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Here in NH we have the typical New England cold temp range, 30 to -20F, but the coldest I usually run it is 10F or so. I have a block heater but have not installed it as of yet. I usually run the glow plugs for slow 7 or 8 count and it fires right up with a small protest then let it warm for...

Actually a fairly enjoyable morning blowing snow......6 degrees but I'll take the trade off of having nice fluffy stuff to blow vs the heavy wet crap. 2601 worked well.

Looks like I am blowing 8" of light fluffy snow today........7 degrees and blowing up to 30mph so there is that....... Then heading up to the cabin to fire up the woodstove and work from there for a couple days as it will be deep into the negatives up there and I don't feel like burning a ton...

Another morning, another 2" of snow and ice to clear, so another hour on the Orange Chariot. Then because it is 2024.....a nice inexplicable 1.2" of rain and 55-60 degrees tomorrow, which will then freeze up like a clam over night as temps drop to mid 20s. I am starting to think I should just...

Yesterday morning I woke up to a dusting of 1-1.5" of snow on top of the handpicked previously cleared gravel drive. I really didn't want to bother with it, but I also knew that amount on top of the skim coat would freeze up and be a PITA with our hill. So I had 45 mins before I needed to head...

When I was checking over the tractor for winter use, I noticed another one of my 3 LED ROPS lights is toast and flickering with only a few of the individual LEDs actually working. I also had a new one laying around since when the first one went I contacted ROPSLights.com where I got the kit and...

Ran out in between today's meetings and work BS to finish mounting the blower. Hydraulics tested, blower tested and hydro lines safely tethered to keep them safe. Gotta run back out later and fuel it up and toss the Ram 2500 back in the Morton and button things up for snow overnight. Now...

Been somewhat lazy in changing things over to "winter mode".....needed to have the FEL on to spread the RAP a couple weeks back that I posted about but since then I have been watching the weather. Looks like real snow coming tomorrow night so I pulled the FEL and mounted the subframe in-between...

Solid day of work right there. I hear ya on feeling a little beat up after some seat time. Let's be clear here, this is a first world problem to an extent as it is a heck of a lot easier than doing things by hand but even after a couple hours in the seat I will feel a little back fatigue...

Before the snow flies I wanted to get some additional RAP (recycled asphalt) to level off some sections of our ~700+ driveway. Got another 12 ton delivered yesterday and got about 2/3 spread over a couple hours with the B2601 Been a while since I needed the tractor for a project, not that I am...

From my cheap seats of experiencing this over the past couple seasons and forking over the $700...... While the design certainly has pros/cons this wreaks of a bad batch of couplers and just a straight up shoulder shrug from Kubota. If you have read through this thread and saw what my coupler...

This is my feeling as well. @jsteinhauer pics above look like my original failed couplers (which I still have hanging around in my garage). The new replacement ones seem to be handling things as I originally intended based on my documentation of the use etc. here in this thread. The 23/24...

Got a few inches of snow late last week and the back blade and front blower made quick work of it. Been a light ....very light winter to date (of course now that I said that.....) Finally had a little time with my friend who is an electrician so we put in a few outlets into the Morton Building...

For the OP's intended purpose the back blade will work fine......chances are the 6' will be fine if he has enough traction. I run a similar setup on my B2601......blower on the front, 5' blade out back for my gravel drive. Commonly flipped around backwards to be less aggressive on the...

Just to keep documenting things as we go along here in Winter 2023/2024....... Here is a pic of the new couplers as of this morning with about 2-3 total hours of blower run time so far since replacement.

As just another B2601 datapoint......I run mine for non-PTO work at 2000-2100 Rpm normally and then when blowing snow with he PTO, wide open. With ~140hrs on the clock now, I have never noticed any drools coming from my exhaust on start up. Plenty of "soot" per usual.

Cool. Have you installed any of their products? They looks decent.....

First Storm Update: We finally got enough snow to need to actually do something with it. 12-14" of powder yesterday here in NH. While the tractor was warming up I pulled the cover and verified the couple was matched up nicely and didn't get bumped around some how (eliminating all...

Finally got some snow here in NH......10-14" of nice powder which will be a mess in 36hrs as we are set to get another 2-4" of snow then 1-2" of rain tomorrow night....... Repaired blower worked well as it should for a $700 repair on a "commercial" blower with <35hrs on it. We'll see how it...

We're supposed to get 6-12" here in NH tonight from one of the most over-hyped storms in recent memory. Haven't fired the blower up yet since having to pay to have the couplers replaced at only ~35 hours of residential use. Of course the ground isn't really frozen which means it will be a...