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

 

[Quaffer]

The blower in the OP appears to be up high and not focused.

I noticed that as well.

The video was created in probably the most ideal circumstances. Short grass, not a long distance, edge of driveway, and just a small quantity of leaves.

At my property in Fall, one pass would result in a resulting wall of leaves I don't think it would push. Just guessing, but I think it would require a lot more force or volume to work with a more difficult property than in the video.

 

[nyone]

$3k and can only blow where your tractor can go. It would have less maneuverability than a walk behind blower and those arnt very maneuverable. Have you thought about just mulching leaves in or buying a real commercial backpack blower? The 3pt blower would also take time to install.


I had a 13hp walk behind mounted on a quad one year. It blew great but prob didnt save me much time vs my stihl br600. I believe that backpack blower is about $650-700 now.

 

[leonz]

Have you looked at the Cyclone Rake?" It will vacuum up the leaves and shred them and
you can also use the Cyclone Rake to blow the leaves out of the trailer to where you want to
dump them as well.

 

[grsthegreat]

Have you looked at the Cyclone Rake?" It will vacuum up the leaves and shred them and
you can also use the Cyclone Rake to blow the leaves out of the trailer to where you want to
dump them as well.

I have a cyclone rake…..but how do you blow stuff out of the catch basin? Mine is tilt and dump.

 

[chim]

There's a Troybilt walk behind blower buried in the shed that seldom sees use. It moves a lot of air but the small wheels would work better on paved areas. The Stihl 800X moves more leaves quicker than anything else I have. Awesome amount of force. Someone a lot younger than i could use it to travel on a skateboard.

In a close second place is the mower deck with modified blades. Whatever it doesn't chop into fine pieces gets blown to the right side for the next pass. Staying in the cab where it's free of dust and comfortable makes it the go-to most of the time.

 

[TimberXX]

$3k and can only blow where your tractor can go. It would have less maneuverability than a walk behind blower and those arnt very maneuverable. Have you thought about just mulching leaves in or buying a real commercial backpack blower? The 3pt blower would also take time to install.


I had a 13hp walk behind mounted on a quad one year. It blew great but prob didnt save me much time vs my stihl br600. I believe that backpack blower is about $650-700 now.

I have a a pretty large redmax backpack blower, its just so slow, the combination of the leaf density, and the distance blown makes a backpack by itself too inefficient. There are too many slopes to have a push blower, it wore me out.

 

[TimberXX]

Have you looked at the Cyclone Rake?" It will vacuum up the leaves and shred them and
you can also use the Cyclone Rake to blow the leaves out of the trailer to where you want to
dump them as well.

I have a Deere bagger, its just so dusty, and leaves a lot of leaf fragments behind

 

[nyone]

I have a a pretty large redmax backpack blower, its just so slow, the combination of the leaf density, and the distance blown makes a backpack by itself too inefficient. There are too many slopes to have a push blower, it wore me out.

Sounds like the perfect lawn to mulch them in. You cant wit for the whole years worth of leafs to fall then expect it to work though.

Some mulched up leaf isnt the worst thing for your lawn.

 

[leonz]

I have a cyclone rake…..but how do you blow stuff out of the catch basin? Mine is tilt and dump.

I would check with the cylcone rake folks to see if they have a
pipe adapter for the discharge chute to allow you to do that.

 

[TMGT]

I would check with the cylcone rake folks to see if they have a
pipe adapter for the discharge chute to allow you to do that.

They do, its called the "power unloader" that basically puts a hose on the outlet and a short hose on the inlet that reaches into the collection bag.

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