Bercomac 56" snowblower vs Kioti 54"

[Templecruiser]

I'm looking at buying a new Kioti cx2510 cab with a front mount snowblower. The dealer said they'd had issues with the Kioti 54 inch snowblower with chain drive. So he doesn't recommend them but says the Bercomac 56 inch is better. I never heard of this make, but is a bit cheaper then the Kioti 54 inch. So my question is, are these good snowblowers, and anyone with experience with them? I had a 2025r with front chain drive snowblower and had no issue with it.

 

[Seven Gables]

I’m quite certain that bercovac is made by RAD technologies who also manufactures snowblowers for kubota, JD, New Holland and I’m sure others. I’ve got two one painted kubota orange and another New Holland blue. Mine have been excellent .

 

[leonz]

Spend a bit more on a rear mounted heavier snow blower like a Pronovost Puma. The Pronovost family has been building farm equipment and snow blowers for Canadian winters for many decades.

You have to keep in mind that a front mounted snow blower will have a heavy belly mounted frame that reduces your
ground clearance and requires the tractor to use the mid PTO where the rear mount PTO uses 540 RPM to power a snow blower

 

[tacticalturnip]

Bercomac is another Canadian company; they make real good snowblowers.

Bercomac

us.bercomac.com

 

[elsievo]

I've got their 56" on the front of my TYMT254. Have had no complaints for the one season I have used it. It runs off the mid-pto on my tractor and there is a belt on the back of the blower housing that drives the impeller shaft from the pto shaft. I have hydraulic chute rotation and added an electric deflector control. It throws the snow as far as my Honda walk behind can (30-50' depending), just twice as much. I live in an area that receives more than 250" of snow on average. Buffalo talks about all their lake affect, but their lake eventually freezes over, ours doesn't.

 

[tacticalturnip]

That is a real good setup.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Spend a bit more on a rear mounted heavier snow blower like a Pronovost Puma. The Pronovost family has been building farm equipment and snow blowers for Canadian winters for many decades.

You have to keep in mind that a front mounted snow blower will have a heavy belly mounted frame that reduces your
ground clearance and requires the tractor to use the mid PTO where the rear mount PTO uses 540 RPM to power a snow blower

Yes, but since the blower itself goes over the ground first, this is a complete non-issue.

You really have some odd ideas sometimes...

 

[leonz]

You have never gotten a tractor with a front mounted blower
stuck to the point where you have no traction then eh????
Its not hard to do even with 4 wheel drive mule.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

If you actually engage the blower first, before you start moving forward, and oh, I dunno, lower the blower to the ground... and start snowblowing snow while moving forward...

Like the equipment is intended to be operated...

I just don't know about you sometimes. Some things shouldn't have to be explained.

If you want to joyride around on top of the snow, get a snowmobile, or an atv with tracks or something.

 

[leonz]

When you slide off and drop over a driveway ledge while clearing that you cannot back out of then
call me with your thoughts on front mounted snowblowers that get hung up because of the frame
and you cannot get traction because the tires cannot grip because the under frame is preventing it.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Well in that case, you've convinced me.

Sounds like a skill issue to me. Should probably try some kind of weights or ballast on your 3 pt hitch.

No pavement here to drive off of. Don't know if the OP even has any pavement to drive off of. You don't know either. He wants a front mount blower, but that doesn't seem to be good enough to satisfy you. He had a front mount blower previously that he didn't seem to have any issues with. Still not good enough for you though, is it?

 

[CalG]

Well, I just took a look at the Berco web page on the 56" front blower.

Bercomac

us.bercomac.com

There is listed the Kioti CK2510 as a direct fit. My bet is it is a good match and a good product.

That right angle auger drive gear box is the weak link on all of that type. Pick up your drives free of branches and stones before the snow covers over!

I run two blowers depending on snow. 54 Front on the Kubota, or the 60 inch rear mount (Meteor Brand , also Canadian) The front mount is favored 10:1. Unless we get over 2 feet overnight.

 

[elsievo]

The worm drive can be a weak link. However, I have had blowers from Ariens, Honda and now Bercomac with the same type of drive from the impeller to the auger. I make sure the shafts on the augers are lubed so that the shear bolts can do their job. And they have on numerous occasions, especially when the grader puts presents in the bank at the end of my driveway.

 

[Templecruiser]

Well now 4 storms in and just did 9" of heavy wet snow, I'm very impressed with the Bercomac 56" front snowblower. Even the wet stuff it was pushing 30+ feet out.

 

[elsievo]

Well now 4 storms in and just did 9" of heavy wet snow, I'm very impressed with the Bercomac 56" front snowblower. Even the wet stuff it was pushing 30+ feet out.

For me distance is key and the Berco has delivered for my set up. I can get the end of driveway stuff across the street and into the Village snow dump, even into 15mph winds. I do wish it were a bit taller, we got a dumping around the 13th of January and it was about 6" above the bucket, so i pushed through, backed up and made a second pass to get what flowed over the blower. Got their cab too which although isn't ideal for vision, I am so much more comfortable than my walk behind. May do the Lexan mod on the front too help see a bit better.