Snow Snow blower removal

[ttolhurst]

I took my blower off a couple of weeks ago, in a vain attempt to leverage Murphy's Law to bring me some snow. Since taking delivery of a new 2305 on 1/22, we've had virtually no significant snowfall in Central Maine. I feel cheated.

Wait'll next year...

 

[Wildbill34]

Woke up this morning, took the dog out and it was 17 degrees. I think I will keep the blower on for a couple of more weeks. Although I wanna go play (er work, she almost saw the play word) in the dirt with it..... Kind of like being a kid looking out the window and waiting for the rain to stop, so you can go play baseball!

 

[JD4320]

Simple - get rid of the silly blower and get a loader-mounted plow. Mine works great (JD4320 w/ 7 1/2' plow), can stack snow if needed, and goes on/off almost as fast as the quick-tach bucket (needs hydraulic lines attached for angle, so it does take about 30 seconds longer)

 

[Wildbill34]

Well, its off....so old man winter, come and get me now!!!!!!!

 

[C-Range]

I put away my 47 snowblower here in MA about a week ago. I just plan on using the bucket loader if we should happen to get some kind of freak storm. It's generally too warm now for snow to stick around long.

Comical side story. During the winter, the chute rotator had stumbled and seized up a couple of times while blowing. Figuring it was icing up, I just got off the tractor, gave it a nudge, and all would be fine.

While I was greasing up the blower for the summer, I took off the pulley cover on top of the blower housing to give it a checkup and lube job. It turns out that some mice had made themselves a nice penthouse condo in there. One of their pieces of furniture was a ~1/4" diameter stick. It was just the right shape that it got wedged into the root of the pulley and forced the steel cables to ride over it. It was really jammed in there. I suspect this stick might possibly have been the cause of the stalling of the rotator if it was positioned just the right way upon reversing direction, which was when the stalling happened.