Recent content by brusew86

I'm torn what to do with it. Like I said I almost scrapped it. Not sure it's worth my time to fix it up and sell it even if I can get the part for cheap. I already bought a new 7 ft wood Max, which is Chinese unfortunately but seems to work pretty good.

Thanks. I may be interested in it. I still have this thing, was about to just scrap it a few times but I couldn't bring myself to, seems like such a waste. I put it up for sale as a project just for a couple hundred bucks, but no bites. I did find a gear box from agri- can, which looks to...

anyone ever tried moving it up to the link pin to get a bigger opening? Visually it looks like it should fit. Otherwise Ill have to try to modify it as it is just about worthless as is. Usually Woods is top notch, dont know how they messed this up.

Yes I know to put the pin in, this was just for the photo. If you google or look on youtube, you will see that most other thumbs seem to have a much better geometry for grabbing things.

IS it just me or is the woods thumb poorly designed? See the picture. It is super heavy duty Ill give it that, but doesnt seem to have enough "curl" - in fact seems curved in the wrong direction. and doesnt have aggressive teeth. Seems like everything I try and pick up gets pushed out. One...

Hey bob, thanks for the reply. I may be interested. I sent you a PM..

Just broke the bucket on my BH9000. I am torn what to do. Looks like a replacement from woods is nearly a grand, plus you need a bushing kit because that specific bucket is obsolete, plus shipping......Seems like a lot. Anyone know of any other buckets that fit or is this unique? I am...

Update: Well it turns out the gearbox has been discontinued. Their website is pretty misleading it says the price and "usually ships in 3-5 days....."

So here is one more question. What would this be worth if I sold it? I ask because I actually did buy another snow blower. So I guess I'll fix this one up and sell it. I think it's worth it over scrapping it. 7 foot, manual chute McKee/new idea, Completely sandblasted and powder coated...

Awesome, thanks so much! Best I can tell it's the same thing. I guess I'll go ahead and order one. The $870 sure hurts though. What happened was I decided to have it sandblasted and painted. Turns out this place powder coated it gearbox and everything, cooked the seals of course. Great...

messicks is showing the cross shaft still available. Not sure which one it is as they show the same part number for both the before and after serial numbers. Entire gearbox is $870.

Oh yeah that would be great! I know its kinda hard to see in there with the gearbox mounted and all, but here is a picture. The first line in post #4 gives the shaft and bolt pattern dimensions, and its about 6 1/8 wide, where it bolts into the frame. I really appreciate it.

yeah mine is a 5" square bolt pattern, auger shaft is 19 spline, measures about 1.230 inches over the splines. thru shaft is 1.5" keyed There seems to be some confusion on the size of the cross shaft at the brearings, although if replacing the whole gearbox this shouldnt matter as long as the...

Thanks! Sounds close. After doing a bunch of digging it looks like Mckee actually made the snow blower and they sold them to new idea and also John Deere. I don't know about a coma t27 but certainly could be another rebranded one. The internationals are different as far as I know except while...

Hope I get lucky and one of the members here has one. I am trying to replace the gearbox on my new idea snow blower, and it is no longer available but I have a strong suspicion that the ih-70 and 80 gearbox is the same thing and that does appear to be available. Hoping someone can get me a few...