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Wade E

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454 cubic inch big block Chevrolet V8 produces 412 horsepower
Just in case you're havin' any trouble removing snow from your driveway... This baby will blow snow back to where it came from!!!!!
If you're tired of anemic, one-lung snow blowers with their slipping drive belts, you might consider Kai Grundt's V8 snow blower, which raises the bar on the traditional snow blower in every respect. With electric start, electric block heater, antifreeze heater and eight cylinders, it has no drive belts to freeze up and you'll never get bored with the job, as the 454 cubic inch big block Chevrolet V8 produces 412 horsepower, 430 foot pounds of torque and can throw snow 50 feet at just 3500 rpm.

Nor will you get cold, as the machine has been ingeniously designed to route the engine coolant through the handle bars, with the rear mounted, enclosed radiator keeping the operator nice and cozy.

Maneuvering the massive beast (it has a total wet weight of 912 lbs) is a breeze thanks to the hydraulic-drive 4WD skid steer on independent walking beams, which offers a zero turning radius. It's also as fast as you like, with an infinitely adjustable speed range on the drive wheels via dash mounted flow control. At the opposite end of the scale, it has more than enough torque to pull your car out of the ditch before the hydraulic motors stall!

Adding to the well-balanced feel of the unit, just 15 pounds of down force on the handlebars will lift the auger blade off the ground in order to climb stairs/walkways for ease of snow removal. Safety has been, and continues to be, paramount, with spring return to center "fail safe" type directional controls with emergency stop and tether cords.

Safety is one of the key themes, with a flashing blue light (as required by law in many areas) being the least of the safety features. None will fail to hear you with those twin throaty exhausts, which come standard with 92 decibels at the controls, though if the rumble of a V8 exhaust is music to your ears, you can obviously go much louder. Even at the standard baffling, hearing protection is strongly suggested.

The powerful yard machine lights and a dashboard with back lit gauges complete the package to ease the burden of this normally reviled task. The custom 42 inch, two-stage auger has a Chevrolet 10 bolt truck differential with spool and a centrifugal auger clutch with shear pin protection, further adding to the image of this "automotive theme blower." As each unit is custom-built, optional extras for the snow blower are both diverse and outrageous as the base unit - there is unlimited auger choices from single to multi stage designs and various motor combinations to suit the religious preferences of the customer (Chevy, Dodge Hemi, Ford); and such exotica as a V-10 or a diesel engine or remote starting can be accommodated. And if, after a while, you feel you've outgrown the 400 horses, this particular engine is well catered for in the performance modification area, with Lunati camshaft, Milodon Gear drive, Holley and Edelbrock components to name a few; and there's always the fuel injection option too, if you feel you need to throw the snow out of the county or ensure your seat in the "neighborhood blower blingster hall of fame."

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Thats pretty good Wade for where you live but dang down here this is what we use.


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We have those here also Dan, I just dont think I can fit that in my shed!! The one over here has a unit on top of the cab for heat and AC as they also detach the blower unit and mount a 80" lawn deck on it and do the parks.
 
I know the airport has one and the state dept has a few for the highways but other then that its mostly 6-7' snow blowers on the back of farm tractors. Those are real common around here but are slowly being replaced by front mounted blowers on the Skid Steers that are becoming so popular.
 
Just a quick word of wisdom. Those machines are way cool, but please be really careful. I was in on a rescue call when a guy got his arm in a tractor mounted snow blower. He said later, he didn't know how he got out of it as the auger got ahold of his coveralls also. He spent the rest of his life with about a 6" stub on his right arm. I know a lot of you are using blowers that you never have to be around, just make sure if they plug up or hang up, shut the motor down before you mess around with the auger. Off my soap box now, hope everybody is dug out. Yesterdays blast kinda missed us here, only a little snow and really cold, but by the end of the week supposed to have highs in the 40's. Come on spring. Arne.
 
Yeah, I would always shut mine down if it got clogged as its never done so yet and I had my big lock from my shed oor fall right in there and get shot ot into the woods and it never even broke the shear pin, in fact in the 6-7 years Ive had mine Ive never broken a shear pin yet and Ive had some pretty good sized chunk of ice go thrugh here from the sides of my yard as my shed is way back in my yard and I have no garage to store it n so I have to blow a lot of my yard before I even get to my driveway! the main thing that sucks about that is sometimes when I put it away it can freeze up making the next time I use it not work and I have to get in there and unstick it.
 
Arne I agree with you said but must go further. Once the chute clogs up and you shut the blower off you still must use a stick and not your hand to unclog it. There is still a lot of tention on the propeller and as soon as the clog is free'd it's going to release the tention and evey year despite warnings around here people are still ending up in the emergency rooms from using their hands or fists to free it.
 
So far have only had to use mine 2X this season. Yesterdays storm came and only left 2-3 inches so just used the shovel as it seemed silly to break out the (mini) beast. LOL
 
I think someone needs to invent the robo snowblower. They already have the vacuum and lawnmower why not a snowblower. You could turn it on when you go to ben and anytime it detects 2" of snow or more it would leave its docking station and go to work.
 
I was hoping that my kids would grow to be just that. Boy, was I mistaken!
 
I think someone needs to invent the robo snowblower. They already have the vacuum and lawnmower why not a snowblower. You could turn it on when you go to ben and anytime it detects 2" of snow or more it would leave its docking station and go to work.

Great idea until the blower eats Fluffy! Hehehehe
 
Arne I agree with you said but must go further. Once the chute clogs up and you shut the blower off you still must use a stick and not your hand to unclog it. There is still a lot of tention on the propeller and as soon as the clog is free'd it's going to release the tention and evey year despite warnings around here people are still ending up in the emergency rooms from using their hands or fists to free it.

Thanks, Dan. I have never owned a snow blower, so do not know all the ins and outs, but would have never known that they could get you with the engine off. Will pass that on to a few people I know that use them. I bought a 4 wheeler a few years ago and have a blade on it. It has made snow time into almost a pleasure instead of a bad chore. That said it gets really cold on the four wheeler, but all the shoveling I do is about 5 inches in front of the garage doors and the front deck which is just pushing, not shoveling. Makes it pretty easy on the back. Take care, our forcast is for above freezing for the next week or so, come on spring. Arne.
 
Wade funny thing. As I was going down the interstate today there was one of those huge blowers cleaning off the overpasses, blowing the snow in a big truck next to it. In the last couple of weeks we had two drivers flip off overpasses onto the road below due to the snow being built up so high.
 

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