What is the most efficient snow removal machine?

[fd1122]

Rear blade and fel for smaller storms. Rear snowblower and fel for larger storms. This year here in southern New Hampshire I purchased an 84 inch rear blade and a 66 inch rear blower. So far I could have got away with just the rear blade.

 

[rayclar]

It depends on where you have to remove the snow from. When i worked my bush lot my jd cable skidder with the 11 ft. plow was the cats meow. Almost no snow would stop it. But now just doing drive ways my kubby with the front mount blower is sure sweet, and with a lot of snow its a lot quicker then the 7 1/2 ft. plow that i also have for the loader.

 

[murphy1244]

This is the fastest way for me. But could use a cab.

 

[Tor Arne]

How about this one?

 

[leonz]

How about this one?

HA!!!! I will see your OVERAASEN and RAISE YOU A BEILHACK HB1600S AT 22,000 plus tons per hour-

ROTARY PLOWS runs away screaming with thier tails between thier legs and jump off the road or the tracks when they see this little sweetheart coming chewing snow away in an area 15 feet wide and X tall with the 4 snow and ice breaking propellers and the single stage snow scoops with its three Mercedes V-12 turbo charged engines

 

[Industrial Toys]

Does the SUN count as a machine?

 

[rankrank1]

I certainly believe that you do like your set up. I do not need to use it often, but I find my FEL with my boxblade (prefer my box blade over my rear blade) works quite well for snow removal on my 2wd compact L285 Kubota. Traveling in Y-Patterns and herringbone patterns and I am reasonably efficient moving snow as I simply use the bucket going forward to bulldoze (rarely dump it) and the boxblade going rearward to again bulldoze. I am basically almost always moving snow and there is minimal wasted motion. While I have an angled blade it wants to kick me sideways so I do not use it and fooling with chains is not worth it for me.

Frankly for no more snow than we get in SW Ohio, I typically just use a shovel. I need the physical workout anyway and it is easier than the hassle of hand digging my primitive barn door open, getting the diesel tractor started (again unheated primitive barn), letting the hydraulic fluid warm up so its usable etc.

 

[Katahdin]

I used to plow with a 2-Door Yukon 1/2 ton, I like the extra visibility from the open station tractor seat. So far I'm enjoying a hydraulically controlled front blade and a manual rear blade. The rear blade I can drop over the stuff the town snow plow leaves at the end of the driveway and pull in without backing onto the street, which is a god-send because I'm on a bad curve in the road that has seen several fatalities over the years. Its a little faster than the the truck and I have a lot more precision, traction, and power to push/pull the snow.

 

[check]

ATV for speed with less than 8", then the blower for the big/wet stuff and the growing windrows as the season moves along. The ATV is also great for packing down those initial lauers so I don't pick up gravel later with the blower. Love the speed of the ATV and the power of the blower!

Did you ever plow a giant skating rink on the Lake with the ATV plow? Lots of fun! And you can do 360's after.

 

[JDgreen227]

Have close to 15" of new snow on the ground here and the wind chill is severe because of the 8 degree temperature. Usually I enjoy removing snow but not when its this flipping cold.