I hope everyone is staying warm and safe during this snow, chilly, windy weather.
Sun is out now and doesn't seem to bad.
Take care all.
Sun is out now and doesn't seem to bad.
Take care all.
A picture is indeed worth a thousand words. Anyone else craving a Budweiser right about now? By the way Clayton, the snow is leaking out of your big blower.Clayton,
In the third picture you said you had to blow ¾ of a mile. Let’s do a bit of figuring and see how long that would take with my snow blower.
Your snow blower looks to be about 8 feet wide. Mine is about 2 feet wide. I would have to make 4 trips to clear what you clear in one trip. Your ¾ of a mile becomes 3 miles for me.
According to Wikipedia, the average walking speed for humans is about 3 mph. Folks, that means it will take you 20 minutes to walk one mile. Give that a try. It isn’t like wandering around the mall.
For the sake of this conversation, let’s suppose when going down a straight sidewalk with my snow blower I can average 1 mph. I would ONLY need 3 hours to clear that road. I can tell you that when my blower is running that hard for 3 hours, I will need to refill the fuel tank at least once.
My blower stands about 20 inches tall. When I get into banks that are more than a couple feet tall, I need to do some stopping, backing up and hitting it again. Sometimes I need to get a shovel out and knock the top of the drifts down to my height. In that case, I would a lot more that 3 hours.
May be you misunderstood when I said my snow blower has a cab. A picture is worth 1000 words. Here is my 1992 Yard Man Snow Wolf 8 Hp blower.
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When a friend (Ok, you folks know I don’t have those. Actually, it was one of my brothers) saw the cab on my blower, he said I needed to turn in my Man Card. Even though this cab does not have a heater, I am very glad my wife gave it to me for Christmas several years ago. When it falls apart, I will zip right out to Fleet Farm and pick up another one.
By the way Clayton, how many horsepower do you have on the blower?
Later,
Jerry Christiansen
NOT ENOUGH TODAY.By the way Clayton, how many horsepower do you have on the blower?
Mark it is a six cylinder Cummins and is rated at just over 260 hp at 2200 RPM s.Clayton... How big of an engine is on that blower on that loader?...
Or green equipment like this fellow.