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Ah, yeah, you're in good company here. Most of us with good orange equipment kind of look forward to getting out to play, ah, err, "work" at clearing snow! :D From my signature line you can probably tell that I need to join a support group like Snowblowers Anonymous... What make/model did...

I just put a Jodale-Perry cab on one of my B7510's. It is an old cab that had been removed from a previous tractor and sold at a government surplus auction. Most of the windows were broken, one door was tweaked, and the squirrels and mice had had a heyday in it. No matter... I bought it, cut...

I have 3 tractors in this same class... a pair of B7510's (just a little newer than yours) and a B2410 (just a little older than yours). All three have front-mounted blowers. One 7510 has a B2771 blower (51") while the other has a B2782B (62"). The B2410 has a B2550 blower at 51". There's no...

A quick bit of feedback... I plumbed 3/8" lines from the thermostat bypass to the heater mounted in the overhead console in the cab. This works like a charm. Lots of heat, quickly, too!

Following up here... The ports pictured in my post above are indeed the thermostat bypass ports. They are sized for 3/8" hose. My cab has a heater in its ceiling. This setup produces lots of heat, produces heat quickly, and so far has no effect on the operating temperature of the engine.

As a follow-up... I ran 3/8" hose from the thermostat bypass up to the cab heater in the roof of the cab and back to the water pump. As others who have blazed this path before me discovered, this solution makes LOTS of heat. So much heat that when I was doing a trial run, snowblowing right at...

The highest probability is that the switching power supply inside the LED lamp unit is making all kinds of radio frequency noise. Since that RF noise source is very close to the radio and its antenna the poor radio is getting overwhelmed by the noise. Since you've already tried ferrites there...

I read this and keep thinking of my father. He's 84, living in the middle of 186 acres of bush. He has artificial knees, an artificial hip and an artificial shoulder joint but otherwise is in pretty good health. Right now I'm fixing up a B7510 with a cab and front-mounted blower that he can...

Compared to anything else you're going to put on that tractor, chains are cheap. Consider the cost of changing tires. Chains will be less than 1/3 of that cost. All things, and especially costs, are relative. Here's a current discussion thread on the topic of sourcing tire chains...

Check my signature line for a description of my Kubota fleet. All 3 tractors have front mounted blowers. 'Nuff said. OK, not quite enough said... I have turf tires on two tractors, R1 Ag tires on the other. R1s win in loose snow. Turf's win on anything that's the least bit slippery. All...

In this case it's dropping maybe 200-300 RPM, perhaps less, which is pretty common when snowblowing. Even more common if starting out above PTO RPM. I need to get an audio or optical tach to check the accuracy of the dash-mounted tachometers - something tells me they're not a high-accuracy...

Thanks, Wolfman - you are an absolute wealth of knowledge!

Kanook - it would seem we're blowing the same kind of snow as I'm operating this B2410 just down the road from you at the Carp airport. Good to see another "valley" person on this forum!

Thanks for the good suggestions, folks. To answer some questions, primary air filter has about 13 hours on it, secondary is unknown, both visually clean of debris. I've looked at the injection pump and see factory grey paint is intact on fasteners, as are the lead seals on the witness wires...

Purchased a 2500 hour B2410 and finally got it home in September. It ran great for a high-time tractor (ok, 2500 hours isn't high time on a Kubota, but remember, I'm comparing this against my pair of B7510s, one with less than 700 hours and the other with less than 400 hours). The tractor...

Your posts are always interesting and informative. Earlier today I was at our local building supply yard, asking if they had any ugly/scrap TREX or similar synthetic material in hopes of capitalizing on your advice. Everything is frozen in or buried under snow so he's told me to come back on...

Ah, yeah, THAT would have been handy! Finding one on this side of the border, locally, was a bit more of a challenge. With our idiot postal union going on strike I wasn't in a position to have anything shipped so had to rely on local supply. I searched all the usual culprits around here...

I'm with flyidaho on this one. A clevis would normally be attached to the end of something, like, for instance, on the end of a hydraulic cylinder. Typically a clevis is something where one end, the base of the U, is more permanently attached to something else. By comparison, a shackle is...

mikester - yours was actually one of the sites I consulted in educating myself... Thanks for keeping those pics up on your site. The M-series engines are totally different from the B-series engines. No NPT fittings are available - I SO wanted to find an NPT plug ready to be replaced by a hose...

Thanks for the suggestion, chim. One would have to be able to find a decent 3-way valve at a reasonable price and delivery. I wasn't able to do that so I just kept the pre-existing shutoff valve at the heater and added the bypass valve down below the floorboards of the cab.