47" Snowblower Question

[rubadub]

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I went in the other room and had the bride type it up for me.

If I had a gravel driveway, I would take the scraper bar right off
my snowblower. My blower is 47" wide and it has nine holes for the
scraper bar.

Buy or make 3 more skid shoes, go into the 3rd, 5th, and 7th holes
and put a skid shoe at each hole. You'll have to cut off the side
plate of the skid shoe so you have the shoe itself.

The skid shoes have 2 holes already drilled in them. 2 3/4" hole
to hole. So you have 2 holes in the skid shoes and one hole
already in the snowblower that the skid shoe can mount on. You
only have to drill one more hole in the blower for that skid.
You are adding 3 skids and only have to drill 3 holes.

The reason this will work, is because you have 4 other shoes to
support the blower when one shoe runs off the driveway.

The skid shoes on my blower are 6 1/2" long, 2 1/2" wide and
1/2" thick.

I just know this would work really good and a guy could do this
at home.

Rob
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[psdx]

Ok. This may or may not hold up on the gravel driveway. Time will tell. But it's cheap and requires no modification to my expensive new snowblower. It's a 1x48" piece of galvanized pipe attached to the factory skid shoes with grade 8 bolts. Here's a picture.

 

[beenthere]

Will be interesting to see how that works out for you. Hope you give a shout back to let us know.

 

[psdx]

I'll remove the two bolts when I run this on concrete - should take about 60 seconds. I am guessing that since the weight of the snowblower is spread all across the pipe that the pipe won't wear too awful fast. And I would think that once there's a little snow on the driveway the wear should be minimal. But I guess that's what I'll learn from experimenting. And if it wears too fast, I'll try ABS pipe. I'll post an update after I've tried this.

 

[DIYr]

Pretty good idea. I have a couple of concerns. Is the bolt head recessed into the pipe? My concern is the bolt held wears down and the pipe goes into the blade. My other concern is the pipe digs down into the gravel and feeds stones into your machine.

 

[North585]

psdx, to your question about a whine, yes there is a noticable whine in mine. Once you start the pto, similar to starting the deck, there is a whine, that doesn't go away, however once into the heavy snow, it isn't noticable. I have the metal vs plastic.

 

[psdx]

Pretty good idea. I have a couple of concerns. Is the bolt head recessed into the pipe? My concern is the bolt held wears down and the pipe goes into the blade. My other concern is the pipe digs down into the gravel and feeds stones into your machine.

Yes - recessed into the pipe. About the pipe digging in - I will post an update once I've tried it. But whatever it does it will be less likely to roll stones up over the cutting edge than when riding on the skids. Once the driveway is frozen it may be academic. I will try it both ways and report relative differences.

 

[Gittyup]

Interesting idea. Should hold up OK on stone. Post back to let us know how it works out.