Re: (ET) SNOW

["Pieter Litchfield" <pieter_litch yahoo com>]

There are several kinds of snow moving devices other than plows.  The
smallest might be called a "broom" and uses a fast moving paddle wheel to
clear small amounts of snow.  These are often electric (plug in) or small 2
cycle devices that have rubber paddles as wide as the clearing path width.
There are two varieties of larger snow blowers.  The "single stage" has an
auger with an impeller or paddle(s) in the middle.  The auger spins fast,
and it depends only on the paddle attached to the auger to throw snow out
the chute.  The "two stage" blower has a slower moving auger and a separate
fast moving paddle with an axle at right angles to the auger that throws 
the
snow out the chute.  Generally the two stage is less likely to become
plugged, although the soggy salt laden snow across the end of my driveway
left by the town plow does a good job of plugging it up.
In the "old days" of steam powered rotary snow plows on railroads, some may
have been referred to as "snow throwers", but I think the more common name
was, in fact, "rotary snow plow."  I agree that "snow blower" and "snow
thrower" are probably synonymies.  Generally I hear "snow blower" around
here for either a single or dual stage machine, and "snow broom" for the
little things with rubber paddle wheels. 


-----Original Message-----
From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
[mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu] On Behalf Of Ken Olum
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 10:43 AM
To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: Re: (ET) SNOW

   From: "Ferguson Apiaries" <ferga hay net>
   Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:51:16 -0500

   Are these snow blowers or throwers that you are talking about.

It depends on what you mean by these terms.  My understanding is that
no device that you use on your driveway works by suspending the snow
in an air stream to transport it somewhere else (although you might
find such a thing at a ski area).  So in that sense they are all
throwing, not blowing, the snow.  But sometimes people use "thrower"
to mean one-stage and "blower" to mean two-stage.  The Elec-Trak
accessories are one-stage.  I have a two-stage one on my Electric Ox.

Everyone swears by POR-15 for preventing clogs.  I haven't tried it
myself.  Also the usual advice: keep the system loaded but not
overloaded, so that snow is always moving rapidly through it.
Recharge your batteries if you aren't getting full power.

It appears that finally the people in MD and DC and all are going to
stop hogging all the snow and let us have some here in Massachusetts.

                                        Ken

_______________________________________________
Elec-trak mailing list
Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/elec-trak