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Catt

Location: Minnesota
Joined: Oct 16, 2009
Points: 196

Homemade Snowblower
Original Message Nov 18, 2010 8:47 pm

Wow! I'm not sure what to say about this snowblower. I've certainly never seen anything like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT38qOGMvn4

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aa335

Joined: Nov 29, 2008
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Re: Homemade Snowblower
Reply #1 Nov 18, 2010 9:54 pm

Doesn't look too efficient. The snow has to travel too far along the 6 foot auger to make it to the impeller. The bucket is too shallow and shaped like a plow. Those belts are a wee bit small for the application

jrtrebor

Location: Michigan - 3 hours north of Chicago on the lake
Joined: Feb 10, 2010
Points: 539

Re: Homemade Snowblower
Reply #2 Nov 18, 2010 10:49 pm

WOW, your right what to say.� He put a lot of work into it.� But I think that it has a few
rather large design flaws.� There is no way you can be moving snow that far down an auger to the impeller
and be moving forward at any kind of speed. the same.� There will also be a real uneven load on the augers.�
One heavy wet snow and I'm afraid those augers would be wrapping themselves around the center shaft.
I've seen large truck mounted blowers that� have the impeller at one end.�
But its fed by an angled plow type setup that just rather shoves the snow into the impeller.
He sure gets credit for being inventive though.
�Couldn't see, but I wonder how he is going to move
that thing forward.
I love it.

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bus708

Location: Maryland
Joined: Jul 24, 2010
Points: 322

Re: Homemade Snowblower
Reply #3 Nov 19, 2010 12:32 am

Catt� Who built that blower?

Looks like he� put a lot of work in it. I hate to bust his� bubble, but I cant see� how it will work. The auger is so BIG. all the snow will travel to the right. There is no smooth path for the snow to feed the impeller.� Your auger support braces are� in the way . The impeller itself� is in line with your auger. So how is the augergoing to feed the impeller?�� You also have a lot of very loose� chains and sprockets.

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Catt

Location: Minnesota
Joined: Oct 16, 2009
Points: 196

Re: Homemade Snowblower
Reply #4 Nov 19, 2010 2:25 am

bus708 wrote:

Looks like you put a lot of work in it. I hate to bust your bubble, but I cant see� how it will work. The auger is so BIG. all the snow will travel to the right. There is no smooth path for the snow to feed the impeller.� Your auger support braces are� in the way . The impeller itself� is in line with your auger. So how is the impeller going to work???� You also have a lot of very loose and wlbbly chains and sprockets.

I'm not sure who you're referring to.� I sure wouldn't take credit for the design or building it.� I would like to see it in person, but from a distance because it might start flying apart.

Catt

Location: Minnesota
Joined: Oct 16, 2009
Points: 196

Re: Homemade Snowblower
Reply #5 Nov 19, 2010 2:36 am

I found a test run on youtube of this thing before he added the auger.� Can't wait to see his next video test run.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheSCryderman#p/a/u/1/n0XpsODzwFc

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FrankMA

Location: Merrimack Valley/Northeastern Mass
Joined: Jul 1, 2010
Points: 587

Re: Homemade Snowblower
Reply #6 Nov 19, 2010 5:29 am

Must have a lot of time on their hands. I too would be concerned about parts flying off and causing injury. A+ for creativity though!

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edgenet

If you enjoy doing it, It's not work

Location: Toronto
Joined: Nov 27, 2010
Points: 84

Re: Homemade Snowblower
Reply #7 Nov 27, 2010 2:12 pm

Seems there are a lot of people with a lot of time on their hands, Looks very� scary. Very very red neck

If you are getting paid for what you are doing No matter how much you Enjoy it,�� It's a Job

borat

Joined: Nov 10, 2007
Points: 2692

Re: Homemade Snowblower
Reply #8 Nov 27, 2010 3:34 pm

Now, if someone would make something similar but smaller, say 20 to 30" wide, powered by a five to ten horsepower engine, riding on two wheels, with an adjustable chute and deflector controlled by levers on a handlebar.....��

Wait a minute......�� They do.��

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