Snow Stacking snow with FEL

SteveV · Feb 2, 2003

We picked up a quick 6 inches of snow on the Rt 495 belt of Massachusetts. It was classic wet heavy snow ball snow. The foot that fell at the begining of January is still underneath this new stuff making nice packed snow to ramp the front tires up for higher piles. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif SteveV /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Egon · Feb 2, 2003

I've been clearing snow for the last two days but have not had to go outside yet. It's been raining.

Egon

SteveV · Feb 2, 2003

I'm pretty sure you're taking a swipe at your weather forecasters. I took a look at the Environment Canada site this morning to see what the storm was going to do when it left here, and they seemed to think rain. It seemed a little weird to me though since you have more colder air available closer than we have, and we got snow. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif SteveV

frank_f15 · Feb 2, 2003

NICE PICTURE. why does your b2400 kook so much bigger than my b2400 /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Egon · Feb 2, 2003

It actually has been raining. Quite hard at times but There is snow forecast in the imediate future.

Egon

SteveV · Feb 2, 2003

I was kind of thinking the opposite; your tires look like they're set wider than mine but the end of the axle is flush with the hub on mine so they can't go any further. Back when I use to live in Rochester NY, I can remember shoveling /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif 4 inches off the driveway every morning for three weeks. In other words, your tractor has more experience! Shoveling is also a thing of the past! SteveV

Anonymous Poster · Feb 2, 2003

( NICE PICTURE. why does your b2400 kook so much bigger than my b2400 /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

He must make his snow piles smaller than you do Frank! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Bill in Pgh, PA

skent · Feb 3, 2003

I added a light duty extension for use with snow/mulch. More than doubles my bucket capacity. Also added a set of skids to keep the bucket 3/4 inch off the gravel. Works great and four bolts and it's off.

SteveV · Feb 3, 2003

Ya know.......there's always one in a bunch that has to show off......make the rest of us feel kinda........but..real nice job on the bucket extension! What did you use for material thickness? If you had to do it again would you make it bigger, smaller or keep it the same? We have to know! SteveV /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

wdn · Feb 3, 2003

We got maybe 4" yesterday in southern New Hampshire followed by rain on top of it. This was the heaviest snow I think I have ever handled with the BX2200 in terms of weight per bucket load. We have a 400' driveway, a trafic circle in front of the house, and a 3 car garage with enough room in front of it to park maybe 10 cars. A lot of blacktop.

This is the first time all season I have felt chilled to the bone when I finished and it was barely 32 degrees, not zero like it was a week ago. But it was a WET 32 degrees. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

I had to take a shot of Grand Marnier as soon as I got in the house /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif because of the raw weather. Nasty weather, this is what I call arthritis weather .

Egon · Feb 3, 2003

Okay, a wet 32F seems cold. After a life of DRY -30F please just give me that wet cold 32F. The internal warmer upper is nice watever the temp.

A humid house is supposed to feel warmer than a dry house. Outside high humidity is alleged to be colder than low humidity.
I'm confused but have noticed that that the terrible cold wet humidity does not seem to require the same degree of warm clothes the dry cold does.
Egon

skent · Feb 4, 2003

Used steel that was just sitting around, doing nothing. I had a few chunks. was around 3/16" thick,, 18" X 48". So the extension added 18 inches out front and 18" high on the sides. Reinforced with 1 X 1" angle iron. Weighs less then 75 pounds (in guessing) so I can manuver it alone. I have two 4" wide skids on the botton to keep it off the gravel.

I'm not real good at welding, I can make it stick real good, but don't look too close at the bead. (Whadda ya want for nuttin????)

I don't think I would have made it any longer, since my dump height is now limited.

Helps alot since I have one area in the driveway that drifts badly. Can get 3 or 4 feet deep. Taking bigger bites make it much easier.

Works well for mulch too.

SteveV · Feb 4, 2003

There's a reason for celebration here: I just got my Kubota skin applied (it wasn't immediately available with the new software)!!! It looks cool with its orange backrounds. The other thing that you provided is the ability to make the bucket bigger. One of the things i don't like about the stock Kubota design is the lack of rollback to flip things in the bucket. Your design doesn't necessarily have to extend the bucket parallel to the existing bottom but could be angled up to provide more rollback. An extension on the top edge would prevent material from falling back on the operator when fully elevated and rolled back. The bolt on side edges you used will allow this bottom angle to be changed. Good job, you just saved me from taking a more complicated path! SteveV /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

emery · Feb 4, 2003

Skent, Yours is alot bigger than mine and I'm jealous. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Nice job with the enlargement.

Anonymous Poster · Feb 5, 2003

snow rules for tractor fun /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

gerard · Feb 5, 2003

Great job skent -just about exactly what I have planned for a spring project. Just bought a torch set to cut the plate. Can't quite see in the picture - do your sides fit inside the stock bucket? I was thinking of match the sides against each other and using a strip of plate to extend inside for the bolt attachments. (I already have one hole for the bolt on toothbar and was going to add another on top) Also I was planning on extending by 12 inches as I was concerned about total lifting capacity being exceeded. Can you fill the bucket with snow/mulch and still lift with no problem?

frank_f15 · Feb 6, 2003

THAT MUST BE IT. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif just last week i had to fire up the beast to knock down the piles at end of drive so we could see when we were pulling out, then of course it got warm and rined and the piles would have gone down by mother nature. but what the heck seat time is seat time

skent · Feb 7, 2003

I added 18" and even with wet heavy snow there's no problem lifting. I have my extension overlapping inside the existing bucket sides. To test the bucket, I placed 10 bags of sand, (50 lbs each) and it worked fine. I think it would be impossible to load over that weight with snow, no matter how 'wet'.

SteveV · Feb 8, 2003

We just got another foot of the light fluffy Buffalo snow on Friday. It made some really neat icicles on people's houses around here. Here in NE, we can't count that as real snow and life just goes on. Maybe next storm we'll get some of that sopping wet slop again! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif Now I need a little picture of a flame here. SteveV