LB,
I am not certain what point you were trying to make with your itemized list, but I thought that I would at least respond.
1) True enough, I did take the advice of another poster who was responding to a third member who wanted to add an FEL plow to his 2520 (if memory serves). The advice went something like this: the 2520 was just too small and light; the geometry of the FEL plow really sticking far out in front and the long, straight blade angling into the snow would tend to overwhelm the front tires.
2) When I priced out FEL snowplows, they were very expensive, easily $1500. My 5' grader blade was a mere $150 and I get to retain the use of my FEL bucket for moving large piles
3) I am baffled as to what point you were trying to make with your picture inserts. From what I could tell, you had a front blade for moving snow, a different beast entirely than an FEL blade due to the geometry I mentioned above, specifically, the blade is close to the front tires and does not have a tremendous mechanical advantage over the tires by being placed several feet forward of the tires.
4) As far as being in an accident, this is preposterous. In order to have an accident with another vehicle (the type of which I presume you refer) you need another important component--another vehicle! The 1000' of road section I plowed was a section of a ｽ mile dead-end, the 1500 feet behind me has 9 homes, none of which were going anywhere due to the snow--I did have 8 inches of a nasty snow-ice combination. As I stated, my wife did need to get to the hospital to see patients, the snow was virgin and the county snowplow had missed our road entirely. The 1000' of road I plowed all borders my property and I could have turned off the road and onto my land at any point had another vehicle passed by (none did). It has no intersecting roadways whatsoever till it reaches the intersection at the end which brings me to my last point.
5) Surely you are not suggesting that these machines never touch a public road, even for short distances. I know for fact that they commonly do. The section I was on was straight, plainly visible, level, has puny traffic on a busy day and was devoid of traffic on that particular day due to the weather. Luck in no way determined my lack of accident that day--the lack of cars on the road did! I don't want to sound pushy, but I am perfectly capable of judging for my self what the road conditions are like outside my own house. You are in no position to judge from behind your computer screen.
I am sorry and apologize to all if this post has gone on too long. This board had been a wonderful tool for me in selecting a tractor, equipping it and maintaining it. I used it extensively, obsessively before making my initial purchase and continue to glean information on it as an owner. My intent was to help pass on a little acquired experience and offer food-for-thought to a newcomer who has the same model as do I and has at least some of the same issues with moving snow. My experience with the grader blade is that it is relatively cheap, highly effective, versatile, leaves me with an FEL bucket and cleans snow beautifully, leaving no tracks, just a nice, clean surface. I no way did I wish to be rude or start a fight, but I thought there were some comments that bordered on falsehood. Good luck to all and to anyone thinking of equipping your tractor to move snow, this has been my shared contribution. My greatest hope for this would be that it be of some use to someone.
Thanks for listening,
SI2305
LX4, CX200, Pats easy change, Subsoiler/middlebuster
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