DennisArrow
Platinum Member
- Joined
- Jul 4, 2003
- Messages
- 766
- Location
- Sugar Valley, Ga
- Tractor
- Iseki TL 2300, Kubota RTV, Kubota B7610
For my B7610, I have available: FEL, rear blade that the angle is adjustable, Box for adding weight to rear, and box blade. My drive is a 1/2 mile partly gravel and part asphalt hill with 20 degree slope going up the hill and back down to the other side. In past winters I had a 2 wheel drive tractor that was pretty useless on snow or ice and my RTV without a blade or snow blower.
We don't get a lot of snow here in NW Georgia but perhaps a couple of days each winter that snow and ice will remain on the drive/road to make it hazardous. It would be nice to be able to clear the road/drive of snow and ice if I could do it without the job becoming hazardous. One one hillside there is about 200 yards of steep road surface with an immediate drop off into trees and steep hillside going down a couple hundred feet. Going out of control on that would be truly deadly. So what to use with my new to me B7610?
I have R4 tires with quite a bit of tread on them. Do I need chains to get traction? Chains for the rear wheels or all 4? Use the rear blade turned around so the tractor is going in reverse with the blade at and angle? I have a 4' blade so when I turn it to an angle the tire track is wider than the blade by a few inches. How, with my blade or FEL, do I keep from tearing up my gravel surface; but remove enough snow/ice?
In '93 we had a storm that came through, knocked power out for several weeks, and the state road out in front of my property was not cleared for more than a week......Yes, this is rare; but wondering how to take care of just a few inches type of snow and ice removal/treatment.
We don't get a lot of snow here in NW Georgia but perhaps a couple of days each winter that snow and ice will remain on the drive/road to make it hazardous. It would be nice to be able to clear the road/drive of snow and ice if I could do it without the job becoming hazardous. One one hillside there is about 200 yards of steep road surface with an immediate drop off into trees and steep hillside going down a couple hundred feet. Going out of control on that would be truly deadly. So what to use with my new to me B7610?
I have R4 tires with quite a bit of tread on them. Do I need chains to get traction? Chains for the rear wheels or all 4? Use the rear blade turned around so the tractor is going in reverse with the blade at and angle? I have a 4' blade so when I turn it to an angle the tire track is wider than the blade by a few inches. How, with my blade or FEL, do I keep from tearing up my gravel surface; but remove enough snow/ice?
In '93 we had a storm that came through, knocked power out for several weeks, and the state road out in front of my property was not cleared for more than a week......Yes, this is rare; but wondering how to take care of just a few inches type of snow and ice removal/treatment.