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Looks great, Ping! I'm curious about the mirrors you used and how you mounted them. Do they not shake loose / change aim as the cab door gets opened and closed, vibrating them? I'm looking for a way to mount mirrors on the Curtis cab (with soft doors) on my "home" tractor, a B7510...

Not that I would ever doubt info provided by NIW... so this is more like corroborating evidence. When our B2410 was delivered it came on a tilt 'n load truck. The dealer delivery guy got a bit of a surprise when he started tilting the truck bed and the tractor started to roll until it got...

A couple of thoughts... 1) I would suggest you do a "divide and conquer" method of troubleshooting. Pull the impeller sheer bolt out entirely. Pull the short driveshaft from the blower to the quick hitch entirely. This will leave you with just the impeller and chain reduction drive to spin...

I bought cheap Ryobi tools at Home Depot - 18V lithium powered. Drill, impact driver, circular saw, sawzall & flashlight. My impression going into this deal was that I was buying one step up from junk and that I was prepared to be disappointed. Man, was I wrong! The Ryobi tools have proven...

I'll second Sheep's advice regarding starting the blower at low power, then letting things warm up before running up to PTO speed and advancing into the snow pile. I once had picked up a piece of wire in the blower. Couldn't see it very easily, thanks to our limited hours of daylight here...

Not sure which blower you have. I have B2771, B2782 and B2550. On the B2771 and B2782 the AUGER takes a special bolt - you'll see it has a circumferential groove machined at both the head end and the thread end of the bolt grip. The IMPELLER takes a standard GRADE 5 bolt. Not grade 7 or 8...

In my case I used a 12V winch to accomplish chute rotation. This is the second blower which I've modified in this manner. Works a charm, even with the cheapest winch, as long as it is power out / power return. I mount the rocker switch for the winch directly below the hydraulic control lever...

This is a 4" 250lb actuator mounted "upside down" to keep moisture out. Blower is a B2771. To address an earlier comment, switch longevity should not be an issue if using a properly-rated switch. The switch I used has 15A contacts while the actuator draws about 1.4A... Switch should last...

On the B7510 with light snow blowing duties today I ran 1.4 hours on 4 litres, so just a wee tad over 1 US gallon. Contrast this with my previous results of 1 gallon/hour with full load snow blowing. How hard you are working the tractor, what percentage of total rated horsepower you're using...

Another data point... I have a pair of B7510's, so 21 engine HP. Blowing snow, which is running the machine pretty much as hard as it will go most of the time, results in a fuel burn of very close to 1 US gallon/hour. There isn't any way in the world I would begrudge the machine that gallon...

Big, important questions here from my recent learnings... What colour is the smoke, and when does it smoke? If black smoke under load, look at the air intake path for obstructions (dirty filter, mouse nest etc) and, if that's clean, the next place to look is injectors. Black smoke = too much...

That's a positive finding indeed. Let us know how the lengthening worked out for you! (Only guys would talk about lengthening their driveshaft... LoL)

On the three examples I own, they all have the same type of spline on the quick hitch, and they all have the same type of spline on the mid PTO of the tractor. BUT the tractor spline is quite different from the quick hitch spline, with the quick hitch spline having more flutes than the mid PTO...

In these parts we have been warmed for many years about eating organ meat from deer as they tend to bio-accumulate cadmium. EDIT: with respect to CWD, we have the Ottawa River running more or less north/south and acting as a border between the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. This year we have...

Well, compared to my B7510's with less than 700 and less than 400 hours, respectively, 2500 hours is an old tractor. It needs injector work which, as you've pointed out, is timely maintenance. Everything else works just fine but does show signs of wear. The 54" MMM, on the other hand, is in...

I bought a B2410 in September. Unlike yours, mine is a high-time unit, 2500+ hours. It came with the 54" MMM and B2550 front-mount blower. If you like your B2410 as much as I like mine, you'll be a happy camper indeed.

And THAT, Sir, is the reason behind all of this. Executing a project of this nature brings its own pleasures, but nothing that comes close to being able to help an elderly parent continue to live an independent life. I just wish I'd had the cash to do this a decade or more ago. That would...

Thanks for the kind words. Now we're waiting for another good dump of snow so Dad can give it a good workout!

Flip - I would echo your comment about "domestic brand" hoses. That's why I went with the exact same part number as had been used by the cab OEM when they made the cab (I don't know how many years ago). Yup, surprised the daylights out of me when I discovered this hose, stocked by Home Depot...

Re: NoJacketRequired's B7510 / Jodale-Perry Cab Project One last comment... Part of the package delivered to Dad was an Operator's Manual and an operator's checklist. I also took a white paint pen and labelled each control in plain English. Dad doesn't do so well with those pictographs that...