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MN | Thinking about upgrading blowers after all the fun i'm having with the blessed snow.. Hear lots of good things bought the fair and wildcat snowblowers.. Anything you guys dont like about them? also any ball park prices? heard couple years back were around 10k... thanks guys |
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Farmington IL | 
This is a 848 fair. The bad, cant use a quick hitch on the darn thing, doesnt do the best job of cleaning up the crumbs but it wasnt built for that. The good, it might be indestructable. Heavy built, well designed and will take anything you can throw at it. Something with fwa and about 300hp would really make this baby work nice. A older neighbor bought it about 8 years ago. He only used it a couple times and sold it to me when his health started to decline. Said he paid around 8 grand for it then. He gave me a very nice deal on it. I dont often use it mostly because I hate to have one of the magnums out running around in the salt and crap but when we need it, we need it. No regrets from buying this one and would buy another one. |
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Ohio | That looks like a snow eatting machine there Bill. If you have to use it, try to get some pics or video. |
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NE SD | Not sure on prices of new ones. We have an older Wildcat. Has served us well. They take lots of power (200) or a tractor with IVT/CVT or a creeper transmission in order to work well. Wildcat is now known as Snowblast. |
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mn | Have an older wildcat 8000a . Same story as the poster above, neighbor bought it new, choose not to sell it on retirement auction and never used it again,sat in his shed till he gave me a really good deal on it. I have used on a IH986 and IH1086 and it works ok, horsepower is definitely the limiting factor. When snow gets bad (like this storm) I put it on a JD8400T it absolutely amazes me what this machine can do. I use it in cattle yards also and it never stops for frozen manure or any thing. I have run a lot of junk through it accidentally and nothing seem to hurt it. I had an older style average snow blower before and listening to my neighbors now I don't regret owning a heavier built snow blower. You wont be disappointed in your investment. |
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Beresford SD | http://www.fairmfg.com/3ag1.htm
They are everything the say they are. |
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| Went though this snow drift with a fair dont know the model number its on a 7920. It was packed hard because some one else tried to bust though it with a dozer blade and it ate right though it.
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Portland, ND | I worked at an implement dealership in North Dakota in 96-97 and we sold a ton of blowers, and several of each of the Fair and Wildcats. The old Fair brochure had pictures of it digging a field drain, and someone throwing cement blocks into it.
One of the fair blowers that we sold went to an older fellow who was a idiot, and couldn't get it to work. He said it kept shearing bolts. We hauled it back to the dealership with his 7250, and quickly realized that he was only putting one of two shearbolts in. The service manager told me to go try it out, so i went out into the lot and started blowing on the piles that had been pushed up and were hard as concrete. I had the tractor in 1R WOT, and the blower would just chew thru it. The tractor would be spinning all the tires, but the blower would work right into it. I was impressed!! They don't look as pretty as the wildcats, but they sure work.
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