John Deere

[bjamison]

Here's a pretty cool link to a John Deere garden tractor blowing snow. The blower is a Berco and that thing can really get some distance on the snow throw!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL_6y7sDYw0&feature=youtu.be

 

[aschumacher]

Wow ! If I had one of those the snow would end up about 3 houses down the street from me!

 

[bjamison]

The long distance throw looks pretty cool - but with my red other color tractor, I have found that if I'm not careful, I can clear the street and put the snow on my neighbors porches to either side of the street!

I've see some comment that they plow with a blade for as long as they can and after several successive snows, if things don't melt, they break out the snow blower where they can move the snow over and beyond the stuff already piled up along the driveway. They use a blade first, because it's faster than a blower.

But - that is one cool video!

 

[wshytle]

That's an impressive blower even if it was on the wrong color tractor.

I'm a southerner and know very little about snow blowing but did he have to blow it so high? It seems to me he could have used 1/2 the angle and still moved the snow far enough away. It didn't appear windy either and I understand blowing with the wind regardless of what you're blowing.