Seat Time: 9N snowblowing

We got 10 inches of fresh snow last night so I decided to take a couple pictures of the 9N clearing snow. The snowblower is a 68" pull type. I took a quick video as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zRfn9MT3H4&list=UUc2kfCRA5AsTerWqM_5yHWA

Heading down the driveway on the 2nd pass:

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Throwing the snow into the woods:

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Great time to post that there was a lot conversation here the other day about Ford N's and different ways of clearing snow somebody mentioned a pull type snow blower. I had never seen one before yours sure throws the snow.
 
(quoted from post at 11:20:27 01/30/19) Great time to post that there was a lot conversation here the other day about Ford N's and different ways of clearing snow somebody mentioned a pull type snow blower. I had never seen one before yours sure throws the snow.

Yes, that post actually made me think to take pictures/video to give people one example of a 3 point hitch snowblower.
 
That is every bit of all right. What brand and model is the snowblower? Vintage, or Modern Era? I love the sound of an N at full chat!

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(quoted from post at 11:52:19 01/30/19) That is every bit of all right. What brand and model is the snowblower? Vintage, or Modern Era? I love the sound of an N at full chat!

es

It's a modern era snowblower, I bought it new a year ago. It's an MK Martin Meteor model SB68 P/T. It's actually more snowblower than an N has power for (horsepower is recommended 35 minimum up to 60 max) but as you can see the N still powers it ok. I was worried about the 9N only having 23 hp so I called the company and spoke to one of their engineers (rather than the salesman at the dealership) who told me what the limitations would be running it with a lower powered machine but I felt confident enough after talking to him to go forward with the purchase. It has a 21" diameter x 7" deep, 5 blade fan in it which works well as you can see. At some point I'd like to get a hundred series or thousand series for the snowblower but the little 9N is doing the job so I can't complain.

I definitely agree on the sound of an N working like that, it's a thing of beauty.
 
It's an MK Martin Meteor model SB68 P/T.

Man, that's sorely tempting! I could either go pull-behind, or if they have a model with a skid steer mount and hydraulically driven, I could run it on the Boomer 8N.... but then, that would cut my Seat Time down too much! :p
 
(quoted from post at 16:15:54 01/30/19)
It's an MK Martin Meteor model SB68 P/T.

Man, that's sorely tempting! I could either go pull-behind, or if they have a model with a skid steer mount and hydraulically driven, I could run it on the Boomer 8N.... but then, that would cut my Seat Time down too much! :p

I don't want to be an enabler but they do make a skid steer mount that's hydraulically driven but whatever you do don't cut down on your seat time! :D
 
The beauty of blowing snow of course is virtually no build up like a plow or back blade. Only down side is wet snow takes ponys under the hood and the chance of plugging the discharge chute.
I have blown snow with my 8N since mid70's with a 7' pull behind (Erskine blower)
 
That sounds good sounds like you have plenty of
power as fast as you were going . Do you have any
pictures of the machine
 
Looks like it does a great job!
I can tell you for sure my 3 pt rear pushing snowblower does not
throw the snow as far as yours does unless I can feed it really fast.
 
(quoted from post at 18:46:23 01/30/19) That sounds good sounds like you have plenty of
power as fast as you were going . Do you have any
pictures of the machine

Here's a picture from a couple weeks ago:


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(quoted from post at 04:51:05 01/31/19) My question is, how do you tackle a snowdrift that is 2 foot tall or bigger?

I bought this house almost 6 years ago and have yet to deal with any large snowdrifts, the property is surrounded by 60 foot white pines plus a bunch of hemlock, spruce, fir and hardwoods mixed in so I have a natural windbreak.

That being said we sometimes get storms that drop 2 feet of snow. The slowest a 9N can go is 3 mph which is too fast to feed that much snow since the 9N doesn't have enough power to throw the snow quickly enough. I added position control so that I don't have to take the full depth of snow on the first pass though deep snow. I'll drop to blower into a depth that the 9n can handle then after the first pass I'll go over it again with the blower all the way down. Once I have one section that's down to the ground I can take less than full width bites with the snowblower for the rest of the snow. I usually only run into this if I can't get outside to run the snowblower to take care of the snow before it piles up too high.

If you were dealing with a high drift you'd have to back into the drift then drive forward and pull away with a bite of snow. In the other snowblower thread Royce mentioned the advantage of a reverse mount snowblower for dealing with drifts. I think if I was dealing with high drifts all the time I'd probably go with a reverse mount as well.
 
In the other snowblower thread Royce mentioned the advantage of a reverse mount snowblower for dealing with drifts. I think if I was dealing with high drifts all the time I'd probably go with a reverse mount as well.

that seems like the [i:b4ece2ffed]only[/i:b4ece2ffed] advantage a reverse mount offers. it also offers a stiff neck and difficulty to use on a standard 8n (reverse is much to high).

your blower seems to work great for your application/need.
 
(quoted from post at 09:59:13 01/31/19)
In the other snowblower thread Royce mentioned the advantage of a reverse mount snowblower for dealing with drifts. I think if I was dealing with high drifts all the time I'd probably go with a reverse mount as well.

that seems like the [i:152b9bc8b9]only[/i:152b9bc8b9] advantage a reverse mount offers. it also offers a stiff neck and difficulty to use on a standard 8n (reverse is much to high).

your blower seems to work great for your application/need.

It's definitely more fun to drive forward than drive in reverse the whole time, my neck appreciates it.
 
Thanks for explaining that. Sure sounds like you have your 9N with the snowblower operations down to a science.
 

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