hardtail Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Was cruising through MB Cats old threads this morning and came across this one, 350 tractor with I think he said 881 combine cab running a snowblower 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitty Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Tony in CA ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardtail Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 This was a great older fellow from Manitoba, no longer with us, I was looking for his fix for the old A and B injection pumps and ran across this one RIP John 🙏 He had a couple pics of it in action, not sure if the gearing was original or he modified that for different directional speeds, he seems to have corrected the biggest problem I always felt with the 3 point snowblower was you were facing the wrong way 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacka Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Would there been any way to convert a forklift and add a pto to it?Did they make forklift lifts out of the 300s or 350 series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snox38 Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 I was told that I’d you turn the bull gear over your direction changes. If works correctly you would have 4 gears headed towards rear tires and reverse would move you towards your front tires (smaller). We have a M that I need to try it on as we use it backwards with a loader. It come from a log home place but we use it to move round bales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardtail Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 That is exactly how @Ragnor built a forklift out of a W4 renamed Fourlift Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahamfireman Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 27 minutes ago, Snox38 said: I was told that I’d you turn the bull gear over your direction changes. If works correctly you would have 4 gears headed towards rear tires and reverse would move you towards your front tires (smaller). We have a M that I need to try it on as we use it backwards with a loader. It come from a log home place but we use it to move round bales. Not the bull gear, you flip the differential over. As long as there's room in the rear end this works on any tractor. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ihfan4life Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 9 hours ago, bitty said: Tony in CA ... Don’t think he’s got much use for a snowblower… are there snowflakes where Tony is? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardtail Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 I think Tony modified one of his tractors in a similar fashion to perform a different role Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Dinan Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 I think Tony bought a reversed 350? with a loader on it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
td9inidaho Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Funny thing, not long ago, I saw a swather turned into a blower. I believe it has a 10 foot blower on the front. I will see if I can find it again Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardtail Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 That was what entered my thinking, would be much less modification to accomplish the same thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
td9inidaho Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Found it , 11 foot blower , not sure I would like the tri-cycle design though , I would rather it be the 4 wheel design Mark 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardtail Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 Has a Versatile look to it, be a quick turning unit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray54 Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 8 hours ago, hardtail said: Has a Versatile look to it, be a quick turning unit Good bad or other wise any swather I have seen is spin it around with the inside wheel locked if you want ..................................or don't sometimes. Having grown up running crawlers and steering levers and only having a day or 2 on my newer swather with a steering wheel. I have so much more control with the sticks. I tell the son I bought the newer one for him to drive.😄 Yes Tony purchase the 350 already reversed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poor farmer/logger Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 8 hours ago, hardtail said: Has a Versatile look to it, be a quick turning unit Yes definitely a versatile 400. Spent many hours on one when I was a kid. (Started at 7 years old lol) Got a chance to meet John at Wetaskawin when we were all out for the big show. He was a wealth of knowledge that’s for sure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7288cdn Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 To go back to the original photo. Yes John had reversed it. I visited with him once and he showed it to me. I have often wished I had bought it at his auction sale (I suppose I should say "run it up further"). It went pretty cheap even if you wanted to buy it to do all the work to take it back to original. It sold early in the sale and I was saving to buy a higher end tractor later in the day. He also had a home made "tractor starter". It was a drop box of some sort with a bunch of Caterpillar gears inside it. It was made so he mounted it on the drawbar of his "starting tractor" hooked to the pto. The gears reversed the direction so he could attach a pto shaft to the tractor he wanted to start and everything turned the correct direction. I looked for it at the sale but did not see it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawleigh99 Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 MB Cat was a wealth of wisdom! I miss him along with many others who have gone on before us! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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