My new and old projects snow blowers for Japanese tractors

[Agent Blue]

Very simple reproduction of blowers on the market. Why not make it a front end blower. No one wants to crank their neck backing down curved drives or around objects? A simple drive shaft with knuckles will transfer the power. There is a great market for 50" blowers in the 1000.00 range. Major manufacturers are in the 3k price range.

 

[piotrbpm]

I really like your flighting design on the last machine. Each side cut from a single, circular piece of steel. Very simple; very smart! Where in Poland do you live?
Jim

I live in Poland in the Lublin province, it's like for you one of the states

I do not know if I understand correctly Agent Blue, the question is why do not plow to the front rotor?
No one has gave me this, in the winter, unfortunately, not sold a single one, in winter descended sold as many as 8

 

[rgs03833]

All nice, from ideas, fabrications, functional... :thumbsup:

Here is the Bad one.

1. If you start selling it to people. They need replacement parts... How would they get replacement parts?

2. Even if they can get replacement parts from you. Would they be able to replace it? Because i see some of the parts are Welded in and Not all people can Weld and not all people have a Welder.

Hate to say it, but NOT User Friendly parts replacement .

 

[SensibleNick]

Hate to say it, but NOT User Friendly parts replacement .

It seems a shame that you jump to such a negative conclusion and judgement without asking.
All small manufactures of machines started with such small numbers, and will all have had the same "spare parts" problem. JCB, Case, Joehn Deere... all of them.

8 sold last year is very good!

When it comes to spare parts, I would imagine that Piotr will fix anything that breaks for a customer, and his customers will be very happy.

Poland is not a "Consumer Society" where people have a tantrum if they can't get a new bearing instantly, or if a supplier hasn't got one on the shelf - so even though *you* worry about spare parts, for Piotr's customers it really isn't an issue. Broken things will get fixed

Good work Piotr: I hope this winter brings some snow and new customers for you! :thumbsup:

 

[Agent Blue]

I live in Poland in the Lublin province, it's like for you one of the states

I do not know if I understand correctly Agent Blue, the question is why do not plow to the front rotor?
No one has gave me this, in the winter, unfortunately, not sold a single one, in winter descended sold as many as 8

What I should clarify is the last snow blower you built.... the one that hooks to the three point to the rear of the tractor. Make the identical machine and operate it with a PTO shaft that uses a drive shaft under the tractor and extends to the front wheels. It not only clears the path for the tractor to easily follow in deep snow but does not have to contend with packed down snow.
In my lifetime if I get time I want to build one for my John Deere. One to fit my tractor with mounts will be over $3500.00. I built a loader with a larger bucket I use for snow removal.
Good luck with your fabrication business. I always admire people with skills that build machines with their hands.

 

[rgs03833]

It seems a shame that you jump to such a negative conclusion and judgement without asking.
All small manufactures of machines started with such small numbers, and will all have had the same "spare parts" problem. JCB, Case, Joehn Deere... all of them.

8 sold last year is very good!

When it comes to spare parts, I would imagine that Piotr will fix anything that breaks for a customer, and his customers will be very happy.

Poland is not a "Consumer Society" where people have a tantrum if they can't get a new bearing instantly, or if a supplier hasn't got one on the shelf - so even though *you* worry about spare parts, for Piotr's customers it really isn't an issue. Broken things will get fixed

Good work Piotr: I hope this winter brings some snow and new customers for you! :thumbsup:

Funny how you said I jumped into Conclusion and Judgement. What about the rest of my post?

Also, how funny is that you are answering the questions that was NOT intended for you!

I'm sure he can fix it for his Customers who live close to him. But what if there are people who are 200 miles away who wants his products? What if I want to buy from him? I'm in the US, across the World? What if I want to support someone who fabricate or design things for a living? How would he fix it then if something break?

You are telling me that you would drive 200 miles to fix something that is a User Friendly Part Replacement? What happened to the part that you pick the phone up and say " Can I order Part # ******* ". What happened to the DIY repacement parts?

I was NOT judging him on his Designs or how he sells his product. But you must understand if he wants to sell more, he needs to do the parts that break easily or unforseen parts that commonly people break, either by accidents or an act of God or whatever God you believe in.

People here doesn't get a " tantrum " because they can't get the parts. But people will get a " tantrum " if they can't get their driveway cleared so they can get their cars out to get to work. Of course there are shovels... Try that with a 10 X 1000 feet Driveway when it's 18" high and 18" high is a lucky snow storm.

A good Business Man or Woman always have to listen to him or her regardless if he or she is Right or Wrong. But then again, what do you know about Business since you made stupid comments about me about Conclusion and Judgement!

 

[SensibleNick]

I was NOT judging him on his Designs or how he sells his product. But you must understand if he wants to sell more, he needs to do the parts that break easily or unforseen parts that commonly people break, either by accidents or an act of God or whatever God you believe in.
*snippy*
But then again, what do you know about Business since you made stupid comments about me about Conclusion and Judgement!

Things in Sweden get broken by gnomes.... the House-Gnomes are particularly known for eating biscuits when noone is looking.

I didn't mean my comments to taken fuel for an angry attack! My point was that it seems a shame for Piotr to make an effort to show us his fantastic work, but to have negative things in capital letters finishing off a response. (Despite the spot-on positive things - we all know that you can shower compliments on someone, but they'll all take the *one* negative thing to heart) I could have explained myself better, but was trying to keep the language simple for someone who *might* be using Google Translate.

I know plenty about business, but that here is irrelevant. My comment was based upon the fact that our contries (US and Sweden) are worlds apart from Poland when it comes to customer expectations, and the skills of the average consumer. "spare parts" and "dealer service" are not as important in some areas of the world. As you point out - IF he plans to sell elsewhere then he may need to consider spares, but I didn't see anything that suggested he wanted to - hence my comment about jumping to conclusions.

Our company has plenty of machinery on site in Poland, and when it comes to broken things the Poles are ingenious when it comes to fixing them. What you or I might consider a "warranty issue" or where we'd be asking " is this a manufacturing fault", in Poland it will have already been fixed - it seems as though everyone knows someone who can weld (someone here in Sweden might well throw a tantrum if the dealer doesn't stock a part (maybe Tantrum is a strong word, but I can't find a better one Maybe "Be annoyed" would be better) - I think possibly that you missundertood me and thought I was saying people in the US are spoiled and would throw a trantum.

So.... sorry you feel the need to call me stupid: I hope that you now understand where/why I was coming from. :thumbsup:

$755 for a new 2-stage blower? ... Fantasitic


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Hi Piotr. My apologies for the argument above.
You are making excellent machines; Do you hope to sell them outside Poland?
What happens if someone breaks a machine that you have sold?

:confused2: google Translate :confused2:

Witaj Piotr. moje przeprosiny za nieporozumienie powyżej.
Robisz doskonałe maszyny; Masz nadzieję sprzedać je poza Polska?
Co się stanie, jeśli ktoś łamie maszyny?

 

[piotrbpm]

When it comes to spare parts that I thought about it when designing.
70% come from other parts of agricultural machinery that you can buy from us.
So if you need to replace something you can buy in our shops with spare parts for farm machinery.
Other parts of the same so I do not have a problem with their implementation.
Some parts can be sent eg rotor or gear etc so I do not have somewhere to go
Here in Poland, no one has done such small machines for snow removal, and if it does 8x the price is higher than mine.
Let me move on like we're on spare parts, we have a lot of companies in the country that the Japanese Export tractors.
Unfortunately, for example, Yanmar parts are not available, and somehow we're doing
On the day I buy a Yanmar then I could shoot a movie.
Unfortunately, I fell in habit and often buy and sell tractors, the Japanese had already 6
As for durability, so I try to choose materials that the device strength.
I used to design sheet 4mm strengthened the structure to a lot of tough

 

[SensibleNick]

No one has done such small machines for snow removal, and if it does 8x the price is higher than mine.

It sounds to me as though you could make more profit if you wanted to!

Thanks for the explanation

 

[piotrbpm]

At last I had the opportunity to test your rotary plow, a little wet snow
On your channel also threw nine parts repair Yanmar YM2310D
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2xRDdNGnUk&feature=autoplay&list=UUhJBlxsQiFAZL01GnJPr00A&lf=plcp&playnext=1]Test p?ug wirnikowy ws3550-120 +Yanmar YM2310D mokry ?nieg - YouTube[/ame]