I Want One

That's not a snow-blower. THIS is a snow-blower....

Man oh man, we need a few of those babies down here
on the Rock, where the snow is plentiful and wet.

[most years, not this one]

Of course, to trailer that, one really should have a V-8 Powered 1959 VW Bus.

Impressive....if you have never encountered a tractor mounted PTO blower.
I use a factory built 8' on my MUIR-HILL.
That is a 383 FORD DORSET DIESEL, 18.4x30 4WD, 7 tons and a cab.
100 ft is not Guiness country----OSHCOSH blowers did that 50 years ago.
From Germany....a Smidt Snow Cutter (direct throw) 8' on a UNI-MOG with another 90 BHP in the back driving the blower independantly. Sure but slow.
Locomotive blowers are a common feature of Alpine Railways.
Quebec has built blowers that eat HUNDAI's for generations.

Just the thing to clean up the new-fallen global warming from the parking lots of your local warmistas, so they have a place to park their Prii. Just the thing too, to yank them out of those GW drifts.

Love the fact it has a "beacon" shown on the control panel. It's important to warn people that you are coming with the flashing light going n'est pas? Like people wouldn't notice that bad-boy crawling towards them blowing snow a 100 feet...LOL

well let's make it a series... (I'd like to see that VW with the Westphalia pop top) it's all in good fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIj2GVfua84&feature=related

That bad boy has Tim the Toolman written all over it. Argh!

I'd probably get arrested for clearing the street, much to the chagrin of the unionized city snow re-arrangers.

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"Tulsa activates Emergency Operations Center as winter storm intensifies

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Video!!!

The blower is a nice touch!

WOW!

I'd love one, except, here, we're snowless in Toronto.

"That bad boy has Tim the Toolman written all over it. Argh!"

Could be a Binford. . . .

If you owned henry Fords snow tractor or car from 1926 you don't need a blower.
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,213971.0/topicseen.html

As some guy mentioned up above, nice effort for the home market.

Professionals and municpalities have all sorts of these blowers (8ft+ wide) mounted on full sized front-end loaders, 10 tonne trucks, and full sized Ag-tractors. (What do you think Canadians did with all their earth moving equipment the months of the year the group is frozen 4ft deep?)

And I'll refrain from mentioning the full size truck plows loaded with sand that do highways and airports at 60mph with wing plows to extend the width. 15-20ft swath at 40-60mph .

They run in groups.

Fabulous but not so good on your driveway though.

Fred2, Yeah, I've watched airport plows and blowers doing their thing for a long time. If you really want to wreak havoc just leave a can of hydraulic fluid on the ramp. Works better in whiteout conditions.

As I recall -

B.C Highways (Flying Phil Gagliardi) had an Orenda jet engine on a highways truck for blowing snow in the Rogers Pass section of the trans-Canada Hwy maybe 30 - 40 years ago.

RCAF used to use the F 86 Sabre for a snow blower - put the nose gear up in the back of a jeep, light the fire and push it backwards down the runway.

Ok, he's got me beat. But in my defense I did hotrod my 1960s vintage International Harvester blower with a 13 horse motor. We rescued it from the garbage long ago, the engine died a couple years ago. Princess Auto came through in a storm. It can move some snow.

Of course now I have to replace the main bearing, good thing the tractor store is close by because this antique doesn't have the sucky 1/2" shaft, no sir. 7/8ths, oh yes! BIG iron. ~:)

Quebec has built blowers that eat HUNDAI's for generations.

That's true - it's an impressive sight to see them in action.

One thing I didn't see while living in Montreal is those plastic-bristled lawn mover type devices which *really* remove *all* the snow from walking surfaces. Those are nice.

Well, Vit, if you were to tote that snowblower with the V8 '59 Microbus, you'd HAVE TO trailer it. Ain't no room inside, is there?

I'm a gearhead, and proud of the fact. But I like to draw a distinction between a practical engine swap and a stunt. Putting a V8 in the cargo space of a VW Transporter is more in the nature of a stunt than a practical swap. Could be hellacious great fun on the dragstrip or Jasper Avenue, but that beastie's cargo-hauling days are over.

OTOH, if you were to hang a turbocharged Mazda 13B rotary engine on the stock Transporter transaxle, you'd get some pretty astonishing performance, and still be able to haul all the cargo the darn thing was built for.

The V8 snowblower is very cool, but I have to wonder how much of its claimed 400+ horsepower actually gets put to work moving snow. Can it advance fast enough into a drift that the auger can absorb the full output of the engine?

Hmmm. I spotted the auger portion of a dead snowblower at the East Trochu Mall. And I have a surplus Toyota 20R engine in the barn. Decisions, decisions.

Plus, Gord, the V8 engine for that Microbus would be in the rear, no? Good luck steering it with the front wheels in the air while towing.

I just imagine going out at 5:30 in the morning to clear up my 120ft of driveway .... the first 20 right under my neighbour's bedroom window.

And he thought it was mighty rude of me to pile snow on the boulevard on HIS side...

You want something to complain about bud?

I'll give you something to complain about.

Just needs WilE Coyote standing between the stacks and an Acme insignia.

But Kate;
(sheepishly) I do want an electric one you know.
Painted (cough) green.
With a twirlly windyfan and sunpanelly thingeys too!
Because I got the MEMO!

"You may not like change, but you have no choice other than to fall in line. " (ReadersTips; TG at January 29, 2010 1:19 AM)

(... but I like petrol porn!)

(What I really want...)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/jonschwenn/snowmobile.jpg

found at; http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/forced-induction/1221656-blown-smallblock-snowmobile.html

Just idle it for an hour and it clears the snow by global warming.

gordinkneehill, this one's for you baby!

//phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/1504377331.html

1966 Bug with a Mazda 13B. No turbo, sadly.

Incidentally, its my experience that a Mazda or a Subaru engine will break a bus transaxle pdq. One good pop of the clutch and BANG goes something in there.

Guys in the dunes back in the day were using stock bus transaxles with 2000cc bug motors and blowing them up, that's why Mendeola got into the transaxle business. Dragsters and sand rails are using super duper beefy things that don't even look like VW anymore.

But I must concur, 13B in a VW Bus = very cool. I've also seen the 2000cc Subaru turbo engine used to spectacular effect. A bus with wheelie wheels is cool. :)

My desert car has a VW bus transaxle and bus CV stubs on custom long travel axles, but I have a wheezy stock 1600cc bug motor in there. Its not full race, BUT it will get you home. I erred on the side of discretion (and economy!) when I built her up, you don't want to get stuck out in the desert.

Besides, it may not get up to speed very quick, but it doesn't have to slow down for anything. Long travel. :D

Meh -- Needs a 20 lb turbo boost to chew through the really big drifts along fence lines ;-)

Memo: send snow. Olympics in 2weeks. No snow here. Record high January temperatures.
Men plan and the gods laugh...

The Glengarrian
[....Love the fact it has a "beacon" shown on the control panel. It's important to warn people that you are coming with the flashing light going n'est pas? Like people wouldn't notice that bad-boy crawling towards them blowing snow a 100 feet...LOL]
I live on a paved county road and a rotating beacon is a grim necessity. It transforms impatient idiots into sane, cautious and courteous adults.
The Phantom
Honda makes better engines than blowers. I salvaged an excellant 9hp from a junker blower. It replaced a 8hp Briggs (thrown rod) on the log splitter. Good source for replacement horozontal shafts.
Re Quebec snow movers. A while back, off # 20, near kamarouska, I spotted a double-end Terex scrapper with a V-plow and wings both sides. Likely not practical for maintainence but likely handy to reopen the super slab if they lost it.
Texas Canuck
You are cruel. These days the operator likely would need counselling.....to the uninitiated the fluid is blood red....
You combo seems reasonable. I replaced a 170hp carburated for an injected Carrera in a 911....clutch and trany couldn't really cope....
It would take off like an anvil in free fall.
I have so far missed Lake effect and haven't had to get the tractor+blower out of the shed so far---touch wood.

That snow blower is racist! I mean, look at that snow! It's all white!!!