Looking at pull type snowblowers

[Agvg]

Here in Scandinavia we have some experience with snow and I have never ever seen a snowblower that you have to use in reverse. Those mounted on the the front three point can of course be mounted at the rear but I have never seen anybody do that i real life. But its years since I have seen a new tractor used i snow clearing that has less than 60hp to. 60hp is considered on the weak side for anything so i see the argument for reverse blowers on small tractors.

 

[screamin400]

So back to my original question. Has anyone here used a pull type meteor snowblower?

 

[radios1]

The commercial folks seem to like the inverted or rear pull snowblowers. They are efficient to use, and actually are able to get close to garage doors, buildings, etc.

you need to back up many times, then go forward, to do that.. no thanks.. and if you get a very deep snow, hopefully, your tractor won't get bogged down in that..

 

[Dave M7040]

What sized blower could your LA145 tractor pull?
Mine pulls a 90" inverted like a dream.
Dave M7040

 

[NonTypicalCPA]

Very interesting! I have a snow way plow which was on my old truck. I now have a new 1/2 ton and I'm hesitant to put the plow back on it. I looked into putting a front blade on my Kubota L3940 (40hp), but this rear front facing blower looks promising. My drive is about 200ft long but I also help maintain a 1/2 mile private drive. I'm in the snow belt of Lake Michigan. We get 75-100" in an average winter and so far my tractor with R4's hasn't been stuck, so I think I would have no problem with the forward facing blower.

 

[TractorNH]

I dont see a 2655 listed on tractordata. How much does your tractor weigh? A pull type blower would be useless for me on my 5000lbs machine here in Colorado. I need a plow or st as near 3pt blower to clear drifts. I can drive through them, much less pull something through. You need a 7-10k lbs machine to make good use of a pull blower.

The 2655 is a slight redesign of the 2555, essentially the same tractor just a different seat and a couple other minor things. With the loader and loaded rear tires it weighs about 6800 lbs.

 

[JerryK]

That is one of the problems with a rear pull, it can't handle deep snow. One of the reasons for going blower and not pushing snow, is that if you get a lot of snow you may run out of places to push it as the season goes along. A front or rear facing blower can handle deep snow, not fast by any means, but it can handle it. A front facing blower is fine for most folks, but you can get in trouble with it when the krap gets deep. The contractors like them because they can back into a customers driveway up to the garage and make a couple passes then move on to another customer. The front or rear facing would leave a pile in front of the garage door, and they would have to spend time [ time is money ] handling that. Again, nothing wrong with pull type blower, but still remember nothing is ' perfect ' I have neighbors that push snow. They start with clearing most of their drive about 40' wide. And some early springs their drive is so narrow they are almost snowed in. Plus, they have those big banks of frozen snow that melts and turns their drive to mush...

 

[airbiscuit]

Here are some manufacturers of rear pull snowblowers

• M K Martin (Meteor)
  
• Erskine
• Farm King
• Bush Hog
• Normand
• LuckNow
  
• Pronovost
  
• Smyth Welding
• Reist Industries

 

[Agvg]

This combo is very common here for all that are clearing snow. Drive quite fast and let the blade push the snow and when needed let the blower take care of the snow that the blade doesn't throw a way when you are clearing roads.

 

[leonz]

Very interesting! I have a snow way plow which was on my old truck. I now have a new 1/2 ton and I'm hesitant to put the plow back on it. I looked into putting a front blade on my Kubota L3940 (40hp), but this rear front facing blower looks promising. My drive is about 200ft long but I also help maintain a 1/2 mile private drive. I'm in the snow belt of Lake Michigan. We get 75-100" in an average winter and so far my tractor with R4's hasn't been stuck, so I think I would have no problem with the forward facing blower.

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You may want to look at the Riest Singl stage series 2000 pull type snow throwers as well since they have fewer parts and require less power and being that the Canadian Dollars is weak the USD is more valuable in Canada.


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Reist Industries Snow Throwers 2 Series Inverted - YouTube