So, I've been itching to post a picture of my snow machines, too bad there isn't any action shots.
All ready to go. From left to right:
1. JD 826, early 80s? Bought last Sept. from a local hobbyist that buys machines from garage sales, CL, auctions. He repaints after "checking the bushings and belts". Got it for $475, did I overpay, maybe but it is what I wanted. I bought a new scraper bar and took some time to get the frozen axel/differential to move again.
2. 1977 Ariens 932001, 2.7hp 20in cut, elec start. Free, spotted this poor soul setting by a dumpster on the way home one night early Dec. The body looked great in the headlights so I brought it home. After looking it over the engine was stuck, it didnt have a sparkplug in the hole, anyway took some PB blaster and seafoam down the bore, waited two hours and still couldnt pull the starter so I took the belt cover off and used channellocks on the shaft, it moved just a little and the more I went back and forth the engine eventually rotated a whole cycle. Added new sparkplug, gave it some fuel, and had it running in about 2 minutes. The only other thing I did was replace the fuel line, while I did that I washed out the fuel tank good.
3. 2005 Frontier 5hp 21in SS. Given to me 4 years ago by my step dad when he got a 2 stage and I had just got back from a tour in Iraq with a goofed up shoulder. It was a great change from the shovel and wheelbarrow method I had been using to clean out my drive, see my drive butts up next to the drive of the neighbor next door and there is no where to stick the snow inbetween the two houses so the wheelbarrow and sometimes the kid's sled was used to move snow to the back yard. The thing I dont like about this machine is first its china made and due to that I think John Deere is ashamed they even sold it that I can't find much documentation on the internet about it. I gave it a new scraper bar this year so now it too is hungry for snow.
So now the photos
Machines: 80s era 826 John Deere, 1977 Ariens 932001 20in and 2.7hp Tec, 2004 Frontier ST0521
