Snow duty
 

Been keeping the snow at bay with these two ol' bastages...figured I'd share a few pictures, as I enjoy looking over everyone else's.

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Looking good. Great pics. It looks like your done with your driveway. You can come do my driveway next.

looks cold. great pictures.

My question is, why are you riding the 100 when the big D has cab? This is coming from a very thin blooded Southern boy. Great pics, I sure love seeing white stuff on the ground, as long as it's not here!

cool pics..thanks..782d hard to beat, but i do really like that 100 though...

Nice!

No substitute for weight on the rear tires. Those concrete suitcase weights look home made and look like they work great. Any idea how much they weigh?

My guess is that unless he wants to sleep in that cab, his wife is the one in the nice warm cab while he is on the cold 100!!

That's some serious snow moving equipment you've got there. I like the setup.

Thanks for sharing the pictures.

That's a 100 hydro. Has a 123 dash tower. Pretty cool too. Nice looking action photo's Paul. How much weight is on the back of the 782D?

Very nice setup!! :beerchug:

With the correct amount/type of clothing, no cab is required. :beerchug:

True, they say you can always put more cloths on. I would rather wear shorts and sweat!
I thought about the wife thing too.

Great pictures Paul, good job on the clean-up.

I appreciate the kind words fellas. They are a fun pair of tractors, each has it's own set of characteristics.

Everyone seems to love the 782D, and understandably so. It looks nice up close...and absolutely awesome from 20 feet away pushing a bladefull of snow. With the combination of knobby rear ags and tall cab, it's a tractor that you want to drive slow and creep around in (with the throttle up of course haha), or it will get to rocking side-to-side. Bought the tractor out of Michigan about 8 years ago...found the IH cab for sale up in Minnesota. The concrete weights were included with a 149 I bought from PF Engineering out of Mass. Not sure exactly how much they weigh, but I know they are quite a bit more than an Olympic 45lb plate...I'd guess they are in the 80-90 pound range.

The little yellow IH has some serious grunt and will really scoot along! It is a mixture of parts. I've always liked the classic look of a 100, but preferred to use a hydrostatic transmission. So about 9 years ago I bought a nice 123 from Steve Blunier Sr, and installed the grill, hood, and pan seat from a parts tractor 100 that I'd won on eBay. Everything bolted right up, I don't remember drilling a single extra hole. As for an engine, it's got a 14hp from a 147, for which I notched the frame and welded up some reinforcement. If I had to do things over again I think I would use the 147 frame and drivetrain, and swap the 123 dash onto it. I'd imagine it would bolt up directly, and there wouldn't be any need to cut or notch anything.

The weight box is something my teenage sons whipped up with their grandfather. For support, they used a "T" bar that I had welded up for an earlier project, and built a platform on top of it. It was an easy task for them to do together, and they appeared to have a fun time doing so. In the box are 4 bags of "tube sand" that are 70 lbs each.

Oh, and I haven't been able to get my wife to push snow with the tractors, so she's not in the cab! Although she has sat in them for photos, she hasn't actually operated them......yet :biggrin2:

Here's a couple videos she shot

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