Recent content by Shadow99

How about a pic or two?

I've got an early 70's 2cyl 30hp diesel (no glow plugs), that can really work the 12v starter hard during cold NE winter starts, even using a heating pad on the air intake pipe & oil pan, plus a battery charger on a timer, to keep it up to snuff. An older neighbor (in his late 70's), has a...

I'd hate to say it again, but a "zero-clearance kit" on a Ford 715a snowblower, will not work! I tried this fall, to remove the 1/4" to 5/16" gap nearest to the chute exit. I used mud flap material with an aluminum plate backer, bolted to the 3 impeller blades. On the Ford, the impeller blades...

I modified a walk-behind soft cab on my Pasquali 993, cost about $50 bucks. It's held in place with a few SS hose clamps. Keeps the snow off 90% of my body, especially when using my 60" snowblower. Shadow

What kinda snow? Heavy-wet snow is the worst, especially if there is not enough of it (under 2-3"). Drier snow is the best to throw, but it also needs to be more than 3" deep. I find that if the snow is wet & under 3" deep, I use the blower to gather the snow, then engage PTO, at the end of a...

I mounted an old concrete wheel weight in between the arch of the main frame of my 6.5 ft GB. Had it temporarily attached with a ratchet strap, till I found it was just what I needed to make it work. Then thru-bolted it to the frame after. Shadow

I'm getting ready to re-paint the impeller, housing & chute of my Ford 60" 2-stage snowblower. I've hammered out the dents, sanded away the surface rust, & primed it all. I saw some "new" paint by Rust-oleum called Never-wet. Supposed to be a super slick surface that water doesn't stick too. Has...

Shoe-horned in garage! Pull in nose-first in winter, rest FEL on un-needed WB, so it's easier to clear path down driveway. Back-in during summer, being sure not to bump into snowblower attachment parked on back wall, (already pushed wall out slighly, oops!) Garage was built in 1890 of what ever...

NICE!:thumbsup: I'm a proud 993 owner myself, use my Pasquali for all sorts of work where a conventional tractor can't fit. Use it for skidding logs, general bucket-work (although a full-float on the loader arms would be nice, still original 1971 Italian hydraulics with twin-sticks, no-float)...

I'm planning on adding a 3rd function valve to the FEL on my Pasquali 993 & adding a set of remote's out by the 3pt hitch. I've seen Pasquali's with both the FEL & Backhoe mounted to same machine. My question is did all those hydraulic functions feed off the standard tiny hydraulic tank, or did...

We build this outta a machine crate, and some assorted scrap we found. Only purchased items were the disk harrows from TSC. Worked OK, needed to use heavier gauge plastic to cover the hill,stuff we had was like saran-wrap. The irrigation tubing needed to be pinned in place before starting each...

I was snowblowing the other night with my Pasquali 993, running 2300 rpm, & I thought I saw sparks coming outta the exhaust! :eek: Could this just be carbon burning off, or should I be concerned with something else? The motor runs smoothly at that rpm, has plenty of power to throw the snow...

Your cab looks great! Any protection while using a snowblower is a must. The one thing I found while using a plastic unheated cab, is that the snow tends to stick to the outside of the cab, which obstructs the view, especially since you need to look behind to use blower. At least your cab seems...

I HAVE to use a foam pre-filter on my Pasquali 993 to keep the dry snow from getting sucked into the air-filter neck & freezing into a lump. I just cut a piece of air filter foam (happened to be pink, not my personal choice), into a donut shape & slipped it over the neck covering the intake...

My snowblower is a 60" that I use to do several un-even & heaved asphalt driveways & a hard-packed driveway out to a horse/goat pen. As some of the other's said, you need a minimum of 4" to keep blower happy. When I run into area's that are less than required 4", I dis-engage PTO & use it like a...