Snow Equipment Owning/Operating First tiome using the old Model 70 ARPS snow blower

[Jerry/MT]

That OEM style you provided pictures of looks a good bit easier (and cheaper) than my hyd. motor idea.
Also, I concur with the idea of adjusting the chute discharge angle lower to avoid your snow dust storm. A plexiglass rear ROPS window is an idea that would probably just end up ticking you off after one pass. A lot of work to keep it clean enough to see through.
As far as picking up gravel, what about using your idea of a radiused "cutting" edge like you use on your backblade? With the weight of your blower, a smaller diameter (1.5-2.0" ?) might work nicely...does the Model 70 have a replaceable edge?

You can't see it in the picture, but the blower has welded on skid shoes so all I had to do to reduce picking up gravel was to shorten the top link so the blower was tipped back a bit and it seemed to cure the problem. I don't need to get every bit of snow off the lanes so if I leave an inch it isn't a big deal.
It has a replaceable edge and it looks brand new, plus it's reversible and it doesn't look like it' been reversed.