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Post by serffarmer on Nov 18, 2021 21:49:38 GMT -6
Anybody running snow pushers on their front end loaders? Using a front wheel assist right now with an 8 foot bucket. It works but just very slow and time consuming with the longer pushes causing lots of snow to dribble off the edges. Spend a lot of time cleaning up ridges . Wondering how much a snow pusher would speed things up. Would love to pick up a degelman speed blade but just can’t afford it.
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Post by Beerwiser on Nov 18, 2021 22:07:54 GMT -6
What I do if I actually push snow is the bucket on the tractor to get the majority and a BOSS blade on the kubota RTV to clean up. The boss has a nice inverted "V" which is awesome for cleaning up ridges and no switching tools out.
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Post by meskie on Nov 18, 2021 22:17:08 GMT -6
Got a 8’ snow pusher for the skid steer. It will move snow twice as fast or more then the bucket on our tractor. If I had a bigger skid steer it would be nice but it works good for around the yard. Have a blade for doing the big bin yard.
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Post by kevlar on Nov 18, 2021 22:18:58 GMT -6
I have never used one on a tractor but have on a wheel loader, probably 3x as fast. My concern is how well the loader on a tractor would hold up to those things. I know guys have used them for awhile on their tractors. They would add a fair bit of side force or twist on the arms. I would think that hitting something with the edge of the blade could do some damage. Just my thoughts.
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Post by Beerwiser on Nov 18, 2021 22:48:33 GMT -6
Kevlar brought up a good point. The side force is not nice on a loader speaking from experience doing crap I shouldn't have with a tractor loader. Many years ago running a JD FWA pushing snow with a angled blade would easily kick the tractor over, if it would have been a loader mount I would have torn it apart.
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Post by kenmb on Nov 19, 2021 7:48:18 GMT -6
Was kicking around the idea of one but then figured the $10,000 or so for one got me thinking about the $/hr it would save me vs the fel bucket. And in the winter getting a job done in 3 hrs vs 8 hrs just doesn't amount to much. If I wanted to spend some money then that would be a nice toy. But in regards to bang for the buck there really isn't one.
But to improve my life a little bit I am planning to build some skid shoes for my bucket. One of the more time consuming tasks is making sure the blade edge isn't going to cut into the lawn. Figure some skid shoes will make life a lot easier and faster as I can be less precise with bucket angle.
The other option is bolting some extensions on the bucket for snow work. That can come later. But if I ever have a few dollars to spend then a snow blade is on my list.
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Post by Beerwiser on Nov 19, 2021 8:30:49 GMT -6
I know one guy who sliced a pipe open enough to put on the leading edge of the bucket for dealing with single wrap silage bales. That might work to protect your lawn too.
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Post by meskie on Nov 19, 2021 8:40:41 GMT -6
What kind of pusher are you buying for 10 grand? My 8’ one was $2000 and they would put any style coupler on it. Or a couple of bars so the bucket would slide in it and you just chain it on.
Putting one on a front end loader should be fine if your careful with it. And realize that it works far better pushing straight then trying to turn and push snow.
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Post by megrizzly on Nov 19, 2021 9:34:33 GMT -6
Purchased a 10' model for our fwa. It works pretty decent and is very well built. However, it isn't the end all to moving snow. I would say its best suited for yards where you don't have many places to put the snow and need to push it longer distances.
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Post by meskie on Nov 19, 2021 10:18:34 GMT -6
Purchased a 10' model for our fwa. It works pretty decent and is very well built. However, it isn't the end all to moving snow. I would say its best suited for yards where you don't have many places to put the snow and need to push it longer distances. If all your using is a bucket now you’d think you’ve gone to heaven with a snow pusher instead.
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Post by northernfarmer on Nov 19, 2021 11:10:55 GMT -6
I know one guy who sliced a pipe open enough to put on the leading edge of the bucket for dealing with single wrap silage bales. That might work to protect your lawn too. I rigged up a smaller tractor with a pipe split open to slip on the bucket edge with the intentions of using it to push grain in a pile but never dumped the grain on the ground so never did use it. I believe I used a cut off wheel on an angle grinder to make the two cuts for the gap width and then welded on flat metal tabs that corresponded with holes in the bucket once the pipe was slid into place. I never tried it in snow but it certainly should work better then the cutting edge of a bucket for avoiding diving into the ground. Of course that doesn't create wings on the ends at an angle to make a U shape blade for cupping volumes of snow. If one is good at fabricating and has access to cheap metal of all sorts of shapes such as cutting out a section of a very large diameter pipe or can find an old blade that is not too heavy as a base to build off of and make a sub frame on the rear if you have a quick attach bucket system. The idea with a blade as well could be to make a pipe edge system ( the ends upturned some for additional anti gouging qualities ) and build extensions on the ends that angle forward for the cupping action.
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Post by meskie on Nov 19, 2021 12:03:35 GMT -6
If you used your bucket more the cutting edge would be rounded and doesn’t dig in.
Our main loader tractor is like that and is east to skim the ground. The other one with a sharp cutting edge not so much.
If you liked driving backwards could rig up an old blade on the 3pth to push snow. Would work good for cleaning up the spill piles out the side of the bucket. And use bucket in the front to pile higher or dig out big drifts.
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Post by kenmb on Nov 19, 2021 13:29:17 GMT -6
Didn't get a quote Meskie, just guestimate looking around Kijiji and throwing in some price adjustments. Would have been a 12 to 14 ft I would be looking for since I have a 8ft bucket now and so it would not have been a 10 ft I was looking at. I doubt I could get one for under $6000 unless it was used. A quick look on Kijiji found this used 14 ft for $7500. Maybe they are out to lunch. Don't know. Was going to start a thread last winter about what to look for in a snow push but then got to thinking if cutting my snow clearing time down by half was really the best place to spend some dollars. $2000 for a small one to help out around the yard would be an easy decision. Getting up over $6k and it is a little different. But I don't have big budgets and my snow with loader time amounts to about 16 hours a year here. Do put more hours than that on a 5 foot snow blower on 26 hp tractor cleaning up tight areas. www.kijiji.ca/v-heavy-equipment-machinery/owen-sound/hla-5505-snow-pusher/1591317110
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Post by Albertabuck on Nov 19, 2021 13:33:20 GMT -6
Never used one of these pushers. I can say from experience its hard to beat a wheel loader for agility and speed even just using an 8 ft bucket. I'm getting that beat into me right now having went back to using the dozer because I never got to rebuilding the engine in my loader yet. Never mind pushing snow, f'ck I miss that thing around the corrals and more. Once you are used to using one, when goes down like mine, it is greatly missed.
I have seen the carnage that can occur when one gets carried away pushing with a FEL, the tractor nor the loader are built for that. I've seen everything from broken engine blocks to bent cylinders as result.
I need to find them, but I have a set of plates that bolt onto the ends of my manual angle 10ft Degelman blade on a larger 2wd, three bolts held them on, about a three foot oval, work good for when you are just pushing loose snow and allows you to carry a lot more. I have seen similar done on loader buckets as well. The pipe on cutting edge works awesome.
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Post by kenmb on Nov 19, 2021 13:40:13 GMT -6
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