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Steve_Cebu

Joined: Dec 17, 2009
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Toro 1028 Snowblower with GoPro Camera mounted on it
Original Message Jan 18, 2011 11:42 pm

Sorry it took so long to get these. We did mount the camera but the vibrations produced some pretty poor quality video. So rather than waste time with uploading inviewable videos we decided to post some pics of it mounted on the snowblower. It was a temporary mount.

Better luck next time I guess.

This message was modified Jan 18, 2011 by Steve_Cebu

"If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England." "If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England."

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aa335

Joined: Nov 29, 2008
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Re: Toro 1028 Snowblower with GoPro Camera mounted on it
Reply #8 Jan 19, 2011 9:08 am

Steve_Cebu wrote:

Actually the nice men in the white coats were very polite and understanding.

Not just the men in white, everybody is nice. Keep the sedatives coming.

borat

Joined: Nov 10, 2007
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Re: Toro 1028 Snowblower with GoPro Camera mounted on it
Reply #9 Jan 19, 2011 9:14 am

Steve:

Have you thought of using an industrial hard hat? You can get an inexpensive hard hat with a winter linger that wouldn't look strange but with a liner, will provide warmth and a stable platform for the camera.

Steve_Cebu

Joined: Dec 17, 2009
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Re: Toro 1028 Snowblower with GoPro Camera mounted on it
Reply #10 Jan 19, 2011 10:57 am

aa335 wrote:

Besides the vibration, are you seeing anyway electronic noise in the video?

No I didn't There was no jello effect like on older GoPro models, so I must have been far enough away from the engine or something.

Steve_Cebu

Joined: Dec 17, 2009
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Re: Toro 1028 Snowblower with GoPro Camera mounted on it
Reply #11 Jan 19, 2011 11:06 am

borat wrote:

Yes, I did think of that and it would go over my hat as well. The thing that I found out is that you turn your head a LOT when snowblowing. You don't realize it but you look up and down and side to side a lot relative to looking straight ahead. In real life this isn't an issue and probably smart when snowblowing but it makes for truly awful, nausea inducing videos. GoPro does make a chest mount and that should eliminate many problems, but for $40 I'll pass for now.

The best thing is a vibration dampening mount IF you can find a place to mount it. I only have one small area where a GoPro could mount. I had it back pretty far. Ideally it should be more forward but then you get the chute too close. When the snow blows it will cover the snowblowers dash area. So a taller mount would be best. This is just for fun after all. Several enginners at work are having fun with this too and have come up with some amazing ideas, expensive, or bulky but they'd probably work.

Oneplay

Joined: Oct 11, 2010
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Re: Toro 1028 Snowblower with GoPro Camera mounted on it
Reply #12 Jan 21, 2011 5:14 am

FrankMA wrote:

I can envision Steve_Cebu sitting in a psychiatrist's office wearing a straight jacket explaining his behavior after they throw the net on him and take him away. "See Doc, I belong to this OPE forum where everybody is really into snowblowers and I video myself using my snowblower". The Doc says, "It's OK Steve, I like snowblowers too...".

My brother was over the other day and poked his head over my monitor to see what I was doing on the computer. After seeing i was once more looking at a Craigslisting with used snowblowers and some Youtube videos of some single stage machines he just turned around and said something to the effect of "oh, sorry i'll let you get back to your snowblower porn."

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