Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Pictures of your snow weapons

[mike69440]

Pictures of your snow weapons. Re: My $50 snow plow now is maybe my $2000 plow?

Over the several years I've had this plow,an old Fisher commercial duty 8' hunk of steel I picked up for $50. I bet i have near $2000 in it now.

I've replaced and reinforced the QA plate, installed all new hydraulics & hoses, rebuilt the trip edge and springs, added 8" HD skid shoes and weld repaired the thing more time than I want to think about. Plowing boulders, catching ledge, stumps, and frozen ice banks is kind of tough on equipment. I figure I plow entire acre if I do all areas of the property from a storm.

I bet it has 100 lbs or more weld rod in the plow.

Latest fail were the upper and lower brackets at the rod end of the right side SA tilt cylinder failed finally after hitting several frozen boulders partially buried along my driveway.

A great guy done our road has a nice little machine, weld and repair side gig in a heated workshop.

His rates are about 1/3 of a regular business and his cost to repair stuff is about 1/5 to 1/10 of the local Kubota dealership.

Working along side him fabricating all new brackets and welding on the grill guard I have been meaning to do for years took 4 hours.

I'm ready for the next storm coming this week!

 

[MinnesotaEric]

And I watched the whoooooooole 7:50. :laughing:
Nice video. Lord you got a lot of plowing to do. Can't imagine if you had a foot of two.

My plow has a 30" high moldboard, here I'm (trying) plowing a little over 2' of wet and heavy snow. I was so dense that I couldn't get down to the road on the first pass.

Still image from video by Click on me to see the video, on Flickr

Eric - I have to ask - what's with the ear plug? I thought those Kioti cabs were quiet?

Creamer, the cab isn't as quiet as say a field tractor and I wear ear plugs to protect my hearing--i�f I don't, my tenitus kicks in which is miserable.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Re: Pictures of your snow weapons. Re: My $50 snow plow now is maybe my $2000 plow?

Over the several years I've had this plow,an old Fisher commercial duty 8' hunk of steel I picked up for $50. I bet i have near $2000 in it now.

I've replaced and reinforced the QA plate, installed all new hydraulics & hoses, rebuilt the trip edge and springs, added 8" HD skid shoes and weld repaired the thing more time than I want to think about. Plowing boulders, catching ledge, stumps, and frozen ice banks is kind of tough on equipment. I figure I plow entire acre if I do all areas of the property from a storm.

I bet it has 100 lbs or more weld rod in the plow.

Latest fail were the upper and lower brackets at the rod end of the right side SA tilt cylinder failed finally after hitting several frozen boulders partially buried along my driveway.

A great guy done our road has a nice little machine, weld and repair side gig in a heated workshop.

His rates are about 1/3 of a regular business and his cost to repair stuff is about 1/5 to 1/10 of the local Kubota dealership.

Working along side him fabricating all new brackets and welding on the grill guard I have been meaning to do for years took 4 hours.

I'm ready for the next storm coming this week!

That is a lot of stress going into 1/4" thick bit of flat iron. Is the trip system not up to par? The lower edge trip systems are good until you hit a curb and the entire rig comes to a dead stop while the operator tries to not go through the front window. For all its faults on the illconceived SSQA plate, when my Hiniker straight blade hits something as large as a curb, it flops down and bounces over it greatly reducing the stress on the plow and my loader bushings.

The first 30 seconds of this video, shows how the plow trips. That said, I now wish I had spent more money for a 9' V-plow.

 

[mike69440]

The was another 1/4" backing plates and some bushings on both the old plates and in the new plates(Not Shown)

The old plates had them but were ripped right off! Sort of a mechanical fuse.

My trip edge works fine, except when the whole plow hits those frozen boulders that are along size my built up driveway thru the swamp. Drive is 3 - 5 Ft of blast rock with 12" of gravel on top.

The right way to save my tractor and plow would to be to use a Prince 4 way cushion valve, but I keep telling myself just to be more careful.
1/2 NPT 3 GPM 15-3 PSI Hydraulic Cushion Valve | Relief & Cushion Valves | Hydraulic Valves | Hydraulics | www.surpluscenter.com

Eric,

Like you picture. but I hate plowing snow!

 

[DABSGT]

I'm looking for a new snow plow to attach to my 2032's loader arms, looked at a boss poly any suggestions

 

[Pillager]

Versatile bidirectional with an 834 Lorenz blower. 13" wet heavy snowfall. Due to the wind it's about half that depth in this pic, get's to full depth in another 50' or so, then about 30" where the snowplow left his windrow. Nothing beats hydrostatic in these conditions.

 

[MossRoad]

When I click on it, its upside down... that would be fun!

I rotated it just in case its not my computer...

 

[dnw64]

When I click on it, its upside down... that would be fun!

I rotated it just in case its not my computer...

Yeah, I thought that gave some fun context to the "bidirectional" part of the description

 

[MossRoad]

Found this drone video of a Versatile 150 clearing snow. Pretty sweet! :thumbsup:

 

[Pillager]

MossRoad - The pics displays right side up for me, apparently not for others though, interesting.

Thanks for the Vid, hadn't seen that one. He needs to add a hydraulic cylinder to that deflector on the snow chute, really helps when blowing in tight areas or in windy conditions you can limit the amount of snow blowing back at you by lowering the snow stream down. No sure why he seems to lunge ahead into the drift, almost like it's a clutch, should be able to just creep ahead with the hydro, especially in low gear. These are a 3 speed gearbox with the hydro, wonder if he's in a higher gear. You can see in the vid how the articulated really makes it easy to maneuver the blower.

 

[Creamer]

When I click on it, its upside down... that would be fun!

I rotated it just in case its not my computer...

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I know - I want one for my 150. I had a chance to buy an older Bermac 8' blower this year for $1295 that had very little use but that was just the problem - he was selling it because he had not used it in 10 years and I am thinking I won't either.

Here is another video that I enjoy watching.
versatile performance - YouTube

 

[beenthere]

I'm looking for a new snow plow to attach to my 2032's loader arms, looked at a boss poly any suggestions

DAB
Is the 2032r FEL one of the "fixed" FEL's, or is it quick tach and easy/quick to drop off ?

 

[RoyJackson]

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Versatile bidirectional with an 834 Lorenz blower. 13" wet heavy snowfall. Due to the wind it's about half that depth in this pic, get's to full depth in another 50' or so, then about 30" where the snowplow left his windrow. Nothing beats hydrostatic in these conditions.

Nice piece of equipment...can it do anything besides clearing snow?

 

[MossRoad]

Nice piece of equipment...can it do anything besides clearing snow?

It's got a 3ph right behind that snow blower.... its a farm tractor.

 

[MossRoad]

 

[MossRoad]

Nice piece of equipment...can it do anything besides clearing snow?

And the controls are reversible, so you can face forward for farm tractor stuff, or turn the controls around and face the rear, like the video shows with a loader on the back of the machine.

 

[MossRoad]

Here's a video of a Ford model and around the 3:00 the guy flips the controls around 180 degrees.

 

[DABSGT]

DAB
Is the 2032r FEL one of the "fixed" FEL's, or is it quick tach and easy/quick to drop off ?

its the quick tach

 

[pmsmechanic]

Nice piece of equipment...can it do anything besides clearing snow?

There is a company in Winnipeg that builds draper headers specifically for those tractors. I'm not sure but I think Honey Bee does too. Then Versatile themselves build attachments for that tractor. It's a very "Versatile" piece of machinery.

 

[Creamer]

Nice piece of equipment...can it do anything besides clearing snow?

Roy - We had one on the farm that got used a lot. It was a 70 hp articulated hydrostatic drive that would go the same speed in either direction. The cab end had the loader mounts a s well as a drawbar, 3 pt PTO, and remote hydraulic outlets. It is a great loader tractor due to its agility and visibility into the bucket with a hay grapple. Then as MossRoad mentioned they built a draper head for cutting hay with it and we had one of those as well as changing the mounting of our corn cultivator to make it a push cultivator then we could mount it on the 3 pt and look forward while we were cultivatiing. Those three duties were the main ones we used it for plus some trailering but we would put about 1500 hours/yr on one and trade it every three years.

The later models grew in size and hp and also added optional drawbar, 3 pt, PTO and remote hydraulics on the engine end. They were made by Versatile until Ford bought them out in the 90's which of course became part of Case New Holland after everything consolidated.

Later models got