I'm not sure if anyone is interested, but I found this bolens 48 inch front mount snowblower for sale at a local farm for $50. I'm not sure about the model or year. I figured $50 sounded a lot better than $1700 for a 3 point snowblower, so I bought it with the hopes of converting it. It was a pretty easy conversion. Welded the 3 point connections on it - Basically extended them from the original bolt holes so the pto shaft would have a better angle. Converted a pto shaft to work with a 1 inch round shaft on the mower by putting a different end on the u-joint on one end. Put it on the tractor and started it up. Seems to run more than fast enough on my kubota bx1860. I think with the pto shaft it ended up costing me about $140. Still cheaper than $1700. If you plan on doing this just make sure the snowblower shaft turns counter clockwise.
Converted front snowblower to 3pt
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Being front mounted I assumed that it was set up for a higher rpm and I was surprised that the 540 rpm's on the kubota ran it at a reasonable speed. It does not appear to be too fast or too slow. I was all ready to change the size of the sprockets inside the snowblower, but it appears I don't have to. Looks like it would be pretty easy to do, though.
As for adapting the pto shaft, I simply went to Mills Fleet Farm and picked up a #6 1" round pto shaft end and replaced the regular splined end with it. Used the original U-Joint on the shaft, but I needed to buy a new U-joint to so I could use the bearings because the clips went on the inside for the new end, not the outside as the orginal end of the shaft had..
As for adapting the pto shaft, I simply went to Mills Fleet Farm and picked up a #6 1" round pto shaft end and replaced the regular splined end with it. Used the original U-Joint on the shaft, but I needed to buy a new U-joint to so I could use the bearings because the clips went on the inside for the new end, not the outside as the orginal end of the shaft had..