Let it snow

ronjhall · Dec 13, 2000

Re: Let it snow. It works

It was worth the money and labor to put a Curtis 61/2' loader mounted snow blade on my 2910. Got home from work about 8:00 pm Monday evening. Couldn't wait to get out to the barn and fire up tractor. Barn door wouldn't open. A 3' snowdrift was against the whole side of barn. Got a shovel out and dug a trench to allow door to slide open. With the door open and the tractor setting just inside the door looking at a 3' foot drift it looked like an awesome job. Not to worry. When the engine was warmed up. Just lifted the blade about 1 inch off ground to keep weight on front tires. Pushed down on the forward HST pedal and pure joy! Only took about ½ hour to complete about 400 feet of drive and sidewalk. Whenever I encountered a high drift only had to raise the blade enough to push the top off. I now have piles of snow over 5' high. Should not be a problem when we get more snow. The Blade will push snow back with no problem. Hope to get some pictures before the weekend.

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bpence · Dec 13, 2000

Re: Let it snow. It works

Just exactly where in SE Michigan do you live and how far is it to Ortonville, MI. (M-15 North of Clarkston), and how soon can you get here? We had about 16"-18" Monday night and the wind howled afterwards for several hours. Tuesday morning: Big drifts and lots of them (3.5' - 4' common). My little B7100 with the back blade worked real hard yesterday for 4-5 hours clearing everything....I mean real hard. Your B2910 with that awesome Curtis blade is welcome to visit any time. With your setup I might have had to try and go to work yesterday. Limits the excuses. Your rig sounds like the ticket for the winter it looks like we're going to have.

Bob Pence

MOG · Sep 13, 2001

Ron

Thanks for the info. I'd like to see those pictures. Do you plow with your control in the "float" position?

Thanks again,
MOG

ronjhall · Sep 13, 2001

MOG
Here is one of the pictures. I do not use float much. When pushing a lot of snow. Weight needs to be kept on front tires to keep tractor sliding side ways when blade is angled to one side.

ronjhall · Sep 13, 2001

MOG
Another picture.

ronjhall · Sep 13, 2001

MOG
Last one. I can take some more pictures. But since summer is not over until next week. I don't plan on putting plow back on for a couple of weeks. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif There was another thread that had information on mounting a truck blade to a FEL bucket.