Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Erskine ES2410XL

[McCaskey]

We just recovered from 90.5 inches (7.5 feet) of snow in just 3 days here in Buffalo NY.
I burned over 200 gallons of diesel fuel in the 5 day cleanup.

I used my Erskine ES2410XL blower on the ASV RC100 extensively. Lots of problems with plugged chute because of wet snow & slush underneath mixing with fresh powder and freezing up the chute. I have to be real careful on the feed rate into the blower. It does not like heavy snow directly in front of the fan. Ideally, plugged up chute is minimized when taking one third of a cut. Allowing the snow to be augured into the fan rather than snow directly into the fan. Slow down when it starts looking like a sausage maker.

There are separate hydraulic motors for auger vs. fan, at 34 seconds into the video the auger stops until the fan catches up. The fan motor takes priority over the auger motor. From the cab, I can't see a stalled auger which gives me concern about bending the auger shaft while pushing it into heavy snow. I'm thinking about mounted two sections from the broken Urethane Cutting Edge behind the auger the prevent bending the shaft.

In really deep snow I needed to take in down in layers or shelf's. Drive into the snow for 4 feet with blower up high, back up, lower blower and take another layer.

The Urethane Cutting Edge fractured during the event.

Overall, the Erskine performed well under this extreme snow event.

Short video of taking down the last of the piles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OiKINP4BI4

 

[leonz]

We just recovered from 90.5 inches (7.5 feet) of snow in just 3 days here in Buffalo NY.
I burned over 200 gallons of diesel fuel in the 5 day cleanup.

I used my Erskine ES2410XL blower on the ASV RC100 extensively. Lots of problems with plugged chute because of wet snow & slush underneath mixing with fresh powder and freezing up the chute. I have to be real careful on the feed rate into the blower. It does not like heavy snow directly in front of the fan. Ideally, plugged up chute is minimized when taking one third of a cut. Allowing the snow to be augured into the fan rather than snow directly into the fan. Slow down when it starts looking like a sausage maker.

There are separate hydraulic motors for auger vs. fan, at 34 seconds into the video the auger stops until the fan catches up. The fan motor takes priority over the auger motor. From the cab, I can't see a stalled auger which gives me concern about bending the auger shaft while pushing it into heavy snow. I'm thinking about mounted two sections from the broken Urethane Cutting Edge behind the auger the prevent bending the shaft.

In really deep snow I needed to take in down in layers or shelf's. Drive into the snow for 4 feet with blower up high, back up, lower blower and take another layer.

The Urethane Cutting Edge fractured during the event.

Overall, the Erskine performed well under this extreme snow event.

Short video of taking down the last of the piles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OiKINP4BI4

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These open augers on two stage snow clearer's are much more trouble
than their worth Jeff.

The unit you have is designed for powder snows not heavy snow pack.

I have been suggesting for years that these manufacturers offer a solid auger with narrow flighting
to solve the flooding and jamming issues as well as the iced chutes and spouts.

Not to name drop, but Pronovost offers a solid bottom auger on some of its models.

It would be easy to install a solid auger unit with a shell and auger flighting attached to the shell/tube.

One manufacturer in particular AEBSchmidt has a single stage unit with very narrow width flighting
that is very short in height that limits the amount of snow that can enter the chute and spout at a very small
continuous stream and the auger operating at very fast speed quickly removes the snow in front of it.

These open augers should be replaced with solid auger with narrow flighting to reduce the flooding and jamming
by snow pack as small metered amounts of snow are fed into the impeller and cast away.

Even better yet a hydraulic drive single stage unit with a solid auger using a chain drive would work even better
as the flighting would have serrations on the exposed edge cutting the snow into very small pieces.

Our old IHC Cub Cadet 12 horse lawn mower had a single stage snow caster made of heavy steel with a solid tube auger with narrow flighting and it never let us down.

The solid tube auger of a single stage snow caster is made using two sets of flighting with a paddle connecting the two sections in the center and the paddle casts the snow up through the chute and spout.

If you have access to some fluid film or mow deck or cooking spray the snow will not stick and the impeller will throw it farther as well.

If you look at Clarences impeller kits and watch some of the customer testimonial videos you will see what a difference the impeller kit makes in casting snow.

I have a fiberglass impeller on my JD LA115 but If I keep the tractor and snow caster I am going install a metal impeller and one of Clarences kits.

If you can find one of the plastic sheet type child sleds that can be rolled up you can line the chute and spout by heating the plastic with heat gun and bolt it into place and eliminate the snow from sticking due to friction and the resulting heat buildup.

The construction of my snow blower is so cheap I have resulted in using duct tape to repair the chute and spout and I am not going to spend 112 dollars plus tax and freight to replace it. The duct tape council and Red Green would be proud of my work!

 

[Rustyiron]

We just recovered from 90.5 inches (7.5 feet) of snow in just 3 days here in Buffalo NY.

Sounds like your cab was your home for a few days. Just once I'd like to experience a storm like that. From what I (didn't) hear, it sounds like the flooding never happened thankfully. Thanks for posting, and if you have any other pics, I for one am interested. I don't get to watch videos with my crappy internet service here.

 

[tcartwri]

I have the identical blower on a pto drive and I hate to tell you this but it would have no problem with what you are doing in the video. It looks like the hydro motor does not have enough torque or rpm for the job.

 

[eagle107]

My uncle used my tractor in the recent Buffalo snow storm and the M.K. Martin snowblower on my JD 4520 did a great job. The blower did not clog much as long as you went slow.

 

[McCaskey]

Only a phone book can stop a 100 HP Erskine snow blower. Fortunately with hydraulic motors there's no shear pins to break.

 

[Rustyiron]

DOH!!
If it weren't frozen, it might have looked like confetti coming out of that beast!

 

[JJZ 109]

Only a phone book can stop a 100 HP Erskine snow blower. Fortunately with hydraulic motors there's no shear pins to break.

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Looks a lot like the 2010X on the front of my S185.