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New_Yorker


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Do ANY Snowblower Brands besides HONDA Offer Hydrostatic Transmissions?
Original Message   Nov 25, 2011 9:18 pm

In the U.S., in 2012 I have NOT Seen any Brands of  TWO STAGE Snowblowers that advertise a Hydrostatic Transmission.  In The U.S. has that changed at all ?  I also have yet to see any brands that supply the diameter of the Friction Disc, or the Diameter of the Drive Plate, as well as the width of the rubber 'tire' that is the part of the Friction Wheel that makes contact with the Drive Plate to produce the friction grip needed to turn the tracks or the tires.   The size of the tires, the number of tires and the Horsepower and Torque of the engine become meaningless if these Friction Wheels and Drive Plates don't transfer that power between the engine and the wheels or tracks.  This is why I went to Honda, despite the extra cost.  Is that still the same ? ?

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aa335


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Re: Do ANY Snowblower Brands besides HONDA Offer Hydrostatic Transmissions?
Reply #13   Nov 27, 2011 12:29 am
snowmachine wrote:
Yamaha... Not sure what extra cost it would take for me to bring one into WA state from BC. Something to think about if my Husky clone dies.

If I live that close to the border, there's no question that one of those pretty blue things will be parked in the garage today, contraband or not! 

I like my Honda a lot and wouldn't even care for a Yamaha, if Honda of America would give me the TCD model in the US, with the hybrid electric drive.  NO, I don't want the $8000 one.  :)  .  Just the HS928 i TAS or the HS1332 i TAS.
royster


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Re: Do ANY Snowblower Brands besides HONDA Offer Hydrostatic Transmissions?
Reply #14   Nov 29, 2011 9:18 am
With my Husqvarna hydrostatic drive snowblower,  I do not long for a Honda.  But I looked at a Yahaha Yt1232ED, track, 357cc . hydrostatic, electromagnetic impeller and auger drive, etc

I might dream about one of those,but with a price tag of over $5000  , it will remain just a drean

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