drift cutters

[ihuntbear]

I was installing the snow blower on my tractor tonight getting ready for the first snow and thought something was missing.Looking at the blower I noticed it didn't have drift cutters on it like my walk behind did.Do 3ph snow blowers have drift cutters?

 

[leonz]

The larger tractor mounted ones do not have them as the cross
auger housing is very tall in height and a drift cutter
would be of no particular advantage.

Larger mechanical drift cutters employing rotating propellers
are used for the "giant" twin snow clearers built by Beilhack and
used in railroad snow clearing and in areas of high snow fall in the United States and Canada, Westen Europe, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Russia, and Japan.

 

[PILOON]

Where I live, (Laurentians, north of Montreal) the plow leaves banks 4 ft high so I have had to install approx 3ft cutters.
Because of terrain and drifting some yard areas also call for cutters.
I simply bolted some 3/8" x 3" flat stock to both sides of my rear PTO blower.
Has worked fine and is really a necessity for me.

 

[leonz]

Where I live, (Laurentians, north of Montreal) the plow leaves banks 4 ft high so I have had to install approx 3ft cutters.
Because of terrain and drifting some yard areas also call for cutters.
I simply bolted some 3/8" x 3" flat stock to both sides of my rear PTO blower.
Has worked fine and is really a necessity for me.

Ah so your on the southern boundary of the Laurentian sheild eh?

Its still hard for me to get used to the Hudson Bay being a volcanic caldera,
according to the new findings about the geology up yonder.


Gotta love those plows; snow blowers are so much more efficient and dont leave snow banks.

Does your rear blower vibrate too much when its is elevated and working?