[TheRealBuzz]

Well its official. I am a Brutus owner.
Its a demo unit with 50hrs on it. Blower, blade, mower, broom & forks.

Photos to come in the gallery.

 

[Ketchn]

Congrats.
I might get to blow some snow tomorrow. Big storm coming to Maine.
You forgot to get the bucket.

 

[KeviNH]

I kind of regret not getting the broom. I agree, the bucket is indispensable.

 

[TheRealBuzz]

When i saw the bucket i thought it was a bit small, plus I have a little massey tractor for bucket type work so I opted not to get it.

 

[proper landscaping]

When i saw the bucket i thought it was a bit small, plus I have a little massey tractor for bucket type work so I opted not to get it.

I agree, the bucket is small. I still seem to use it frequently, even though i have a skidsteer.

 

[jimslick]

buying a new 2013 brutus hd pto

made the deal one month ago for brutus and the snowblower attachment, they have the brutus but can not get me the snowblower, what a bumer, going to start looking at other side by sides ,ex bobcat.

 

[KeviNH]

I did have to back-order the plow, but it arrived on schedule, 2 days before the snow

made the deal one month ago for brutus and the snowblower attachment, they have the brutus but can not get me the snowblower, what a bumer, going to start looking at other side by sides ,ex bobcat.

That sucks. I went with the Bobcat 3650 (identical to HDPTO) in part because my Bobcat dealer had the snow-blower attachment on his lot (and was much more interested in working with me than the Polaris dealer).

 

[Jorts]

made the deal one month ago for brutus and the snowblower attachment, they have the brutus but can not get me the snowblower, what a bumer, going to start looking at other side by sides ,ex bobcat.

Dealers should plan better. It's a good machine wherever you end up going.

 

[jimslick]

they found a blower yesterday, will be here in one week, today they doing the fix on the command lever hp control spring.

 

[mikejames]

Just put down payment on 2014 Brutus HD PTO and was told would have to wait till 12/19/2014 to receive the snowblower.

 

[jimslick]

still waiting for snowblower, going on six weeks, good luck.

 

[jimslick]

brutus being delivered tomorrow, dealer installed block heater and new command lever, snowblower attachment arrived also, dealer says he had the brutus doing 40 mph hour today , we will see tomorrow.

 

[Ketchn]

Try not to let it get much above 3700 rpm's as I think red line is around 3800.

 

[KeviNH]

It is strange, redline isn't documented anywhere?

When running any PTO attachment, PTO speed must be kept under 2000 RPM, I don't know if there's an auto rev limiter for the PTO, but it seems likely?

Did a few passes today with the snowblower. I need to adjust the shoes, too much snow is passed over. I seem to recall reading that the snowblower runs best around 1800 RPM, the manual just says to keep it under 2K.