Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Pictures of your snow weapons

Yard Sarge · Jan 17, 2020

No cliff near me. A couple of hills in my drive is all. Sorry I did go back and add a few pictures. I'm not a tech guru. Learning this site as I go.

Big Barn · Jan 17, 2020

spitter said:
Are those palm tress in front of your house? I thought palm trees and snow don't mix.:drink:

Yes. “Bulgaria “ Windmill Palms thrive well in our climate.

L47TLBwannabe · Jan 17, 2020

Till today we've gotten very little snow most of what we get is a dry snow but it can be windy so we can get some big drifts that can get pretty hard with wind and brutal cold. I bought my tractor last spring and have concentrated more on spring, summer, and fall activities as far as my implement selection goes. Most of the driveways here in town are gravel rather than pavement so I just float my loader bucket to help pack down a layer of snow before I pack it with my tires. The cold here helps iron down a snow base, just have to pound the air out of it. So all I'm using is the standard loader bucket that came with my Kioti and my 66" box scraper which has worked very well I back up the driveway drop the box blade to the 2nd setting on the 3-point lever and then drag out the driveway to the road and push it into a pile or spread it out on the lawn with the loader simple as that.

spitter · Jan 18, 2020

BB beautiful landscape and house kind what you'd expect looking at your shop.:thumbsup::drink:

MoMower · Jan 18, 2020

Slowpoke Slim · Jan 18, 2020

L47TLBwannabe said:
Till today we've gotten very little snow most of what we get is a dry snow but it can be windy so we can get some big drifts that can get pretty hard with wind and brutal cold. I bought my tractor last spring and have concentrated more on spring, summer, and fall activities as far as my implement selection goes. Most of the driveways here in town are gravel rather than pavement so I just float my loader bucket to help pack down a layer of snow before I pack it with my tires. The cold here helps iron down a snow base, just have to pound the air out of it. So all I'm using is the standard loader bucket that came with my Kioti and my 66" box scraper which has worked very well I back up the driveway drop the box blade to the 2nd setting on the 3-point lever and then drag out the driveway to the road and push it into a pile or spread it out on the lawn with the loader simple as that.

Our conditions here aren't that much different than yours. I'm still using my FEL with bucket and rear box blade myself. One thing I have added to my bucket is a set of Edge Tamers. Here's a pic:

It allows me to float the bucket on the FEL, and not pick up any gravel or grass off of my driveway or lawn. Once our ground freezes up hard, they're not really needed where we're at now, but they do help. And it's also an easy way to leave a thin layer of snow on top of the hardpack, for when we have sheet ice on the ground like now.

We've also hardly had any snow at all so far this season.

Longer term goal for me at least is a 3pt blower for the rear, and either a snow pusher box or angled blade for the FEL. I keep going back and forth on the latter, but at least I've made up my mind (finally on what blower and size I'm going with).

Big Barn · Jan 18, 2020

spitter said:
BB beautiful landscape and house kind what you'd expect looking at your shop.:thumbsup::drink:

Thank you, spitter!

L47TLBwannabe · Jan 18, 2020

Slowpoke Slim said:
Our conditions here aren't that much different than yours. I'm still using my FEL with bucket and rear box blade myself. One thing I have added to my bucket is a set of Edge Tamers. Here's a pic:

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It allows me to float the bucket on the FEL, and not pick up any gravel or grass off of my driveway or lawn. Once our ground freezes up hard, they're not really needed where we're at now, but they do help. And it's also an easy way to leave a thin layer of snow on top of the hardpack, for when we have sheet ice on the ground like now.

We've also hardly had any snow at all so far this season.

Longer term goal for me at least is a 3pt blower for the rear, and either a snow pusher box or angled blade for the FEL. I keep going back and forth on the latter, but at least I've made up my mind (finally on what blower and size I'm going with).

I was thinking of getting a friend of mine to fabricate some ski's for my box scraper to keep it from gouging but never had the time this past fall. I've thought about getting a snowblower but I hate doing it in reverse, my friend has been talking about designing his own to attach to a loader with its own engine I told him if he does that at least put an air cooled diesel on it instead of a gutless gasoline engine.