[AT] Snow Blower

Paul Waugh pwaugh at embarqmail.com
Mon Aug 16 08:24:41 PDT 2010


We now have a 900 ft driveway. One thing for sure. After this thread, I will 
NOT buy a rear mounted 3pt snow blower. I have a 6 ft blade for small 
tractor, and 3 ft blade on ATV, something should work for a while:)) If all 
of that fails, I will take the 930 or 1070 and crush a path :))
Paul -46555
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Subject: Re: [AT] Snow Blower


>
> 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
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> -----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
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> rom: tmehrkam at sbcglobal.net
> o: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> 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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