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

Looking at the Honda website I see the Honda HS520 (US version) throws a outstanding 55 tons/hr. The Canadian version can only handle 32 tons/hr. Does Honda actually expect someone to believe that the US version has a higher output than the 928? Is this a joke or am I missing something?

Re-calc at 18 inches of 6lb snow:

 

300 x 160 x 1.5 (18 inches) = 7200 cu/ft

7200 x 6lb = 432000 / 2000 =  216 ton

 

Given that the original estimate was 57 ton for a Toro 28 inch bucket a 24 would 7/8^th of that so reducing 57 tons for the 24 inch bucket would be about 50 ton.

 

50 tons of 18 inch 6lb snow on a football field would be about take up a quarter of a football field.

 

A football field is 160 feet wide so ¼ is 40 x 300.  For a 24 inch bucket that would be 20 300 foot passes or 6000 feet which is over a mile (5280) by 720 feet.  That would take 1.14 pmh to cover the 6000 feet in a hour. 

 

An Ariens machine would have to set gear one slightly higher or gear two lower.   It would be tough going for 18 inch snow but if sticking snow effects were reduced by being super cold it could have a shot at clearing that fast.  That’s a factor I did not think about before, the effects temp.  The marketing guys probably test on super cold days.