How Far Does Your Blower... Blow?!
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Lockport
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AKFord said:
I think the problem exists in your blower. The auger that discharges the chute is not aggresive enough. I have the BX2750 and even at a mild engine rpm it blows at least 20' if not 30'. Here's a video of my wife from last year. The snow is not too deep, but at the end of the drive near the end it does tend to drift. Also, at the beginning you can see the chute is not angled for optimum distance, but in fact rather low as we get a steady north-western wind that dictates consideration. This is our third year with the blower and I have been real happy with it. I can raise the front end right off the ground up by the house where it is concrete and scrape right down to the cement with the whole weight of the tractor. That particular season I did leave the BB on and was doing such with that , however, this year I have the ballast box back on as the other is too difficult for the wife to navigate with that "contraption" hangng off the back.
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StrangeRanger
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Looking at these pics I've got serious pavement envy. You guys w/ paved driveways/roads must be able to fly along.
Anyway, last night was the first chance I got to use my new 60" Meteor blower. I have to say I'm loving it. It didn't take long to realize I need to keep the discharge angle down low or I simply end up breathing/wearing everything coming out of the blower. With it angled down I was probably only blowing ~ 12'. But I did play with it and with the chute angled up more AND by keeping the blower "loaded up" w/ snow it would easily throw 20-25'.
Even only creeping along it was honestly still faster and easier than plowing. Especially near the garage and at the end of the driveway. With the plow I always had to plan more and be careful of where I piled the stuff. And at the end of the driveway it was a PITA because our drive is blind and I always worried about blasting out the drive pushing a huge pile of snow. Now I just throw it over to the side and no worries. Don't really even have to venture out on to the street.
Once I get a layer packed down and frozen I'm sure I'll be able to go even faster. But last night I crept along b/c it was my first time using it and I was worried about rocks. My drive has everything ranging from sand to 7" hunks of rock. I was impressed w/ what I hit last night and didn't break anything LOL
In looking at the pics I don't know how you guys are blowing snow w/out goggles. The wind was honkin' last night and I went about 3' b/f I went back in the house and dug out some goggles. Especially since my chute seems to turn by itself. Every now and then I have to crank it back to where I want it. Is that normal? Is something too loose?
Anyway, lovin' my snow blower. Can't wait to get home tonight and play again as we've picked up another 6-8" today
j
Anyway, last night was the first chance I got to use my new 60" Meteor blower. I have to say I'm loving it. It didn't take long to realize I need to keep the discharge angle down low or I simply end up breathing/wearing everything coming out of the blower. With it angled down I was probably only blowing ~ 12'. But I did play with it and with the chute angled up more AND by keeping the blower "loaded up" w/ snow it would easily throw 20-25'.
Even only creeping along it was honestly still faster and easier than plowing. Especially near the garage and at the end of the driveway. With the plow I always had to plan more and be careful of where I piled the stuff. And at the end of the driveway it was a PITA because our drive is blind and I always worried about blasting out the drive pushing a huge pile of snow. Now I just throw it over to the side and no worries. Don't really even have to venture out on to the street.
Once I get a layer packed down and frozen I'm sure I'll be able to go even faster. But last night I crept along b/c it was my first time using it and I was worried about rocks. My drive has everything ranging from sand to 7" hunks of rock. I was impressed w/ what I hit last night and didn't break anything LOL
In looking at the pics I don't know how you guys are blowing snow w/out goggles. The wind was honkin' last night and I went about 3' b/f I went back in the house and dug out some goggles. Especially since my chute seems to turn by itself. Every now and then I have to crank it back to where I want it. Is that normal? Is something too loose?
Anyway, lovin' my snow blower. Can't wait to get home tonight and play again as we've picked up another 6-8" today
j
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StrangeRanger said:
The trick I use it to stay upwind when I'm blowing. I have different routes I use depending on wind. The gusty days are a pain though. I tried goggles but they got wet and made it hard to see.
I have a hydraulic chute but I sure wouldn't think your chute should move by itself. Could be the snow load is moving it. If it is a cable drive it may be slipping.
When I first got my blower the cable was looped through the chute holes one time. It would slip. I installed a cable clamp on the outside and that stopped it.
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Dont have one yet,but doesnt some impellers on some models have 3 fan blades and others have 4.The PROVOST PUMA I have been considering has 4.Does any one have one ,and how far does it blow it?
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Unless you live in an area which has 20 to 30 feet of snow, which we do where I live, what difference does it make how far it throws the snow? The first snowblower I had would only throw the snow about 10 feet. When the snowbanks got about 8 feet high on the side of my driveway, it wouldn't throw it over the top, and I would get avalanches where a 15 foot section of snow on the top lip would fall down, and I would be worse off. Then I would try to clean it up. Really the situation got to be an intolerable and so I got another snowblower, the one below.
The engine on the blower is a 11 hp Honda engine and it can throw the snow 60 feet onto the roof of my house! It is bad enough to have to clean the snow off of the roof, and piling more on the roof with my snowblower was not good so I directed the shoot downward more so that it wouldn't blow onto my roof. I think the biggest problem with this unit was that 11 hp wasn't quite enough when we get are really deep snows. Unless I took a very narrow cut, say 12 inches versus the 48 inch width of the blower, the blower would bog down. In addition, it had two belts which had to be replaced once a year, and more frequently if we had heavy snows.
If you have a blower that can blow the snow a long way in town, you would be blowing it in your neighbor's yard which wouldn't go over very well up here.
My new rig, is a dream come true, it has converted snow blowing from an unknown adventure, into a pretty boring routine but, I love it!
I have gotten plenty of use out of it over the last four days (8" on Saturday, 8 inches of wet heavy snow on Sunday, 6 inches of 20 degree snow on Monday, and 8 inches of 20 degree snow today).
We don't get anymore intense snowstorms than any other place in the country. What we get is almost constant snow during the month of December and part of January, and cold temperatures which don't allow for any melting. It is not unusual to have to snow blow daily or even more frequently during that time span. I know people down south will say that they are glad they live down south, but I love the snow, and I wouldn't give it up for anything. So my rule of thumb is, you need a blower that can blow the snow away from the edge of the driveway to avoid the huge buildups which lead to small-scale avalanches.
Below is a picture of my rig on my first day of snow removal:
The engine on the blower is a 11 hp Honda engine and it can throw the snow 60 feet onto the roof of my house! It is bad enough to have to clean the snow off of the roof, and piling more on the roof with my snowblower was not good so I directed the shoot downward more so that it wouldn't blow onto my roof. I think the biggest problem with this unit was that 11 hp wasn't quite enough when we get are really deep snows. Unless I took a very narrow cut, say 12 inches versus the 48 inch width of the blower, the blower would bog down. In addition, it had two belts which had to be replaced once a year, and more frequently if we had heavy snows.
If you have a blower that can blow the snow a long way in town, you would be blowing it in your neighbor's yard which wouldn't go over very well up here.
My new rig, is a dream come true, it has converted snow blowing from an unknown adventure, into a pretty boring routine but, I love it!
I have gotten plenty of use out of it over the last four days (8" on Saturday, 8 inches of wet heavy snow on Sunday, 6 inches of 20 degree snow on Monday, and 8 inches of 20 degree snow today).
We don't get anymore intense snowstorms than any other place in the country. What we get is almost constant snow during the month of December and part of January, and cold temperatures which don't allow for any melting. It is not unusual to have to snow blow daily or even more frequently during that time span. I know people down south will say that they are glad they live down south, but I love the snow, and I wouldn't give it up for anything. So my rule of thumb is, you need a blower that can blow the snow away from the edge of the driveway to avoid the huge buildups which lead to small-scale avalanches.
Below is a picture of my rig on my first day of snow removal:
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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.
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.
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On rare occasions when we receive a large snowfall they have used runway snowblowers from Dulles and National airports on the Capital Beltway around D.C. to push the snowbanks back off the shoulders. I don't know how big its engine is, but the machine itself is huge.
We don't have the kind of dedicated snow removal equipment which is common in northern states and there are probably 100 times as many lane-miles of road to clear when it does snow, so it can be difficult for the highway department to handle significant snowfalls around here.
We don't have the kind of dedicated snow removal equipment which is common in northern states and there are probably 100 times as many lane-miles of road to clear when it does snow, so it can be difficult for the highway department to handle significant snowfalls around here.
Lockport
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Not as far as this! This is Canada's Trans Labrador Highway - Winter 2004 and efforts to reopen it.
