What is an impeller kit and what does that do? What type of material are you talking about. Are there any examples of people doing these mods to the impeller housing etc.?
Shopping around will not help you much as a dealer is only interested
in your wallet.
If you find a dealer that is willing to lose a sale but not a customer all
the better for you but you have to look at them as car dealers.
They all pay the same price, the only difference is the freight cost to
their location.
If you have a salesperson that is interested in you he or she will look
at your needs and your property and will be familiar with the amount
of snow the area receives and he or she will be honest with you and tell
you that your making a mistake with that implement.
Is this your private road or do you share the road with neighbors???
You will be traveling at least one mile every time you clear snow
if you are clearing the road don't forget that.
How was the private road cleared of snow and ice before this??
Have you ever cleared snow with a snow blower before??
What are your neighbors using to clear snow??
Do you know how much work is involved??
Are your neighbors going to help you by paying you to clear snow???
How much liability insurance do you have??
A lot of people put impeller kits on their walk behind snow blowers
to get rid of the heavy snow ands ice caused by the use of road salt.
There are plenty of videos of them on youtube.
What you MUST understand is that that pull behind snow blower
will not be the be all end all snow blower you expect to be because
it will bog down in heavy snow and your dealer is doing you no favors
trying to get you to buy one.
Did they tell you to get your rear tires loaded with liquid ballast and to
invest in a set of rear snow chains? I bet they did not.
DID THEY bother to tell you that you will be spending a great deal of time
driving back and forth to keep your private road clear. I bet that they did not.
Do you have a swivel seat in your mule? If not can one be added?
As you have a hydro mule you could sit sideways in your seat and travel in reverse
to clear snow using a Pronovost TRC snow blower. The TRC snow blower has the
rotating impeller drum that allows you to cast heavy snow to the left or right
with less power as there is no chute to increase friction.
You have to have adhesion/weight to create traction to clear heavy snow and snow
chains will only help you.
The impeller kit for a 2 stage snow blower eliminates the gap
between the impeller paddles end edge and the inside diameter
of the impeller housing.
The impeller kit consists of 3 or 4 thick rubber paddles that are usually
thick pieces of conveyor belting cut to length to match the width of the
individual impeller paddle.
The rubber conveyor belting is held in place with 2 pieces of sheet metal
that are drilled to accept the bolts and nuts that hold the paddle in place.
The bolts are fine threaded bolts that have washers and fine threaded
nylock nuts to hold them in place. the nylock nuts and bolts have more
gripping power because of the fine threads.
The impeller paddles have to have holes drill in them to match the
3-4 holes in the sheet metal that holds the rubber paddle.
The impeller kits were developed for the small walk behinds 2 stage
snow blowers to begin with and their use has grown to having kits for
snow blowers mounted on tractors.
The rubber conveyor paddles scrub the impeller drum free of snow and
ice to prevent it from freezing solid.
The pronovost pxpl snow blower has the flexibility to clear snow while
driving forward as well as driving in reverse.
You can add lots of bells and whistles to a Pronovost PXPL or TRC 2
stage snow blower to make either one more efficient and easier to use
but the TRC model with the rotating impeller drum will be the best overall
unit if you have heavy snows.
Please find a Pronovost dealer and talk to them before you even think about
writing a check.
