The Stihl power broom gets the job done, was around $.5g to buy new, and stores easily. It was difficult to mount, difficult to finesse the brushing height, difficult to replace the brush wafers, over $2g to buy well used, and didn't store very easily. I had a bunch of use for it, but couldn't live with it. I had it mounted on my old 4310 Deere, which was kinda light for the setup. The angling was done with the third hydraulic valve. There was a 25 gallon three point mounted hydraulic resivour, and a PTO mounted pump with a 15' pair of 1" ID hoses that ran to the broom. The sweepster 72" broom was loader mounted, hydraulic drive, and hydraulic angle. I never had much use for it, it was over $3g to buy new, and didn't store very easily. I had it mounted on my 1026R, mounted easy, great maneuverability, and easy to finesse. The front PTO is just an extension shaft from the mid PTO to a carrier bearing on the quick hitch support. The John Deere 52 Quick Hitch Broom is built by sweepster, designed by Deere to fit the front quick hitch on their subcompact tractors. I think your tractor will handle a broom, but again with any luck you can find one to rent for your Machine, Also your the gravel is swept into the bucket rather than accumulating into a bigger & bigger pile (with a sweeper) resulting in a slower travel speed being harder on the grass. My comment on a bucket broom (b/b) being better over a sweeper is that I think there is less mechanism - weight on the brushes with a b/b than a sweeper and would be more gentle on the grass. They have nylon bristles and you can sweep (on a hard surface) either direction. They are more of a SS attachment than a tractor and if your serious about a purchase, a dealer should allow a demo. If you cant find one at a rental house, look at Bobcat/Cat dealers. The bucket broom I pictured carry a $3500+ price, before that type of investment I would rent one. I've been doing the same early Winter when I'm home, then when I return, depending on how much snow is remaining, but I tend to dig into the lawn because the piles are imprecise and the lawn is not a golf course - good thing, or it would look like *****!īut if you don't have places to put snow where the gravel isn't an issue I guess you are stuck in the spring dealing with the mess.ĬM, I use the broom on asphalt and have only swept a grassy spot really "just to see" and not purposefully remove gravel from a big grass area. Since I do my own snow removal I don't mind spending a little extra time to avoid putting snow on the grass to begin with. The best I have come up with so far is to use my loader before the snow melts to move the piles to places where I don't mind gravel piling up so I can recapture it. anymore, nor the desire to bust myself each Spring. I don't have the strength to bust my back with the hand held powerbroom etc. for removing stuff from the lawn I would want it to spin in reverse so I wouldn't have to drive far onto the lawn.Ĭrazyal, my thinking exactly! I used to do my own snow removal, but now I'm away during bulk of Winter and come back to the nightmare of cleanup at two houses, barn, several sheds, long driveway and perimeter lawns. Kubota makes a broom for their front mount snow blower sub frame but it only spins to throw the stones forward.
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