Experience with rear PTO blower

[TimberXX]

Does anyone have experience with this blower?

Debris Blower | Weaverline | United States

Weaverline Debris Blower for removing leaves and debris from your path.

www.weaverline.com

I want to use it on my 25 horsepower tractor

 

[Quaffer]

How much does it cost?

 

[TMGT]

No experience with them, but they look interesting, I've never seen a squirrel cage style PTO blower.

I have an old furnace blower that I converted to run off a vintage B&S washing machine engine that I would take to steam and gas shows, it worked good at moving air, but I wasn't pushing it hard so not sure what it would be capable of.


Seems like it should move some air, not sure how it would compare to a regular paddle style fan or turbine.

One concern I would have is the blades of the fan might be slightly easier to damage so would have to be careful of ingesting debris.

I bet it's pretty quiet though.

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[chim]

Two main tools for leaves here are DIY blower and recently a side discharge RFM. Years ago I built a blower from an old AHU blower. Worked pretty well. It took up space so I modified a set of blades for the 5' RFM.

 

[TimberXX]

How much does it cost?

$3k new

 

[TimberXX]

I see people online coverting building fans to their tractors. Seems like a lot of work? how about the tractor spline to to fan (or pulley) attachment?

 

[leonz]

A lot of welding to make a rear three point table and sizing the V belt pulleys as the furnace fans are operating at much higher speeds.

A little wonder 3 wheel gas powered blower chained to a loader bucket or a rear mounted carry all would be simpler.

 

[greenie]

We purchased a Radtech PTO blower for use at the park I managed. I did a great job on gravel surfaces and a fair job on turf. If the grass was long or damp the performance was disappointing. Engaging the PTO was tricky because the thing was so high geared it tended to burn/glaze the belts - which were substantial in construction and cost.
We could direct the flow left or right. The discharge was close to the ground which helped. The blower in the OP appears to be up high and not focused.
In neighborhoods it would be easy to blow leaves onto another property - which wouldn't go over very well with neighbors.

 

[chim]

I see people online coverting building fans to their tractors. Seems like a lot of work? how about the tractor spline to to fan (or pulley) attachment?

Really wasn't rocket surgery. A simple angle frame to mount the salvaged squirrel cage fan, a little duct and a jackshaft on a pair of pillow blocks with some sheaves sized to replace the AC motor with a diesel The size of the sheaves were calculated to spin the fan the same speed the 3Ø electric motor did with the 540 PTO of the tractor.

As I said, it took up a lot of space so I scrapped everything but the angle frame and made a set of super hi-lift blades the side discharge 5' RFM. The frame became the basis for a carryall.

 

[TimberXX]

A lot of welding to make a rear three point table and sizing the V belt pulleys as the furnace fans are operating at much higher speeds.

A little wonder 3 wheel gas powered blower chained to a loader bucket or a rear mounted carry all would be simpler.

thats exactly what I have. Its a tired 5 hp unit, I really don't like the small engines just sitting around... but $3k is expensive