An older neighbour of mine has just offered to give me his 17 year old, pretty good condition, Generic 1028 snowblower "for parts". I suspect I can get the thing working and can use it at a cottage my extended family owns in the snow belt of Ontario, Canada.
The only problem is that a tracked unit would be much nicer for that location since its long runs with some fairly steep sections. Chains have helped in the past but weren't a total success.
It occurs to me that I might be able to mount a second axle and wheels one the back of the traction housing and then run some sort of track around the wheels. The second set of wheels would just free wheel but the added traction surface of the tracks might be nice.
- Has anyone done/seen/read about this type of mod?
- Any ideas as to where to get suitable track material? I'm assuming some adjustment will be needed.
- Maybe I don't need to uses wheels but something "better".
- Maybe I should just use wheels and a chain/sprocket setup to get all wheels driven.
This would be a summer project for next year. I plan to pick the blower up next week.
Yes clearing snow up there is really "fun".
This message was modified Dec 23, 2007 by nibbler
