Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Pictures of your snow weapons

[leonz]

Just hooked up my MK Martin SB68 P/T to my TYM T474 for function test after grease and lube and once over.

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You need to find out where that noise is coming from!!! It should not be making any noise. It reminds me exactly of the shaft and bearing noise a fellow member had with his farm king pull behind snow blower which ended up being poor workmanship and bad welding as the drive shaft mount was not linear and made the same exact noises.

 

[pmsmechanic]

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You need to find out where that noise is coming from!!! It should not be making any noise. It reminds me exactly of the shaft and bearing noise a fellow member had with his farm king pull behind snow blower which ended up being poor workmanship and bad welding as the drive shaft mount was not linear and made the same exact noises.

I was thinking the same thing as I was listening to the video. My thoughts were that there is some interference in the fan housing.

 

[TractorTYMe]

yeah I'm gonna check it when I get home. I did notice when I took it up to 540 PTO speed that there was a vibration in the PTO shaft. I'm going to take it off and check the shaft on the fan, and recheck the PTO shaft for imbalance or CV joints.

 

[leonz]

If you have access to a dial indicator and know how to use one that is your first step as that will tell you where the problem is.

You need a helper to spin the impeller with the PTO shaft unattached to the gear box while someone watches the dial indicator.

If it is like the Farm King snow blower we had issues with a few months ago the problem is with the alignment of the driven shaft and possibly thinner weldments and as result the weldments being out of alignment which is what we all found collectively when the member with the Farm King snow blower used a dial indicator to trace back to where the problem was in the rear of the impeller housing causing the wobble.

The Farm King folks replaced his snow blower "at absolutely no charge to him" and painted it the same color of his mule at no charge to him-that is what I call service.

 

[Tony H]

Wicked nice... Clean, easy. Well done

 

[Gordon Gould]

First of September already, and thinking about snow removal this winter.
A few years back I built a wing plow for my JD 4300. In time, for deer hunting, I got a GoPro camera and took awhile to learn how to operate it.. still learning too.
Today I ran across some GoPro files of using the wing plow to push the snow berms back beyond where the 7' Western plow on the 4300 could push, either too deep or over too near the ditch line without sliding off.
So today I figured out how to run the GoPro file through "movie maker" and put a YouTube video together showing the wing plow in action and showing how the wing plow mounts quickly to the 4300.
Want to make a better video of the wing plow, but finding a good place to mount the camera has escaped me. Have a friend with a drone that wants to come down and show me what it can do, maybe I can talk him into this nice winter scene and make some above and around shots of the wing plow.


Winging snow berms back - YouTube

Wing plow hookup - YouTube

That looks like a great set up and very clever !!! Thanks for showing it. What are the dimensions of that wing blade ??

gg

EDIT 9-6-20 5:30 pm: I found your build thread from Dec 2009. Plenty of good info there - ignore my info request. Thank you for your old thread. Very intriguing - my wheels are turning.

gg

 

[leonz]

Any good or bad news on your inverted snowblower TYMNorsky???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

 

[TractorTYMe]

I'm in contact with the dealer and manufacturer.

 

[leonz]

Hello TYMNorsky,


I certainly hope that they do not give you a run around like they gave me.

Did you have the opportunity to check the and driven shafts with a dial indicator??

 

[TractorTYMe]

I don't have access to a dial indicator, but there enough wobble in the fan shaft to see it visually.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

So far global warming is doing a good job for us in West KY. Normally I pull off the bush hog after the first killing frost and put on the blade for the winter since we live at the top of a big hill but the other day it hit me I have not for the last 5 years. Typical the snow melts off on its own quickly but if it takes a few hours the Subaru Forester turned out to be a snow weapon out of this world.

 

[leonz]

I don't have access to a dial indicator, but there enough wobble in the fan shaft to see it visually.

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I hope they come and get that snow blower and give you a complete refund so you
can purchase a pronovost snow blower and do not charge you for picking it up as
they should not charge you anything period.

There should be no wobble/elliptical orbit period in a 2 stage snow blower.
The wobble indicates the steel is too thin for sure.


Calling mk martin may not do you any good as they do not like to listen-been there
done that when I tried to get them to build me a single stage snow thrower with a
13 inch snow blower rotor as the 16 inch rotor models they make are much, much
to large for sub compacts or compact tractors of any brand.

 

[TractorTYMe]

I'm hauling it into the dealer that I bought it from, ordering snow equipment now it's kind of a moot point, it won't be delivered until new years or later I anticipate? If the can make this right before snow falls, that will be fine. I like the build quality of the snowblower, minus the axle wobble. Just a lack of QC routines it seem? Can happen, just hope there is no runaround.

 

[pmsmechanic]

I'd be tempted to put a small inconspicuous mark on the bent shaft so that you can tell if it's been replaced or just straightened.

 

[leonz]

If you don't mind a retired mining equipment mechanics insight;

The wobble being the existing elliptical orbit of the impeller goes all the way back to the rear
impeller housing making it flex and it should not do that period.

1. the steel is too thin
2. the welds will be weak due to the thinner steel
3. the damage to the snow blower will continue to become larger and the rear weldments that
support the bearings and the gears will start breaking at the impeller shaft hole in the weldment
and then the weldments for the cross shaft.
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I only want to help you TYMNorsky not get in your way.

I would ask for a refund and call Pronovost and pay for a snow blower and have it shipped to a Pronovost dealer near you by AMTRAK freight
or order one from Paul Vanderzon at Deneigement Vanderzon and have it shipped by amtrak to the nearest AMTRAK station depot.

I consider Paul a good friend and an honest business man


If you call Paul and talk to him tell him Leon from Ithaca sent you as you need a snowblower.

I think you have suffered enough with this.

 

[TractorTYMe]

There are no Pronovost dealers close to me here in the Northern Rockies. And they are at least $2k-$3k more expensive. I'll give them a chance to fix it.

 

[airbiscuit]

I love my M K Martin Meteor Rear Pull Snowblower. It runs as smooth as silk. They will get it right.

 

[Rustyiron]

In the video, the noise is in sync with the chain that keeps the plastic shielding from spinning wiggling.
Hope it's that simple.

 

[TractorTYMe]

In the video, the noise is in sync with the chain that keeps the plastic shielding from spinning wiggling.
Hope it's that simple.

Just got the snowblower back today from the dealer, the fan doesn't touch the case anymore.

 

[leonz]

That is good to hear TYMNorsky,

Did they reinforce the rear plate weldment by welding gussets to the back of it???

I would love to hear what they did to it.