Snow Attachments New Provonost Puma-74 delivered yesterday!

[devildog1]

Trails End, you gota just wait and see and of course give your dealer a chance to repair unit. You did buy a reliable well know snow blower, but as we all should know s--t happens. The good thing in our neck of the woods is no snow fall forecast for the near future, cold as a witch's t-t though.
DevilDog

 

[Trails End]

Trails End, you gota just wait and see and of course give your dealer a chance to repair unit. You did buy a reliable well know snow blower, but as we all should know s--t happens. The good thing in our neck of the woods is no snow fall forecast for the near future, cold as a witch's t-t though.
DevilDog

The dealer called this morning around 10AM, saying that the snow blower was repaired and they would
bring it up if I could unload it from a pickup truck. At that time, I was trying to get the tractor started,
to change from the bucket to the plow, since I didn't think that they would complete the repair this
soon. I told them that as soon as I got the tractor started, I'd give them a call. Unfortunately, it
was after noon before I got the tractor started (had a charger on the battery), and had a doctor's
appointment for 2PM, so wouldn't be able to do anything this afternoon. They'll bring it up tomorrow
afternoon. They said that the reason that the weld on the shaft failed was because the gear box
wasn't mounted properly, which placed additional stress on the shaft. I have to give the dealer service
department an A+ for effort to get it back quickly, since we have a storm on our doorstep with 5-8
inches forecast. I'll use the plow for tomorrow's snow cleanup.

 

[wmonroe]

Sounds like they made a good effort to take care of you. Hopefully you get another good snow to give it a workout and test the repair.

 

[L3450]

Congratulations on your purchase , good looking blower / never had a Pronovost blower but I bet you'll be happy with it .

Just posted in the Attachment section concerning our Hardy FEL , why do I bring this up you may ask .......well Hardy if you check their Homepage contact info = Pronovost .

 

[PHPaul]

Just my humble opinion, but I call BS on the "gear box not mounted correctly" excuse. If you look, you can see that there is NO penetration of the weld between the shaft and the adapter. The face of that adapter is as smooth as a baby's butt.

Not that it matters, as long as they fixed it, but it aggravates me when people try to blow smoke.

 

[Kubotafan]

Just my humble opinion, but I call BS on the "gear box not mounted correctly" excuse. If you look, you can see that there is NO penetration of the weld between the shaft and the adapter. The face of that adapter is as smooth as a baby's butt.

Not that it matters, as long as they fixed it, but it aggravates me when people try to blow smoke.

On mine the space for the gear box was so close a fit there wouldn't have been room to have it installed wrong. I think I would like to that one explained too. I think it was a weld problem too. It the shaft was properly welded I think the splines would have stripped before the welds brake.