Snow removal equipment

[Corley5]

Here's some pics of our snow mover.  It's 1969 MF 180 with a 7' McKee snowblower on the back.  The old front end loader doesn't amount to much anymore.  Before the blower came along it moved lots of snow and other materials while being mounted not only on this tractor but a Ferguson 40 and a Ferguson 35.  We added extra crossers in the tires chains for good measure.  You think the tractor does good without them until you put them on.  The difference is night and day.  What do the rest of you use for snow removal?  The people who get snow to plow that is ;)

[pasbuild]

I use a New Holland skid steer for my snow removal. between the garage and the gardens and the retaining wall I can't just push the snow I have to move most of it to the end of the driveway. I had one of the hyd. motors throw a bearing and am waiting for a rebuilt right now, a couple of neighbors are taking care of snow removal for me until repairs are made.    

[shopteacher]

I push it with a JD 8875 skidsteer. 72" bucket once up and once back 12' clearing. Love it.

[Minnesota_boy]

You guys have a shortage of snow removal equipment!  I have a plow for my pickup, a snowblower and 2 blades for the back of the tractor, plus a blade on my ATV.  That's just for my yard and driveway.  If things get real serious, I suppose I could get the crawler going and use the bucket too.  

[shopteacher]

PB: All I can say is I'm glad i don't need all that snow removal equipment. In fact wish I didn't need what I do have.  Come on Spring, come on sunshine, come on warm summer winds and lets fire up the mill again.

[ADfields]

I haver a Boss V plow for my F350 but I have not even put it on this year.   The ole guy next door has it plowed with his Bobcat before I get out of bed to do it every new snow this winter. 8)   That started this winter after I showed him my log boom I built onto my trailer this fall.   He has a mill and he's racking up the Browne points with his Bobcat now. :-/   He wont even take fuel from me so I know I'm in for it this summer with him, but we will have a great time getting logs for him I bet! 8)   Or maybe he wants one for himself ??? thats fun also! ;)
Andy

[isawlogs]

I have a Dodge 250 4x4 with the cummins and a 8 foot western plow,I plow close to 50 laneways, so the Dodge gets a good workout when it does snow.

[karl]

105 hp Ford 9030 bi- directional- locking differentials/chains on rear, thinking about front too- w/ 8' bucket or 8' two stage blower- I hate snow!

[Bro. Noble]

We save two or three buckets of ashes to scatter on the slick spots :D :D

[breederman]

Massy 165 with back blade but my preferrerd method is to just run over it! :D

[Haytrader]

Noble,

Do you spread the ashes so you don't bust your a$$s?

 :D  :D  :D

[Bro. Noble]

Boy that Haytrader is on a roll today :D :D

Actually we spread them so we don't have to board the milkhauler till it thaws. ;)   You can get to the highway two different ways from our place.  One is up a steep hill and the other is up a really steep hill :   One time I bladed off the steep hill but the milkhauler decided to go up the real steep hill.  I got him out with the winch.  After that I just ask him how he aims to go and where he wants the ashes. ;D   He hauled mild here for almost 20 years and only put his chains on once.  I winched him several times.

He quit hauling last spring and we've had about a dozen haulers since.  Wish that old aggrivating character was back :-/

[shopteacher]

Yea Noble, sometime you don't know how good ya got it till its gone.

[Bill Johnson]

I have a shovel, scraper, and sno float :D Oh yeah and for real big snow falls a friendly neighbour with blade on the front of his pick up. 8)

[Swede]

I just wait, At the end anyone with a blade on his tractor caught sight at the misery and take pity over me.
I noticed some sacks printed "SALT" at the supermarket last week. If I spread them out and I have no snow and dont have to spend time at the lawnmower in the summer. = more time with my sawmill  8)

Swede.

[DR Buck]

 

My snow removal is Orange, same color as my soon to be acquired LT40 HD25G mill.

Kubota B2710, 27Hp hydro diesel with 6ft scraper blade and loader bucket. [/b]

1800' of driveway will be waiting with 6+ inches of white stuff by morning!  

[chet]

My little ole 48' ford 8N, has been faithfully pushin' all my snow now for over 26 years. And Lord knows we git our share of dat white stuff.   :-/

[Ron Scott]

Chet,

Don't you have one of them "Yooper Scoops"? I bought one up there last winter, the medium size, at your local Trustworthy and use it regularly down here when I don't need to get the snowblower out at snow 6 inches or less.

Of course I still have to tell people what it is and where I got it. I now see them available in a hardware store north of here and hear that they are being made in Traverse City.

The price is better there in Iron River though.

[Frickman]

We have the usual assortment of tractors with highlifts and blades, and have used the skidder when the snow was deep. Back when we milked I'd sometimes plow a mile of public road down to the main road so the milk truck could get in. Sometimes I'd wait there and pull the truck up with the skidder. Since we quit milking I don't plow unless it a foot deep, we just run over the snow and pack it down. In our area it usually melts every couple weeks, and the snowmelt runs into the ditch the same whether it was plowed or not.

[whitepe]

My snow removal equipment is green and yellow.
I didn't see very much snow removal equipment in India. ;D

[redpowerd]

mines_red_and_white. we like them to start in tha mornin! ;D                      

[Ron Scott]

Snow removal is becoming a daily activity and it looks that way for the rest of the week. I did the "house roof" this past week-end as many are starting on that activity also.

Not many at the local coffee shop this morning; most were home moving snow or trying to get their equipment started to do so.

[Stump Jumper]

I used the skidsteer today just to move the piles back.then get the chevy fired up just to make biger piles

[Corley5]

Now here's a snowy place.  I have no idea where these were taken but it doesn't look like a real hospitable enviroment

[UNCLEBUCK]

yooper scoops  :D thats great ! I went across the u.p. again on christmas day and the snow amounts in all the driveways was really deep but still always a beautiful drive !  It snowed almost 2 feet here in minnesota in the last 2 days and I always plow out with loader and tractor but this time I got my cousin over with his rig like Corley5 and he was done in 15 minutes and left no snow banks and I believe I will get a 3 point snow blower like Corley has someday, it really did a nice job . The plumber in town mounted a big old v plow on his old front wheel assist backhoe with just a few mounting spots welded to his loader and he can really cruise with that old rig .  nice set up Corley5 !

[Corley5]

It does the job U.B.  Before we got the blower I'd spend up to 1 1/2 hours cleaning my driveway with the loader and backblade on the 180 then I'd do the same thing at Dad's.  That pretty much takes care of an afternoon.  With the blower I'm all done and the tractor's parked in an 1hr to an 1 1/2hr depending on the snow depth and the best part is no snowbanks and it looks neat when it's done.  I recommend them.  I'd like one mounted on the front.  Neck gets stiff after backing up all the time ;)

[shopteacher]

Corley5, you need to mount one of those cameras on the back with a monitor on the hood and if you get one of those picture in a picture types you could watch a soap opera while plowing. :D :D

[Haytrader]

And a cab with a heater.
 

[woodmills1]

My one ton is a good snow pusher with its 9 foot plow blade, but hasn't seen much action this winter.  The last few times I went to start it were a pain.  It seems the carburetor is drying out and it must be primed with gas or it won't start.  Once I give it a capfull it starts right up every time till I let it set a spell again.

So, any ideas? 1986 Chevy 350 conventional mechanical fuel pump with feed and return to tank.  New tank, new fuel pump, replaced in line filter, in carb filter and entire return line from pump back to tank.  Choke sets closed with one pump in cold weather and will return to open in few minutes when running.  It has the stock quadrajet 4 barrel. No obvious leaks in supply line.

[DR Buck]

 :-[

Sounds like the float valve in the carburetor reservoir is not sealing tight.  All the gas is seeping into the intake after you shut it off.

[woodmills1]

would that mean the gasket between the body and the top of the carb is shot?

[Minnesota_boy]

Why not just blow about $50 and put an electric fuel pump in line?  Make sure that it's power comes on only when the ignition is turned on so it doesn't keep pumping when the engine is shut off.  Turn the ignition on, wait 10 seconds for the carburetor to be pumped full, then start it.

[Stump Jumper]

The electric fuel pump is a good idea.  Them quadrajets have a problem draining the bowl while setting.  Some worse than otheres.  There are two holes drilled in the bottom of the bowl which is for jetting or fuel routing purposes. On the bottem side of the bowl the holes are plugged off at the factory with a soft metal like lead or something.  You can take the carb aprt and clean the 2 spots with wire brush then epoxy it.  Telltail sign is with the engine hot shut it off take air breather off and listen for it dripping and sizzling in the intake.  Hope this information helps.  If there is anymore questions let me know. :P

[Gus]

I've got an old Oliver 77 with a Du-Al loader and one of them little 8N ford tractors with a 3 point hitch blade. Chains for both. They seem to do all right.

[J_T]

So far this year we used a broom and salt shaker. :D

[slowzuki]

Those pictures were taken in Newfoundland during the 2002/2003 winter.  It is the highway that runs accross the middle of the province if I recall correctly!  I've posted them a few times on Chucks snowplow contractors message board.

[SwampDonkey]

I've seen snow piled along the road here so deep you could hang onto the hydro lines and the snowplough trucks couldn't push the snow it was so hard frozen and packed with the wind. They had to use a grader with a front-end mounted snowblower and we only had one lain wide. The wind was bad that winter and we had lots of snow  ;D. I've not seen that condition for 20 years now. We used to get alot of January rains too that would make large ponds in fields. During the rains the water would be travelling like sheets across the snow and afterword we'de have 2 inch crust to walk or even bike on. Now that's been awhile ;)

[ADfields]

SwampDonkey, thats about what we have in Palmer Alaska this year. :   Tons and tons of snow, loads of wind and a nice freezing rain hear and there. >:(   Better have some good ice cleats or stay the heck inside when the rain water starts that sheeting on top of the packed snow!!   Them $10 Yack-Tracks from WalMart don't cut it for that stuff, I found out the hard way. :'(   I love the snow but the other stuff SUCKS big time! :-/   Is it April yet?   :D :D
Andy

[J_T]

If it ever snowes that much here the air off the moving van will melt that snow ! Cause move over Tom and FD here I come :D

[Scott]

 Just got a scanner on Sunday. These pictures are from two winters ago I think. We use the bucket but dad's looking for a plow blade to speed things up a bit.

[SwampDonkey]

Scott:

Yes a blade would do mighty fine on that Massey. Last year was a bad year for snow and wind I recall. The previous winter we never got snow up here till the end of January because I was cutting, piling and burning apple and black cherry brush from November 'til the end of January. Then again in early april. Right down to my cotton sweater, was a record warm winter here. I remember a fox took her pups from the area, she had them in a dug out ground hog hole. With all the burning and cutting I was doing, I drove her out. I heard this whimperin noise and it was a pup in her mouth headin to the woods, 1/4  mile across a 100 acre field. Anyway that snow looks familiar with last years bad weather.   shuddder!!!

cheers

[Scott]

Last year we got almost all our snow in 2 storms. I look in the old clear cuts and see some saplings snapped over at about four feet, thats from the snowmobiles driving them over last winter. So far this year has been pretty sad for snowmobiles around here, not enough snow to cover things up.

[SwampDonkey]

Scott

Same here with the snow depth, it hasn't even covered the corn stubble yet. On my cousins Christmas tree farm you can still see last season's tree plantings poking up above the snow. The deer aren't even yarding up, can go about anywhere. And this winter the moose are staying on my lot, they usually go north of me in the mature softwoods and come out to the old clearcuts to feed in deep snow. I have 3, sometimes 5 moose at a time here. Maybe I can catch some shots the next few days.

cheers