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56oliver

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Have a 100hp deutz tractor that's 4x4 with a loader and a blade I use for the lots further away and a skid steer with a snow bucket for around the house. Just curious as to what y'all like using for snow?
 
depends. A snow shovel for anything under an inch. A 2-stage snow thrower if it's over that and wet and heavy. Didn't use it at all last year.
 
A broom is what I normally use.When we get a 'deep' snow(about every 5 years),I use the superM and rear blade. We dont get much
snow down here in the valley.The mountains catch it all before it gets to us.
 
got plenty, farmall cub with a front snow blade, ford jubilee with a rear blade, 2 john deeres with front loaders, all we dont have yet is snow
 
Depends on the wind and snowfall. For less than a foot I use my Farmall 100 with front mount blade. For heavy snowfall and drifts my Farmall
706 with rear mounted blower is my preference.
 
The most appropriate thing I have is a tractor/loader/backhoe, with a CAB! But it's still not exactly the right thing. A few years back I found a used 12' snow pusher close by to hang on it, and that's the answer!


I bought a used mini track loader this year, and added a tine bucket to pick the rocks I don't want to bend over and get any more! I suppose in tight spots it could be handy for snow clean up. But uneven/soft surfaces make the snow pusher with large skids still the best tool.
 

Farmall H equipped with a McCormick #31 loader and blade. Several years ago that outfit just wasn't a very good match for the amount of drifting we had, so I found a Farmhand F11 loader and installed it on my M. That was about 4 years ago. Since then I have needed nothing more than a broom for snow removal.
 
I use a Woods snowblower on an Allis Chalmers 5030 utility or Oliver 1650. Cub Cadet 782 w/blower for the sidewalks.
 
My old 86 F-350, and the Case 580 E to push the banks back
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Here in manitoba I use a 660 international with a aftermarket 3 point hitch using a 8 foot allied snow blower. This 660 with the diesel engine is the best starting tractor on the farm by far . Even with an automotive size battery if you hold the glow plugs on for 90 seconds it starts reliably. The tractor of course is plugged in with a block heater and has synthetic oil and I am using it in temps -10f and lower(MUCH LOWER). I hope to install a cab I have in the coming years as it can be absolutely brutal blowing snow heading west out the lane in a north west wind . You have to have that motor screaming just to get 530 out of the pto which is over kill in dusty cold snow but when you get in the slushy wet stuff it takes all the power that engine can handle, Over all I am quite happy with this set up .
 
Used my Super C since 1990 until I got the blower a few years ago. I prefer using the blower, doesn't tear up the yard, easier for my soon to be 68 year old skeleton to get on and easier to see what I'm about to hit backing up.
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(quoted from post at 08:22:59 12/02/16) Have a 100hp deutz tractor that's 4x4 with a loader and a blade I use for the lots further away and a skid steer with a snow bucket for around the house. Just curious as to what y'all like using for snow?
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I found this setup real handy. I bought a 3pt/receiver plate for my skidsteer and mounted a six foot blade on it. I push the blade backwards, bridging it and using just the rear wheels of the loader...does a good job and isn't too aggressive. If I get a packed area I can shave it off while backing up as the blade is very aggressive that direction. I can also drag snow away from buildings and equipment easily and also pile snow pretty high with it. Everything is out front where I can see it.


For light snow I have a Honda 400 Foreman and front blade that works great.
 
W11B Case when its real cold or real deep. When I feel like messing around one of 4 garden tractors and blade.
 
1550 with an Allied 7-foot blower. New setup this year. Ford 2000 with 7-foot front blade, factory blade. I have used the blower on the Ford but it's a bit too much for it. 24 inch White 550 on the driveway at the house.
 
I have a Farmall 100 with a blade and a Simplicity Legacy XL 4WD w/blower. I prefer the blower. The 100 is my backup and I use it for the first couple of times on a couple of gravel driveways that I do.

I tried to attach a photo but I can't seem to get it to work.
 
Versatile Bidirectional and an 8' Lorenz blower. No snow piles and no stiff neck is what I like.
 
My old super C with a blade on the front and a two point blade on the rear. I can tell you though that the heater sucks.
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I have a 1971 New Holland S14 with single stage 42" blower. Heated home-made cab, stereo, backup camera, flood lights, electric chute control, hydrostatic 2wd with weights and chains, it's never gotten stuck.

The first snow after I moved in 10 years ago was on a Saturday night. Sunday morning I was woken up at 8am by the sound of a blower, my 70 year old neighbor was out there snowblowing my driveway. Being 24 at the time that didn't sit well on my concience, so I made it a point to be up early and get the driveways cleared around me.

This past year, sadly I didn't make it in time to one house, where a nice older gentleman of about 75 went out to start his snowblower, had a heart attack, and passed away in his garage.

Just last month I bought a 1986 Kubota B8200 4wd HST, and picked up a 50" two stage blower. Working on it in my spare time fabbing mounts since it's off a different series tractor. Once the blower is done I'll start on the cab. Should be more capable and stable than the new holland, let me clear driveways and be on my way quicker.

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Last time Oklahoma had a big snow storm I thought I would be real smart and park my tractor in the shop. Keep it somewhat warm so it would start without a big problem, diesel without block heater or glow plugs. When I woke up the next day there was a 10 foot high snow drift right in front of the shop door. No way was that tractor going to get out of the shop. Still get tickled every time I think about it.
 
AC 7000 with a front mount BER-VAC snow blower. Also have a JD/McKee rear mount, but using it really makes the neck hurt after awhile. Sure beats a shovel though.
 
I have a 7' truck blade adapted to fit the skid steer. About 3 years ago, I bought a Dodge plow truck for a project to flip. I kind of like the heater and radio, so its still here. Not as agile as the skid steer, but a lot more comfortable.
 
Use my JD 4320 compact works great kind of look forward to some plow able snow. This was my Christmas present from my wife in 2010 can't wait till this Christmas. Randy
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I didn't order any so I don't have to worry about it, BUT just in case one of you fellers order comes here on accident
I will use either the 399 Massey MFWD or the 1850 Oliver, those 2 have loaders, then around the buildings the Bobcat,
and the shovel next to the house and barn. Don't mess up on your order and I will be fine, have not got any yet.
 
I drive trough the first 4 or 5". If it's deeper I use the cab tractor with loader and then clean up with the back blade.
 
1984 Chevy K30 w Cummins 6BTA 8.6 Plow
And Case 580D .

If all else fails a Case terra-trac 600 and 1000D

Tom
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I use my 1985 GMC pickup with Western 7.5 plow, works great til the piles are too high, then a Super H and bucket can
help out.
 
I have a 300 foot driveway so I use a Farmall Cub or a 2510 John Deere with a full size bucket on it. I also use a 646 Case garden tractor with a bucket on it for close work around buildings and sidewalk.
 
When I was 14 (1974) the service station I worked for had a Willies with a plow. It also had a gas powered generator for jumping
cars. The Willies was small enough to back into a garage and push out making a cleaner sweep of drive ways. People would even
pay to have parking spaces done. The Willies was way more maneuverable than any plow vehicle I have ever driven.
 
We have a Cub with weights and chains and a blade, but the past couple of winters we haven't used it as much; if it's really cold or wet outside I much prefer our old 4WD truck.
 
I had a very tired out 656 Farmall gas tractor with a New Idea front end loader. I purchased it in 2004 and used it for 10 years. The loader bucket was breaking apart and there was no use to replacing the bucket on that old loader. The bucket was a manure bucket with snow bucket extensions on the side. Two years ago I traded for an 86 IH Hydro with a Westendorf loader and added a 7 foot rear mount snowblower. The time I spend moving snow has been cut by half to three quarters. I simply plug the block heater and the transmission heater into time clocks set to come on 3 or 4 hours before I have to move snow. That hydrostatic ground drive is beautiful on the snowblower. I can crawl in deep snow and move rapidly in light snow. Knock on wood, I have yet to shear a bolt on the PTO drive. The only way it could be better is having a quiet and heated cab in the winter..................but what I have is a huge improvement over my prior tractor.
 
7 ft front blade on Farmall C and a 7 ft rear blade on Jubilee.

Rarely to get more than 8 inches of snow. I have used a front bucket, then come spring, there will be rock in the grass.

I have 4 inch pipe on the bottom of my blades to prevent digging into the white rock.
 
Does your pto shaft have a cross bolt in addition to the keyway/key? Mine does and it looks like it belongs there but I can't figure out why they would do that and also a keyed shaft. I'm talking about where the PTO shaft goes into the gearbox for the IH-80 blower.

Thanks,
 
B2650 with [i:654c4848f0]heated![/i:654c4848f0] cab and a 64" Pronovost Puma blower.

The lamp clipped to the chute is hooked to the remote-controlled outlet. I push a button in the house and if the lamp comes on, the block heater is on.
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Call me anything you want and I'll shrug it off, but speak ill of this old workhorse and I'll deck you.
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I've got a habit of doing things the old fashioned way... Trip Loaders, and a shovel. Lol! (1947 Farmall M & Farmhand "Standard" loader).
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I didn't know you had a 580E. That is what is in the barn at my employers. I pulled the forward and reverse auxiliary transmission and he was going to rebuild it when he had the time. I think its sat there since 06. He bought all new pins and bushings for the hoe too. He told me a number he'd take for it awhile ago and was pretty low. We used it with a snow box to plow the travel center in Otego. He bought a new 580 M and the old E started better than the M.
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Ford 3000 and Mini-me this year.
The 3000 is new to me, mini-me has been here a while.
Both are 1974 models.

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Lets see what I use is a 42 9-N with a rear blade and a Jubilee with a loader, both chained and weighted. Third option is a Kubota 4 wheel drive & loader. What I would like to use is the checkbook and phone, however haven't found a dependable plow service. joe
 
Those style Chevy's are pretty popular for restoration projects in these parts. Back in the day Dad traded trucks every few years for awhile. He had a green 76',than a yellow/white 78 than a red/white 79 all with 350's,last chev he had was an 83' with a 305.
 
I've used my 1994 Kubota B1750HST FWA with F & R chains and back blade since it was new.

I have a new SS mount front snow blade with hydraulic angle for the M9960 Kubota but have not yet used it because the little guy works so well.

Dean
 
Jon, apparently you are attempting to move the semi with the Case in that pic? If you are, let me guess. Parked the semi with warm tires, melted down and made a perfect set of icy wheel chocks? Had a guy in my territory do that, couldn't get his semi back out of his driveway where he had parked it (no trailer), and asked if I could pull him out. I said No, we have have a no hook to anyone but us policy or get fired. I told him if he went back to where the back of my truck is, there will be a little pile of sand where I shut the sander off, a couple shovel fulls. Told him to scoop it up and throw it on top of his drive tires. Went back by a couple hours later, and there were four little brown sand spots where his tires were, his semi was gone, must have gotten out.
 
I did use this at work. I just got a newer
truck a month ago (hate it). Everything at
home I use the little 674 IH with a 7' back
blade. If that won't move it, I put the
blade on the 826 IH. If all else fails, over
at the farm where dad lives, he has a 3 pt
snowblower, or a retired county truck if
needed (his driveway is a touch over half a
mile long, and open).



Ross
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"I would like to use is the checkbook and phone"

I'd like to use plane tickets but I'm not retired yet. LOL
 
Built right down the road from us... one of the best blowers made, coming from the snowbelt! Ben
 
I used to specialize in restoring '73 to '87 Chevy and GMC pickups and Blazers, and I'd love to restore this old gal.

But-I'd need another one to put my plow on and these are getting hard to find. I especially like the full time 4wd on the '73 to '80's for use on a plow.
 
County used these for years, blower was driven by a huge 6 cylinder Continental
engine on the back. No, my wife did not run it, she is there to give you an idea of
the size of the blower. Ben
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Bought a snowblower and tracks for my BCS 850 late last winter, and didn't get much of a chance to use it. Otherwise, I use a Deere 317 skid steer with 12-16.5 tires, and 100" bucket. Driveway is 1500 feet long going north/south. Once I make berms on either side with the bucket or a blade, the wind drifts the snow back into the driveway and packs it tight. I'm hoping the snowblower will keep me from making berms, keeping the driveway clear.

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I found this setup real handy. I bought a 3pt/receiver plate for my skidsteer and mounted a six foot blade on it. I push the blade backwards, bridging it and using just the rear wheels of the loader...does a good job and isn't too aggressive. If I get a packed area I can shave it off while backing up as the blade is very aggressive that direction. I can also drag snow away from buildings and equipment easily and also pile snow pretty high with it. Everything is out front where I can see it.


For light snow I have a Honda 400 Foreman and front blade that works great.
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I hope you don't have a regular habit of getting out of the cab with the arms in the air. I personally knew 2 people who are no longer with us from doing just that. Neither case was very pretty for the family member that found them.
 
Still running the 1989 Chevy and 8' Western Pro Plow, use the JD 5400 MFWD and loader to push the piles back when needed.

I only do my drive, Mom's and my Aunt's drive now a days, back when I plowed commercially I had 33 locations to do, about 8 hours worth for 4 inches of snowfall.
 
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