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snow pusher / puller
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GitchiGummi
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The snow pusher/puller looks great. I'm new to the forum and in the process of configuring and purchasing a Toolcat for, among other things, snow removal. I noticed you are running turf tires and appear (from the graphics on your machine) to be doing lots of snow removal. Do you use the turfs in the snow? Chains? Performance issues vs. lug tires? Here's hoping for some snow for those of you who make part of your living moving it! Can anyone recommend high flow over standard for snowblowing specifically. It is ~$1100 more for high flow and an additional $100 for the same blower with high flow motor from Bobcat. Just trying to determine if I will be unhappy trying to move Lake Effect snows with a standard flow blower?
Rip
Platinum Member
First of all, Welcome to the forum GitchiGummi.
If you are buying a new machine to deal with Lake Effect snow, I would highly recomend High-flow and a blower to go with it, especially if doing it commercially. With regular heavy snow, you want all the advantages in your favor. It is also one of those things you can not go back and add later. Will be a plus when you go to sell or trade it later.
A number of folks are running aggressive 225 (or 235)-75/15LT studded (or recaps with walnut shells or lathe shavings in the compound) mud & snow tires on the standard rims with chains for extreme conditions. Others are running the standard bar-tread or turf with chains as needed. Unless you need or want turf for other applications, I would get the standard bar-tread and a set of chains and see how it goes.
In any case, figure on about 800+ lbs of ballast in the bed.
You may also want to look at Erskine and QuickAttach blowers. Same type, but a bit less $$ (altough you will need their hand-held controler for chute or the 14 pin wireing harness on blower and TC).
Good Luck
If you are buying a new machine to deal with Lake Effect snow, I would highly recomend High-flow and a blower to go with it, especially if doing it commercially. With regular heavy snow, you want all the advantages in your favor. It is also one of those things you can not go back and add later. Will be a plus when you go to sell or trade it later.
A number of folks are running aggressive 225 (or 235)-75/15LT studded (or recaps with walnut shells or lathe shavings in the compound) mud & snow tires on the standard rims with chains for extreme conditions. Others are running the standard bar-tread or turf with chains as needed. Unless you need or want turf for other applications, I would get the standard bar-tread and a set of chains and see how it goes.
In any case, figure on about 800+ lbs of ballast in the bed.
You may also want to look at Erskine and QuickAttach blowers. Same type, but a bit less $$ (altough you will need their hand-held controler for chute or the 14 pin wireing harness on blower and TC).
Good Luck
GitchiGummi
I just switched from the turf tires to BF Goodrich M/S 235-75-15. I used the turf tires for one year and they were alright on a limited basis. The ride on the new tires is way better and they have better traction in mud. We haven't had snow here yet so I can't comment there yet.
Like Rip mentioned, it is nice to have 800 lbs or so of ballast. I use 8 steel plates, 1" high, 6" wide and 5' long. They fit in the bed nice, take up next to no room and weight 100 lbs each. I also have a 150 litre diesel fuel tank in the back. I can drive for 2 days straight!
If i did it again, i would go with high flow. My blower blows ok, but it sure could be better. It really depends how fast you want to get done.
Good luck with your new machine.
dylan
I just switched from the turf tires to BF Goodrich M/S 235-75-15. I used the turf tires for one year and they were alright on a limited basis. The ride on the new tires is way better and they have better traction in mud. We haven't had snow here yet so I can't comment there yet.
Like Rip mentioned, it is nice to have 800 lbs or so of ballast. I use 8 steel plates, 1" high, 6" wide and 5' long. They fit in the bed nice, take up next to no room and weight 100 lbs each. I also have a 150 litre diesel fuel tank in the back. I can drive for 2 days straight!
If i did it again, i would go with high flow. My blower blows ok, but it sure could be better. It really depends how fast you want to get done.
Good luck with your new machine.
dylan
Spudgunner
Gold Member
Rip said:First of all, Welcome to the forum GitchiGummi.
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You may also want to look at Erskine and QuickAttach blowers. Same type, but a bit less $$ (altough you will need their hand-held controler for chute or the 14 pin wireing harness on blower and TC).
Good Luck
Welcome GitchiGummi.
I recently took delivery of a TC that came with a Lo-pro bucket and have been moving roadmix just to get a feel for the critter. It has performed admirably but I think ballast would help for this application as well.
I wanted to expand on Rip's statement about QA blowers as I have a neighbor who has one that I'll probably eventually buy and I had to go through wrapping my mind around the necessary parts needed to adapt it to the TC.
QA/Erskine sells a 14-pin adapter ($140) for their blowers. It is part # 320256. The TC has a 7-pin connector. So, when you buy the 14-pin QA adapter, you are getting half the electrical solution with the other half being the installation of a 14-pin harness on your TC. That harness is made by Bobcat and prices seem to vary quite a bit. I have a thread on this forum about that subject if you're interested. If one could find the appropriate Bobcat info, one might be able to construct their own harness and use the blanked-out button holes on the TC dashboard for the required buttons for the TC harness.
As Rip mentioned, a simple solution would be to purchase the QA/Erskine "Pistol Grip" controller. Then one could just feed it through one of the TC's windows...or if you want to get fancy you could add some connectors and go through the firewall... I suppose if you don't want to leave a window cracked open.
If you do get a QA/Erskine, make sure you tell them what sort of flow your TC supports. They can make sure you get the appropriate hydraulic fan motor. I can't say enough good stuff about the folks at QA in terms of their helpfulness.
