I would appreciate opinions on a crazy idea I have. My problem is very limited storage/access space which pretty much limits me to a 24" wide machine (with a corresponding smaller diameter auger).
So, In order to get a step up in performance, I am looking at a 10-28 unit that I have, and wondering about the possibility of narrowing it to 24". That would mean remove the rakes, grind off the welds on the outboard support, compress the rakes down by 2" and reweld. Of course I would need to narrow the housing & shorten the shafts too.
My logic is that the larger rakes of the 28" machine (16" dia. vs 12" in the 24" machine) even narrowed, would still have a much bigger throughput. Does that make any sense? They are both 3 blade impellers, the 24" is 11" and the 28" is 12". I haven't calculated the relative impeller/auger speeds for the two machines, but interestingly enough the the smaller machine has a much longer "hook" at the front of the impeller, which I assume is to move the snow from the auger housing into the impeller chamber. So it seems to take bigger bites of snow?
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