[AT] AT snow blower.

[Carl Gogol]

The advantage of a blower for getting rid of “fresh” snow is that it makes the snow very dense, more so than pushing it around.  Often used in city streets to load trucks for distant piling.  It minimizes the number of trucks required.

Caarl

 

From: AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> On Behalf Of Dave Maynard
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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 <mailto: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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