Snowblower plans?

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Welcome Kyle!
The blower was a bigger project than I had imagined before starting. Tolerances and balance became very important issues and so added to the workload. In my case, I had an old 3 foot snow thrower setting in my shop, used to run it on a Honda tractor, and I used it for a base idea. From there I made improvements and upgrades to material thicknesses, etc. The most difficult fabrication was the auger itself, because the commercially-available flighting is some very stiff and ornery stuff, and didnt want to conform to the center pipe. And then it neede to stay balanced and ended up a bit bent, needed to be straightend with welding, etc., You read all that above in earlier posts.
Good luck, it is an ambitious project. Not including my time , the project cost less than $800, which I find to be a good deal since the John Deere attachment is $2600 or so, is only 47 inch (mines 59), and mines built much heavier where it counts to resist wear-out. If you can't save at least half of new cost, you should just buy new, I always say. Kyle, if you build a blower (or some other cool stuff) be sure to keep us posted with pictures. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
   / Snowblower plans? #82  
Hi, where did you find the right angle gearbox i have been looking all over for one /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
   / Snowblower plans? #83  
I dont know if you have ever heard of heating a house with corn, but thats how we heat our house here. Its called a central furnace. An auger feeds the fire with corn and you only have to fill the hopper like 2 times a day and it puts off alot of heat. My dad wanted me to build a bin to hold corn so here are some pics of the frame, its not done yet but when it is il be sure to post more /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 

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another pic
 

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and last one
 

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Hey, just sumtin i made and sold for $180 and it took $40 tto make i thought it was great here is the pic.
 

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   / Snowblower plans?
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Wow, heating your house with corn! Funny you should mention that 'cause I started a few weeks ago to build a shelled-corn-fired boiler to heat my shop and home. I will start a new thread for the corn boiler when time. Stay cool Kyle!
The gearbox came from Surplus Center. Search for it, they are out there.
 
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how much was the flighting? my dad says its really expensive?? and how did you make the housing for the blower? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
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Hi, i was thinking of makine a snowblower, i would like to make it a 2 stage with the auger and the fan. I would also like to make my own flighting just out of some flat bar and bend it around like an old hot watter heater tank. Has any one ever done this before? i thought about it and it seems pretty straight forward.
 

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