carguy

I gather from you last post that you don't have a Simplicity dealer near you? Even if it's a bit of a drive, it's worth it. I have one of their intermediate machines (755E) and I love it. When I was shopping for a machine a few years back, it had the most sturdy feeling handlebars and it was the only on in it's size/power range with the "one hand" feature (i.e. hold one control down and the other one locks down).  It was more expensive than a similarly sized Ariens, but the price was within my budget and the extra expense was worth it. I have not had one problem with it and it has not needed any service or adjustments.

Having said all that, I wish I could have afforded one of their professional/commercial machines. Talk about sturdy - the handlebars are massive pieces of steel bar stock at least 1/2" thick, and these beasts weigh 270 lbs. on up. Back then they had Tec engines, but they have since switched to Briggs. I think one of these machines is worth a look if you really want something serious and you can justify a bit more of a drive to find a dealer. If you make the drive, chances are you'll never need to go back since these are really robust machines. Snapper is also owned by Simplicity and from what few pictures are on their website they appear to be the same machines (at least the pic of the intermediate machine anyway) although I'm not sure if Snapper has the commercial units or if they are exclusive to Simplicity.

Good Luck!

Chris

 

carguy wrote:

Oops! guess this sentence didn't make much sense with my garbled typo - above is what I meant to say.

Thanks again,

Chris

Hi,

I lurked for a while on the old forum and the advice and insight I gained there drove me to buy a Simplicity snowblower a few years back, so a I'd like to throw out a somewhat late but well deserved thanks!

On to my current issue - a coworker gave me an old Montgomery Wards/Gilson 35210B single speed/single stage snowblower that wasn't running. I was able to revive it and now it runs quite well and seems eager to get back in the snowblowing game. My question is about lubricants for the single speed transmission at the rear of the unit and the small gearbox on the R/H (standing behind the machine) side of the auger housing that transfers power from the belt to the auger. Both 'boxes have a phillips head screw as a fill plug (although I haven't quite figured out how to get at the one on the rear gearbox - I guess I'll have to remove the gearbox from the looks of it) and athe from one looks pretty dry in there.

What type of lubricant do the sages here on the forum recommend? Do these simplistic 'boxes use a liquid lube or just some chassis grease?

Any help you can provide would be appreciated as I really want to use this machine for the occasional light snows we get where dragging out the Simp seems silly.

Thanks!

Chris