Should i put the snow blower on the 917 this year?
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Topic: Should i put the snow blower on the 917 this year?
Posted By: David Maddux
Subject: Should i put the snow blower on the 917 this year?
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2018 at 9:35pm
| Here in this part of Missouri, in the past two years, i have been able to remove the snow with a broom. Maybe we are getting ready to pay the piper this year? |
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Posted By: 1955CA
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2018 at 9:45pm
I can't relate to where you are, but I get an annual average snowfall of 13 feet, so it's blower all the way for me!! What I hate about plowing is you have to overplow your area for most of the winter to keep the banks from closing in on you.
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Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2018 at 7:54am
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Same in Central IL Dave. I have has the tractor suited up and ready for snow the last two winters and never got it out of the barn. |
Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2018 at 8:24am
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well, you can put it on at midnight in the middle of the best Shameless can put out, or you can do it at your leisure while you can feel your fingers ..... Kinda like fueling up our generator and getting it cranked at 2 am in the middle of a sleet storm! ------------- Allis Express North Georgia 41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's, Ford 345C TLB |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2018 at 9:49am
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Wow, brains playing tricks on me, thought I read Sheet Storm. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2018 at 12:57pm
| If I don't put the blower on I need it real bad at winter was the first year in 5 yearsi didn't put it on. Previous year I installed it parked in the shop door with the blower pointing out had to move the tractor every time needed something else. Last year i hadn't used the blower in 5 years so I left it off I'll put it on when I need it. We got 30" of snow crete.it took me 6 hours to dig the lower out in a blizzard. The snow was to hard to plow with my 1 ton dually with plow. This year I'm ready. |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2018 at 1:31pm
Paid the snow plow man for this winter today, so I'll have a light snowfall winter now. 
------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2018 at 1:42pm
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Better hook it up Dave, like Joe says "while you can still feel your fingers". I have been hooking up the D-15 to the back blade last couple of years with mild winters. If I don't hook it up first we will have a blizzard ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2018 at 1:51pm
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The Berco blower is ALWAYS on the Craftsman here ! Took me 3 years to find the correct year tractor for the Berco so it ain't coming off. Part of the 'master plan' that each tractor has ONE specific task. beside I'm getting too old, cranky to fight 4" off teh ground trying to get deck on, blower off or vice versus !! Managed to stuff a car battery into the beastie as well as the blower has a winch to lift it up. WHERE in Ontario did you get 13 FEET of snow last year ?? Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2018 at 1:55pm
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NOPE, I paid the plow man doubt we got 30 inches. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: 1955CA
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2018 at 2:13pm
Goulais River/Heyden just north of the Sault. This was January first a couple years ago. It's usually May before all my snow is gone from my yard.
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jaybmiller wrote:Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2018 at 2:36pm
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gee, the Soo.. I been there !! Loong drive from Hamilton, back in '74. did some avionics repair work up there as well as Wawa. Did you know there are TWO geese there ? Have to ask , which 'toot' ( the other orange tractor) is that ? Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: 1955CA
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2018 at 9:28pm
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Hey Jay. Yes, I know Wawa too. I work on lots of highway construction all over between the Sault and Thunder Bay with the dump truck. They just got a new goose, so there is 3 now! LOL That is my 2013 Kubota B2620. It's done some major work around here. It does all my mowing, snow removal and I've moved 330 tonnes of B gravel and built one mile of bush road with it for getting my firewood. Got all kinds of implements for it, but now i want to start using the CA to do some of it. |