Re: (ET) Snow topped the blower, now what?

["Pieter Litchfield" <pieter_litch yahoo com>]

Here's a link to a "drift cutter" kit that might help show you the concept:
http://www.buymtdonline.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDetail_SNOW%20T
HROWERS_DRIFT%20CUTTER%20KIT_10101_19502_307970_49464_-1

The idea is to collapse the drift in front of the blower rather than
tunneling into it and having the solid roof of a drift go over the top of
the blower.

-----Original Message-----
From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
[mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu] On Behalf Of Darryl McMahon
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 11:16 AM
To: Christopher Zach; elec-trak cosmos
Subject: Re: (ET) Snow topped the blower, now what?

If you are stalling the auger, you may want to check the tension on the 
drive belt from the motor to the auger drive line.

When dealing with drifts, I take the 'eating the elephant' approach - 
one bite at a time.

A few things that have worked for me.

Don't take a full lane into the auger - it will share across.

In LL, work your way into the face of the drift a few inches and stop to 
allow the blower to clear.  Then move in a few more inches and stop. 
Repeat as necessary.

If you get in far enough to block the chute, stop, lift the blower to 
break the drift, back out a bit.  Clean up the snow rubble that results.

Go into the drift with the blower unit raised, then back out and go back 
in again with the blower lowered.

Darryl



Christopher Zach wrote:
> Well, this is interesting; blowing 2+ feet of snow this morning is 
> causing a problem: The snow is above the level of the chute.
> 
> How does one handle this sort of thing? I'm starting to realize that you 
> need a place for the snow to *go* as well. The 4 foot walls on the edge 
> are literally collapsing onto the tractor.
> 
> At this point I have a good 4 lanes cleared on the level portion, but I 
> can't get up the hill due to the drifts. Oddly enough when I go for it I 
> literally *stall* the auger. The whole auger.
> 
> Still snowing. So do people have snow blowing techniques? Or should I 
> hook up the tiller and take this stuff in reverse?
> 
> Chris
> 


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