I remember when I was a kid my dads best friend has a snow blower mounted on the back of his 400hp Steiger tractor, that would throw snow over 100ft... it threw the snow over my house lol.
Years ago at work I torched a bicycle that was tangled in the auger of a snowblower mounted on a skidsteer. The bike had been locked to a parking meter. Covered with snow pushed to the side of the road by the city plow operator. Our Utility Worker did not see the covered bike and ran the bike into the snowblower. Hydrostatic motor had the power to wrap the bike frame around the auger, lot of noise but did not stall the hydraulic motor.
Maybe a video on different landscape attachments when and where to use them everything from box rakes to planers to just 3pt seeders/overseeders. Just the attachments because you can go into all the different type of machines that go in front of them. I guess more specifically what to use going from a bare weedy open lot to after house construction and prepping and finishing for seeding.
This is awesome. Just heard of this brand the other day. Great demo! Going to give this blower some serious consideration. Thanks for the videos and God bless.
Snow videos and what do you think is the best walk behind snowblower.....I've had a honda now I own a yamaha...but there are other brands out there ....toro ect . Love your videos
Hey Stanley, your videos are awesome. You asked us to comment on what we would like to see. Well here goes!! I recently bought a bobcat s150 up in your neck of the woods (Prior Lake, MN) and know little about it. Could you do some maintenance videos on skid steers and how to hookup attachments and controls that go with them, operation wise. Thanks Man!!!
I would like to see some sidewalk tractors with blades and salters. I run Massey Ferguson Gc 2300 with a 60 in Kubota power angle blade and 48 in hydromann drop salter PTO drive. Hard to beat this setup but I sure there is something better. It is your reviews Stanley that will prove me wrong, go get em! Thanks for sharing
Hay Stan lets discuss that chain statement. I will start by saying he is correct about matching the blower to the machine. As far as using dual hydraulic motors vs one motor with a chain, when I purchased my loftness machine many of the mechanics and people that owned them urged me to purchase a chain system using one hydraulic pump. The statement they made was that using 2 motors will divide the flow from the machine therefore reducing power. In this video they are using a large machine with a good amount of hydraulic power/flow. I have a small machine mustang 2054. Final thoughts for me is this if the snow is super wet and heavy I will use a blade or bucket. If it is light and fluffy the blower is great. If I were to purchase a new machine (skid loader and blower) I would look into a high flow machine. That being said I haven’t run a high flow unit yet.
Hey Stan. I would love to see a battle of the mini skids... Toro dingo, bobcat mt, vermeer, ditch witch. Who makes the best machine for the money.? Thanks.
I second this! All we do is mini skid work, limited access jobs. I have a MT85 a MT52 a 463 and a S70 bobcat that I could provide. I could easily get my vermeer guy, and ditch witch guy, in on a mini skid shootout. LOCAL IN WISCONSIN.
More of tim and his demo techniques. Also go hang with chant for a day or two and do a day in the live with each other. I really enjoyed the landscape vids way back in the day. The new equipment reviews videos are good too. Keep up the good work stan
Great video Stan! Learned a bunch about the different blowers available! 👍 Maybe a video about preparations for a big snow storm, the guys , the trucks and equipment etc?
I'm in my early 50's so I've seen some snowblowers in my short time on this planet. I remember the old Craftsman drift breakers that were popular where I grew up in northern Vermont. Big, heavy built to chew up foreign motor cycles and VW bugs for breakfast. The Toro came out with those paddle things, then snowblowers started getting cheaply made with stamped metal that would crumple when you tried to attack the drift of snow the city plow decided was a good idea to put in front of your driveway. Plows for trucks had hydraulic control on a T handle joy stick mounted to the floor of the truck. Then things got fancy! I find my self having to and wanting to go back to school for heavy equipment operation. Do you have any schools to recommend? Good video and love your channel!
I could see one of these being useful to remove snow once collected from a lot to prep for the next snowstorm... but I would expect a large loader to be more effective than a blower.. these are good for long driveways/lots where you have a fence or wall you want to throw the snow over..
Hey Stan, love your videos. You have talked many times about down force on your plows to get a better scrap. With your skid steer, telling your drivers not to lift the front wheels higher than a piece of paper or on your rear plows, able to lift the rear truck tires off the ground. You have often talked about the differences between chain lift and cylinder lift on your truck front plows, but I haven’t heard you talk about the advantages of down force from a cylinder lift front plow. Boss offers a down force option on new straight blades. This is not an add on option. It has to be ordered with this option. I have only used chain lift plows, but they say you can get a better back drag scrap if you have this down force option. I read somewhere it puts an additional 250 pounds on the scrap. I was wondering if you’ve used one of these. I haven’t heard what it cost yet.
Hey Stan I would like to see a video about commercial salt & sand spreaders and salt brine spreader for snow and Ice maintenance! Also why do you guys not use any salt & sand on your commercial lots?
Blow the snow away from the curb areas into the plow areas, and increase the height of the piles by blowing the pile higher and higher in one spot. Saving space for future snow events
Personally, I'd like to see some small scale logging type videos if you could come up with anything. Things like attachments for skid loaders or tractors. Maybe different options for processing firewood.
Thanks Stan for all the great content! I would like to hear discussion on managing quality control and customer satisfaction. What have you found is the best way to respond to a customer's complaint? How do you handle employees with poor workmanship and motivate them to do better? Especially in relation to snow season as many of us currently are in. I find the more plow trucks that are on the route, the more likely it is there will be callbacks ect. I would enjoy hearing tips from a veteran in the game ;)
Nice video! However I was mislead by the title, thinking it was going to be a tractor mounted snowblower vs a skid steer mount. There was nothing about a tractor regarding this snowblower :) I’d love to see some tractor driven vs skid steer driven snowblowers. I’d imagine the mechanical PTO drives would be considerably more powerful than the hydraulic drive of the skid steer (hp for hp)
20 something years moving snow in newengland and the hydraulic powered blowers are quick simple and easy to use but they lack the power even with the high flow rates. They dont have the throwing distance. Even with the modified rubber plates on the auger. Cant load trucks easily. The snow blower with a pony motor in my opinion kicks ass.
Hey Stan, That was a great video, I'm going to have to check them out. I'm lining up my ducks to get some property in the country, and I plan to have the house way off the road. So one of those blowers with a 50hp cab tractor would be the nuts. Take care my friend and may God Bless and Protect you and your family Brother. 🤠
Hey Stan - we got 1cm of snow here in the UK what do you recommend to prevent absolute panic by the authorities when people wake up to find the tarmac dusted white? Hope you are not suffering to much with the polar vortex...
I'm thinking about buying a 95 horsepower Kubota what do you think about that I can afford to buy only attachments I'm looking for one good loader that can handle it all how about the reputation of the Kubota do you like that please let me know
Stan... I would like to see you test out a John Deere X739 4 wheel drive/all wheel steer garden tractor with a 60 inch deck. They can mow up to 10 mph, work great on steeper hills, and they can actually mow a tighter circle around a 12 inch diameter pole than most zero turns. (By hills I mean too steep for zero turns without sliding down, when going down, or sliding sideways, when going across the hill, especially when wet.) I realize Ventrac can preform well in these conditions, but it is so very expensive, compared to the X739 JD.
I did it for a while we had about a 40" snowplow shovel and i could really clear some snow with that thing probably 10 times faster than a snowblower in 2" anything more than that you have to really work. The snowplow is the name of the shovel
@@fohdmoco Been running snowplow shovels for years. never anything bigger than the 30" tho they get too heavy to manuver...but definitely the best shovels in the world.
For someone lacking knowledge this is a great video.... off topic how are you liking your new Ram? You always had Fords was wondering what you thought of the Ram so far.
the design of the blades of blower make all difference depending on the type of snow you have. If you have heavy, wet near zero(C) snow then no standard blower is going to move that snow. There are two major factors, fan/ejector design, and auger design. The old standard augers won't move wet snow, it will just plug up with now. So first off you need an ejector that is a fan type design. Then you need augers that have paddles to move and break up the wet snow. Now those blowers are really hard to find.
If your looking for ideas, how about a video for us people at home that want to clear the driveway and sidewalk on the cheap, line a riding lawn mower with a snow blade or snow blower or even a ATV or side by side with a blade or snow blower?
Any way you could review Avant Tractors with a snowblower? I was thinking if it had a small pull plow on the back it'd be ideal for driveways and small commercial properties where there is a heavy snow fall.
we have 4 of these bobcat snowblowers, and one skid it doesnt work well, thought it didnt have hi flo at first, but maybe the blower isnt designed for that
So first question is which is the skid steer you want to have with the right flow which one's going to give you the maximum power when it comes to snow blowing second of all the tests that you guys have with the cat versus the other one the other skid steer which one would have done better with which head and overall what would have been a better choice so now you got the two skids girls with you like the verse that whatever it was called you didn't like the cat the cat what snowblower would have went with that model and how good would it have performed where did strong enough to flee that far now you know different heights and all that stuff so when it comes to a skid steer you got to be pretty Pacific what brand new by what make you buy and what you're going to attach to a down the road you got no options if you made a bad choice in the beginning in the skid steer Dallas with very little air everything about this keeps turning over to make sure you make the right choice from the beginning
Hey I’m thinking of starting my own lawn service I would like to know what is the best way to promote your business and the recommendations for what equipment to invest in
