Snow Attachments FEL mounted snow plow in deep, wet, heavy snow?

[Egon]

When the snow is wet and heavy [ water will run out of the bucket ] I'd suggest just sticking to the bucket for removal.

A rear snowblower will make for good ballast and could be used for dry snow.

 

[horseman1]

Here is what he's taking about: El Paso County in Colorado... These pictures are actually from the last time it did this in October. but this years storm was the about the same. Lotsa seat time on the 2210 and FEL to clean the drive. I put up a snow fence this year, but after it got buried, it looked about like this . 70 degrees this morning though!

 

[radman1]

After seeing those pictures, I would voted for snow blower. With those fences on both sides of your driveway, it would be hard for a FEL with snow plow to push the snow anywhere in deep snow. With the fence, there is no place to push deep snow away. A 'V" shaped plow might work but you could probably only get one pass straight ahead. A 2WD 1020 is not very heavy in the front when the snow plow is on the ground (or raised up slightly) and will probably get pushed away easily.
I don't know if a snow blower would work well on the JD 1020 with gear drive and a reverse that is probably too fast and you would need to clutch it. It would also need a live pto to keep the blower running while clutching. I don't know if a 1020 has a live pto but my guess it does.

 

[RockyMnt1]

Since I am just up the road from you (North of Woodland Park), I can tell you that while plowing after the very same storm, when I angled the rear blade, the rear of the tarctor was pushed sideways. This was with loaded Ag tires. I had to use a combination of FEL (for lifting the snow out of the way) and the rear blade. It was slow going, but it did work. I did use the blade most of the time since it was much faster. I would imagine that a front snow blade would tend to push the front of the tractor even more. Certainly that could be countered somewhat by taking smaller "bites" of snow by adjusting the snow bade hieght.

I can also tell you that while a snow blower would certainly work, you want to be very careful using it on dirt roads/driveways. My old JD 10 HP snow blower is all beat up because of the river rock that would get into the impeller. I even had guide wheels to raise the snow blower 1-2 inches off the surface and still got rocks. In addition, the really wet snow plugged up the snow blower so it was mostly used as a tractor.

We really don't get that much snow that often to justify the snow blower expense, IMO. In the 23 years that I have lived near WP, we probably have had 5-6 really big snow dumps. Of course, that could change with the wild weather lately. Most of the snow from this past storm has already melted.