How Far Does Your Blower... Blow?!

[WayneB]

For those without cabs and using a rear snowblower you can make blowing snow far more enjoyable very easily. I did the same thing for two years with a B7500 and 4 foot blower. Then I put a piece of Plexiglas (or Lexan) or my roll bar with 4 U-bolts. What a difference!!! I wished I had done it sooner.

Hi Paul I have the rear blower on my B7500 and this year I put a top on and just ordered a Femco Weatherbreak to be added before X-mas. Just wondering what you do with the shut?

Wayne

 

[shvl73]

For those without cabs and using a rear snowblower you can make blowing snow far more enjoyable very easily. I did the same thing for two years with a B7500 and 4 foot blower. Then I put a piece of Plexiglas (or Lexan) or my roll bar with 4 U-bolts. What a difference!!! I wished I had done it sooner.

I like your idea. I'll have to consider dealing with the shute rotation though. Maybe I'll look closer at the threads posted, using power window motors, adapted.

 

[swmpbgy1]

My old ford 48" rear blower would only throw about 10-12 feet. My new Kubota front blower B2782 throws 40+ feet. What a difference!

Have you adjusted the chute deflector angle? Your problem may be a small impeller that isn't giving you suffecient exit velocity. Not much you can do about that.

Just a thought......

The front mount blowers operate off of the mid-pto....correct? If this is true, the mid runs at about 2500 rpm vs. 540 rpm for 3pt mounted blowers. However, not being familiar with the front mount blowers, is there a gear box on the blowers to increase/decrease the output rpms on them?

FWIW.....
Swmpbgy1

 

[hazmat]

Just a thought......

The front mount blowers operate off of the mid-pto....correct? If this is true, the mid runs at about 2500 rpm vs. 540 rpm for 3pt mounted blowers. However, not being familiar with the front mount blowers, is there a gear box on the blowers to increase/decrease the output rpms on them?

FWIW.....
Swmpbgy1

Usually yes. I haven't counted teeth, but I figure mine has a 3 or 4 to 1 reduction (chain). So the fan is spinning at ~6-800 rpm. The fan is also larger in diameter than my old ford.

 

[AceDeuce]

Not as far as this! This is Canada's Trans Labrador Highway - Winter 2004 and efforts to reopen it.

Holy crap! Okay, you win.

 

[IXLR8]

I forgot to mention the largest and most powerful snowblower that I have ever seen. It was at K I Sawyer Air force Base near Gwinn, Michigan. I am a soon to be retiring college professor and taught classes occasionally at K I Sawyer.

As I am leaving one night a cop car is coming slowly at me with its lights on. The cop told me to pull off on the side road. When I asked him why he said the snowblower was coming by. Down the road comes this gigantic snowblower mounted on a gigantic truck. It was making one **** of a noise and blowing gigantic quantities of snow a long distance.

So, I ask one of my students what the story was. This was the snowblower that they used to clear the runway. It had 2 - 16 cylinder diesel engines mounted transversely. He told me it could throw snow 150 feet. I don't think you're going up pick one of those up at the store. I don't know how true that was, but I did see it and it was gigantic. They normally didn't use it for clearing the roads, but I think the snow was quite deep that particular night. I became envious of the guy who got to drive that. Let me tell you, I was impressed.

In the last few years either Road & Track or Car & Driver did a test of the blowers they use at Denver's airport. If memory serves the numbers you posted are close. One engine is used to power the vehicle and the other is used to power the fan/auger. Seems to me the price tag, if you want one, was about $500K

 

[IXLR8]

I found the article, I suspect this might be the snow blower we all want, although it might be a bit large for some applications...

Although it doesn't look much different from other Oshkosh H-series snow trucks (it's no more gargantuan than they are, and the blower mechanism looks similar), the high-speed version throws as much as 5000 tons of snow an hour as far as 200 feet while ripping through the bad weather at speeds up to 35 mph. That's about 1.4 tons—a Chevy Cobalt—per second

Oshkosh H-series High-Speed Snow Blower - Features - Car and Driver April 2005

 

[art]

The tightness of the fan blades to the rim sheet will vary the distance you can throw snow quite a bit. Four blades also help to get rid of snow faster.

 

[ToadHill]

Tried the Meteor 75 in about 12"of snow the other day. It blows it about 30 to 40 feet. Only problem is in wet snow the shear pin on the auger is only 5/16 and it breaks easily. I'll have to come up with a better system.

 

[Old School]

smfcpacfp post said: "I forgot to mention the largest and most powerful snowblower that I have ever seen. It was at K I Sawyer Air force Base near Gwinn, Michigan."


K I Sawyer was a strategic B52 bomber base. At that time there was a 1.5 million dollar runway condition sensing system second to no civilian airport in the world to date. The equipment used to maintain the one and only runway was unique in that they had to move snow, lots of it, far and fast to accommodate the wing sage of a fully fueled bomber. The distance I couldn't tell you but the runway was 150', most civilian airport are 90 to 120. Since it closer many airport have implemented similar equipment and techniques. I believe the based closed in 1995 or 96.

 

[fishpick]

hazmat / ccsial -
The shear bolt on the 2nd stage of your Ford thrower - the one that's prone to break A LOT... what are you guys running in there? I don't want to go too strong - but I get sick of replacing it all the time... that said I know I'm use a bolt grade right now that's likely not even "graded" - it's some really light thing that came in a jar from a garage sale - with 100's of other thing - all for 0.10 - so I know I'm getting what I pay for right now...

 

[hazmat]

hazmat / ccsial -
The shear bolt on the 2nd stage of your Ford thrower - the one that's prone to break A LOT... what are you guys running in there? I don't want to go too strong - but I get sick of replacing it all the time... that said I know I'm use a bolt grade right now that's likely not even "graded" - it's some really light thing that came in a jar from a garage sale - with 100's of other thing - all for 0.10 - so I know I'm getting what I pay for right now...

Not sure what the previous owner had in there, I never broke that one. Only broke one auger pin. My drive is paved & the only foreign object I ever ingested was a fiberglass driveway marker, which made a mess, but didn't pop any pins.

 

[ccsial]

hazmat / ccsial -
The shear bolt on the 2nd stage of your Ford thrower - the one that's prone to break A LOT... what are you guys running in there?

I've only broken the fan shear bolt once while doing the neighbor farmers gravel drive when he was pretty sick.

I use the one in the manual and got them from my Ford dealer.

For the auger they give only the P/N 654601. The manual says to use this special shear bolt only.

For the fan they spec. 1/4" by 1-1/2" grade 5 shear bolt (no part#)

 

[4630 GSTC]

Just used my new Puma Pronovost 84 on 14" of fresh powder. It threw the snow 25-30 ft. with the chute directed in the horizontal position. Two passes on my 900ft. driveway in about 30 min. Far superior to plowing! Glad that I went with the cab.

 

[ccsial]

I forgot te mention that the Ford blowers were made by BER in Canada. I think you have to put a BER in front of the part number or something like that. The 654601 bolt is special since it has a notch in it.

One nice thing about these older Ford blowers is no chain drives.

 

[rbargeron]

Some of the snow goes 40 feet - a lot of it doesn't.

This is a 7' rear-mount with a 3-blade 22" fan - running about 500 rpm (tach at 1700 with pto on the "720" speed)

This year I have an Erskine front-mount with 22" 4-blade fan. It seems to launch the snow similarly.

 

[hench861]

i use grade 2 from tractor supply the trick i found is get one with no thread in the shear area and just cut off the excess thread,i also use a heavy gauge plastic from a local plastics place on my rops for wind and just slit it for the chute handle