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About 18.4 mph according to the dash. That’s with turf tires.

@@allupsnowblowing I'm getting a 4052 delivered soon so i thought i'd ask. Speed and productivity is everything.. the toolcat looked sweet, just didn't know the speed. thanks

Toolcat is 3ish mph slower on the road. Clearing driveways it’s like 20% slower than an inverted blower. 4052 is the better choice for residential snow assuming you can get the scrape quality out of the inverted that your customers want

Hey Joe, in general I would say this setup as it is faster and cheaper, but it can't do all driveways. For example, it cant blow forward so if your driveway requires that it wont work.

We run the weight kit 90% of the time. During big storms we’ll run a bucket up there to help clear around mailboxes. But the bucket is a lot more of a liability (i.e. easier to hit things) so we custom made the weight kit using the front weight kit from JD and a skid steer carrier plate.

It’s not any louder than the city plows. I run it in the middle of a densely populated area and haven’t had any official complaint, but customers do tell me they hear it sometimes.

Just as loud as any hydraulic snowblower of this size. I dont need hearing protection in the cab. The outside back alarm is the loudest thing.

I'm hoping to find time to do a walk around at some point. Compare it to my john deere inverted setups, we'll see. The toolcat did have a hydraulic leak early in the season, but nothing else so far.

Hi Jeremy. I run it on a toolcat UW53. I do like the Muskox. I think it’s the best option for a toolcat or a skid steer. Would I buy it again? No, but that is because I do residential snow removal and have found that a John Deere 4066R + Inverted snowblower is faster. There are some driveways you can’t do with an inverted though. I turned those customers down this year. So if you can do what you need to do with an inverted I would go that route. If you have to be able to blow forward, the Muskox is a great option. If you have a toolcat/skid and don’t want a tractor, then the Muskox is a great option.

@@allupsnowblowing thank you for your response. there is no replacement for first hand experience. how does the inverted snowblower work where you are driving over the snow and cant really get any down pressure out of the 3 point blower set up? i guess you could add a hydraulic arm to add the down pressure though.

@@jeremygibbs8659 Yeah you can use down pressure kit. The inverted scrape is not really that great, but its good enough for my area (i dont have a down pressure kit). It's just as good as the Muskox scrape.

No, i just feel the amount of down pressure I want to get a good scrap

Hey Dan. Honestly after the first hundred driveways or so I don’t even use it. I use the top surface of the blower as my judges plus how the blower feels.

Hey Dan. No issues. I have gone through a fair amount of normal wear parts, but I have cleared hundreds of driveways with it. As for changing, sometimes the dual auger chain tensioner gets loose but we check it before we go out each time. Have to tighten it a couple times a season. Additionally, it tends to leave a fair amount of snow on the road. With the right technique you can prevent this, but I would it collected snow more effectively.

Not really. I have three other normand inverted blowers on JD 4 series for the normal style driveways. I am interested in trying one, but just haven’t seen enough people use them to justify buying one.

I just use the normal turf tires. Works great. They make "wolf paws" which i think are better on ice, but we get so much snow that ice isnt usually an issue

@@allupsnowblowing Great! Thank you for the reply. I was thinking on getting this set up but for my residence since I am in no way related to the plow business. Just out of curiosity: say I would contact you to plow or blow a gravel 1/4 mile driveway with 4 switchbacks at 10% slope (the switchbacks are around 100 feet) but where there’s no switchbacks it’s around 5-7% slope. How much would you charge me if I was a potential customer? Do you charge the same for plowing and snowblowing? Just curious if the set up would make sense. I currently have an rtv with a straight plow and it takes me 3 hours to do a single clearing lol.

@@UnitedStates. there are many factors that could change the price. But somewhere around $0.40/sqft. We get around 250”/year here.

@@allupsnowblowing I see. Yeah I plow my driveway but always have been curious. I think I called once a guy and he wanted to charge me $300 for the first 6 inches then $15 per inch or two there after but he didn’t know a live on a mountain. 😂 We don’t get too much crazy snow these years maybe a few inches here and there thankfully (thanks climate change lol) but when we do we get a few nasty wet storms.

Yup!

Depends on the complexity of driveways. Muskox can do any type of driveway. Inverted blower cant (e.g. a drive you have to blow forward with). Assuming you just have driveways that inverted works with, then yes inverted is faster (~50% in my experience) and the whole rig is less expensive. So short answer, if you have all driveways that work with an inverted then I would recommend an inverted. Im running 3 inverted and 1 toolcat this season.

@@allupsnowblowing That's very helpful... and disappointing. There is not much work for a tractor outside of snowblowing in my area. I'm just not sure I can justify $80k+ for a machine that is only for snow.

Yes. 23-78 dual auger.

You can tilt the muskox back and ride it on the big plastic wear edge on the bottom. If you do that is hardly throws any gravel. Uneven gravel is tricky. I'm hope to post a review in the next few weeks.

I have a couple backup drivers that can drive it, but it's mostly me. I also run a John Deere 4052 with an inverted blower that I have another operator mainly use.

I ran the muskox with a skid before and the visibility in the toolat is a lot better. Especially backing up. In the skid the arms during back drag are like right at window height which makes it a challenge backing into the road. Additionally the toolcat road speed like 18.5mph which is good. The main issues with the toolcat is cost and less HP.

@@allupsnowblowing yeah I suppose the visibility would be much better in the tool cat. That's a great point.

Most important tool cat two seats , safer if you slip hit head, brings side walk guy and tail gate salter on hitch , electric single stage ego in bed with shovels ,fisher wide out for small storms that’s what I run ! Waiting to get muskox , love it one step at a time ,maybe yell hey dad any extra cash around😂

There are a few other people who do residential snow, but not many other companies. I am more expensive than the guy who does a driveway or two before work, but I am a lot cheaper than any company doing it because I am more efficient

Thanks for the reply keep doing excellent work get a couple more good men I would come up with my pop cans and help next winter never saw 220 inch’s thanks

@@michaelgoergen6702 Yeah we can get a lot of snow at times, but there are places that get a lot more than we do. It can be a challenge for houses that have smaller yards that dont have a lot of space to put snow.

⁠@@tmboumanOut of curiosity how much would you charge to do this on a gravel 1/4 mile driveway with a 10% slope?

Not if it’s going to be below freezing for the next few days making the entire driveway a solid frozen mess. Did you ever think of that?

Hi Michael, when i get time I am planning to do a first year review of the muskox. I've got 75 homes on my route. I've gotten about 220" so far this year.

if the snow is wet, it will plug, but if you listen you can prevent it. I never ran a sb240, so I can't compare sorry. The throw is decent and I would guess on par with any other hydraulic blower. PTO driver blowers throw a lot better.

Hi Gary, yes I have a complete backup machine. I would say when you are just starting out you have to have two machines, because they do break. My best recommendation for accommodating equipment failure is to make sure you (or someone on your team) is very mechanically inclined so you dont have to rely on your dealer when something breaks.

You obviously dont get the kind of snow I do here. Thanks for the comment though!

I also use my snowblower to back drag away from buildings in order to get the snow where i can blow it. There's times when i push the snow to a spot where i can then blow it as well. Nice video.

You are doing what inverted tractor guys do pull/ push where it easy to blow out . Nice job

Agreed. Check out my channel for other, more relevant videos. This was just a first test in October.

Yeah, gone through 200" on 75 driveways so far now... th-cam.com/video/6xzhlajkWUg/w-d-xo.html

It works great. I've had two storms with 30"+ of snow and it handles it well. You just blow forward normally and then once you get to the garage you tilt it forward and backdrag out. I'm hoping to get more video soon and upload it. I've cleared over 500 driveways+ with it this season without issue, just replacing some wear plates.

@@tmbouman thank you!

This was an early fall video. I've uploaded a few new ones. th-cam.com/video/6xzhlajkWUg/w-d-xo.html

This was an early fall video. I've uploaded a few new ones. th-cam.com/video/6xzhlajkWUg/w-d-xo.html

Agreed. That kind of equipment is out of my financial reach. But I get the removal of an 1/8" of slush. I've decided a few times that it wasn't worth the effort. But that night and following days dipped below freezing and the driveway and sidewalks were an 1/8" thick sheet of ice. NO plow, snow blower or Musk-Ox will fix that. Best to remove it with whatever you have while it's just slush.

Yeah, i've gone through more snow now. th-cam.com/video/6xzhlajkWUg/w-d-xo.html

You can get other attachments for your loader, like pallet forks, dirt buckets, augers, claws, etc... there's a vast array of them, and people even custom make their own. They usually come with the machine. Buying one of these machines is worth the money in the long run. But I will admit, buying new machines puts a serious dent in one's wallet. One of these Muskox blowers alone in the video runs for around $15,000 :/

In New York that’s a $75 job plus salt another 50 Easy St. you just got to Dodge the bullets