I want a snowblower like this......

[mwilson]

Cleaning up the streets in Madawaska, Maine...click on the picture...

 

[deeselfitter]

Wow Mike, you guys really got dumped on . That sort of snowblower activity is usually what goes on here in central Newfoundland this time of year, but this year,so far,we have dodged the bullet. All the rest of our island here in Mid-Atlantic has been hammered,but in the central area where i live,there is barely enough snow to run the Arctic Cat (Polar Puss)

 

[jhenderson]

The old timers down here still talk about a bad storm in the early 60s. A week after it hit they got a snow blower to come down from the airport to open up some of the back roads. They claim it grabbed a stone about the size of a soccer ball out of the shoulder and cracked a phone pole about 25 feet away when it spit it out. Everybody stood back after that.

 

[jhenderson]

The one you really want is for sale in Oregon. You can find it listed on the Rhode Island Craig's list under heavy equipment. No price. If you have to ask---------!

 

[promisedland]

Thanks Mike! The whole family enjoyed it

 

[Wayne M.]

But where do they bring it? TO ME!!

 

[jhenderson]

What's the fuel burn on that Snow Dragon?

 

[Wayne M.]

What's the fuel burn on that Snow Dragon?

Oooh, that’s not the dragon. We tested them and sent em packing. This one works differently. 170 GPH. Here’s the specs.
http://www.trecan.com/wp-content/themes/maintheme/images/135pd_prod_sheet.pdf

 

[JR]

170 GPH.

No wonder why your taxes are so high! :-laf

How often does the city break that thing out? Are they permitted to discharge the water directly into a river or such?

 

[Wayne M.]

I'm sure it's a drop in the bucket compared to the entitlement "thing" going on. The water goes into our sewer system like any rainwater and to the plant. Go back to that link and look up 60PD, which is 1/2 of this machine. All told we have a couple dozen of them. I don't think you guys realize how big we are. Lol. I have a Cat 966 and 4 Doosan 220 mega's, some heavy trucks I have to keep going at this park parking lot.

 

[mwilson]

http://www.trecan.com/wp-content/themes/maintheme/images/135pd_prod_sheet.pdf

Interesting that top towing speed with 1500 gallons of fuel on board = 10 mph

Full of water = 2 mph.....

I've seen brand new lowboys destroyed because the operator ignored the loaded speed limit and the lowboys flexed themselves apart....

 

[jhenderson]

When I viewed the specs I saw that the melter required a full water tank to fire the burners. There was a option for dry melt starts. I imagine it would be easy to melt a tank if it was dry to begin with. I also took note of the trash doors at the bottom of the tank. I never thought about all the junk you'd accumulate in a city environment. Verry interesting machine.

 

[Wayne M.]

I don't know how dry starts work, must be an option we don't have. This is what it looks like after 10 hours. It's not too bad today. We've pulled out fire hydrants and sewer caps.

 

[jhenderson]

I believe the option for dry starts has to be designed and built in the machine. I don't imagine it's an inexpensive proposition.