Sno-Zilla's first trial run since finishing fabrication. She handled it like a champ. The belt tensioner needed tweaking, it's all fixed now and she's a BEAST!
ive been wanting to do something similar on my skid steer too modify it with the 22hp vtwin and increase the pto pulley size make them spin faster . nice job on the build
Modified one for my Ariens zero turn. 27Hp snow throwing monster ! Love it. Oh yea, one auger shear pin is broken (Left inner auger) She wasn't spinning. And don't use a bolt in it's place. Ask me how I know ;)
This is a super good idea. I really like it. However, I can tell that your snowblower is greatly underpowered, so I say this urgently, gear down the snow blower unit itself. What do I mean? I don't know how the drive system is arranged on your unit, but this is exactly what it needs. Either put larger pulleys on the impellers (the fans that throw the snow thru the chute) or put a smaller pulley on the engine. Most likely, each impeller can use a pulley twice as large than what they have. I had this problem with a unit that I modified. It greatly lacked power because the fan was geared up too fast. I promise, when you gear down the impellers, you will gain more power. I like your unit.
Thanks for the insight! I later realized that I had the belt tensioner on the wrong side of the pulley. Once I moved the tensioner to the non-load side, it throws as much snow as I can give it! In part 2 it easily handled 17" of snow!
I've read all the power commentary down below and they may be right but I just love your choice of name for this rascal. You'll sort out everything else but you can't improve on the name!
I would love something like that for my 45hp Quik-Tach Tractor. Something that doesn't need an auxiliary hydrolic pump or the need to drive in reverse using the rear pto.
Cool design, looks nasty! Does your skid steer have a high flow/high pressure hydraulic pump? If it does, you may want to do some calculations to see if you can get more HP by using a hydraulic motor to power the blower as the gas engine looks a little under powered for the wide clearing width.
Motorcycle engine or v twin from a lawn tractor will give that machine some grunt. I would fab up an engine cover too to keep the blowing snow from thermal shocking the power unit.
Love it. Great machine. Love the mission impossible style music too. Very dramatic. Was this blower built under absolute secrecy for the military? Seems like it from the music anyway. But if it were, then surely the video of its construction would be highly classified, and not available for view anywhere
Nice but underpowered if you get any real snow where you’re at. If cost is a factor engine wise maybe install a small 4cyl car engine. You could use heat exchanger tubes above the augers for cooling and keep all the fuel injection and use a PID controller and actuator for a governor.
The engine that's on it hasn't even bogged down with any load thus far, the belt drive needs some work (the belt slips under a serious load) but I'm pretty impressed with the engine so far.
So, are you thinking about a different belt ?? Chain drive ?? Do you think a quad could push that around ?? Totally get your build...would like to do something like that with an old farm snow auger....
@@MrBucknasty1313 I fixed the belt issue, I had the spring tensioner on the drive side of the pulley instead of the slack side. Now it cuts through ice snowbanks with no issues! I'm waiting for a big enough snowstorm to post an updated video. It's maybe a little too heavy for a smaller quad, I can barely lift it off the ground without help.
I was thinking that skid steer had some nylon type pads on it and that you were just pushing it around at a fixed height...I imagine it's very nose heavy....
Seth Watson 12 hours ago, "Motor looks under sized. Seems like you'd need something around 25+hp Cool build, though!" I was thinking like a 22 hp "Predator" two cylinder. But with that much torque, You'd need be careful. Lot's-a-fun though. Fun to watch too. Thanks.
So everyone who is complaining that it isan’t powerful enough probably didn’t hear you call it a “she” at the end of the video and didn’t notice the graphic of a typical looking woman blowing a bunch of hot air as she talks.
Because it's self contained, it doesn't need hydraulic hook ups and can be pushed by anything. I didn't weld the shafts because I want shear pins to break if it hits something solid instead of totalling the whole assembly.
my JD x 300 would have thrown that snow 20 ft easily , also get rid of that dum background music, I would have enjoyed it much better hearing you....good build though.....perhaps a bigger engine and bigger shoots...also spray lots of wd -40 on the shoots before use....
Maybe. For this build, I wanted it to be self powered in order to be able to be pushed by almost anything. To keep the cost down, I decided to go with an independent engine with belt driven pulleys. After a few tweaks, this setup works great. Check out the updated video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qGt6ON3eKao.html
