Videos of Your Snow Weapons in Action

[kco]

Thanks for the videos Hillbilly. They do a great job of clarifying the challenging snow clearing conditions you describe in this and other threads. The one of the driveway is especially interesting.

What is the vertical rise from the start of your shared driveway at the main road to your yard?

 

[Hilbilly]

Thanks for the videos Hillbilly. They do a great job of clarifying the challenging snow clearing conditions you describe in this and other threads. The one of the driveway is especially interesting.

What is the vertical rise from the start of your shared driveway at the main road to your yard?

The rise is 350ft and the reason I know this is because my well is down at the bottom and we needed to know the length of the waterline run (2500') and the elevation difference, to size the pump needed to get water up to the house. I wasn't sure about posting the driveway link but thought it would help to understand my conditions and needs.

I found the thread about the 3PTH conversion here http://https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/404892-3pth-snowblower-conversion-2.html

 

[kco]

I'm glad you posted the driveway video because it helps one understand what you have been describing in this and the "inverted blower" thread. The 350' rise also helps me because I can directly relate that to my area which has about the same terrain conditions when I include a portion of our municipal road. I am sure the inverted blower will make things easier.

 

[Hilbilly]

I'm glad you posted the driveway video because it helps one understand what you have been describing in this and the "inverted blower" thread. The 350' rise also helps me because I can directly relate that to my area which has about the same terrain conditions when I include a portion of our municipal road. I am sure the inverted blower will make things easier.

I think next year I will appreciate the inverted blower a lot more because it will used from the beginning, well as soon as there is a frozen base to work from and then I won't have the high banks to deal with.

It's been raining hard here all day and with the large snowfall accumulation we have, things are starting to get messy and very heavy. 2 of my neighbors were out shoveling snow off their buildings in this horrible weather because they're concerned about the roofs collapsing under the load. Early this morning I got a call from one of my other neighbors who was desperate to get snow off and away from his large tent shelter (if that's what they're called). He has a backhoe but it's useless without chains and he is sliding all over. His property is flat too. I ran down with the tractor, snow bucket and rear facing blower and spent about 3 hrs moving, mostly blowing, snow. The poor guy is in his late 70's and has been hand shoveling snow in attempt to save his shelter. The shelter is about 30' wide and 50' long and quite high maybe 15' in the middle. He had long 2x4's wedged between the ground and the roof structural members and you could see the 2 x 4 supports bending and the structural tubing was also bending under the weight of the snow that was still on the roof. The material was also sagging under the loads. There was about 7' to 8' of snow piled up against both sides of the shelter and that needed to be moved, to make room for the rest of the snow to shed and be pulled back from the walls. I didn't think the blower would move that heavy wet snow but it did, with a lot of struggling. The struggling was actually with trying to get enough traction for the tractor to push the blower into the snow. I worked the tractor pretty hard but in the end I cleared a 7' to 8' wide path all around his shelter and now the rest of the snow can easily be moved away from the shelter. I offered to stay and help him hand shovel the rest off to the side but he said he was fine doing that, and it would be easy now.

My good deed for the day.

Now I'm wondering if I should be shoveling the snow off my house and shop. They both have shingles. The other buildings have metal roofs and shed on their own.

 

[Gordon Gould]

The rise is 350ft and the reason I know this is because my well is down at the bottom and we needed to know the length of the waterline run (2500') and the elevation difference, to size the pump needed to get water up to the house. I wasn't sure about posting the driveway link but thought it would help to understand my conditions and needs.

I found the thread about the 3PTH conversion here http://https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/404892-3pth-snowblower-conversion-2.html

Thank you. Very interesting !!!

gg

 

[metalbender]

I'm not following. Some video shows a Princess Auto pto pump, others show the power pack. Color me confused.

 

[Hilbilly]

I'm not following. Some video shows a Princess Auto pto pump, others show the power pack. Color me confused.

Not sure where you see the PA pto pump. None of the 3 videos I posted shows a PA pto pump.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Here is a short clip my wife took on her phone. We had a 19" storm last march.

SSQA Setback Snow Plow - YouTube

gg

 

[metalbender]

Probably confused with someone else's build. I'm not crazy, honest. Doing a lot of searching on this, internet overload I guess.

 

[metalbender]

Yup, found it. Living the northern life vid on the Tube.