leonz
Super Member
Hello genze,
AS I am coming back to this at 4AM I wanted to add this.
The single stage snow thrower is an outgrowth of the grain auger and the grain augers have been around for a very long time with the simple design being a screw or a helix surrounding a solid shaft. The same can be said for water lifting screws that were used to lift high volumes of river water at steep angles to a water treatment plant to make clean drinking water.
Archimedes had the right idea for something that is used to do many jobs in many places.
Collectively single stage directional grain augers operate for hundreds of thousand of hours annually moving grain from combines to grain buggies with off loading augers or into trucks that off load the grain taken from the field into grain pits equipped with grain augers in the bottom of the pit to move and lift the grain into a grain dryer. That grain dryer has an auger to move the dried grain into a waiting truck or to an elevator that lifts the grain to a gravity delivery tube then into a grain bin. The grain may be stirred by a battery of gear driven augers attached to a rotating arm connected to a center post in the grain bin using an electric motor powering a gear that rotates the arm with the grain mixing augers that uses a rack drive gear in the top of the grain bin as it travels in circles mixing the hot grain with cooler grain to bring its temperature down so it can be stored in another grain bin safely for long periods. Later the same grain is removed with an auger out of the grain bin into a waiting truck and sent to market or a grainery where it is stored to later be shipped by rail to an end user where the grain is again moved with an elevator and augers to storage in a concrete grain silo to be processed later animal or human consumption.
Commercial quality is no different than industrial quality in the scheme of things, its all related to how much you want to spend and if it breaks it still has to be fixed and I have dealt with my share of junk.
The single stage units are plain and simple and easy to maintain with fewer moving parts just like grain augers.
I am familiar with almost every brand of snow removal machinery made in all sizes. I have been involved as an end user of snow removal machinery of various types since I was 13 years old and I am also very familiar with push type of rotary snow plows used on American railways and the self propelled German AEB Beilhack snow clearers, two of which were bought by CONRAIL in 1975 and are still used here by the CSX railway company.
The Artix is really no different than the Pronovost PXPL models in operation as they both can drag the snow away from as garage door or driveway and clear it at the same time.
The Pronovost PXPL86 is the smallest unit they have that will clear in the bidirectional operation as well.
All I can say is you should watch a lot of single stage snow blower videos of the machines that are made in Europe showing off the various manufacturers machines on youtube. They don't use Fluid Film or WD-40 or cooking spray either and they throw it quite a ways away when they are moving snow.
Snow removal requires massive amounts of torque and adhesion to clear deep snows.
Send the Artix people a formal letter requesting the number of machines they have sold of this type and the dealers that sell them so you can make a rational decision as the minute the money leaves your hands its gone.
Look at the PXPL units and call the Pronovost people in Quebec before you go any further with this., send them the same letter and ask for the same information.
When you make things simple its easier to work with and you have fewer problems with any implement. When its all said and done you could use a wider series 2000 model and they could build one for you as they make units in wider dimensions as well so.......
I just don't want to see you get burned. The single stage units made for garden tractors were made heavier to make them simpler to own and operate. They lost favor in the market place because they were heavier, stronger and cost more to build but the end user had an attachment that did not break down. I have had to change the drive belts in my junk JD snow blower more than once a year on average so.........
AS I am coming back to this at 4AM I wanted to add this.
The single stage snow thrower is an outgrowth of the grain auger and the grain augers have been around for a very long time with the simple design being a screw or a helix surrounding a solid shaft. The same can be said for water lifting screws that were used to lift high volumes of river water at steep angles to a water treatment plant to make clean drinking water.
Archimedes had the right idea for something that is used to do many jobs in many places.
Collectively single stage directional grain augers operate for hundreds of thousand of hours annually moving grain from combines to grain buggies with off loading augers or into trucks that off load the grain taken from the field into grain pits equipped with grain augers in the bottom of the pit to move and lift the grain into a grain dryer. That grain dryer has an auger to move the dried grain into a waiting truck or to an elevator that lifts the grain to a gravity delivery tube then into a grain bin. The grain may be stirred by a battery of gear driven augers attached to a rotating arm connected to a center post in the grain bin using an electric motor powering a gear that rotates the arm with the grain mixing augers that uses a rack drive gear in the top of the grain bin as it travels in circles mixing the hot grain with cooler grain to bring its temperature down so it can be stored in another grain bin safely for long periods. Later the same grain is removed with an auger out of the grain bin into a waiting truck and sent to market or a grainery where it is stored to later be shipped by rail to an end user where the grain is again moved with an elevator and augers to storage in a concrete grain silo to be processed later animal or human consumption.
Commercial quality is no different than industrial quality in the scheme of things, its all related to how much you want to spend and if it breaks it still has to be fixed and I have dealt with my share of junk.
The single stage units are plain and simple and easy to maintain with fewer moving parts just like grain augers.
I am familiar with almost every brand of snow removal machinery made in all sizes. I have been involved as an end user of snow removal machinery of various types since I was 13 years old and I am also very familiar with push type of rotary snow plows used on American railways and the self propelled German AEB Beilhack snow clearers, two of which were bought by CONRAIL in 1975 and are still used here by the CSX railway company.
The Artix is really no different than the Pronovost PXPL models in operation as they both can drag the snow away from as garage door or driveway and clear it at the same time.
The Pronovost PXPL86 is the smallest unit they have that will clear in the bidirectional operation as well.
All I can say is you should watch a lot of single stage snow blower videos of the machines that are made in Europe showing off the various manufacturers machines on youtube. They don't use Fluid Film or WD-40 or cooking spray either and they throw it quite a ways away when they are moving snow.
Snow removal requires massive amounts of torque and adhesion to clear deep snows.
Send the Artix people a formal letter requesting the number of machines they have sold of this type and the dealers that sell them so you can make a rational decision as the minute the money leaves your hands its gone.
Look at the PXPL units and call the Pronovost people in Quebec before you go any further with this., send them the same letter and ask for the same information.
When you make things simple its easier to work with and you have fewer problems with any implement. When its all said and done you could use a wider series 2000 model and they could build one for you as they make units in wider dimensions as well so.......
I just don't want to see you get burned. The single stage units made for garden tractors were made heavier to make them simpler to own and operate. They lost favor in the market place because they were heavier, stronger and cost more to build but the end user had an attachment that did not break down. I have had to change the drive belts in my junk JD snow blower more than once a year on average so.........
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