80" of snow this week.

[screamin400]

I live in Pompey, NY, in the hills southeast of Syracuse. We don't usually get Tug Hill snow amounts, but we have our moments. Coastal storms, like the Blizzard of '93 (The "Storm of the Century") tend to hit us harder than they do Tug Hill.

The JD 4600 and the 1165 snowblower we have now will move a lot of snow. I wish we'd had it back in '93. Officially, Syracuse got about 4 feet at the airport, but we're guessing we had about a foot or so more than that. It was difficult to measure, as it was blowing around a lot. At the time, all we had to move snow, other than shovels, was a homemade plow on the front of my grandfather's Case SC tractor. With a 10-foot drift across the driveway, it took us half a day just to open a 100-foot path to get the tractor from the barn where we keep it to the road, where we could cross and attack the house driveway.

I remember the storm. It got us for something like 3-4'. We are hearing this one dumped more than the blizzard of 66 right here. I cannot confirm just what I hear.

 

[fishhead]

There is only one Hakk. that I know of. Many Nokians. I am 11k in on my tires.

he might be seeing car and suv models - i have studded 11's on my car

 

[tjandrews]

I see where Adams is getting hammered again. Something like 2 feet overnight, and continuing to fall like that almost all day today.

 

[screamin400]

I see where Adams is getting hammered again. Something like 2 feet overnight, and continuing to fall like that almost all day today.

buddy of mine is heading up there

 

[BadgerCheese]

You are right. I am set for deep but seldom use it. Everyone is all up in arms on youtube that a different blower would have worked better. You know what you and I do? We use what we own. Neither going out to spend money for one storm. I bet you have a sweet setup there.

I lost the shear pin on the gear box yesterday (first time in the 4 years I've owned the blower) and about 20 minutes later, the shear pin on the drive line broke. Both are 3/16 grade 5 bolts. The snow was heavier than I thought and my speed was probably too fast.

I have neighbors with snow plows on their trucks that clean up the road on their way out in the morning or in later in the day. Also happens they are partners in a logging operation in the area, and when the road starts to close in they bring in a grader, put the wing up high and move the banks back. My equipment could do it, but it would be a multi-pass project (undercut pass, and a clean up pass). No fun.......

If in the future they're not around or in a nursing home, I'll have to upgrade my equipment. Heck, I might be in there with them! But what I have is more than functional for now, and still worth more than I paid for it!

 

[screamin400]

I lost the shear pin on the gear box yesterday (first time in the 4 years I've owned the blower) and about 20 minutes later, the shear pin on the drive line broke. Both are 3/16 grade 5 bolts. The snow was heavier than I thought and my speed was probably too fast.

I have neighbors with snow plows on their trucks that clean up the road on their way out in the morning or in later in the day. Also happens they are partners in a logging operation in the area, and when the road starts to close in they bring in a grader, put the wing up high and move the banks back. My equipment could do it, but it would be a multi-pass project (undercut pass, and a clean up pass). No fun.......

If in the future they're not around or in a nursing home, I'll have to upgrade my equipment. Heck, I might be in there with them! But what I have is more than functional for now, and still worth more than I paid for it!

Everyone doing what I do have moved to grade 8 bolts. Sometimes I purchase a little bit longer bolt and grind it down a bit so no threads are being used in the shear area. We still break them though time to time.

 

[grsthegreat]

My neighbor swapped his walk behind shear bolts to grade 8, he destroyed the drive case. Absolutely broke to pieces.

 

[screamin400]

My neighbor swapped his walk behind shear bolts to grade 8, he destroyed the drive case. Absolutely broke to pieces.

It can happen.

 

[wolc123]

Nice tractor. Would he mind if you put 1"-2" spacers on the back wheels to keep the chains from rubbing ?

It took me a while, but I finally got the wheel spacers on dad’s JD 770 today. The lug bolt size was 16 mm x 2 mm. The shortest ones they had at the store I checked were 70 mm lg. I paid about $ 40 for 12 of those.

I used std 3/4” hex nuts as spacers, which are about 5/8” thick. That was plenty to stop the tire chain from rubbing the fender on one side and to stop the rear plow from hooking the tire chain on the opposite side. I also reused the original 16 mm lock washers and added a std 3/4” flat washer on each bolt to take up the excess non threaded length.

It was a little more than I wanted to spend but my dad gave me $ 20 towards it (that’s what I told him the bolts cost) so it wasn’t too bad. His tractor is an inch and a quarter wider now, and no more annoying chain rubbing on the fender or plow blade hooking.

I saved the original lug bolts, which were only about 25 mm long and had slightly larger hexes on the heads. The new 70 mm bolts are long enough, so that I could have fit a second 5/8” thick spacer nut on each, had I needed it. I doubt I’ll ever take them off again.



That tractor is a little more stable now, and plows snow better than it ever did. I wish I could say that for my Farmall Cub here at home. It’s out of commission with a “no spark” issue. I’m hoping it’s the coil, but still unknown at this point.

Fortunately, I’ve got a larger diesel, American made John Deere of my own here, to get the snow plowing done. Not as fun plowing with that as the Farmall though, but it gets the job done a lot faster.

 

[oldnslo]

Wolc,
Does the rim sit on the pilot at all with those nuts as spacers? I would be worried about the rim moving on the bolts if not engaged on the pilot and potentially wallowing out the holes in the rim.