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

I did try my 926 DLE "Orange Crunch" this weekend.  I noticied that snow was coming out of the auger housing on the very left in a circular pattern like the auger moves.  I stopped the auger and a little snow came out where the deflector meets the chute.  About a 1/4" gap there.  Is any other Ariens 926 user experiencing this? 

same with the 11528 some snow comes out of the bucket on the left.  a fairly fine circular mist. 

It seems like this shouldn't be happening on a premium OPE product.  Does everyone have this problem on the 2004-2005 models?

can you post a pic of where this happens ? or describe it a little better ? i would like to check my 1128dle to see if it does it.

This can happen with my Honda if I am moving too fast, it will toss a little snow out of the auger housing.  I recall my Dad's Ariens doing this also to some degree.  Unless it is really throwing snow out there I would not be worrying about it although there have been cases of the augers being installed in reverse lol.....I do  wish I could see it to give you a better opinion.

C

AJace wrote:

Mine doesn't do it (2004 model 926DLE).

John

The next snow I get that can be thrown, I'll post a pic.  It's just a light stream of snow on the very left, about 1/8" wide.  I just remember looking down and seeing it.  I throws it out about the width of the auger (14").  These are some design flaws I'm picky about for paying for a Professional model machine.  My other Ariens 1128 LE didn't do that. 

The auger is turning around 130 RPM, twice a second, pulling snow into the impeller. Ive seen a few machines that when dealing with powder can throw a small amount forward. Its the nature of spinning objects contacting the snow.

If one of the  steel ribbons , especially at the end, ever gets bent slightly from hard snow ar somthing worse, it can cause some snow to be trown in other directions.

You usually wont see that if the snow is the wet type.

Great point MM, it does not happen all of the time, it is pending snow conditions.  Really frozen cold snow in particular.  I cleared a buddies huge drive two years ago when they were away in the mid west it was a huge storm and by the time I got there two days later the snow was 18-20 inches high and was frozen and cold.  I noticed over the hours I was out there working that on occasion some snow would be thrown out the side, not a lot mind you but some and not all of the time and I figured it was from the augers spinning so fast and the amount of snow.  It does not do this often.

C

It isn't clumps of snow that are coming out.  It's really not much to worry about, but for an expensive machine like this, I'm expecting more.  It's just a little stream of snow about 1/8" wide.  Here are some pictures of the seal where the chute meets the deflector.   

Nice pics there Ajace, but you need to learn to resise them before putting them on the website. Makes the forum trashy. Please resise them to 800*600 or less thanks...