I grew up with a 1956 Massey Harris Canadian made tractor, for use on our farm near the Canadian border. We'd get 60" (1.65 meters) of "lake effect" snow in a night. Our tractor would make short work of it.
@@MiniMachines1 We had a rear-mounted, angled, bladed yellow plow, not sure the make. It had a 360° swivel w8th implement pin so we could plow in forward or reverse gear.. It had a 3 point hitch, we could raise and lower it to take the snow out in steps. The removable tire chains for the tractor were so could run through the snow with or without the plow, unless the snow was wind driven and hard packed, which it usually was. In such case, we needed the plow. We'd usually have to dig the tractor and plow out to even see them. When parked, we could not put the plow blade on the ground, we had to set the blade on a piece of wood so we could hit the wood with a sledgehammer to free the plow for use. Blade on the ground = Pouring boiling water and rocking tractor to free plow when it was time to use it. Back in those years ('60's and '70's), we would get snow for 5 months out of the year, it's about 3 months now. A lot of my family still lives there, though I live in the Southwestern US, Italy and México mostly, now.
@@MiniMachines1 Our tractor also had a PTO which we used for our bush hog mower and field tiller. Between us farmers, we had one communal PTO driven snow blower for the storms that would pile 2 or 3 meters of snow on us in a week that we could not keep up with. We kept it at the Alford Dairy Farm 3 miles away and would drive the tractor up the road to go get it if we needed it. But Mr Alford needed it most because his cows needed to be able to go out in the fields... That's why it was kept there. The roads and highways department would leave piles of snow, sometimes 25 or 30 feet high on both sides of the road during those big snowstorms. Occasionally they would block our driveway and cover our cars and we'd spend the next week digging out our cars with aluminum and steel snow shovels coated with Pam cooking spray to keep the hard-pack from sticking to the shovels. We also had to dig out our chicken house and corn crib, at least just the door of it. The snow acted like insulation to all of our outbuildings, especially protecting our chickens from the arctic blast winds.. Roofs were strong, reinforced, to handle the tons of snow that would pile up there. We'd leave it there for the insulating factor. There were times we could walk out of 2nd floor windows right onto hard-pack snow drifts, and walk down the drifts to the yard. My grandfather had a Wheel Horse tractor with a snow blower attachment so he could always get his place clear without help. Sometimes he'd run down the hill to the lake and clear the main area out on the ice for the ice fishermen to set up their hot tents and ice fishing houses. They gave him a donation for his time and gas. He never got much money, he just enjoyed helping the fishermen. He fished there often, himself. I think those days of freak week-long snowstorms are gone, though we still get our big overnighters up there now and then. Wow. What memories. I'd put most of those memories to bed over the past 50 years.
@@MissionaryInMexico Wow what a story, I got it easy with the mini excavator and tractor to clear snow and even the honda snowblower if it tight spaces. Your story is amazing, and it's incredible what we people will go true for living in a place. But I could have moved south and had no snow and excavation all year but here I am...
We have an old "pull type" blower built locally mounted to an old 1955 Minneapolis U with no cab...you learn pretty quick the value of wheel brakes when the drifts try to suck you in...lol
Why would you want a snowblower that you have to drive the tractor through the snow to blow it? What happens when the snow is to deep to drive the tractor through? We get deep snow and I have a front wheel assist tractor this type of blower would never work here at all!
These type of snowblowers cost a lot less than one with an gearbox and other stuff to make it work, it's an simple design that lasts for ever almost. You drop the blower and drive, no need to think about it when you drag it. But as you say when it's to much snow it has it's problems, but as you can see in the video it do handle a lot of snow. But sometimes you need an extra machine like in this video ua-cam.com/video/l_QGcxEYhvc/v-deo.html
@@kellybelanger5836 Sonja I have a 65 inch blower mounted on the 3 point on the rear of my tractor. My tractor is a 34 hp diesel with front wheel assist. It gets used a lot more than I like!
That's true, than I need to back into it and remove bit for bit, but normally that's not a problem except here where I needed to use a mini excavator to brake it up in smaller pieces ua-cam.com/video/l_QGcxEYhvc/v-deo.html
If you need heavier things next winter, take a trip at yout eastern neighbour. 😉 www.varilasteel.com/kunto/ There are also these kinds of snowblowers sold second hand, we call them high capasity / heavy duty / industrial and/or forest model snowblower. Can be driven forward or backing up through the banks. Try to take care. 😇 Our Lapland is drowning in snow but middle/southern parts are compleatly without white stuff. 🙁
I don't have the possibility to use a plow in my driveway, I need to throw the snow away if not the snowbank will get so high that I cant plow anymore.
Kompis luckily have the sense to move when the tractor comes, the excavator he wants to get the dirt that are in the bucket so that's an bit scary sometimes. If you look at this video he is trying to get the dirt out of the bucket ua-cam.com/video/Sh_Sqbbx0oI/v-deo.html
Hard to watch stupidity, drive through blower and blowing it into the wine, point it to the wind straight up and it would have gone right over that house
If you had seen the comments you would have seen that I don't have permission to throw the snow the other way, you need permissible from the owner to throw snow on there property. That's why I need to throw it into the wind, and the light snow would maby gone over the house but there is a lot of snow that are so heavy it goes nowhere in wind. . The snowblower is designed to be pulled true the snow, it's no other way to get the snow in it 😉
@@MiniMachines1 didn't mean to offend you, I know that alot of times you can only blow one way, I always used back up or front mount, afraid of being stuck driving through the snow
@@kevinbrad7095 not offended 😊 this is an pull snowblower so no other way, but the snowblower is so heavy for the little tractor so only time I got stuck was if I backed up so it was hanging on the snowblower.
Kevin Brad in norway we can Get up to 1 meter of snow in 1 night, the People with a blower like he is using still gets IT done, the capasity on a V-blower is much better than on a auger-blower
That amount of snow is a real challenge but the old tractor, blower and operator faced the challenge and won!
Awesome dog just loving the snow. :)
Yes kompis really loves snow, think he's favorite time of year is winter 😊
I grew up with a 1956 Massey Harris Canadian made tractor, for use on our farm near the Canadian border. We'd get 60" (1.65 meters) of "lake effect" snow in a night. Our tractor would make short work of it.
Wow 1,65 in one night? What attachment did you have on the tractor for clearing snow?
@@MiniMachines1 We had a rear-mounted, angled, bladed yellow plow, not sure the make. It had a 360° swivel w8th implement pin so we could plow in forward or reverse gear.. It had a 3 point hitch, we could raise and lower it to take the snow out in steps.
The removable tire chains for the tractor were so could run through the snow with or without the plow, unless the snow was wind driven and hard packed, which it usually was. In such case, we needed the plow.
We'd usually have to dig the tractor and plow out to even see them. When parked, we could not put the plow blade on the ground, we had to set the blade on a piece of wood so we could hit the wood with a sledgehammer to free the plow for use. Blade on the ground = Pouring boiling water and rocking tractor to free plow when it was time to use it.
Back in those years ('60's and '70's), we would get snow for 5 months out of the year, it's about 3 months now.
A lot of my family still lives there, though I live in the Southwestern US, Italy and México mostly, now.
@@MiniMachines1 Our tractor also had a PTO which we used for our bush hog mower and field tiller. Between us farmers, we had one communal PTO driven snow blower for the storms that would pile 2 or 3 meters of snow on us in a week that we could not keep up with. We kept it at the Alford Dairy Farm 3 miles away and would drive the tractor up the road to go get it if we needed it. But Mr Alford needed it most because his cows needed to be able to go out in the fields... That's why it was kept there.
The roads and highways department would leave piles of snow, sometimes 25 or 30 feet high on both sides of the road during those big snowstorms. Occasionally they would block our driveway and cover our cars and we'd spend the next week digging out our cars with aluminum and steel snow shovels coated with Pam cooking spray to keep the hard-pack from sticking to the shovels.
We also had to dig out our chicken house and corn crib, at least just the door of it. The snow acted like insulation to all of our outbuildings, especially protecting our chickens from the arctic blast winds.. Roofs were strong, reinforced, to handle the tons of snow that would pile up there. We'd leave it there for the insulating factor.
There were times we could walk out of 2nd floor windows right onto hard-pack snow drifts, and walk down the drifts to the yard.
My grandfather had a Wheel Horse tractor with a snow blower attachment so he could always get his place clear without help. Sometimes he'd run down the hill to the lake and clear the main area out on the ice for the ice fishermen to set up their hot tents and ice fishing houses. They gave him a donation for his time and gas. He never got much money, he just enjoyed helping the fishermen. He fished there often, himself.
I think those days of freak week-long snowstorms are gone, though we still get our big overnighters up there now and then.
Wow. What memories. I'd put most of those memories to bed over the past 50 years.
@@MissionaryInMexico Wow what a story, I got it easy with the mini excavator and tractor to clear snow and even the honda snowblower if it tight spaces. Your story is amazing, and it's incredible what we people will go true for living in a place. But I could have moved south and had no snow and excavation all year but here I am...
@@MiniMachines1 Yes you might have moved South but you'd miss the most beautiful time and element of the year... Winter snow.
I only knew of rear facing PTO snow blowers until now. My dad had one. The older tractors are awesome!
The pull one is pretty great, drop it and pull it not more to it, and it's cheaper no gearbox ore anything.
Yea for serious snow I thought you would.have the blower in front ,this ones doing ok but deep snow would stop it dead
Looks like the snows going rite back where it came from
Some is blowing back but 90% is landing on the edge of the road, looks worse since all the light snow blowes in the wind.
great video keep them coming
Thanks 😀
man, that is a lot of snow :)
Yes and it's only in one night...
OMG you nearly buried ya dog with that snow hahaha
He he yea he really likes going after the snow from the snowblower, He's even worse when I use my Honda snowblower
We have an old "pull type" blower built locally mounted to an old 1955 Minneapolis U with no cab...you learn pretty quick the value of wheel brakes when the drifts try to suck you in...lol
Yea with the blower hooking on to the snowbank its great work steering brakes 😊
Your dog is so cute and funny
Yes he is really a good dog, always stays around me when we are out so I never need to worry about him running away.
Why would you want a snowblower that you have to drive the tractor through the snow to blow it? What happens when the snow is to deep to drive the tractor through? We get deep snow and I have a front wheel assist tractor this type of blower would never work here at all!
These type of snowblowers cost a lot less than one with an gearbox and other stuff to make it work, it's an simple design that lasts for ever almost. You drop the blower and drive, no need to think about it when you drag it. But as you say when it's to much snow it has it's problems, but as you can see in the video it do handle a lot of snow. But sometimes you need an extra machine like in this video ua-cam.com/video/l_QGcxEYhvc/v-deo.html
I've seen and used rear mount but the way we do it is you back into the snow and blow it that way.
@@kellybelanger5836 Sonja I don't even have a front mount blower!
@@karlk6860 do you have a side mount blower lol
@@kellybelanger5836 Sonja I have a 65 inch blower mounted on the 3 point on the rear of my tractor. My tractor is a 34 hp diesel with front wheel assist. It gets used a lot more than I like!
People who think they know how to plow dont. like this guy.
Because....?
Randall - thanks for such an informative comment. You sound like another armchair warrior.
Awesome video
What is the make of your V-Type snowblower ? I have a older model and am looking for one with a larger diameter fan (impeller) on it, thanks.
It's an Norwegian one called dalen
@@MiniMachines1 I looked and the only one they list is 9' wide and needs a 75 HP tractor.
2007 V-blower
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@@MiniMachines1 Here is the link, www.dalen.no/en/component/produkt/?view=produkt&id=22&isIID=true#/2007
Really Good video
That's a rather interesting snow blower you have on your tractor. Who makes it?
This is an Norwegian made snow blower and it's an "Dalen" snow blower known as an V blower because you drag the snow in it, not so good on wet snow.
Never seen a snow blower like that. Seems like it could be trouble if the snow gets too deep. If you can't drive through the snow, you can't blow it.
That's true, than I need to back into it and remove bit for bit, but normally that's not a problem except here where I needed to use a mini excavator to brake it up in smaller pieces ua-cam.com/video/l_QGcxEYhvc/v-deo.html
Great video!
Thank you, I'm glad it's summer now :)
Serious snow
What country do u live in
That is the nothern part of Norway.
So much for global warming
If you need heavier things next winter, take a trip at yout eastern neighbour. 😉 www.varilasteel.com/kunto/
There are also these kinds of snowblowers sold second hand, we call them high capasity / heavy duty / industrial and/or forest model snowblower. Can be driven forward or backing up through the banks.
Try to take care. 😇 Our Lapland is drowning in snow but middle/southern parts are compleatly without white stuff. 🙁
Wow that was some snowblower, hope I wont be needing one of those yet 😬
Perfect example of why you should use a plow!
I don't have the possibility to use a plow in my driveway, I need to throw the snow away if not the snowbank will get so high that I cant plow anymore.
@@MiniMachines1 WOW! OK, 😎👍
Where would plough the snow too ??
8:24 Doggo! :D
i think all dogs are suicidal ... they will run in front of the most dangerous equipment and just not care
Kompis luckily have the sense to move when the tractor comes, the excavator he wants to get the dirt that are in the bucket so that's an bit scary sometimes. If you look at this video he is trying to get the dirt out of the bucket ua-cam.com/video/Sh_Sqbbx0oI/v-deo.html
Hard to watch stupidity, drive through blower and blowing it into the wine, point it to the wind straight up and it would have gone right over that house
If you had seen the comments you would have seen that I don't have permission to throw the snow the other way, you need permissible from the owner to throw snow on there property. That's why I need to throw it into the wind, and the light snow would maby gone over the house but there is a lot of snow that are so heavy it goes nowhere in wind. . The snowblower is designed to be pulled true the snow, it's no other way to get the snow in it 😉
@@MiniMachines1 didn't mean to offend you, I know that alot of times you can only blow one way, I always used back up or front mount, afraid of being stuck driving through the snow
@@kevinbrad7095 not offended 😊 this is an pull snowblower so no other way, but the snowblower is so heavy for the little tractor so only time I got stuck was if I backed up so it was hanging on the snowblower.
@@MiniMachines1 you have a lot of brain dead ass holes on your channel 😆
Kevin Brad in norway we can Get up to 1 meter of snow in 1 night, the People with a blower like he is using still gets IT done, the capasity on a V-blower is much better than on a auger-blower