grsthegreat
Super Star Member
ill get the wife to take some next time i blow some snow. all i have are the older youtube post i made last year.Grs,
For your location and situation, you certainly have the BEST setup that I can think of! How bout a few more (new) pics?
At least some of you are getting some snow, we haven't had anything plowable yet.
ive finally have gotten use to the front end blower, combined with the HST tractor, and man i LOVE it.
i cleared the 4' tall compacted,wet piles of snow in probably 1/4th the time it used to take me. i used to have to first knock down the piles with the bucket, then back up and blow. now i simply raise the blower, take off the top 2 feet, then gradually drop the blower as i remove the rest. When its real wet, i just have to remember to go slower.
Last week, the unit kept getting clogged. the snow on the driveway was REAL wet. i should have probably used the plow, but the ground still isnt frozen and i like my gravel. I ended up having to park the tractor in shop and hit the blower with my 250,000 BTU salamander heater to melt off all the snow. Man, there was ice all over this blower. After i got it all melted off, the blower was able to complete the job.
Yesterday i hit the sloughed snow before it had a chance to really thaw out in the 35 degree weather. Was alot easier to blow it 20-30 feet away without any clogged chutes this time.
My older back up style blower got clogged up alot also, so its just the nature of wet snow blowing.
When blowing dry powder, i can shoot it 30+ feet...a nice rooster tail. And it does a 79" wide path each pass...which is nice. It has handled a 2' deep path of dry snow in one pass, but have to take less of a bite out of the wet crap.
