About your snow blower questions;
1) only if you have powder snows
2) you will cast the snow further if you
are moving slowly but the warmer it gets the
shorter it will be thrown even at full engine
speed at 540 R.P.M. without an impeller kit.
3) please contact Ken Sweet and ask him about his
Allied Farm King snow casters as he is a forum
advertiser in good standing.
4) it will help you with heavy wet snows as you
will be able to better control them with the
discharge being dumped directly in front of
the snow caster to allow piling at the end
of the cleaning run.
All of your issues are going to involve your cleintele
and when or how fast they want thier corner of
paradise opened up so the can go to work, shopping,
attend church, go on with their business or at the top
of the list how the H.E. double hockey sticks are you
going to open my driveway in the middle of the night
in a snow storm so I can take my spouse to the hospital
or allow an ambulance ingress to my home?, AND are you
going to screw up my driveway with your snow chains?
(the snow chains are a must in deep heavy wet snows
that are stuck and melting). In order to make up time with your
L3540 you will need a wider snowblower much wider than the track of the tractor this way you can crawl through the snow on the first pass and take faster half cuts on the following passes.
The issue of you available budget is big consideration as a Pronovost sidewalk snow blower attachment mounted on this tractor would be more effective with your snow falls which can be extremely heavy and dense in wieght at times due to the ocean air currents which are heavy in moisture.
I will explain his further with greater detail in this example.
At one mile per hour you are traveling at 88 feet per minute.
At two miles per hour you are traveling at 176 feet per minute.
At three miles per hour you are traveling at 264 feet per minute.
The wieght of the snow entering the snow caster before it enters the impeller drum will be between 21 and 54 pounds per cubic foot with the wieght of snow plow dumped piles in the mix.
SO the snow caster must remove 101 to 270 pounds per foot of advance of the snow caster.
A snow caster with an open auger configuration will only accept what the tractor is shoving into it in reverse at speed.
The snow caster impeller will only take in what it physically accept when under load.
The snow caster will only adequately dispose of the snow that enters it and can be removed by the impeller at the engine setting 540 R.P.M. speed.
The snow caster impeller is the business end of a snow caster as the open auger is nothing more than an a poor mans auger which does not provide full loading of the auger which will not deliver an solid mass of snow to the impeller.
The open auger is a compromise between cost versus efficiency as the faster one travels when doing work the auger still does not load the impeller efficiently where a solid auger would load the impeller at a flat rate of discharge allowing the impeller to work with a continuos loading versus the high and low loading rate of an open auger snow caster.
As a result the impeller is flooded and starved depending upon the snow load and snow condition. This would not occur if the auger was solid or a snow propeller was used.
The BIG issue is snow fall wieght and snow melt during daylight hours.
Fresh snow fall can wiegh between 21 to 25-pounds. Fresh heavy wet snows will surpass 50-pounds with high moisture content and wiegh more with the passage of time and the daylight hours and will become mush and much more dense.
You have to have available to you the tractive effort to move into heavy snows(chains and loaded tires) to be able to dispose of the snows efficiently and have the mechanical force and torque to cast them efficiently away from the work site.
The smaller the impeller fan the smaller the volume of snowfall moved per revolution times 540 revolutions per minute times 60 minutes per hour.
The heat created by the impellers rotation within the imepller drum will melt the snow in the bottom of the impeller drum making slush reducing the efficiency of the impeller.
This can be eliminated by installing a slick liner material and or adding one of "Clarences impeller kits to sweep the impeller drum clean and throw the snow further and higher away from the work site. The $30 dollars for one of clarences kits is covered by his money back guarantee.
With regard to your
L3540 you will need chains and loaded tires a front loader or front wieghts in order to maximise your tractive effort when using the snow caster as the snow will be very heavy.
Although a front loader would or could come in very handy it is something that will be sticking out that could and would clip a car or a lamp post.
A front loader will help with areas that are difficult for a snow caster to clear freely without open areas for the snow caster discharge.
A wider snow caster with a large volume impeller drum will work well but it will be required to work at a slower pace with your
L3540.
I am not trying to muddy the issue for you I want you to be an informed consumer of information as this decision involves time and the lack of it with regard to snow removal.
The issue of pricing is as sticky as heavy snows where a seasonal rate per driveway allows for more base income and the potential for more with added trips per snow fall occurance.
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