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jrtrebor

Location: Michigan - 3 hours north of Chicago on the lake
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A few photos of my blower at work.
Original Message Feb 14, 2013 5:10 pm

Well we finally got a good 12" of snow last Friday.
A guy called me and asked me to do his parking lot.
Had family in town for the weekend and my sister took these.
Snow was light on the top, heavy on the bottom.
Couldn't help, showing off a little, throwing it up in the air
and across the parking lot.
Wish I would have thought to give her my video camera.

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Bill_H

Location: Maine
Joined: Jan 12, 2008
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Re: A few photos of my blower at work.
Reply #7 Feb 14, 2013 8:39 pm

Denis wrote:

Wow! one thing I notice is that snow you blown into those electrical box on the wall isnt that dangerous????

What's even more dangerous is if the guy who owns the car being buried in the parking lot shows up!

(exterior rated boxes like that are weather resistant to anything coming from above)

Who the hell let all the morning people run things?

jrtrebor

Location: Michigan - 3 hours north of Chicago on the lake
Joined: Feb 10, 2010
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Re: A few photos of my blower at work.
Reply #8 Feb 14, 2013 8:45 pm

Denis wrote:

Wow! one thing I notice is that snow you blown into those electrical box on the wall isnt that dangerous????

No not really. Those are weather proof.
There is no way you could blow snow inside them.

jrtrebor

Location: Michigan - 3 hours north of Chicago on the lake
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Re: A few photos of my blower at work.
Reply #9 Feb 14, 2013 8:55 pm

Bill_H wrote:

What's even more dangerous is if the guy who owns the car being buried in the parking lot shows up!

LOL, Your right!
If the sun hadn't been out I wouldn't have done that.
But the light power I figured would melt before anyone got mad at me.
I also checked for anyone walking in the lot before I opened it up.
I just couldn't resist seeing that plume with the sun where it was.
It was a Tim Taylor moment.

GtWtNorth

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Re: A few photos of my blower at work.
Reply #10 Feb 15, 2013 8:29 am

Nice. Makes me long for the good old days when we got our 132" average. The local OPE repair shop has a machine set up like yours, really throws Now he got a 32" Ariens that he wants to put a 22HP twin on. I'll follow it & report back if/when it happens.

By the way, will you give more detail on that lower first gear that you made?

Cheers

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jrtrebor

Location: Michigan - 3 hours north of Chicago on the lake
Joined: Feb 10, 2010
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Re: A few photos of my blower at work.
Reply #11 Feb 15, 2013 9:08 am

GtWtNorth wrote:

By the way, will you give more detail on that lower first gear that you made?
Cheers

I made a plate with an additional slot cut in it. This allows the friction wheel
to move closer to the center of the friction disc. Which gives you a slower gear.
After I put the new shift plate on. I did have to cut away a little of the steel
below it to allow the clearance for the shift lever to move into the slot.
The new plate is stainless attached with aluminum rivets.
But you could make the plate out of any type of metal.
Hope this make sense.

Didn't spend a lot of time making the plate. As you can see the slots are not all the same shape.

GtWtNorth

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Re: A few photos of my blower at work.
Reply #12 Feb 15, 2013 12:56 pm

Very nice, thanks, and a good idea to use stainless. Although I'm a little surprised that you didn't include a higher speed reverse gear also, or is that Phase II?

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MN_Runner

Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Joined: Dec 5, 2010
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Re: A few photos of my blower at work.
Reply #13 Feb 16, 2013 10:32 am

jrtrebor wrote:

A great set of photos. I was clearing some snow on my pond yesterday and there is nothing like having a robust 2-stage snowblower. I had to stop 25% into the job as the ice was just too soft for my comfort. I did not want to sink it in the pond. My SS does a satisfactory job and it beats using the shovel when the snow is 2-3" and very wet.

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