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Jim Storma

Jim a 4 to 8 gallon a minute pump run off the front pto works nice to run loader hydraulics. I have used that size pump on my 129 loader.I`am thinking P F Engineering ( http://www.pf-engineering.com/ )is good place to look for loader info.
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CHARLIE - I know PLENTY about moving snow. I just don't have to move the stuff six months out of every year like you do!
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I used to clean the whole barnyard with the M & loader when I was about ten yrs old, and our barnyard was as big as a baseball field, including the outfield. Dad was running two pair of IH weights on the M back then (600#), and chains. I'd make piles the size of my shop, 24 ft X 36 ft X 8-10 ft tall. The loader on the M can pile snow a LOT higher than the loader on the Super H.

When you have lots of snow to move, use something BIG. My concrete drive sloping up to the road complicates things for me. Tough to get decent footing even with weight & chains, plus I don't want to bust anything, expecially not my loader & tractor, or the concrete drive, so I go slow.

I will say the 70 & new to me this year 42" frt blade did pretty good on the little snows, 1"-3". But the "Storm of the Century" took about an hour to move, had to air up a flat tire on the SH, back out of the shop thru a 3+ ft deep drift, and all the snow was drifted from a foot to 2+ ft deep in front of the attached garage, and I had to drag it back from the garage and push it across the drive past the shop. When I was dragging the snow it would come away from the drifts in chunks eight-nine feet wide from my 6-2/3rds ft wide blade.

I didn't have any problems a couple years ago when we had over 100 inches of snow. About early Febuary SON & I had a snow moving party, pushed all the snow away from in front of the house so when it melted it didn't over-load the drainage tile around the house and seep into the basement. We were pushing 2-3 foot deep snow plus taller piles 100-150 feet. We had piles 3-4 ft tall in front of the 80 inch blade & 80 inch wide bucket on the M, both tractors with weights & chains.

Yes, turf tires with chains may be better than chains on lugged tires, but is it worth the hassle of swapping different wheels/tires to mount chains on turfs or smooth tread tires? Maybe if you already have them, but the 2, maybe 3-4 times a year they'd do me any better than what I already have I'm not spending the money or time to swap tires. Takes me about an hour to chain up each big tractor, and I can move more snow in 15 minutes after putting the chains on that I could in two hours without chains.
 
Jim/Gerry-

If it turns the wrong direction, it could be the wrong speed, too. From what I've heard there weren't many 2000 rpm PTO attachments made.
 
Charlie "Digger" Proctor

that `s to bad .Does this mean you might have snow in a few weeks , end of September ? Last year we had no amount of snow till well into November . I must get the 450 ready for this year and see if it will stay working for awhile. I guess they won`t stand turning on the PTO at wot .My wife has this month off for Vacation, so no Cub time till after she is back at work Sept 6 I think. later Don T
 
CHARLIE - Ohhh OK, eight months.
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At least that old Binder truck should really move some snow. I went riding with the township road commissioner during a late spring snow fall during spring break from college one year. We were in a '67 C65 Chevy single axle, 366-V8 & 5X2 transmission, it was geared for pushing/pulling, not highway running like the newer '74 C65. Had an angled blade like yours, and about 5-6 ton of rock in the box. The Boss never liked us to run over 3500 RPM but as we found bigger drifts to plow thru he was pushing that thing over 4000 rpm a couple times.

Local excavating contractor contracts out to clear the mall parking lots all winter. They use 5-6 big green ag tractors, either articulated 4X4's or FWA, they seem to all run duals. After a big snow I get "cab envy", those guys running around with just flannel shirts on with the sleeves rolled up while I freeze my butt off in my Carrharts. Oh well, anything with a cab big enough to do a decent job pushing snow won't fit in my shop door.
 
Gerry, It turns out it's a worm drive. I thought about flipping it but the box would hit the ground before the tines. I'd probably have to put a gear box on it.

Donald, Thanks for the link,and the info on the 4-8 gallon pump.

Matt G. I agree with you. I can't even find an already made 2000 RPM pto shaft on the internet.
 
Charlie - Did you notice that I fixed the Members Counter last night when it was stuck on 6299 ?

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Dennis - That's a helpful link to store back. It might save some re-power high angle drives.

Where's member # 6301
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All dat werk fer nuttin!
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