154 Low Boy Snowblower!

[J-Mech]

Just because it kinda goes along with this cub and big blower.... Want to show you guys the first snowblower I ever ran. Until I bought my 450 it was all I knew. This is just an internet pic, not of the "actual" one we had. It's an International model 80 snowblower. 8' wide and mounts to the rear on the 3-point of a tractor. Like I have mentioned, snowblowers take a ridiculous amount of HP. We had an 856. That is about a 100 HP tractor. It had trouble with the blower.

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[Cubcrazy]

At 8' that thing is a beast!

[cubcadet]

Originally Posted by Cubcrazy

At 8' that thing is a beast!

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[jimbob200521]

I want one of those Lo-Boy blowers, that thing looks crazy. Park a Cub Cadet next to it and it'd be like Austin Powers and Mini-Me

[ACecil]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

Just because it kinda goes along with this cub and big blower.... Want to show you guys the first snowblower I ever ran. Until I bought my 450 it was all I knew. This is just an internet pic, not of the "actual" one we had. It's an International model 80 snowblower. 8' wide and mounts to the rear on the 3-point of a tractor. Like I have mentioned, snowblowers take a ridiculous amount of HP. We had an 856. That is about a 100 HP tractor. It had trouble with the blower.

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That's a huge snowblower!

[EricR]

Originally Posted by PaulS

I might want one to mount on our Original. Well maybe not suited for a manual lift.

The problem here is if he was to get it to fit on our O he would make me try it first as I know he wouldn't even be able to move the thing.

[cadzag72]

I'd love to have one of those on my lo-boy! definitely need a creeper to use it, though, first would be too fast. I'd also like to find a model 54 loader (i think that's the right one) or a front blade, but they are hard to locate. not as rare as that blower, though!

[FlyingB]

As JMech being my brother a short story that goes with that blowerer. In the 70's, I think. On the farm there was the main homestead with the house and, barns, and some hog barns then there was a quarter mile lane down to more hog barns and our elevator and scales. When it snowed dad and grandad cleared the lane with a tractor and loader and piled the snow on either side of the lane. We'll during a blizzard the snow got so high on the sides of the lane they could not pile it any higher so they went out and bought the snow blower pictured so the could blow the snow over the 15 to 20 foot piles on either side of the lane. We made some nice snow forts from the piles of snow they could make with that blower. It was not used too often but once when Jonathan and I were maybe jr high or early high school the road commissioner had to borrow it because they did not have heavy enough equipment to get down roads that were drifted over. After that winter they went and bought a bigger road plow.

[J-Mech]

Yep! Bought the blower in the blizzard of 78-9. The township borrowed it 3 different years that I remember. Like Phil said, the last time they borrowed it, they then bought a V-Plow for the grader.

It was funny, one year when they borrowed it, they showed up with a township tractor. It was a Ford 2wd of about 80HP. We told them it really wasn't a big enough tractor. They were like "whatever" and we smiled. Later that day, I was outside at our house as they went by. Tractor started bogging down, black smoke rolled, RRRRRRRRRR DIED! LOL! We TOLD YOU!

The only bad thing about it was having to drive backwards all day. Or when we put it on a cab-less tractor. LOL.

[DoubleO7]

Originally Posted by drglinski

Haha engage PTO engine promptly dies....

or the O starts flippin.