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Re: (ET) Snow's over, E20 is tired...
Have gone two winters with the tiller on the back and blower on the
front. The tiller does make a nice balance. Makes the whole train a
bit long for maneuvering and turning. Have not yet tried using the
tiller for traction - I think it would scratch the pavement up.
As the blower needs some TLC, I have the plow blade on the front this
year (so far). As my cross-the-street neighbours have now created a
solid snow wall along my side yard, the plow is pretty much ineffective
- no where left to move the snow to. However, I am considering using
the tiller to chew into a snow bank, and try to carve out a channel in
behind the snow bank, and then keep pushing more snow into the depth of
the channel. However, getting the blower back into action would be a
better plan. Finally made enough room in the garage to bring the
tractor and blower in to work on both, and mate them up. Hopefully, it
will warm up enough to make that a tolerable exercise over the next few
days.
Darryl
Christopher Zach wrote:
Graham Allan wrote:
So what would you say is the major factor in not getting stuck?
Weight? I've tried either blowing or plowing my driveway with my E15
with dismal results. The driveway is probably around 30 degrees,
downwards from the house, and when it comes time to reverse back up
the hill one wheel will simply lose traction and spin. So I have given
up for now (knowing mainly, I am missing something critical). I've had
chains on the drive wheels but no extra weight, which is probably a
big mis-step given the huge weight of blower or plow blade up front.
But I was never convinced that weight alone would make the difference,
given the open differential... hopefully I'm wrong on that?
I would say weight and chains. Not on the tires, behind the tires,
that's why the weight box helps so much: It's located way aft of the
wheels, and adds it's weight to the blower on the front to put more
pressure on the tires.
How much do you have in the weight box (besides the additional 120 lbs
of lead)?
That's it. Technically it's 6 Hawker Genesis 26ah batteries at 22lbs
each. I can stack three more on there for 180 pounds, but 6 seems to be
enough.
Now one problem is if I put BB600's into the box I would only have
3.5*30=105 pounds in there. Which is still not too bad and was enough to
do the job a few years ago (granted with less snow)
As for the drive, you need to make a turn-around at the bottom and use
that to reverse the tractor's direction. I think the blower is better
than the plow since the blower lifts the snow up and sends it forward
while the plow appears to compact the snow into an ice-wall.
But most definitely add some weight in a box on the back. I think the
best thing would be a tiller :-)
Chris
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