PTO gearbox for powering front end equipment.

Keven M · May 22, 2011

Hey everyone, got a bit of a project this summer.

I have a Farmall C that needs work, but one of the things I want to do is make up a front end mounted snow blower.

I have the frame from the scraper blade to use and everything, but what i need to find is something like a gearbox that will take the rear PTO shaft and send it to the front of the tractor.

Reason why I dont want to use a pump and a hydraulic motor is because it looses a lot of power. Something even the engine wont have even after a lot of work.

Any advice or parts you know of?

gene bender · May 22, 2011

Just use a chain and lower a shaft below the present drive shaft towards the front.

Anonymous-0 · May 22, 2011

Have you considered ground speed? You will need to run full throttle and you may find 1st gear ground speed will be too fast, unless you have a creeper attachment.
Depends on how much snow you want to move.
One way to simplify your power drive engineering and ground speed, would be to mount an engine on the snow blower.

GaryinKs · May 22, 2011

I dont see how you can run a snow blower without live PTO.

Keven M · May 22, 2011

Well the amount of snow wont matter, and 1st is the slowest gear so if it would work, that would be the best. Reason why i don't want to mount an engine would be extra weight.

I could have a shaft below it and that would be ideal, but its connecting the PTO to the shaft that is the problem. I need to find something to plug on so that its strong.

Wardner · May 22, 2011

Don't think a snowblower on a C has much merit for the reasons others have mentioned. However, a 20" impeller fan will need a minimum of 540 rpm and will do alot better at 650 rpm.

Secondly, you won't be able to run a full width blower, not enough power. Think about an offset so that one rear tire runs on cleared ground. Set up your sprockets at the rear so that the shaft forward goes under the axle.

Use a telescoping shaft (or at least a slip yoke), U-joints, and three bearings. Pictures are of a W400.

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IaGary · May 22, 2011

Gene wouldn't you need to have three sprockets to reverse the shaft.

We built one with gears at Charlies and it seems we had to have an odd number of gears to get the shaft spinning the right way.

That was 25 years ago and maybe I'm thinging wrong.

gene bender · May 23, 2011

He didnt say which way he wanted the rotation to go. The toration would be aneasy fix for you and me cause we know how to do it correct. Why not a reverse snowblower.

gene bender · May 23, 2011

It can be done helps to know how to operate.

gene bender · May 23, 2011

Mounting a motor on the tractor would be easy and it sure wont bother the steering that much but the motor is the best idea as they work great for snowblowers.

Wardner · May 23, 2011

Reverse snowblower???

Wouldn't that be something like a manure spreader? Might have some application on a snow deprived ski hill such as the Winter Olympics several years ago where they had to truck in snow.

Narrowfarm · May 23, 2011

I always wanted to put a front mounted 6 foot snowblower on a widefront Farmall H. I kind of felt low gear maybe to fast though. Has anyone tried this?? thanks john

IH fan · May 23, 2011

(quoted from post at 19:32:21 05/22/11) I dont see how you can run a snow blower without live PTO.

I'm with you Gary! Push in the clutch and it's an automatic plug-up. Also doubt a C has enough power to operate much of a blower.

mkirsch · May 23, 2011

To effectively blow any amount of snow at all, the tractor needs to move at barely a crawl with the throttle wide open.

I'm talking a LITERAL crawl. About as fast as you can go on your hands and knees.

A Super C is pushing 2MPH in 1st gear with the throttle wide open. You'll go barreling into the snowbank and plug up the blower.

There's a video of a Super A with a mounted snowblower on Youtube. You should watch it to see what I mean. The guy is blowing a little powder off the ground and thinks he's doing a stroke! The thing goes like gangbusters... There is no way it would work in any appreciable amount of snow.

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