Snow Equipment Owning/Operating MK Martin Snowblower not shooting far??

[kco]

Your idea of closing in the front part of the chute should help. Take a look at MK Martin's Meteor site. Their blowers have a removable plate extending over halfway up the chute. It is held in with a rubber latch, making it easy to remove if one has to clear the chute.

It seems like your chute's diameter is over-sized for the blower. That, and the open front might explain why it doesn't throw snow well. I think closing in the front may help as it will keep the snow from dispersing so early.

Added: You can see in post #8 the plate on the front of the blower chute. The original poster's photo does not have that plate. Perhaps the plate is not on some models. Also, in post #8 you can see the chute is tapered(as is mine). The taper would help snow throwing distance.

Here's a link to Meteor's pull-type blower showing the front chute plate and chute taper:

MK Martin | Pull Type Snowblowers

and another one(click on the "Features" tab from the webpage) showing the cleanout hatch and tapered chute:

http://mkmartin.ca/products/snow_blower_classic.php

 

[PILOON]

quote": Also, in post #8 you can see the chute is tapered(as is mine). The taper would help snow throwing distance."

Yes taper will help distance (mine is) BUT it also causes clogging when the snow is wet.
Personally I would prefer less clogging as we often get wet sticky snow.
Have a similar blower and my plan is to convert it to a 4 blade with close tolerances.
I have lined my chute with plastic and it does help with sticky snow quite a bit.
In my case I use my 7XX RPM PTO speed and accomplish all the distance i really need but I still wish to improve things.
The easiest and cheapest thing to do is keep the chute painted. I do so every spring with a simple spray can simply to prevent rust. Come first snow that paint is gone but in winter rust does not form and with sand and gravel in winter that chute stays polished.

So my summer project is to fabricate a 4 blade blower using the old hub. Already have a template made for the blades.

 

[Looking4new]

Your idea of closing in the front part of the chute should help. Take a look at MK Martin's Meteor site. Their blowers have a removable plate extending over halfway up the chute. It is held in with a rubber latch, making it easy to remove if one has to clear the chute.

It seems like your chute's diameter is over-sized for the blower. That, and the open front might explain why it doesn't throw snow well. I think closing in the front may help as it will keep the snow from dispersing so early.

Added: You can see in post #8 the plate on the front of the blower chute. The original poster's photo does not have that plate. Perhaps the plate is not on some models. Also, in post #8 you can see the chute is tapered(as is mine). The taper would help snow throwing distance.

Here's a link to Meteor's pull-type blower showing the front chute plate and chute taper:

MK Martin | Pull Type Snowblowers

and another one(click on the "Features" tab from the webpage) showing the cleanout hatch and tapered chute:

MK Martin | Meteor Snow Blowers

My Meteor was constantly plugging up with the cleanout plate in place. I took it off and she blows the snow about 10' or so and now doesn't plug up, at all.
Front mount blower running off the mid PTO and tractor revs at 2400rpm.

 

[curvecrazy]

Well, thanks for the inputs. I did check out the meteor site and the features section. Interesting.

My latest snow removal experience was a mixed result. The snow turned out to be sticky this time. Try as I might I could not get the snow to blow any further with my chute mods mentioned. Of particular interest is that the TSC graphite paint is not slippery unless you get in there after it dries and polish it up with 3M scotchbrite pad or something similar. I swear the new coat of graphite paint made it blow less far before I manually polished it to make it slippery. So that done, my plastic inserts really did not seem to help. Nor did the smoothening out of the chute deflector. Although it may be producing less swirl at this point but pretty hard to say with the snow conditions that presented. It was the type that you back into it and it starts to push in a sheet instead of feeding into the blower. [RRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!] And that may explain why it was swirling less too. Not as powdery and dry.

I ultimately removed the plastic sheeting. I was having trouble keeping it in there anyways. I may experiment some more with it but basically tired of fooling around. I guess for once in my life I could just say good enough and deal with it.

 

[Looking4new]

I guess for once in my life I could just say good enough and deal with it.

That is what I say, too.

I found the other day that if there is only a couple of inches of snow to blow then the blower doesn't pitch it all that far. (10' maybe) But I got into a bank of snow that was over the top of the blower frame. (Buddy with a Polaris 4x4 pushed as far as he could then I came along and blew it for him.) I found then that I could put it out 20 feet or so. That being said, maybe there is too much air coming out with the snow and we just need more snow to blow. C'mon old man winter, dump on us like you did when we were kids!12-24" every time it snowed.