Pep talk with tractors !
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That’s what I did with my Ford thrower. I put a longer and less sharp of a curve chute on it. Made a big difference in throwing distance.
My thought on changing pulleys or sprockets to make them spin faster is, your gunna need more hp to run it in the heavy snow. Your changing the gearing doing that. It’s like taking out 4:11 rear end gears and putting in 3:55’s. Your gunna need more hp to get down the track the same as you did with the 4:11’s. Just my take on it.
On my Case 224, they had a 5” pulley on the drive shaft. Suppose to be 6.5”. So in light snow it worked ok still didn’t throw that far. But in the heavy hard packed snow it would just kill the engine revs down to the point where I had to stop moving. Throwing distance was about three feet. So I put a 7” pulley on. Works great now. Into heavy snow now is no trouble revs stay up and you can keep moving. Throwing distance is much better. Normal for a Case thrower.
The Case thrower has a 8” opening for the chute, the John Deere one is 6”. Basically the same thrower design. John Deere throws much better. Even with the short sharp curve chute. I believe if the Case chute opening would be smaller they would throw much better. Again, just my thought.
Noel
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I put the rubber belting on my Cub and Bolens snow throwers. Had them just touching the curve of the frame. Made a big difference. I have use the Bolens thrower on a gear drive and the bigger Cub thrower on a hydro drive and hydro drive worked much better as you can keep the thrower full, but not over fill it. Can creep along if you have to. I would not put a thrower on a gear drive tractor again.
It sounds like the velocity would build up better in a 6” vs the 8” causing it to throw farther like you mentioned.
It's a Kubota d950 which I believe is 22 hp. I'd say you'd have to have a 25 to 27hp. gas engine to do the same work. It's been a while since using it but I don't recall bogging down the engine. As stated the real trick to making these blowers throw the snow is keeping them full. The more snow you put through them the farther they throw it.
Lets get two of them.....line em up.... 100 yards with 3 foot deep snow and see who wins!
Well that’s the same with any throwers and blowers, the more ya have in it, the better it works at throwing or blowing snow.
That set up that Chris has with the 22 hp and larger sprocket works good. Put a 16 hp gasoline engine in there, ya not so good.
So, also keeping the thing full means moving faster or having deep snow, which puts the load on the engine. If you don’t have the hp to keep the revs up, then throwing distance suffers.
Just my take on it. Yours will be different.
Noel
I think you nailed it. The tractor that blower came off of was a 10hp. Kubota. It was in near new condition and I think the reason is obvious. Can you imagine 10hp. pulling a 48" blower.
Yes this is the blower. Tried running it with one belt after the engine swap and there was no way. It would slip and squeal like a stuck hog. Have had no problems since the 2 belt installation.
Yes Gary. Some rain today, snow tonite into Saturday morning. 30-50 cm or 12-20 inches. But no real high winds.
Noel
While about this time of year snow gets old but I would much rather have snow than rain