Snowblower option

Rick Kr · Feb 3, 2011

My rear blade works good, but I don't really care to drive in reverse all the time.

I have been thinking of taking a 3 pt blower, and building a quick-tach for the loader, then run a jack shaft off the PTO forward.

Am I crazy?

Or should I adapt a blade to the loader instead? Cheaper and easier for sure.

Tractor NH3930 4WD, 7310 loader.

What do you all think?
Rick

LeoinMI · Feb 3, 2011

Why don"t you try a 3pt. pull behind two stage blower? Erskine makes a 3pt pull behind two stagr blower. Try Erskine snow blowers .com. They are expensive though.
Good luck

JOHNNY from MI · Feb 3, 2011

A snowblower mounted on the loader is a pain in the butt. I used a neighbors that was on a four wheel dive tractor. In deep snow you could not turn because the blower was pushed sideways into to snow bank. He put a lot of work in mounting it there. Used a drop box off the rear pto with a long power take off shaft to front of tractor, then a sliding pto shaft to blower. You couldn't raise it up too far or the shaft would pull apart.I have spent many hours running a 8 foot blower on the rear of a 120 HP tractor. I'll take a rear mounted any day over a front mounted blower. I have operated tractors and heavy equipment all of my life, and it seems like most machines I have operated you spend a lot of time looking behind you.

Ray · Feb 3, 2011

John deere sells one that fits on a loader.

Scott 730 · Feb 3, 2011

(quoted from post at 16:29:37 02/03/11) My rear blade works good, but I don't really care to drive in reverse all the time.

I have been thinking of taking a 3 pt blower, and building a quick-tach for the loader, then run a jack shaft off the PTO forward.

Am I crazy?

Or should I adapt a blade to the loader instead? Cheaper and easier for sure.

Tractor NH3930 4WD, 7310 loader.

What do you all think?
Rick

How are you going to change the direction of rotation of the PTO???

JMS/.MN · Feb 3, 2011

Local welder has made several. He mounts the drive sprocket between the pto and the end of a frame that has a sprocket on it. Drive sprocket is above the chain, so direction is reversed. Placement gives enough chain wrap.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 3, 2011

Forget about the drive shafts. It is cheaper and more efficient, to run a front mounted blower off of hydraulics, even if you have to mount a PTO pump on the back, and plumb it to the front! I made a pump powered blower for my ASV RC30, by chopping the 3PH parts and drive shaft, off of an old ford 4' blower, adding a hyd motor and hoses, and a quick attach plate. Result? Less than 1/2 the cost of a new blower of the same type.

IaGary · Feb 3, 2011

Not to be a smart a$$ but.

Turn the blade around and drive forward.

Gary

Rick Kr · Feb 3, 2011

Gary I don't think you're being a smart a$$, I have been moving snow for the last 15 years or so with a rear blade, the last couple years we have been getting enough snow here where the blade will turn the tractor sideways.
Thats why I was thinking a blade or blower on the front. About 1/2 the time I am having to turn the blade around and run in reverse.
Looking for the next better option without spending a ton of money, a front blade would be cheap, a blower either I be spending some money or a lot of fabricating time, or both.

Rick

Rick Kr · Feb 3, 2011

Dave and JMS,
I may ask to pick your brains when I get a little closer to working on this idea.

I have a 17gpm pto pump and tank that are already setup on a 3 pt mount. I need to find out the specs on the hyd. motor I have to see if it is big enough. I have a few PTO shaft parts kicking around too. Not sure which direction I want to go just yet.

Thanks,
Rick

charles todd · Feb 3, 2011

I 2nd the hydraulic route. It would probably take a PTO pump to get the required GPM. If you loader has the skid steer type attachment, find a used skid steer snowblower, PTO pump, and reservoir. That would be sweet! But I live in Louisiana, so I don't see much snow.

Good luck,

CT

Anonymous-0 · Feb 4, 2011

There are snowblowers like that. An angle blade or V plow for the loader would be a lot easier and cheaper though. If you wanted to run a blower off hydraulics, you'd need a pretty good sized pump and reservoir. You wouldn't get close to the same power as the PTO unless you spent a lot of money and used higher pressure like 3500 PSI. A hyd. blower will work good on a skid steer because they are narrow in relation to the HP and have a hydrostatic trans. I tried a hyd. rototiller on a skid steer and it wasn't even comparable to PTO driven one on about the same HP tractor. Dave

buickanddeere · Feb 4, 2011

I don't understand what the problem is? With a simple trouble free, reliable and economical three point hitch mounted snowblower.
The only other alternative is a tractor with the European front mount three point hitch and front pto.Deere puts them on Mannheim tractors all the time.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 4, 2011

You can pick my brain, anytime, But you just might find slim pickens!
slim pickens

Pacer 54 · Feb 4, 2011

Rick, The machine you've described can be found on the homepage of Sheyenne Tooling & Mfg.

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