melts between storms. On those years when we get hammered more frequently, I always have the blower to shoot if farther.
Is an angled blade worth the space they'll consume in my storage?
Driveway = 450 linear feet x 12 ft. + parking = 7000 sq.ft.
Single storm = typically 4" - 12", often wet, but occasionally 30"+
Lots of wet messy icy crap, we're in the mid-Atlantic region, between Philly and NYC.
My current setup is a 64" 3-pt blower + 61" bucket on the loader. This has actually worked pretty well, although the blower often covers me in the mess (no cab), and takes time to retrieve from the shed and hook to the tractor. I usually use the bucket on the loader for anything under 12", and hook up the blower for anything over 12".
The bucket means many, many, many passes up and down the driveway, using it as a poor-man's pusher at speed, since it fills and spills off both sides very quickly. I'm thinking that, since the new loader is quick-change, it might make sense to get an angling blade to do the plowing of anything under 12" deep, and continue using the blower for anything over 12". I wanted to get thoughts on this, or hear any other ideas you fine folks may have.
We get only 4 - 10 snows per year, and usually enough of a warm spell between each that accumulation at the edges of the driveway are not much of an issue, it usually nearly melts between storms. On those years when we get hammered more frequently, I always have the blower to shoot if farther.
Is an angled blade worth the space they'll consume in my storage?
