Buying Advice Need Advice and Expert Opinion - B2650 tractor!

[lnapz]

I use a 72" straight rear blade in Western Pennsylvania, we don't acknowledge 1" of snow, that's flurries

Your talking about a foot shorter than mine, and it's a V plow, so your never really pushing/plowing, your more sliding snow out to your sides. That will be cake work for a B2650 with fluid filled tires and around 500-800 lbs of rear ballast. Kubota makes a ballast box for this size tractor that is only about $300. You can also use a PTO drive salt spreader as your rear ballast.

All in all, that plow would be a walk in the park for my B2650 in medium range unless it was literally a 12"+ nasty, wet, heavy snow.

May I strongly suggest doing your build with the wider/heavier ballasted B3350SU R4 tires? I'm plowing paved surfaces with them and traction is never an issue while I see others talking about chains and the such. Unless I needed plow on ice or up honest to goodness steep slopes, chains are totally not needed. Because I'm on blacktop, there is never ice. Even in a 0°F day I can plow it and the sun his the visible cleaned black stripes and it heats it and starts melting. After plowing in the AM, the entire drive will be dry blacktop by the time the sun goes down. I only salt in the areas that are always shaded.View attachment 545903View attachment 545904

This is exactly what I was hoping for, someone that is already in the trenches and making this machine work!!!! So thank you for your reply. Currently I have this quoted for me from the dealer.

B2650 with factory Cab
cellutrak GPS monitoring system ( township requirement so they know we aren't cheating )
Bulk Pro Snowex salter ( holds 9 cubic feet ) ***I am deleting this salter and replacing with a Bauman salt "dropper" its more efficient
Full motion 60" V blade in the front

I forget the spec of the tires that i requested, but they are some heavy duty high tread tires. Chains are NOT ALLOWED in Ontario so good tires are a must

 

[Rock Crawler]

If you requested the heavy duty tire, your getting the standard B2650 12" wide and 37" tall 4. I have the 40"tall and 15" wide B3350SU tire package, it was a very reasonable $450 upgrade for all 4 larger R4 tires.

I've attached photos of the tires your getting beside the tires I ordered. Sean Huegel at M&R power equipment in Butler, Pa took care of putting this package together for me. After looking at the photos.... Would you say that this monster tire version looks like a toy? I doubt it!

I'm also using the Kubota 1.5" rear wheel spacers, so that adds 3"to bring this package to 60" wide. If you skip the spacers, with these tires you'll be at 57"at the outside edges of the tread.

 

[lnapz]

If you requested the heavy duty tire, your getting the standard B2650 12" wide and 37" tall 4. I have the 40"tall and 15" wide B3350SU tire package, it was a very reasonable $450 upgrade for all 4 larger R4 tires.

I've attached photos of the tires your getting beside the tires I ordered. Sean Huegel at M&R power equipment in Butler, Pa took care of putting this package together for me. After looking at the photos.... Would you say that this monster tire version looks like a toy? I doubt it!

I'm also using the Kubota 1.5" rear wheel spacers, so that adds 3"to bring this package to 60" wide. If you skip the spacers, with these tires you'll be at 57"at the outside edges of the tread.

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Wow, that is very detailed and extremely useful. I am highly considering this as an option. Since you have experience in this field, I'm going to attach a picture of another piece of equipment that is german made, "Holder C992" i was told that this is the machine of choice for this type of work, but people usually steer clear of it due to it's high purchase price (over 100k canadian). In a competitive market like ours (30+ bidders) I would never win a contract with this machine. Curious to know if you have thoughts about it? I went to see one recently, here is a pic of it. It was really cool and had a lot of features, hopefully you have heard of it.

 

[Gary Fowler]

That is a nice looking machine. I really like the articulated V plow. I wouldn't think you would use a V plow to clear sidewalks in most instances. Who wants the snow pushed into their yards or against their buildings (if in the city proper). I would think that you would want to push it all toward the street but then I am not anywhere near an expert on snow removal except with a snow shovel.

 

[Rock Crawler]

No sir, I am total unfamiliar with that kind of articulating machine.

 

[lnapz]

That is a nice looking machine. I really like the articulated V plow. I wouldn't think you would use a V plow to clear sidewalks in most instances. Who wants the snow pushed into their yards or against their buildings (if in the city proper). I would think that you would want to push it all toward the street but then I am not anywhere near an expert on snow removal except with a snow shovel.

hey! i loved it when i saw it too. haha So the reasoning behind the "V plow" is that it builds up less resistance for a less powerful machine, you essentially cut your stress weight by 25%, instead of having a 60" blade build up enough snow to push it to one side, your essentially letting two 30" blades push the same material but quicker, therefor easier. In regards to your other comment, sidewalks in this region typically run "through" peoples driveways, essentially leaving a 8 foot boulevard/remaining driveway between sidewalk and road way. So if i push snow to one side, the home owners have more snow to clear on one side. If i V plow the snow to either side, the home owners will have 2 smaller lines of material to clean. I hope that made sense.

 

[lnapz]

No sir, I am total unfamiliar with that kind of articulating machine.

ah thats okay, I thought I would try, I am meeting with another Kubota rep on April 2nd, I'm definitely more confident in the machines ability and reliability after some of the talks on this forum. Thank you for all your time!

 

[nybirdman]

If he is also from upstate NY you guys aren't too far from us so it's more or less similar conditions. I'm wondering if he has any dislikes of his new machine?

Very upstate(right on the border);new machine has not been delivered so no experience with it for this year.We personally own Kubota's and have good luck with them and expect the same from the new B2650.