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

Have you seen anything like that before?

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 :)