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Re: How do you plow snow with your tractor??
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 23, 2005 at 16:36:30 from (209.226.106.190):
In Reply to: How do you plow snow with your tractor?? posted by Davefr on January 23, 2005 at 12:17:00:
Dave: Snowstorms are much like people, everyone of them different. Over the years I've plowed snow with a dozen different machines and configurations of buckets and blades. One thing I would stay away from is an angle blade in place of your loader bucket. I've seen more loader frames twisted from angle snow blades than I would care to mention. I know they are building the loaders better for that today, but man has also added 4 wheel drive. So lets start from where your at. I gather your loader bucket is not as wide as tractor. A friend of mine has a Kubota similar size to your tractor. He uses a snow bucket on his loader, about 4 to 6 inches wider than tractor. He then offsets his 3 point blade so it goes out 3' past right side of tractor. He plows driving forward, loader bucket down clearing tractor path. The loader bassically has it's own shoes by controling tilt of bucket His 3 point blade is equiped with adjustable shoes behind blade. He sets these so rear blade scrapes clean. The rear blade acts almost like the wing on large commercial plows. What I like about his setup, is if he encounters drifts, wet snow, etc., he can still use loader to push and pile snow leaving rear blade raised for a counter weight. This particular setup gives you great versitility for many situations. I don't think you need to spend a lot of money to be happy with your machine. Personally I have a front mounted angle blade, under front axle type of plow. Not bad but I cant pile snow very well if going gets tough. I soon run out of space to pile snow. In my life time I've plowed snow with everything from a Farmall Super A, 130, 300, 560, 656, Case skid loaders, John Deere articulated forestry skidder and 250 hp Champion road grader. Every one of them had good points and bad points. My advice, is keep it simple and inexpensive, snow's going to melt in 3 months anyhow. Most snow plowing devices aren't worth having around unless you have other year around use for them.
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