Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

Have you seen anything like that before?

That can't be for real? Whoever devised the contraption is gonna have a tough time getting it to move with those wheels

In a similar vein, here's an interesting concept of a V8 snowblower. You may have seen it before. Sheer weight of the contraption must be providing a fairly good grip for the 4 tires. At first glance it looks like he may have used a pusher type forklift frame.





 

Wow awesome machine, I see some kind of grid inside the chute, is it for cutting the snow before it goes out?

Denis wrote:
I'm not 100% sure but I think so. I noticed that all the large snowblowers used for clearing roads have these blades, or grid, in the chute. I figure it helps distribute the snow more evenly when blowing it into trucks. It could also be a safety precaution to prevent the throwing of large objects. The auger used by this guy came from a tractor attachment  which probably already had the grid from factory. I have also seen a few standard snowblowers using such a device but instead of blades it was just a "prison bars" type of thing. I'm not sure it's a good idea to use the grid on standard snowblowers, seems to me wet snow could jam the chute. Not a problem with a big-block V8 though, the air pressure created by the impeller could probably blow a cannonball through the chute!

Tim the tool man at it again, wha?? haha.. Yes, I actually came across this awhile back while researching snowblowers.  He has a website on it somewhere and was on several news programs.  You can order one from his site and you can even get things like remote start :)