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Bliz
One more thought,what about looking at the big boys and see
what they are using?
Here are a few of the ones I found,Lorenz,Inland,Farmking,
Schulte,Allied,Lucknow,
They must be used on gravel roads. Might get some ideas
if you could pull up the specs.
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Harvey thats a big modification to your shoes. They weren't big enough to hold on there own?
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Blizzard,
Looking at the pics of your pucks, I think if you allowed
them to spin you would have better luck.
Copy the set up on a fisher plow, short piece of pipe for
the mount and a fisher shoe with washers for height adj.
You may have to move them away from the blower a bit but
that should not be to hard to do. What do you think?
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Morning Art. Yes and No. During freeze up on the grindings the old ones, narrow shoes, would rut down in (of course they needed rebuilt anyway). On good snow pack now the 3" are a little much. But i've found that the angle and lenght of the cutting edge seems to have more impact on what is picked up and gouged.
During freeze up I have some up pressure so the whole weight of the blower is not on the shoes.
The biggest draw back with the wide shoes is trying to cut down the snow pack. The wider shoes will not allow the blower to drop into the pack.
I've looked at the cutter area and me thinks I can put a longer sharp cutter (installed like cutter on a Cat bucket) on it and control it with angle.
Now all that said: I am pretty damn IMPRESSED with this blower. And I have not had to replace 1 shear pin anywhere.
It may just get sand blasted this summer and new "proper"  green paint with yellow "P680" markings.
BTW the widow is still intrested. I'll take a day off (April or May) and drive her up to see you.
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Grinder,
Using a spare pair of Fisher shoes was my first choice, but I cut some beveled pieces out of 1/2" plate for this prototype. Maybe weld some brackets up and put the Fisher rotating ones on during mud season. At least one more shoe of any type would help I think. As I posted earlier, I'm also considering a 1/2" thick by 2 to 6" wide plate or section of pipe welded in front of the factory cutting edge flush with the bottom of the side plates. Of course this summer I'll re-grade and remove some of the rocks along the edges, which cause the most problems.
Hopefully not much more snow this season, so I'll have time to think it over and round up materials. But one good 20" March blizzard would be nice, give WigglyBridge a chance to test out his chains
Balmy weather today, so blower is off, weight box on, gotta move some trees....
bliz
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Yeah that sun sure feels good , just throwing out some ideas.
You might check with the local state DOT garage and see if they are going to redo any roads around your area.
I know that sometimes the specs call for it to be rototilled
(asphalt) and hauled off,and some call for it to be reused.
Sometimes you can get a decent price on the reclaimed material. You might check with Farin Bros and Smith up your way. I think they are out of Brighten Plt.
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Bliz, as I mentioned this morning over in the thread on Denno's 4110, I got out with the chains in 18" and did some snow moving. Pretty cool, even better if we had _really_ cleaned out the garden last fall...
On your problem with the bolts on the skid shoes: my blower has notches in the slot where the bolts go, so just one carriage bolt holds the shoe very securely. Downside is only 3 positions for the bolt, but as mentioned, the top link adjustment is just as important.
Nice photos, by the way!
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WigllyBridge,
As you might have guessed, I did get a digital camera. I was
taking so few pictures besides ones to post it wasn't cost effective to use film, and the PITA process of snap, process, scan, and post was tedious. I was in the woods Sunday hauling logs and piling slash. The moderate temperatures contributed to excellent traction and very pleasant working conditions.
bliz
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Bliz, sorry I completely missed your question to me in the early part of this thread. I think the 'Murphy Pipe would probably help in your case.
The design of those blower bodies are meant to cleam snow right down to a HARD surface. Unfortunately gravel is another story. The sides actually doi a lot to bringing up gravel too. As the knife edge of the side pushes through the gravel a certain amount of it is raised up, like waves behind a boat. Although it is tough not to cause some disturbance until it's frozen solid, I would try to put a pipe all the way around the bottom, sides included.
I have seen a lot of blowers with angle iron welded along the sides to help keep them on the surface, but then in turning they skid a pull up even more material.
The big thing is to keep a thin layer of hard snow over the gravel to lock it down out of the way.
Best of luck.
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Good Morning Grinder,
Looks as if I will have to give the blower one more feeding of sand and stones, oh yeah , and a little snow. Maybe this storm will keep south like so many this season, I'll gladly drive through a couple of inches of snow/slush for a while rather than churn up the drive any more.
Have a good one!
bliz
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