Snow Pictures of the best set-up for snow!

[JDFANATIC]

Well . . . respectfully . . . though your set-up's are nice . . . they are not the best set-up for snow . . .

I have been using this single stage blower for ~ 16 - 17 years, and though I'm not sure it is better than a multi-stage blower, there has been no snowfall that it hasn't eaten through like a terror.

The last snowstorm, the scraper blade came loose. I'm still not sure why, but I had to finish up with the loader. Hello! It took about 10X longer, and in the spring, already I need to plan on one heck of a lot of reseeding!

Blowers rule!


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[454shooter]

Here is my setup. It works great for small or large snow fall. JD 3720 Hydro with JD 72" QA blade and Lucknow 76" blower.

Shooter

 

[orlo]

I don't have any pictures yet, but I have a 47" 2 Stage Blower on the front and a 72" grader blade on the back of my 2305 and they work great. I use the blade going forward, usually to scrape right down to the pavement after blowing. For small amounts of snow I can just use the blade. Works very well.

I only wish I had a remote chute angle for the blower. I saw a nice setup here where somebody had put an electric actuator on the chute. Would be nice when the wind shifts and the high chute angle blows the snow right back at me.... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[JB4310]

JD FAN, I know blowers are good in the right application, I have two small ones, one walk behind and one for mounting on a garden tractor, which I've never mounted since I also have a 42" front blade for that tractor. With a blower it's just one pass and your finished nice and clean if you have smooth pavement,in my case I do 4 long paved drives between mine and a few neighbors (none of which are smooth to say the least) but I also have a long gravel drive and a small contractors yard (as seen in some of the pics. at the beginning of this thread) that is not blower friendly so I use the 72" front bucket and rear blade for everything, it's true you will tear stuff up if your not careful, the neighbors are going to have some spring surprises (could sell some of the turf I rolled up in their yards) but I'm not liable since I don't charge any of them. I don't think I could do what I do any faster with a blower and I think it took you so much longer with your loader cause you have not practiced with it, when I first tried the loader for snow removal I thought it would never work but after a little practice with the float and the right angle I got the hang of it. Also if you notice all the large shopping centers, they use pusher boxes and loaders to clear, not until you get into areas of 2+ ft.snowfalls will you find snow blowers outside of residential settings. I knew when I started this thread it would bring out alot of differant opions thus I don't think there is the one perfect best set up for snow. Good Luck, John

 

[crazylare1]

Hi there John, this is the set up I use for removing snow. I used to plow (before retirement) for the city and used a pickup with an 8ft blade on the frt. so for me a plow works the best since that is what I'm used to. I plow my driveway, half of my yard, a road 1/8 mile back to my pole barn, and a large area at the pole barn. I started to use the frt. bucket and back blade the first big snow fall, I was rolling up sod like you wouldn't believe (the ground wasn't frozen yet) so I gave up and got out the quad with a 6ft frt. plow to finish. I then said to heck with that and converted an old plow from my long ago retired jeep to a quick tach mount and have been happily plowing since (except we haven't had snow now for awhile /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif). I can pile snow up higher than the tractor and with the angling of the blade can make quick work of snow. The bucket works nice for moving snow away from area's that I want to open back up though. The back blade is an old one that my dad has had since before I was knee high to a grasshopper, I just had to weld it all back together a week or two ago so when I painted the snowplow I painted the back blade as well. Have a great week! Enjoy your tractor, I know that I sure do. Going a few days without getting to do something with my tractor causes me to sulk /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Larry

 

[JDFANATIC]

John,

You're probably right about spending more seat time with the loader on and getting better at it with moving snow. I do know that the last snowfall, my neighbor (we share a driveway and he has a JD318 with a plow) got to the driveway first. Now again skill is certainly a factor, but when I ended up cleaning up the drive, the edges were all square and neat. The blower is unquestionably the neater snow removal tool. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[JB4310]

Larry, yes I saw your post on the construction of the plow, nice job. I also have plowed snow for many years with truck mounted plows, stopped plowing for customers a few years ago, so for just my own yard and a few neighbors I decided I didn't need my 7' 6" western uni-mount from my Ram 2500 anymore and sold it, got enough for the 72" high volume front bucket and the 72" rear blade out of the sale /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Plows are the fastest for small to medium snows or even heavy snows if you don't have to do a wide area like a parking lot, I really got buried one 20+" storm in a movie theater parking lot where each angled pass just doubled the depth for the next pass, didn't get to far that day, had to have a friend bail me out with his JD 410 BHL. Well hope your having more stable weather than we are, we have had some almost 40 degree temp. swings here /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif. John

 

[JB4310]

JDFAN, I agree blowers do the neatest job with the least amount of passes, with the loader sometimes I'm going back and forth many times over the same spot and when I'm finished,, well let's just say I will not be posting any pictures of the finished product /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif. I like the way you put the small picture on your post and just by accident I clicked on it and saw how large it was, how is that done. John,

 

[JDFANATIC]

John,

I do that now out of empathy for the dial-upper's, who used to complain about my posting large hi-res pics. It's easy to do, just use a service such as photobucket and after uploading the full res pic to the site, check the box below it and then scroll down to the bottom where there is a pull-down dialog box, select generate html code and you will be sent to a page where you have several choices. Just cut and paste. On this forum, the third one with recommended in red works. What is neat about the clickable pic, is that you can click to blow it up, but then you can also blow it up on you browser to really look at the detail. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif