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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave1234" data-source="post: 130486" data-attributes="member: 23099">I switched hose ends as did you, and everything straightened itself out and appears to be working properly.  Apparently someone in the past swapped my male and female connectors to make the bobcat match the pressure primarily coming from the male fitting rather than the female, as apparently every other mfg does.  That puts my female on the bottom, and hard to grasp to uncouple.  I suspect I will swap them back to the way they were on the bobcat (female above on primary return line), and reverse them on the snow blower.  I bought a Quick Attach 60 inch blower model 2020LT.  As you can tell, I haven't used it yet.  It was available with a 10-16 gpm version.  I had been using a 60" Buhler PTO snow blower on my 1951 JD tractor (19 HP), and it worked great in terms of throwing snow, but I needed more HP for big drifts and/or less travel speed, and  my neck is still sore from driving backwards so much last year, when we got an exceptional amount of snow.  The PTO blower weighed ~ 400 lbs.  The Quick Attach ~ 710 lbs.  I think the PTO blower was ~ $1500.  The Quick Attach $9500 delivered to Calif.  It is not their commercial version, but looks like considerable overkill for my needs.  It was coming down to my getting too old for the JD going backwards, and it was either get a better way to deal with snow or move.  So I hope I bought another 10+ years here.  Our snow here tends to be wet and heavy at times, and 0-2' deep, with 5-6' drifts.  With the tractor I had to make sure I kept up with every storm, whether I needed to get out or not, and whether howling wind and sleet or not.  I may be able to let the snow build up now since I can raise the blower up and adjust my travel speed to deal with extra depth.  I need to move snow from ~ 1/8 mile of dirt driveway and road.  I am keeping the tractor blower functional for this first year just to see.  Also, The company that makes Quick Attach also makes another brand that they sell through dealers at a somewhat higher price and with apparently  different drive motors.  This one has an Eaton motor made in China, but I assume all hyd motors are made there.  Hopefully Eaton will maintain parts long term.  I forget the other brand name but I assume it is also in Palatine Il.  There is apparently some sort of equipment convention in Las Vegas in late winter and they offered a substantial (20%?) discount if you ordered one then.  I just happened to contact them at the right time and decided to buy it then to get the discount with delivery in March, too late for snow.  It comes with a 2 year warranty, so it will get 2 seasons of testing.  I don't know if anyone else makes a blower for the 11 gpm available.  No doubt my PTO blower could have been converted, but I didn't and don't feel like I know enough about hydraulics at this point and needed something that would definitely work.  If you buy used, make sure whatever you get has the low flow motor--they have lots for different flows.</blockquote>

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