Newspaper in Impeller

[Rustyiron]

I came too close to my doghouse and..... He was getting sucked toward me with all four paws dug in. Lucky him it was a front mount and I could see. I would hate to unwind him fro the impeller.

Reminds me of un winding a Fawn from the conditioning rolls on the haybine. Sad & not pretty.

 

[MossRoad]

Paper sheets is worse than throwing a 2x4 in the machine, because each sheet acts like a shim to the next and they just wedge in there tight. Can you imagine the strength of a 2x4 if it had grains as tight as a stack of paper? I don't know how you could have gotten it out of your blower any easier than you did other than disassembling the thing if the reverse rotation thing didn't work.

 

[dougtrr2]

I worked at a company where the President had the Wall Street Journal delivered. It started getting stolen so I had them deliver it to my warehouse that was behind a fence. Worked well for all concerned. Then we got a big snow and I was out with the snowblower cleaning my drive. The conversation with Sales Admin was "Harry, the good news is I found the Wall Street Journal......The bad news is I found it with the snowblower and it is confetti" The little blower didn't even bog down, it just shredded it. It took me a while to live that one down.

Doug in SW IA

 

[FatTire]

Paper sheets is worse than throwing a 2x4 in the machine, because each sheet acts like a shim to the next and they just wedge in there tight. Can you imagine the strength of a 2x4 if it had grains as tight as a stack of paper? I don't know how you could have gotten it out of your blower any easier than you did other than disassembling the thing if the reverse rotation thing didn't work.

^^^^This. Dense soft material is the worst. I've chewed up firewood before, no problem. And rocks break shear pins. But something like a newspaper, chunk of rubber, phone book, hose, etc., are really bad.

EDIT: BTW, our firewood is soft, pine and spruce.

 

[BLSXJ]

my experience is 50/50. half the time the snowblower will spit out the paper like confetti the other half it jams up real tight.

And I'll admit to hitting the "dog tie out cable" 3 times...only once with a dog on it.... its lots of fun when running a 42" blower on the front of a lawn mower.... getting pulled sideways trying to figure out whats happening.

Now my routine is... I start the kubota, and let it warm up while I shovel the steps, and walk ways and put the dog tie out up on its hook off the ground. Once I'm done all that the tractors good to go and away I go...

 

[GLyford]

Before we finished fencing in the yard, we had a split ring threaded into an extra hole of the "claw guard" on the back sliding screen door, to clip the end of the tieouts on so they wouldn't get lost under the snow or frozen to the deck, and you could fetch the ends in and get them clipped to the dogs before opening up the door enough for them to get out.

So sure enough one day I caught one of the tieouts in the auger and pulled the screen door right across the deck before I got it shut down.

These days there is a gate across the driveway end of the back patio that freezes shut so we don't even bother clearing a path. And as long as the weather isn't subzero there's a dog door.

 

[FatTire]

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one that has "sh&t happen".

 

[Oaktree]

Just like a tire jamming the bush cutter - been there too.

Never hit a tire, but I did pick up a tarp once. It was brown and covered with leaves. Took a couple hours to cut it all out, at least it was in Oct. and not the middle of the winter.
Have a slip clutch on my cutter so no damage.

 

[Deere Dude]

I needed some shredded straw for a new lawn I put in and I couldn't thing of a better way to shred a bale of straw that a big walk beyond snowblower. Don't do it, it don't work. It takes forever to get the straw unwound.

 

[aczlan]

A mower works much better...

Aaron Z