Things you're not supposed to put in a snowblower

[tgordon]

Mental note, I never want to live next door to Matt, my yard will be extra "dirty" in the spring#@$%!

 

[Highfinance97]

YouTube - Vacuum cleaner used as a snowblower!


Michael

 

[Woodenhead]

Well today I replaced a shear bolt from my last rock blowing adventure.



Pulled another garden hose out that apparently the neighbors kid had drug out.



Then I stalled the motor with a rock lodged between the blower and the housing. Got the rock out with a hammer and prybar.



Another rock blasted the plastic shute out from under the bolts. Got that fixed and ended the day with a branch getting rammed into the auger and bending the end of the auger over. Got the auger straight and just need a little more TLC with a hammer to get things back together.



This blowing snow in a gravel yard with a pile of willow trees dropping branches is turning out to be a good time .



And yes... . I am hard on the equipment... . apparently

 

[Spooled-up]

Woodenhead,



I thought you were trying to snowblow the woods behind your house until I read the second to last sentence. :-laf

 

[6BT-Dakota]

Eric (The guy that built my Dakota) besides being a fabricator, his main buisiness is fixing and repairing power tools which also include a mix and match of lawnmowers & of course snowblowers.



A few years back he had a 2 stage snowblower up on the bench that he was woking on well he started it and it was running on the bench. While having the auger engaged he reached up and pushed down on the handle to engage the drive wheels which the unit slowly started moving across his long work bench. Well I guess he had recentley gotten paged (yes this was a while ago when people still carried pagers) but instead of putting the pager back on to his belt he laid it onto the desk. Well that snow blower ate up and spit out that pager aprox. 20' across the shop and hit the far wall like it wasnt even there.



I would have loved to be at the pager store when he walked in and asked if it was covered under the damage warranty.

 

[JDiepstra]

It seems like a lot of people snowblow their yard. What gives? Do you park there or something?

 

[KevinSmith]

Was it dead before though? :-laf

Yeah, it was roadkill

 

[OKish]

It seems like a lot of people snowblow their yard. What gives? Do you park there or something?

yea, i dont understand this. if i were to do that it would take me all day.

 

[Greenleaf]

We get little snow any more. When we do it's light but will once in ten years get a foot.



I was rerading some good posts on the John Deere Lawn and Garden equipment web site (just like TDR but for Deere L & G Tractors)



News print seems to be popular. I run the blower over to the neighbor who was in WWII and never know whats there under the snow.



GL

 

[mjendrejcak]

I had a new toro snowblower, hit a phone book shear pins good, auger gear box took a crap.



I have a old ariens with a 20 HP honda, I can break shear pins in heavy wet snow.



I also have a toro dingo with a snowthower, found a big dog bone and threw it through the neighbors picture window.

 

[PToombs]

OOOHHHH! A picture of Scotts new 400!



mjendrejcak, thanks! I had to clean Mountain Dew off the monitor! :-laf

 

[JoshPeters]

When I was young I was snowblowing my parents driveway with what is now My snowblower. It's mounted to a JD212.

Well I'm crusin along and I caught an extension cord. Being young and it was probably only my 3rd time running it... I didn't know what to do, So I threw it in reverse... which only made things worse. I ended up with 150feet of extension cord wrapped around the augger. I wasn't terribly happy... . but then again neither was my dad when he went to use the extension cord.

A couple years ago with the same blower... .
Another extension cord... This one my roommate left out and I didn't know it. This time I got lucky... . It hit it and litterally must have been perfectly centered because it went straight out the top and flew farther than the snow! I only had to replace one end of it because there was no damage!

JP

 

[Woodenhead]

It seems like a lot of people snowblow their yard. What gives? Do you park there or something?

I have a long gravel drive with a big gravel parking area in front of the house where I turn the truck around, park other vehicles etc. I call this the yard, I guess it's more a driveway. You must have this mixed up with the "lawn" .

 

[Greenleaf]

I have "thought" about blowing some snow in the lawn. Simply to get more seat time on the tractor. I get a real high drift at the east corner of the house.



However, the lawn seldom will freeze and the neighbors might think I'm a fry shy of a happy meal.



Rocks, man. ROCKS. Gotta be real careful where I point that thing with a gravel drive and all... ... ... ... .....

 

[AMink]

One of the guys I work with was using the Snapper 1032 to clear sidewalks at work. The snow was kind of deep, about 12", and apparently the rabbit was stuck down in the snow. He saw it, but only after it came out. Red rain is falling down, red rain...

 

[Greenleaf]

How..... ???



You can't get 20 yards near a rabbit... ...

 

[JLEONARD]

You can't get 20 yards near a rabbit... ...

Put that JD into OD... you'll catch up!!

 

[AMink]

We think the rabbit was either digging through the snow, or got in and couldn't get out. Like I said, the snow was pretty deep. Wrong place, wrong time!

 

[HoleshotHolset]

It seems like a lot of people snowblow their yard. What gives? Do you park there or something?

On a few occasions, I used the lawn tractor with its snowblade to make a windrow of snow in the yard/lawn (link to thread w/ pics/video)... gotta give the old diesel something to do - normal snowblowing in the driveway isn't enough to work it.



I usually make a path all around the house and blow any big drifts away so that when it melts it is less likely to end up in the basement. Growing up, I used to snowblow nearly the entire back yard - had more fun doing that than playing video games like other kids were doing inside on a cold day.



Beers,



Matt

 

[Skydiver]

Although I've never seen a snowblower I think it would make a neat video for someone to throw a 6 ounce molotov coctail in a high power snowblower at night from a distance. I ain't sawing do it. But it would look wild.