Snow L2185 Snowblower

[JCYR]

I have a kubota 3710 and am going with a front mounted snowblower. My local dealer saya the 72" snowblower is to big. Tractor is 37HP with 32 at the PTO. Does anybody have experience with this as to weather the tractor will handle this snowblower. Thank you

 

[crazyal]

Those numbers are based on RAD (the people who make the snow blower for Kubota). I think for a 72" wide front mount blower they recommend more than 35 pto hp. Personally, I say BS. I have a 72" front blower on my 4240 (36.5 pto HP) and HP is not even close to being an issue. Normally I run the engine at about 2000rpm and even then with the reduced hp I don't have a problem.

On really deep snowfalls I open it up and run at full pto speed. But it's not because of a lack of HP but I do it so the impeller can throw snow as quick as possible. The biggest problem with a snow blower on the big snow falls is the restriction on the amount of snow that has to go into the smaller round impeller area.

If hp is ever an issue you can always go slower. It's not really going to cost you time because your removing the same amount of snow as a smaller blower moving at a faster speed. On your second pass there will just be less to remove. My advice, I'd get the 72" blower.

 

[rpraymond]

I've had my L3430 w/72" blower for five years now and have never had a problem moving snow. Last spring we got over 2' of wet heavy snow and though I had to go a bit slower it was still no problem.

 

[JCYR]

Thank you all for your help. I guess im going to go with the 72. There seems to be an issue finding the mount to fit my tractor. Im not sure but I imagine I can retrofit a mount from another model tractor?