Snow blower

Tor Arne · Sep 13, 2016

Came across these two images of a home built snowblower on a Norwegian side,
V type blowers are quite common in Scandinavia but this is quite unique in that you can vary the working width hydraulically.
Maximum width is somewhat of 5 meters.

George2615 · Sep 13, 2016

I've seen pull behind blowers on the net but nobody around me uses one that I know of. That's also the first one I've seen where you can vary the width and have a max width of 5 meters.
Thanks for posting.

scons · Sep 17, 2016

Is there any benefit in towing instead of pushing ?

4570Man · Sep 17, 2016

scons said:
Is there any benefit in towing instead of pushing ?

Tractors lack the ability to power them hydraulically and driving them with a PTO on the front is a lot more complex.

Tor Arne · Sep 17, 2016

You save your back and neck when you can sit normally and drive rather than sit twisted and reversing at least

scons · Sep 17, 2016

So there is no real difference in clearing the snow ? Front or back, the result is the same ?

4570Man · Sep 17, 2016

Well you don't see any dedicated snow blowers with the blower on the back, but it's a lot more practical for a tractor.

Tor Arne · Sep 17, 2016

scons said:
So there is no real difference in clearing the snow ? Front or back, the result is the same ?

in most cases it does not matter, only in extremely wet and heavy snow there will be a problem to pack the snow under the Wheels befor it going into snowblower

CalG · Sep 17, 2016

The pull behind Vee blowers can throw stuff at the operator :-0

Plus, they store well in any corner of the barn during summer. ;-)

Fifty horse power worth of snow flowing off the road and over the bank is a delight by whatever means!

4570Man · Sep 17, 2016

I'm not familiar with the size of tractor this would go on, but most compact tractors don't have a front PTO. That alone pretty much kills the front snow blower. The second problem is mounting it. If you had a loader you could mount it on that and chain it down to prevent lifting too high and damaging the PTO shaft, but a lot of tractors that size don't have loaders. The loader isn't nearly as ridged as the 3 point hitch. Catching a fixed object with one of those wings could easily damage a FEL. A front hitch like the one offered on the Kubota M series would work, but I'm sure the guy that built this couldn't afford that.