B2650 rear or front blower for emergency use

[nrbocke]

Here is one more argument to get a good front mount blower: better to have your dollars tied up in a good piece of equipment that goes with your tractor. Like money in the bank, and safer than the stock market.

Life is too short and it sounds like calling in and saying you are snowed in is not an option.

I take the mower off mine in the fall, put the snow blower on, and in the two winters we've had since I got it, have only had about 6 really deep snowfalls, but before I got it we had two killer winters and you could have skied on the snow pile I created in my back yard. It would take 2 days to clean up my farm yard, and that was with neighbor plowing my drive with his truck. So no telling what this winter will bring.

I decided I'd like to enjoy my little farm and the winter shoveling was getting old so the B2650 with a cab and front blower was a treat. The older I get the more important good visibility is to me. You will probably want to consider Rops lights next

I think everyone is right on. Thanks everyone for their time and thoughts. Time to get some prices...

 

[nbryan]

If you go front mount get the 63", not 51". As you can see in my video this tractor has plenty enough power for it.

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[jkcolo22]

Those are some good points and what you're saying is probably true. Believe me, if I'm home (and not sleeping) I have no problem staying on top of the snow. Sometimes all I get is a drift in front of my garage door and I'll go out and scoop it every hour or 2. I've all pushed snow of my entire driveway with a shovel a time or two when I didn't think it was worth tearing up my crushed concrete. Now that might change as I get older but now I don't mind the work if I have the time. Issue is I work 12 hour shifts rotating between night and days. Sometimes I have 7 days off and other times in the schedule I work 7 in a row. So if you need to stay up on it for a blade to work well that's probably not a realistic option.

12 hours away does complicate things... Problem letting it accumulate too much is weight of the snow and tires just spin trying to push it. Too much accumulation and you have to take small cuts working outside-in. In other words, you have to hang your angled blade half way off the side of the road. Then on later passes you start pushing the snow in the middle toward the outside (on top of what you just cleared), then another pass to push it off the side. Time consuming... whenever I wait too long, I’m thinking that this would have me taken me 1/5 the time if I just got out here earlier.


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