Snow blower

[Tor Arne]

Came across these two images of a home built snowblower on a Norwegian side,
V type blowers are quite common in Scandinavia but this is quite unique in that you can vary the working width hydraulically.
Maximum width is somewhat of 5 meters.

 

[George2615]

I've seen pull behind blowers on the net but nobody around me uses one that I know of. That's also the first one I've seen where you can vary the width and have a max width of 5 meters.
Thanks for posting.

 

[scons]

Is there any benefit in towing instead of pushing ?

 

[4570Man]

Is there any benefit in towing instead of pushing ?

Tractors lack the ability to power them hydraulically and driving them with a PTO on the front is a lot more complex.

 

[Tor Arne]

You save your back and neck when you can sit normally and drive rather than sit twisted and reversing at least

 

[scons]

So there is no real difference in clearing the snow ? Front or back, the result is the same ?

 

[4570Man]

Well you don't see any dedicated snow blowers with the blower on the back, but it's a lot more practical for a tractor.

 

[Tor Arne]

So there is no real difference in clearing the snow ? Front or back, the result is the same ?

in most cases it does not matter, only in extremely wet and heavy snow there will be a problem to pack the snow under the Wheels befor it going into snowblower

 

[CalG]

The pull behind Vee blowers can throw stuff at the operator :-0

Plus, they store well in any corner of the barn during summer. ;-)

Fifty horse power worth of snow flowing off the road and over the bank is a delight by whatever means!

 

[4570Man]

I'm not familiar with the size of tractor this would go on, but most compact tractors don't have a front PTO. That alone pretty much kills the front snow blower. The second problem is mounting it. If you had a loader you could mount it on that and chain it down to prevent lifting too high and damaging the PTO shaft, but a lot of tractors that size don't have loaders. The loader isn't nearly as ridged as the 3 point hitch. Catching a fixed object with one of those wings could easily damage a FEL. A front hitch like the one offered on the Kubota M series would work, but I'm sure the guy that built this couldn't afford that.

 

[Tor Arne]

The pull behind Vee blowers can throw stuff at the operator :-0

A man I worked for many years ago did not pay attention to what he did when he was rotating chute and in combination with open rear window of the tractor as he filled the cabin with snow:laughing:

 

[Tor Arne]

I'm not familiar with the size of tractor this would go on, but most compact tractors don't have a front PTO. That alone pretty much kills the front snow blower. The second problem is mounting it. If you had a loader you could mount it on that and chain it down to prevent lifting too high and damaging the PTO shaft, but a lot of tractors that size don't have loaders. The loader isn't nearly as ridged as the 3 point hitch. Catching a fixed object with one of those wings could easily damage a FEL. A front hitch like the one offered on the Kubota M series would work, but I'm sure the guy that built this couldn't afford that.

The guy puls it behind a Ford 8700

 

[4570Man]

That's about the size I had in mind and with 110 PTO hp I bet it'll throw some snow. It would take a lot of work and money to do anything except a rear mount blower for that tractor.

 

[check]

So there is no real difference in clearing the snow ? Front or back, the result is the same ?

Absolutely not. The rear snowblower on my Kubota BX25 is much, much sturdier and more powerful than the front mounted type. I only have something like 17.5 PTO HP, but nothing seems to stop my rear mounted snowblower.

 

[scons]

Thanks for explaining this guys

 

[Dave M7040]

Is there any benefit in towing instead of pushing ?

If you have an old tractor with limited reverse gear selections, (I had a Nuffield 465, reverse gear was too fast for the back up style blower to dispose of the snow) when I switched to a pull style blower I then had many more gear ratios to choose from. I had even bought from Nuffield a special extra low reverse gear and it was still too fast in reverse.

Now have my pull style blower on a Kubota M7040 and still feel it is the best.

Dave M7040

 

[Jeff F.]

I have a front mount blower and it works great for my situation. How does the pull type blower work on a 4' drift that fills your driveway for about 60 feet? The light fluffy stuff I'm sure you can drive thru but the hard compacted drift that I could walk on? I have to take bites off at a time with the front mount. Just curious to what others do.

 

[Tor Arne]

I have a front mount blower and it works great for my situation. How does the pull type blower work on a 4' drift that fills your driveway for about 60 feet? The light fluffy stuff I'm sure you can drive thru but the hard compacted drift that I could walk on? I have to take bites off at a time with the front mount. Just curious to what others do.

V type snowblower is mostly hung after an AG tractors as 4 feet of snow is rarely a major challenge, on a compact or sub compact it can probably be more of a challenge.

 

[Fallon]

My 32hp L3200 can get stopped dead by a foot & a half of heavy wet snow with or without a plow down. No way a pull blower would work for me. Much different story for a 10klbs machine though.

I'm sticking with a SSQA blade & rear facing 3pt blower, even after I move up to a cabbed L4060 or so.

 

[Al 2]

I had a v pull many years ago on a smaller HP tractor and couldn't sell it fast enough. You have to funnel all the snow into the impeller as compared to a 6 or 7 ft auger feeding it. If the snow was wet it clogged up and sometimes I had to unhook the blower and drive ahead and the tow the blower to hard ground with a chain. You need a tractor large enough to pull it through no matter how full it is.
Al