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How heavy is an 8 ft blower? Is the weight of the blower the reason for making them a rear mounted implement instead of having it on the front? If you converted the blower to mount to the front of the tractor, is the weight going to be as hard on the front end as what a loader puts on the tractor? As inconvenient as it is to have it mounted on the back on the tractor, why hasn't someone made a front mount model? If you converted a rear mount blower it fit on the front would you need an equal amount of weight on the back of the tractor, not only for traction, but also to offset some of the weight that is on the front?
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SDE
 
There's been lots of front-mount snowblowers made over the years, IMHO the reason they are more rare than the three-point units is because of the added cost of the frame and driveline to the front, plus the need for having it's own lift mechanism.

Here's a couple makes that are on the market now.

http://www.schulte.ca/category/snow_removal.html

http://www.erskineattachments.com/front-mount-snowblower
 

Lots of front mount blowers around.

Quite common on compact tractors.

You can get them on utility and up as well....

If you have a tractor with front 3pt and PTO you can hang it off the front easy.

If you don't you are going to pay big bucks for the subframe and drivetrain that brings the rear PTO shaft under the tractor to the front.

A front mount blower was 4 to 5 times the price of a rear one, and it effectively means the tractor can ONLY blow snow.

I run a rear blower and front end loader....
 
Here's the front mount I use.
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As I understand, the tractors that come equipped with the optional front 3pth front pto, these options can add an extra $30,000.00 to the cost of the tractor. So most of the tractors with these options are in the over 150 range. The front pto is hydraulic powered, and the tractor needs to have a 20-30 gpm hydraulic pump to power the pto. While there are many tractors sold each year in this hp range, very few in North America are sold with these options by comparison to the market in Europe, were they are very common. Unless you are going to blow snow as a commercial endeavour, the rear mounted blower works just fine . More important to have a cab
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than a front mount blower
 
Complexity and cost to put the driveline and lifting brackets to the front is the reason you don’t see so many.

But they are available and out there, all over, nearly every manufacturer offers the possibility, at much expense, to rig up a front mount.

The two wheel drive tractors of the past have really poor traction with a front mount. Now with front wheel assist more common, that is less of an issue than it used to be.

When you were an economical farmer, you had limited number of tractors and might use the same tractor to grind feed as you used to blow snow. You can’t quickly change those complicated front mount drive lines over and back between operations. So who would want to spend all that extra money and then it dedicated the tractor to only snow moving.

Paul
 
I installed a big one on a Massey 1105 for a customer, really a simple set-up.

Ugly old thing had to be 50+ years old and probably had to weighed at least 3000 lbs.

Drive onto it, raise the back of the framework with a floor jack, attach to drawbar, hook up PTO shaft and hydraulic lines.

On the front it had a couple of stabilizers attached with u-bolts hanging off the front axle and an attachment on the front nose for the lifting chain from the cylinder.

It basically sat on the ground when in use except for what frame weight was on the drawbar so I don't think it would even be as hard as a loader on the front end.

As long as he cleared down to a hard surface traction was never an issue.

Took about 1 hr to hook up or remove it.
 
I have no idea, but If the tractor has hydraulic steering and controls maybe it would be cheaper to move or install dual steering and controls in order to face backwards?

Like this tractor
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(quoted from post at 11:53:35 10/19/20) I have no idea, but If the tractor has hydraulic steering and controls maybe it would be cheaper to move or install dual steering and controls in order to face backwards?

Like this tractor
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TV140 /TV145 bidirectional, you can turn the seat and steering wheel around. The loader on those is actually on the cab end.

Lots of snow blowers mounted on those too....hydrostatic trans is perfect and 105 PTO HP
 
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