[AT] AT snow blower.

[Dave Maynard]

I have a 60" an International front mounted snow blower on my 1974 154 Lo
Boy.

Dave Maynard


On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 1:25 AM James Peck <jamesgpeck at hotmail.com> wrote:

> This Alamo 3 point snow blower looks a little risky to use. You have to
> operate it while backing u. You are not supposed to run the blades with the
> blower raised up.
>
> The skid steers move In the direction the operator Is facing. I believe
> they can raise the blower with the blades spinning to move piles.
>
>
> https://www.alamo-industrial.com/ProductManuals/Manuals/71_5043c_great_white-8600ar_ops_pub_07-05.pdf
>
> Many big parking lots in this area have a piece of snow removal equipment
> parked year around in the lot so it is there when it is needed. Lately, it
> tends more to be a skid steer loader or a compact track loader with a wide
> box blade that the bucket hooks to. In the recent past it tended to be a
> small front loader. The wide box blade can scrape the pavement and  push
> snow into piles.
>
> Ten years ago I watched a big parking lot in the Indianapolis area get
> cleared after a big storm.  They were using a 4WD JD with green loader to
> load the piled snow into semi trailer dumps for removal. The JD was hauled
> away after the last snow pile was gone. I have seen flat city park space
> used to hold the dumped snow.
>
> The cover of the January 2019 issue of Ferguson Furrows has a cover photo
> of  a fine looking MF 35 Deluxe using a three point snow blower in 10 to 12
> inches of snow. I have personally never operated a tractor with a snow
> blower attached.
>
> 10 years ago I was in the Syracuse NY area after a major storm. I saw a
> compact track loader with hydraulically driven snowblower at work. Snow
> plows had pushed up files of snow around the edges of a parking lot. The
> CTL with blower was eating into the piled snow and blowing it forward out
> of the parking spots, leaving all of them useable. I enjoyed seeing the
> operator rotate the nozzle from the cab. Was it more productive than a
> tractor with loader? Maybe. It definitely took up less space.
>
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