Latest auger install on my blower. Have video, need opinions ASAP!

[arsenix2001]

Only time will tell, but my guess is it'll go for years.
I'm sure we'll read of more folks buying Woods blowers over the next few years....then we'll know.

Not if I can help it!! :laughing::laughing:

 

[RoyJackson]

Not if I can help it!! :laughing::laughing:

You can't really complain if you don't know you have a problem...you think you have a problem, but I'd guess you're not in manufacturing or fabrication work. I do work in the manufacturing industry (not implements and not for Woods), and I don't think you really have any concerns...just my opinion based upon a lot of years experience.

BTW, don't ever go in to an aircraft manufacturing plant...you'd never fly again.

 

[JohninCT]

I don't know if it will help or hurt your feelings toward your snowblower but with all the discussion in this thread I figured I would post a couple of videos of the chain drive on my Bervac 3 point snowblower. Mine is still brand new (I bought it last year).

IMHO I think your blower is going to be fine. No snow has been the problem. If you were busy blowing snow with it you wouldn't be so busy watching and worrying about the chain going roundy round.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSB2KSUaSGE&context=C3290126ADOEgsToPDskKZr5mo4xQb3EtQS6Ax1d0j]3 point snowblower chain drive - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLYjYmaKnMI&context=C3779b01ADOEgsToPDskIB55-NTv3SDMgd2nC-pGk0]3 point snowblower chain drive 2 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[toxicjeeper]

I agree with the OP. Something is wrong. That chain is making WAAYY too much noise.. My snowblower is an ecnor 74 inch and i hear the air coming out of the chute at full tilt..Not the chain rattling..

I will not be spending the extra money for a Woods product EVER after reading this thread.. I certainly hope someone in Woods marketing is reading this cause someone needs to stick up for consumer quality!

 

[pilot-werx]

You can't really complain if you don't know you have a problem...you think you have a problem, but I'd guess you're not in manufacturing or fabrication work. I do work in the manufacturing industry (not implements and not for Woods), and I don't think you really have any concerns...just my opinion based upon a lot of years experience.

BTW, don't ever go in to an aircraft manufacturing plant...you'd never fly again.

Pretty sure that if I saw anything like that on a plane going out of my hangar I would not try to give some cover your butt statement. In aviation, customer service is everything and I go to the ends of the earth to make people happy....

 

[RoyJackson]

Pretty sure that if I saw anything like that on a plane going out of my hangar I would not try to give some cover your butt statement. In aviation, customer service is everything and I go to the ends of the earth to make people happy....

I worked at a company that manufactured thrust reversers...training new inspectors. I was a contractor (3rd party) there.
I wasn't impressed with their work and, IMHO, it was much more of a managerial problem then a production worker problem.

 

[leonz]

I don't know if it will help or hurt your feelings toward your snowblower but with all the discussion in this thread I figured I would post a couple of videos of the chain drive on my Bervac 3 point snowblower. Mine is still brand new (I bought it last year).

IMHO I think your blower is going to be fine. No snow has been the problem. If you were busy blowing snow with it you wouldn't be so busy watching and worrying about the chain going roundy round.

3 point snowblower chain drive - YouTube

3 point snowblower chain drive 2 - YouTube

You need to tighten your drive chain. the chain is not supposed slap up and down on the bottom of the chain loop

 

[RoyJackson]

You need to tighten your drive chain. the chain is not supposed slap up and down on the bottom of the chain loop

At this point, Leonz...he really needs to run it as Woods built it. It's either going to hold up fine, or it's going to fail (Messick's has extended his warranty).
Any tightening or any work would bias how this unit works out. I just hope arsenix2001 gets enough snow so he can see how well (good or bad) it functions...

 

[5picker]

At this point, Leonz...he really needs to run it as Woods built it. It's either going to hold up fine, or it's going to fail (Messick's has extended his warranty).
Any tightening or any work would bias how this unit works out. I just hope arsenix2001 gets enough snow so he can see how well (good or bad) it functions...

Roy...
Unless I'm misreading, I believe Leonz is referring to the chain of the Bervac blower in JohninCT's post.

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy...
Unless I'm misreading, I believe Leonz is referring to the chain of the Bervac blower in JohninCT's post.

OOPS!!!
I stand corrected!!