Snow Tractor time in the snow!

[shoppintractors]

Junkman was out in the snow over the weekend testing out his newly acquired snow blower.
The attached picture caught Junkman in action causing near white out conditions.

Don





Ducati, The inline pictures are so large they're throwing the formating of the page off. (Must scroll from right to left to see the whole page.) Using the attachment feature saves the folks on dial-up from having to wait for the pictures to load and gives them the choice to click on the attachment or not.

 

[ducati996]

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Ducati, The inline pictures are so large they're throwing the formating of the page off. (Must scroll from right to left to see the whole page.) Using the attachment feature saves the folks on dial-up from having to wait for the pictures to load and gives them the choice to click on the attachment or not.

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Ooops! I thought i had it resized correctly...changed them to links instead....sorry folks

 

[shoppintractors]

Thanks ducati.....

Don

 

[Golfgar4]

Oooooo.....

We like that when you guys help each other like that! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Thanks Don! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[sherpa]

I was sitting here listening to the news talking about all the snow you guys were getting this past weekend. I was feeling sorry for you guys stuck inside not being able to enjoy your tractors. Yall are having a blast!!
Sherpa

 

[JayC]

<font color="blue"> Junkman was out in the snow over the weekend testing out his newly acquired snow blower.
The attached picture caught Junkman in action causing near white out conditions. </font>

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[Chris527]

It was about -4 deg when I ran in , warmed up grabed the camara and braved the 25-40 mph wind to get this pic.

 

[MikePA]

<font color="blue"> I think a rear blade is about 3x faster than using the FEL to clear snow, </font>
In my experience the FEL is faster. No need to turn around to see what you're doing. The FEL simply acts like a fixed front blade once the bucket is full.

<font color="blue">but a blower is 10x faster!</font>
As you pointed out, it depends on the depth of the snow, how far you have to push it. With the snows we get around here (most less than 12"), I can push snow to the end of a 100' driveway, no problem. Plus the driveways I clear are built so I can push to the end of the driveway, then off the driveway and dump the bucket, back up, and take another pass with very little spillage.

Our area got about 7 inches of snow over the weekend. I cleared 3 driveways and the paddock at our barn in 1.5 hours of tractor time. Total area 5,000 - 6,000 sq ft.

<font color="blue">Nice thing about a blower is you can blow AFTER the snow stops, even drifts in the 24" to 36" range vanish. Can't really do that with a rear blade, it seems best to get out with one of those when there is 5" to 8" on the ground so under a heavy snow, you have to go out a couple times. </font>
This is why I don't use a rear blade. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif The only mid-storm clearing I do is to shovel in front of the garage so I can open the doors open (they open out, not up), in order to get the tractor out.

As with most things tractoring related, what works best for one doesn't for others. I couldn't use a 3ph snow blower because of the proximity to houses, cars, etc. Just no safe place to blow the snow from a tractor mounted unit. A walk behind sould be fine...but no fun. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[sherpa]

Chris
Man, you are blowing that stuff so high, how do you keep it off of you? How do you stay warm? Do you have neighbors doing the same thing?

Sherpa

 

[KrisHansen]

Hey, you want to see a movie?

Look down a few posts :-D