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Buttoned or closable with velcro (if possible) front vest pocket. It stays warm in winter, is close to body so vibration can be felt. Also used 3M Worktunes headset hearing muffs, and now have nice Bose earbuds that active cancel noise from machines etc.

Yup. I'll line up tasks ahead of starting the tractor, noting what's on the tractor at the moment, where the other ssqa implement is, and time constraints. Plus whatever the wife says.

Boxblade and loader bucket do nice moderate or less snowfall cleanups. The blade can move snowpiles off the lane and then push it up the banks in reverse. It's like having a 2-way loader with triple the snow hauling capacity. But the front blower is the cat's meow when real winter snows hit.

These blowers have a very effective set of shear bolts that have protected my very similar B2782B 63" blower for 7 winters now. Countless times something or other has jammed hard in one or the other auger blades or the blower and snapped another shear bolt. I've never suffered chain reduction...

It's Sun-used.

The visible vertical pipe encloses a slightly smaller pipe. The smaller pipe is welded to the bottom of the upper adjuster plate (not visible in photos), and can turn inside the outer pipe for angle adjustment. The blade-mounting bracket below has the inner smaller pipe passing through a hole...

It appears you'll need to cut off the blade mounting bracket at the weld with the rotating pipe. My only experience is with acetylene cutting torches, which I'd try and use to burn away the weld downward with a vertically held torch nozzle. Hopefully the pipe would survive the torching.

Get B/B50/LX with a loaderand any 3-point tools you'll need, like a box scraper, and don't bother with a belly mower for it. I use a rotary mower on my B2650 for general field maintenance, and got a basic riding mower for finer tuned yard mowing. For the cost and mount/unmount/ trouble of a MMM...

A crowned road with a little loose or insufficient toe-in adjustment will pull you to one side while driving. The hydrostatic powered steering "gives" a bit under constant turning pressure, so having its center point rotate through 120 degrees over that distance isn't surprising to me. Check for...

The tractor manual has the "operating" or best RPM to set at for most HP/torque. It's usually near the RPM that rotates the rear PTO at 540 RPM. I run at that or near the rated RPM for work like snowblowing, rotary mowing, wood chipping, backhoe work. Anything that is made to run at the PTO...

Almost always the first run with new implement, or the first cut of the season, always finds the hidden tangle monsters. Wear tough gloves as suggested, AND safety goggles too! Springy steel wire can whip loose when cut from a tangle. Work safe.

Well, here's my bush dumper trailer rig, for what it may matter.

This obviously hasn't passed the smell test at Kubota QC.

So they get lifted out to allow the shanks to move forward and decouple their notches from the frame. Ok, again a different system than my through-bolts, but learned something new.

Where/How do those clips fit in there? They're not visible in the 2nd photo of the assembly. My BB1560 has through-pins with lock clips. A different animal.