Let's See Your Snow Moving Equipment...

[Junkman]

It never seems to make it into the garage, but I couldn't get into the garage some days without it. Show us what you use to move snow... Residents of Florida are exempt..
My snow mover is a Kubota BX22 with a removable bucket and back hoe, fitted in the winter with either the 48" snow blower or the 60" blade. I use the blower when it is a light and fluffy snow, and the blade when it is the wet sticky type of snow.

 

[katit]

Of course now that I have it we not going to get _any_ snow in STL

P.S. I think everyone required to have car lift somewhere on background

 

[Shadowdog500]

Here is my 1953 Willys Jeep plowing snow last week.

My wife came out with the camera when I finished the driveway, so I made this pass for the camera. The dumpster and portapot are from my new Morton building going up.

Chris

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[Joe69]

Here's my baby Bobcat. It's a 310 model and I have a bucket and forks for it. I also have a homemade set of scarifier teeth for the bucket for ripping up sod.

Joe

 

[tdkkart]

Gravely 1944 ZTR.
They offer a 46" blower for this machine but it's $1800.
I opted for a 38" 2-stage from a lawn tractor that I paid $100 for and grafted it to my machine. Our first snow was 10-12" and it handled it with vigor, never missed a beat.
The blower will make the 19hp v-twin snort but not too bad.
I also have a 46" blade for this mower. Surprisingly enough it is almost unstoppable in the snow, faster than the blower but I constantly have to be mindful of pushing the piles far enough back so I have room for the next snow, and i end up with piles of gravel out in the middle of the yard. With the blower the snow basically disappears.
Very happy with the blower setup for a minimal investment.

 

[tdkkart]

Of course now that I have it we not going to get _any_ snow in STL

If you don't get some weights and chains you won't be doing anything anyway, been there, done that, lawn/garden tractors are helpless without chains.

Surprisingly enough, Gravely does not recommend chains on my ZTR when using the blade or blower, they supply a set of knobby tires when you buy either one which work amazingly well. On a ZTR virtually all the weight is on the rear tires so they dig in really well. I put chains on just to help out a bit, works but gotta be careful on concrete as they mark it up pretty good.

 

[BlindViper]

I am curious to see how my 425 works without chains. I have the tires on it now that you see on widow maker tractors. I have 2 sets of wheel weights plus my 340 lbs, and the extra with the 3-point weight bar if I need. But normally I just have the western v-plow on the f250 its warmer

 

[katit]

If you don't get some weights and chains you won't be doing anything anyway, been there, done that, lawn/garden tractors are helpless without chains.

Like I said - there is no snow in STL. But in case we get some - I will be happy to play longer then it's needed It's a toy, I doubt I will use it more then once per winter.

 

[djd99]

Like I said - there is no snow in STL. But in case we get some - I will be happy to play longer then it's needed It's a toy, I doubt I will use it more then once per winter.

Well even if you do get a chance to use it once you'll be out there twice as long, Those tractors get absolutely nowhere without chains, the tires will be spinning continuously with no traction. It will work fine if you never see more than 1" of snow otherwise it just feels like your wasting your time.

 

[katit]

Chains is no-no for me, I have concrete driveway and I don't want to scrape it (yes, I need to put rubber edge on a blade as well).

1inch snow melts same day. If we get 3-4 inches - then I may justify dealing with it. Will see how it goes. Some people say it works OK in my config. 318 is heavier then regular LT. And I'm not in a rush

 

[BlindViper]

you can scrape it the "white" marks go away in a few months at least on my driveway anyway

 

[saabman]

Here is my (somewhat conventional) rig. 1997 Chevy K1500 Ext cab and Fisher RD plow.

2007 was a banner year for snow in southern Maine. This shot is from pretty late in the season. The "push pile? extends all the way back to the tree line. The building just visible on the left edge is my detached garage/shop.

Chris

 

[Stuart in MN]

I could post a photo of my shovel but it would be pretty boring. One of these days I'm going to get my dad's 1960s era Allis Chalmers Big 10 lawn tractor out of the back of my sister's garage and restore it - I remember when I was a kid that thing did a pretty good job of pushing snow with liquid filled tires and chains on it.

 

[Busted_Knuckles]

Problem I have, is that Im done, before the machine even warms up. With the wings on the plow, its about a foot wider than the drive, so I dont get to do 2 passes, just one. Ive tried find local work for it, but we havent had enough snow for people to "give up" and pay somebody. Hell, Id probably do it for free, I find it kind fun.

 

[bjochman]

Usually use the 4 wheeler as it's quicker and more fun, but sometimes if I wait to long, need to get the tractor out...

 

[krooser]

I bought this for my wife but she couldn't make a u-turn in the driveway.... so i wound up with a Cub Cadet sno blower...

 

[raildawg]

avatar says it all.its a rotory.12 ft tall at the top of the rotor.8000 hp with two of the units on line.

 

[DarrenF]

Here's my baby Bobcat. It's a 310 model and I have a bucket and forks for it. I also have a homemade set of scarifier teeth for the bucket for ripping up sod.

Joe

I have a 310 too, with a 60" snow blade. It plows snow like a bulldozer. Small but mighty

 

[Garys Garage]

For sale

Fits old sears tractors

 

[Doug B]

My old '92 f-150 with a Meyer/Fisher/Western conglomoration of parts that I plow with.

 

[denis4x4]

I use my checkbook to remove snow.

 

[schultz]

If it snows here it'll let the cat use it's new toy.

 

[johnny]

Hows this?

 

[schultz]

That's cool!

 

[Boyd Who]

I use my checkbook to remove snow.

Folks like you help folks like me pay our bills over the winter. Thanks!

 

[Boyd Who]

This is the snowblower I picked up in Nov, 2008. Sears Craftsman 27" 2-stage, 349cc with 13.5 ft pounds of torque. (Btw...when the hell did they start listing torque rather than HP for stuff? Grrrr!) It works quite well and I'm now using it for my business, so it gets quite a workout.

 

[tdkkart]

This is the snowblower I picked up in Nov, 2008. Sears Craftsman 27" 2-stage, 349cc with 13.5 ft pounds of torque. (Btw...when the hell did they start listing torque rather than HP for stuff? Grrrr!) It works quite well and I'm now using it for my business, so it gets quite a workout.

The lack of HP designations came as a result of Sears and a couple others getting themselves in trouble with HP wars. People got tired of seeing 38HP vacuum cleaners with 20ga cords and finally called them on it. Somebody got taken to court over it and now everyone has gone to the torque deal, or just simply listing the cc's.
Torque is actually measurable and is not all that variable, peak torque is peak torque period, HP is not actually measureable and has to be calculated by varios formulas. The problem was, everyone was twisting the formulas around and coming up with fantasy numbers.

 

[Ryver]

I have one similar to this. Same size tractor but, a bigger snowblower.

 

[mike23]

Here is what I use. A CAT 963. Have not found a snow I could not move.

 

[nuke tech]

20 minute plow build last year. It worked great.

 

[FoMoCoPower]

1970 Bolens 1253 & 42" blade

 

[Joe69]

20 minute plow build last year. It worked great.

That's pretty creative!

Joe

 

[stewart]

Hows this?

Johnny

Thats about the most impressive thing I've seen in a while. Nice work!

 

[Flatland Dave]

Here is ours 2002 Bobcat 773 with cab and heat. Need to work on a wider bucket. I have a bucket off a f-10 loader that will get a bobcat bracket.

 

[nate379]

When I lived in Idaho we would get maybe 4-6" of snow in the winter, so most folks didn't have any snow removal equipment. I lived there over 3 years and never even owned a snow shovel!

We were bored at work after a "storm" of ~4" so one of the guys got the idea to use the swing mast forklift (forks swing to the side for long loads in narrow places) and a ~15foot wide aluminum crate. Angle the forks a bit and the crate worked as the blade. Was ghetto, but worked well for what it was!

20 minute plow build last year. It worked great.

 

[nate379]

That is clean for a ~30 yr old tractor! Perkins powered right?

I have one similar to this. Same size tractor but, a bigger snowblower.

 

[studly_rsm]

I use my 99 chev tahoe and a plow I modeled off one I saw on line.It is simple but works good for me.If the snow gets to deep I just get my dads 80hp tractor.

 

[pgreen]

No photo here, but it's a bit boring...need a video!

I have a 9-ish year old Craftsman 50" garden tractor with a plow. We can get a BUNCH of snow here in Western Michigan. If I had extra cash when i started this, I would have done the blower, but that was $1800 I didn't have....

But, what I did last year changed the whole way this tractor goes... I changed the drive pulley on the transaxle to a smaller one. I basically doubled the speed. It has a high and low range, we never used the low range for anything, so going to the low range now is about the same as the old high range.

With the smaller pulley, I needed a different belt also. Both the pulley and belt were found at Tractor Supply....

The higher speed plows snow SO MUCH BETTER, I no longer have any desire to have the blower. I have run through 12" with no problem. The speed will get the snow rolling and actually throw it a bit, instead of sliding it off of the side of the plow.

The only downsides I have found is a minor transaxle oil leak, sometimes. I think this is due to oil being flung to places that it wasn't originally designed to be flung. But I haven't seen any oil spots on the floor lately.

 

[Ryver]

That is clean for a ~30 yr old tractor! Perkins powered right?

Correct. That's was just a photo I found on line.....this is mine after I worked on the loader. (Not finished) and before I mounted the snowblower.

It's a work in progress.

 

[tigmusky]

For sale

Fits old sears tractors

how do you move snow with trannys

Daye