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Less stuff to blow per ft of driving

But you're not factoring time into it. Why is driving more (per volume of snow) better on equipment?
8' wide at 2mph
4' wide at 4mph
It's the same........

Put a 12" bucket on the loader, it's less strain on the hydraulics.

You'll be ok clearing anything under 2', but if you get more snow than that and have a long driveway to clear, you'll wish you had a smaller, heavy duty blower just to cover your tracks.

Well if it ever happens, I'll come on and report if I had troubles. Don't hold your breath.

Anyway, I'm out. I'll take my opinion and go home.

 

[paulfun9]

Can anyone tell me if my Kioti CK20HST can push a rear mount 7' snowblower?
Would I need chains, or just use the 54" one?


Thanks,
Trev

I think you will be more pleased with the results using the smaller blower. All the arguing from the others aside, the machine is limited in HP compared to the machines that the 7 foot blower is designed to be used with. Your specs on the CK20 seem to have similar PTO HP as our old JD which was at the outer limits with a 60inch blower when the snow was anything worth talking about.

We use 7Ft blowers here on the DK and the International, both machines have at least 2 times the PTO HP you have and you must also consider the weight you will be pushing around. About 900 to 1200 LBS for the bigger blowers you might have to think about adding front weights

 

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I agree that a 7' is big. IMO a 6' would be ok though.
Chains are a huge help too.

(I actually meant to say 60", not 6').

 

[paulfun9]

I agree that a 7' is big. IMO a 6' would be ok though.
Chains are a huge help too.

Actually I would recommend 54inch with a 60 inch being the max for that machine. The only reason we used the 60 inch blower with the low PTO HP of the JD was because we needed a blower right now and knew we were getting a new tractor within a year or two. We actually purchased the blower based on the average PTO HP of the machines we planned on buying but in the end we got a bigger machine and had to buy a bigger blower for it anyway. Anyone want to buy a 60 inch blower?

 

[aczlan]

We use 7Ft blowers here on the DK and the International, both machines have at least 2 times the PTO HP you have and you must also consider the weight you will be pushing around. About 900 to 1200 LBS for the bigger blowers you might have to think about adding front weights

We have a 7' on the back of our L3830 (about 35 PTO HP, powershift transmission) and it will lift the nose of the tractor off the ground if I don't have weight on the front. HP wise, anything more than 12" of heavy snow will bog the L3830 down to where I have to stop every 2-3 feet.
I would recommend no more than 6' on your tractor and a 5' would probably be a better fit.

Aaron Z

 

[paulfun9]

We have a 7' on the back of our L3830 (about 35 PTO HP, powershift transmission) and it will lift the nose of the tractor off the ground if I don't have weight on the front. HP wise, anything more than 12" of heavy snow will bog the L3830 down to where I have to stop every 2-3 feet.
I would recommend no more than 6' on your tractor and a 5' would probably be a better fit.

Aaron Z

I am not familiar with the specs of the L3830 but wonder how fast your trying to go with that much power bogging down by a few hundred RPM should not be a problem. We must remember that the volume of snow our blower is designed to handle is the limiting factor for a given HP range and trying to move more volume than it can handle will bog down just about any machine. If for chance you are extremely over powered for the blower you would probably bust the shear pins rather than stall but the same limiting factor of the volume will still apply.

 

[leonz]

It is another reason these manufacturers need to offer a solid auger
option for rear and front mounted snow casters.

The solid auger on a single stage unit limits the amount of snow
that can be conveyed and cast away at the same time and
flooding and plugging is a worst case scenario.

If they used the solid auger design used by the Zaugg folks for thier
single stage units on the two stage units these two stage units would
cast the snow much further and not plug and choke.

 

[aczlan]

I am not familiar with the specs of the L3830 but wonder how fast your trying to go with that much power bogging down by a few hundred RPM should not be a problem. We must remember that the volume of snow our blower is designed to handle is the limiting factor for a given HP range and trying to move more volume than it can handle will bog down just about any machine. If for chance you are extremely over powered for the blower you would probably bust the shear pins rather than stall but the same limiting factor of the volume will still apply.

First gear in reverse, runnign wide open (no load speed of ~613RPM on the PTO), I stop to let it catch up when the PTO RPM drops below ~370RPM and it isn't letting up.
I have to upload the video my wife took, of me making a sledding path in 12" of settled snow. The tractor can handle 6" of settled snow ok, but past that it gets hairy.

Aaron Z

 

[Everhard]

As I said earlier 60" works great with the Ck20 - the tractor itself is more then heavy enough (certainly compared to any other equivalent hp tractor) and while the gear version might have 1-2 more hp at the pto over the Hydraulic version I think the flexibility of the Hydraulic version will easily make up that difference.
As I have the gear version and used it in many types of conditions this year I can safely say it never struggled 99% of the time, the only time I had to either raise the blower to take less of a bite or simply stop to let it clear was when I was blowing the heavily compacted snow piled up at the end of the driveway by the road plow which had sat there for a few days till I got home to clear it. At that point it was between 2-3'. In that circumstance the hydraulic version would have been nice given I have only 2 reverse speeds, the hydraulic version would have allowed me to move slower into that deep stuff.
Point is aside from that one circumstance it easily handled anything else. And that's with an old snowblower that I'm sure doesn't blow snow as nicely as some of the blowers I've seen posted up on here!

Regarding chains for the original poster -I use chains but my driveway is reclaimed asphalt, I have some decent hills to go up as well so I use chains on the rear. Never had an problems with traction. If you've got a paved driveway I don't know what effect chains would have on it - not sure if they would damage the driveway or not.

E.

 

[Tractor Tom]

I run a 54 on my 20 and it can have a hard time with that. Slows/bogs the engine down in 12 inches of heavy wet snow. Have to crawl at times.

Agreed, I had a CK20 for 8 years. My 54in Blower was all the 20 could handle. The Blower would bog down in heavy or deep snow. Much more than a few inches and you couldn't take a full bite, and you'd have to move very slowly. 54in worked, but I wouldn't go any larger.