[AT] Snow Blower

[jahaze at aol.com]

If anyone is seriously looking for one.  I have a decent 6-ft three point blower here in central Michigan that I bought at an auction several years ago.  It can be bought for a very reasonable price (beer money?).  I used it a few times, and it was fun to use, but I like the heated plow truck better.

Enjoy, Joe






-----Original Message-----
From: Will Powell <william.neff.powell at comcast.net>
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Mon, Aug 16, 2010 10:18 am
Subject: Re: [AT] Snow Blower


I was thinking about a rear blower but after reading this thread I'm 
keptical... What are my options? 
My driveway is a little over 300 feet. 
I have a WD with the snap coupler blade, that does ok but the chains have really 
cratched my driveway up. I'm on a hill so I need the chains. 
My D17 with trip loader has a 3pt backhoe on the back so there's plenty of 
eight, but no chains... It was great until I paved my driveway... Now it goes 
owhere. 
I was thinking about buying a blower and trying to mount it on front. I have 
een one that was mounted on a WD wide front. With a blower I won't have the 
eed to push a heavy load so I won't spin the wheels. Have also seen a front 
onversion on a Cub. 
Or, do I just buy a large walk behind blower? 
Or maybe I need some chains on my D17, but then I still could scratch up the 
riveway... 
Regards, 
Will 

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rom: tmehrkam at sbcglobal.net 
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ent: Monday, August 16, 2010 9:28:12 AM 
ubject: Re: [AT] Snow Blower 
Being snowless in Texas I have been following this thread out of curiosity. 
My first impression of the machine is that it would be a royal pain in the neck. 
lad to see that common sense still works, 
--- On Mon, 8/16/10, Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net> wrote: 
From: Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net> 
ubject: Re: [AT] Snow Blower 
o: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com> 
ate: Monday, August 16, 2010, 5:50 AM 
When I was in the tractor and implement selling business, you could 
enerally go by the weight and price when comparing similar items. 
That being said, I never sold a new three-point snow blower. The reason 
as that there were so many barely used ones available if someone really 
anted one. And there lay the problem: Almost anyone who has ever used a 
ear mounted snow blower decided to sell it immediately afterward. There 
re many reasons for folks being unhappy with them, but the first one is 
hat they are literally a pain in the neck to use - after a very short 
ime, you find yourself in pain from having to twist yourself around to 
perate the machine. The second problem is operating in reverse - older 
ractors have only one speed in reverse, and even modern tractors have 
aybe two speeds (too fast and too slow). I guess if you have a hydro 
ou might be OK, but a snow blower needs to be fed into the snow just 
ight. And, of course, a snow blower does just that: blows snow. If you 
appen to have the wind shift, you wind up being dumped on, and if you 
ave a cab, the whole back of the cab gets instantly blanketed and has 
o be cleaned off. Then, there are the usual problems with all snow 
lowers - clogging with wet snow, jams from the machine "finding" hidden 
bjects (rocks, children's toys, hunks of fallen trees, etc.), shooting 
mall objects long distances into cars/trucks/houses, etc. The only 
dvantage of a three point mounted snow blower is that it adds a fair 
mount of weight to the back of the tractor for traction when pushing 
now with a front blade/bucket. 
If you are still determined to try a three point blower, I suspect you 
ould be better off either borrowing one from a disgruntled neighbor or 
uying a good used one, rather than investing good money in a new Asian 
anufactured one. You can generally find a good used blower for under 
1000. Put a "wanted" ad in your local "Penny Saver" magazine or 
ewspaper, and you will have a dozen responses the next day. 
Mike 
On 8/15/2010 7:26 PM, Dick Day wrote: 
 I just received the 2010 Northern Tools catalog. As I said in a previous 
 post concerning Harbor Freight, I normally do not buy big-ticket items from 
 Northern or HF. 
 
 However... in the new Northern catalog, a 3-pt snowblower did catch my eye. 
 It's a Canadian product from a company called Braber... 
 
 http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200435197_200435197?cm_ven=natural&cm_cat=netconcepts&cm_pla=Yahoo&cm_ite=braber%2Bsnowblower 
> 
 $1399 for a 72" blower is mighty tempting. It lacks the bells and whistles 
 on the more expensive units. The cheapest I've ever seen new around here 
 (Nebraska) has been around $4800. 
 
 Ever heard of Braber? Thoughts? 
 
 Thanks, 
 
 Dick Day 
 
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