Late season snow removal. BX2680 with 48" commercial blower. Had to open for an old woman to leave to go play organ at her church in St Peter, so I did mine too. Will need to do it again when the storm is over. Not real nice outside.
What did you do to or on your Kubota today?
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Back to tires. The tracks are a lot of fun but our snow is disappearing quickly and no accumulation in the forecast.
Welp more snow! Just finished blowing over a foot of wet heavy snow, weather is calling for an additional foot or two plus ice. Should be interesting! Currently averaging 2-3inch an hour.
Where it drifts it’s already past my waist so I’m choosing to only shovel the area in front of my entry door and not the walkway
Where it drifts it’s already past my waist so I’m choosing to only shovel the area in front of my entry door and not the walkway
Plowed out mine and neighbors driveway today. Snowblower did great as usual. Used my blade to finish up. Great when my oversized garden tractor exceeds my expectations.
Been a crazy few days of weather here in VA. Last Tuesday and Wednesday it was in the 80's, woke up Thursday to head to work in the 70s. When I left to come home at 8 am because my daughter was sick, it was 40, then by noon we had over an inch of snow on the ground and 30. By 4 when I picked my son up it was sunny and 50....
Now today we're on the lookout for severe thunderstorms that could produce hail, 60-70mph winds and possibly tornadoes...
Now today we're on the lookout for severe thunderstorms that could produce hail, 60-70mph winds and possibly tornadoes...
Mid 70's here yesterday and I had to actually mow the front yard due to the weeds and onion grass starting to grow already. I was hoping to put it off a few weeks, but she who must be obeyed wanted it gone.
Looks like I may be snowed in for at least today if not a few more days. I Was able to get the parking area cleared, and some of the driveway, but the other 700ft I have 5-7 foot drifts. Way to much for the kubota and snowblower. I tried picking away at it with the snowblower at different elevations, but the tractor will immediatly sink in and loose traction. Once I sink in, the tractor doesnt have the power to push through either. I don't feel safe using the bucket as its a straight drop off on one side of the driveway and and I dont have room to dump it, along with the little to no visiblity if I account for the blowing ice and snow and iced over goggles.
Up until this blizzard, the sb2064 and l2501 have been a great combo. Hopefully this is not a super common thing. My neighbor is gonna take a look to see if he can clear it with a truck but hes not confident.
Up until this blizzard, the sb2064 and l2501 have been a great combo. Hopefully this is not a super common thing. My neighbor is gonna take a look to see if he can clear it with a truck but hes not confident.
Wow, that sucks. Maybe time for one of those dual auger type blower. Couldn’t you lift the blower to take some off, the lower it to get the rest? Time consuming but think you could have chewed through it.
I was more thinking one of those trains with the 10 foot tall blade running at 40mph
. But yeah I did try that. It worked until the drifts got to 5+ feet. I just can’t push the tractor though the remaining snow. It was over the axles and front tires and i think the tractor doesn’t have enough power to get through that deep and heavy snow.I did move more north as i love the snow, so i guess i got what i wanted. I talked to my neighbor and he was telling me after looking at my driveway it’s not doable and he has a bunch of other people he does in the county and surrounding areas and has not been able to move snow on any of them to actually get people out of their driveway. He got stuck a bunch doing his own driveway which is pretty flat compared to mine. The wind whips a lot of the snow from his property up to my driveway and in front of the pole barn forming massive drifts. He said he is going to see if there is something he can rent to get the snow removed as nothing he has will work for most of his clients. He did mention the last time this happened was 2001 so that makes me feel a lot better. Like I said besides this storm the snowblower and l2501 have been a great combo! So it seems for 99% of the time it is plenty good for the weather up here.
I’m gonna give it another go tommorow after I’m done working, maybe the weather will not be as horrible so I can see or at least not be pelted with ice. It’s sketchy when the snow starts to turn the tractor close to a drop off and you can’t see it. The Blizzard warning has run from Sunday at 5am and was extended to tommorow morning. I’m hoping it ends after that.
@Bearcatrp I just looked at those dual auger blowers, I’ve never heard of them before but it looks like I would need 60+ PTO HP. So definitely maybe a future upgrade years from now. I always thought the rule was once you buy a snowblower you never need it
No. The rule is: when you buy a snow blower it will be too small. This rule applies to infinitly large snow blowersI always thought the rule was once you buy a snowblower you never need it
But I think the main reason for this snow fall is that somebody here removed the snow blower from his tractor. Never do that before mid-August.
Well, thankfully, yesterday was much ado about nothing for our neck of the woods. Some trees here and there, but my place didn't get hit hard at all. Max gust was in the low 30's yesterday according to the weather station. Stayed in the 60s until about 830 when the cold front moved it and dropped sharply into the 30s, also got 0.9" of rain. Thankfully, the driveway didn't wash out! The neighbor lost a white pine that fell across my fence. But it happened before any of the rain or wind came, I guess it was just its time. We'll see how that clean up goes, it's covered in furry vines that I'm certainly trying to stay away from, and it took out about 25 feet of 3 board fence.
The oldest is with my parents this week, so it's just me, my wife, and my 8-month-old this week. Hoping to get on the tractor and do some tractor things this week!
The oldest is with my parents this week, so it's just me, my wife, and my 8-month-old this week. Hoping to get on the tractor and do some tractor things this week!
I see them all the time on CL in minnesota. Look heavy but bet it would eat right through those drifts. When I worked for MnDot, we had a triple auger, big sum bitch, to clear off ramps. Used a cat front end loader to move that thing. Would blow it into trucks to haul away. Would suck when they hit large debris buried in the snow and pop the sheer pins. Took awhile to replace and get back to clearing.@Bearcatrp I just looked at those dual auger blowers, I’ve never heard of them before but it looks like I would need 60+ PTO HP. So definitely maybe a future upgrade years from now. I always thought the rule was once you buy a snowblower you never need it
Could you use the bucket to pull the snow down and back, to then hit it with the snowblower to sent it where it needs to go?
I was in Michigan yesterday, just about an inch or so, was down a bit South of Holland, then went over to just South of Detroit ... It was WINDY though! Left this morning, home now for the night
A path has been cleared! My neighbor and his buddy were able to clear it with a large TLB! He couldn’t believe how much piled up. Gonna go out later and clean up the sides with the blower and finish digging out my front door.
When I went out tonight I noticed my blower chute was down, somehow the pivot adjustment piece and cotter pin that holds the chute up or down came loose and fell off I guess. I looked for an hour with a shovel going over everywhere I went before I noticed and couldn’t find anything. I’m sure it will pop up this spring. The price for just the part is $27 dollars at Messicks or the other online stores. I can’t believe that. I’m thinking of going to a fastener store and picking up a nut and bolt that is the same size with some washers. This is the part, I have it zip tied for now and they will stretch so the chute will just flop around after a few minutes of blowing.
When I went out tonight I noticed my blower chute was down, somehow the pivot adjustment piece and cotter pin that holds the chute up or down came loose and fell off I guess. I looked for an hour with a shovel going over everywhere I went before I noticed and couldn’t find anything. I’m sure it will pop up this spring. The price for just the part is $27 dollars at Messicks or the other online stores. I can’t believe that. I’m thinking of going to a fastener store and picking up a nut and bolt that is the same size with some washers. This is the part, I have it zip tied for now and they will stretch so the chute will just flop around after a few minutes of blowing.
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Im sure it’s possible but there’s not a good way for me to turn around besides driving back up to the house, turning around and then blowing a bit of snow. It would probably take me around 30 hours to get it and even then I just can’t push through to get to the top of the pile in some spots to knock it down. For context so I don’t sound lazy it’s a 1100ft driveway and there just isn’t enough light after I’m done working, even then then I worried if something happened and I needed to leave I wouldn’t be able to. Even my neighbor who is on flat ground had to have the guy clear his as well. The piles the TLB made are why you see ay the grocery store lot after a foot of snow, crazy to have that much snow sitting just off your driveway.
My neighbor’s buddy says drifts were 9ft in spots. He had a huge (I think) CAT TLB with a massive bucket and it still took him 2 hours.
I’m familiar with Holland, nice area! I heard it was windy down there yesterday and today. I grew up in SE Michigan, pretty mild winters most of the time. They’ve been getting mostly rain and wind this last week with a bit of snow. I’m up kinda close to the mackinaw bridge and we got absolutely shredded, worst blizzard I’ve ever seen. I think being on a hill made it much worse as the snow began piling immediately vs just blowing to somewhere else. Thankfully the ice that was called to fall on top of it never happened in the amount they said.
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Sounds like our place in Emmet County!
Impressive storm to say the least.
Blew with the storm and am running out of room to blow snow,if you can that!
Good Luck!
Impressive storm to say the least.
Blew with the storm and am running out of room to blow snow,if you can that!
Good Luck!
Built a "temporary" wooden dolly for the forestry winch so I could move it around in the container to make place for the new toy tool before assembly.
Here's the newtoy tool. A Woodland Mills HM130Max portable sawmill.
It's a circular economy:
1- buy tractor to haul logs
2- buy sawmill to mill logs for:
- sawmill shed
- tractor shed
;-)
Here's the new
It's a circular economy:
1- buy tractor to haul logs
2- buy sawmill to mill logs for:
- sawmill shed
- tractor shed
;-)
Was just in Petoskey during my lunch break, needed to pick something up for work then go to an atm to get some cash to pay the TLB guy. That hill on 131 going down towards the hospital is super hard packed snow and ice, almost hit somebody that turned from the oncoming lanes into one of the hotels without a care in the world. Be careful if your out there!
over the weekend... pulled stumps. bent all 4 hard lines on the loader that tie the cylinders together.
connect chain to the frame on the front of the tractor = good idea
raise boom while the chain is tight = $400 worth of a bad idea
eventually figured out how to hook up the 3 point to pull a stump - that one was stubborn - 8" diameter and 4' tap root straight down.
connect chain to the frame on the front of the tractor = good idea
raise boom while the chain is tight = $400 worth of a bad idea
eventually figured out how to hook up the 3 point to pull a stump - that one was stubborn - 8" diameter and 4' tap root straight down.