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I thought I'd start a new thread since the Forum has been stuck on the sticky valves thread for 11 days!

Is that a two stage thrower?

(quoted from post at 11:41:12 02/23/22)
Is that a two stage thrower?

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"Is that a two stage thrower?"

Yes, and it works really well.

It replaced a "49" single stage.

I took me a LONG time to find one within a reasonable driving distance, this stuff is getting older and harder to find than we (I?) realize!

Yes, John Deere offered these for 318's, 322's, and 332's but they were simply to big and heavy for a 300 series tractor and that's why they were never popular on those models.

I am trying to decide which tractor to find a blower for. 332 or the 455,probably put one on the 455 after the last three weeks. We are right at 12 inches of snow in three weeks, and the drive is 1/4 mile long.

I don't remember seeing a 322 but 318's are thick, they're everywhere. What's the difference? That blower looks big.


I just have a single stage blower on a thirty-four year old tractor but it gets the snow up in the wind.

I had a blower on a 400 and it was unstoppable! It was traded off for a larger machine, F935 Deere for mowing duties and I would love to find a blower for it.

Nice "Horse"!

As to "What's the difference (between 318 and 322)?

318 is powered by an 18 HP opposed Onan twin and 322 is powered by a Yanmar 3-cylinder in-line watercooled gas engine, a REALLY smooth little unit.

I used a frt mounted snow blower on my recovered IH Cub Cadet for a few years. It beat shoveling by a large amount but I absolutely hated getting covered with inches and inches of blown snow from head to toe. Last time I even mounted it was about 20 years ago when I broke my Tibia in my right leg, aka the small bone between knee and ankle. I'd clean 3 driveways most days, till one Sunday the neighbor comes over with a half a 5 gal can of gas and politely asked that I leave him some snow to play with his brand new Deere tractor & snow blower. I was driving a truck at night, I left town about 4 PM, I thought I was doing the neighbors a favor.
Anyhow, I found frt wheel bearings lasted 3-4 years being soaked with water from melted snow, plus the added weight of the blower, my normal frt wheel bearing life was 30+ years.
I use my FARMALL SUPER H with loader and 80 inch wide by 16 inch high blade. I back-drag lots of snow depending on how it drifts, about 10 years ago, the STORM OF THE CENTURY drifted about 2-3 feet deep by 20 ft wide and 30 ft long hard enough I didn't leave footprints in that drift walking over it. I made a mistake once pulling into the shop with the SH, wind blew up a drift 3-4 foot tall by 3-4 feet thick clear across the front of the shop, took me 4-5 attempts to back thru it, had snow a foot deep on PTO shield when I got thru that drift. SON and I had both tractors out about Feb. 2008, year we had over 100 inches of snow, an all time record for us, we cleared snow out of our whole front yard so it wouldn't melt and end up in our basement. The FUN only lasted a half hour. Son's M didn't have it's chains on, that hampered it, my SH had chains but about a year or two after one of the water stems on the SH started leaking Carl fluid, the tires are now dry, and that added 1000# of fluid, 500# per tire missing hurts. And with the absolutely crazy prices for IH weights I'm not really in the market. I bought 3 sets for the M in 2006, $60 a pair plus $5 for all the correct hardware to mount them, $185 for 900#. I would have bought more but that's all my dealer had. Secret to moving snow is chains & weight! SON scrapped a BIG sheet of 1/2 the steel, think it was 6 ft x 10 ft, right at 1000#
I could have made lots of weights with that!

That was an IH built CC??

We had a CC 125 since new for 25 years running a 42" thrower.
never ever had to replace wheel bearings. And we were in the lake effect zone of southwest Michigan.