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Took delivery of my B7500 a few weeks ago. Used the front snowblower for the first time last night; had
used a B2400 with a rear blower for about a month to that as a loaner from the dealer while I was
waiting for my B7500.
I have a gravel driveway. I try to be very very careful about the rocks - I have shoes on the blower
and I try to keep the blower raised enough to avoid picking up rocks.
However, I can't miss all of them and the end result is that I end up breaking the shear bolts about
five minutes into the job (about 10% of the job done). I decided to just use the blower as a plow
last night, as it was only about five inches of mainly powder, instead of replacing the shear bolts every
five minutes.
My question - does anyone have any advice as to a better method of using the blower to avoid
shearing the bolts? I think these are #2 grade bolts (low/weak) and I will put on #8's.
I may end up putting some type of "filter" along the bottom of the lip of the blower so that snow can
get in, but large rocks can't. I'm thinking of using some strips of metal that would welded or bolted on
that have, say, a 1 inch gap that would let the snow in, but would ride over the gravel (only two or three
strips, so it would only come up three inches or so).
used a B2400 with a rear blower for about a month to that as a loaner from the dealer while I was
waiting for my B7500.
I have a gravel driveway. I try to be very very careful about the rocks - I have shoes on the blower
and I try to keep the blower raised enough to avoid picking up rocks.
However, I can't miss all of them and the end result is that I end up breaking the shear bolts about
five minutes into the job (about 10% of the job done). I decided to just use the blower as a plow
last night, as it was only about five inches of mainly powder, instead of replacing the shear bolts every
five minutes.
My question - does anyone have any advice as to a better method of using the blower to avoid
shearing the bolts? I think these are #2 grade bolts (low/weak) and I will put on #8's.
I may end up putting some type of "filter" along the bottom of the lip of the blower so that snow can
get in, but large rocks can't. I'm thinking of using some strips of metal that would welded or bolted on
that have, say, a 1 inch gap that would let the snow in, but would ride over the gravel (only two or three
strips, so it would only come up three inches or so).