Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Pictures of your snow weapons

Carl Bert · Feb 7, 2012

lhansman said:
Hi Carl

I think grsthegreat is correct - to run a front mount blower on the B26 you would have to put a larger hydraulic pump on the 3 point hitch with hydraulic lines to the front. Pronovost offers a unit that does this and the smallest size of it looks like it would work on the B26. In the end I decided that since my driveway is gravel and will not be paved that I would prefer to push the snow and gravel around rather than blow it all over the lawn. Now that I have the Grattex blade I clear my large driveway and parking area very quickly. I do not have a long driveway so winrowing is not a problem and I have room to use the loader with my new light duty bucket to pile the snow higher if necessary. If I had a long narrow driveway I would probably get a blower but for now I am OK with my current setup.

Have you had much snow this year in your area?

Lauren

We had a total of two storms this year. One of which was in late October. Crazy temperatures too. It was 58 deg F the other day. Global warming??????, who knows. Hey by the way, how much does a Grattex blade that size go for? Very nice unit.

lhansman · Feb 8, 2012

Hi grsthegreat

If I had as much length to keep clear as you do I would definitely go the front blower route too. I researched that option quite a bit but in the end decided that I could get by with a larger blade and so opted for that instead.

Carl

The Grattex blade I have lists out at about $4,000CDN and of course you need the auxiliary front hydraulics for the extendable option. They make fixed width blades but I really like being to extend it. Mine came off a NH tractor that only had 40 hours on it and I was able to purchase it for about half price.

Lauren

CasCar · Feb 8, 2012

Here's mine got it 4 months ago and only got to use it an half hr.

Tor Arne · Feb 10, 2012

Hey here's my solution to the white plague that comes falling, it is a Same Explorer 65 with Trima FEL, homemade bucket and a Snøving 90" snowblower:thumbsup:

bubbacuse77 · Sep 20, 2012

First day of Fall................Time to bring this thread out of retirement. Lets see what new stuff everybody is bringing to the fight this year.

DMF · Sep 21, 2012

No pictures yet but I am planning on some big changes for this year. Stay tuned....

PineRidge · Sep 21, 2012

IMHO the snow blade was the second best thing that we added to our New Holland. Started out using a rear-mounted PTO driven snow-blower but quickly found that with a gravel drive that sucked.

As I remember we paid $100. for the used Myers blade before knocking off the rust, cleaning it up and getting the hydraulics to work. We have used it now for years and it has always performed well. It's really easy to push the snow in deep hills to get it farther from the drive when necessary.

I added a second set of plow shoes not shown in the picture close to where the QA meets the snowplow frame. That enables me to put the FEL in float while plowing. The plow can then travel over irregular surfaces without digging in too deep.