I own this machine. My Step Son took the video for me the first trip out. I'm sending this note to answer some of the questions my viewers have had. I built this blower 2 years ago, it's on a 1993 Ford F250 7.3L diesel 5 spd trans 4x4. everything was touched during this build. I added 2 leaf springs to the front to carry the 1000 lb blower, the blower and the drive engine balance the truck well and it will over the road 65 mph with no problems, as you can see in the first and last photos the blower lifts 11" at the cutter edge for outstanding ground clearance. The engine on the rear runs the blower only, it's a 1956 Chrysler Industrial flat head 6 cylinder completely rebuilt. This is the second time this unit has been set up, it was originally built in 1979 on a 1977 Chevy C 30 4x4 and ran nearly as well as it does now. The addition of a 3 speed transmission between the rear motor and the blower (which can be seen between the fuel tank and engine house on the back) improved the power performance of the blower a lot. What sets this unit aside from all the rest is the "Drop Box Chain Case" on the motor which reversed the rotation and reduced the out put speed 2.75 to1 giving us the 540 PTO speed it needed for the blower shaft drive in the power band of the engine driving it. The Drop Box was custom made by George Stetson in 1979 and has never required ANY repairs of any kind and is still in perfect working order. the drop box has countless thousands of hours, that's right thousands of hours. George repaired runway blowers at a local Air Force Base for over 25 years and he dreamed this up based on those blowers. that chain case is a true tribute to George and that's why I dedicated this video to him. No other method of drive dives you the control of having the blower driven independently. All the hydraulics are under the hood running off the truck quite like most snow plows. it has greater that 220 degrees rotation the tip tilts and of coarse the lift. The blower is engaged with a cylinder also and that one operates the blower throttle as well. Thank you for all the great comments, I use it every several hours every storm and to me it;s just fun,
Being and this is an educated guess on my part a Dodge 6/230 cubic inch flathead engine I'd say the power and might be 1600-1900 rpm. I seem to remember that from driving a 1947 dodge ex US Army Power Wagen Nice to see the old girl reborn.
I couldn't believe my good luck thinking how I was going to find out what this excellent tune was that I was searching for was right here and by happenstance I was on RU-vid looking at Ford plow trucks! THANK YOU SO MUCH, YOU MADE MY DAY!!
99 out of a hundred individuals on earth could not build a prototype, working snow blower for a truck, ever in their present condition. I see a lot of jealousy here. I hear this guys triumphs and temporary setbacks in that music. Great job, the music, video and mechanical ingenuity. Sincerely, William McCormick .
Brings me back to when I was younger, an the 24 inch snow spout on those Schram state an county highway snow blowers. The fronts chewed snow up to eight feet high, ten feet wide. An blew it 30 to 50 foot from the road. SUCH POWER BEHIND THOSE BEASTS. Gone they are now no longer legal to use. Now we push it, an keep wearing blades out to be replaced, An tearing up the roads. Makes a lot of since to me.
I know this is an old video, but This one inspired me to put a 7 foot Frontier blower on a 1987 Chevy Astro van with a 1967 Chevy 250 inline 6 in the back. Gear drive off the i6 will run PTO shafts in the van then down through the floor and out under the front to the blower. Belt driven governor will keep the blower at optimum PTO speed which should be around 550 ish and I can control that by backing off the hand throttle when I need to. Awesome video. It will be ready to go by the end of this month. Cheers from Canada.
I thought a African would be driving it because the music is not fit for Maine but I guess I was wrong/ nice build that’s the true way of removing snow .. 👍🏻
I was gonna say something about the music but I seen the in memory of at the end and now realize there is something else to it. Awesome build. Prayers to you and the family and friends of George Steson. May he rest on peace. Thanks for the video buddy and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
They make 'SNOW TIRES' for larger trucks, just like they do for small cars, and it really does make a HUGE difference in traction when the temps get below freezing.
Awesome build ....and your choice of music for YOUR RU-vid video I'm sure suits you just fine ....excellent job....you have what we call around here " great Yankee ingenuity "
Nice double auger. I take it you made that , which is impressive. Snovac makes single auger models with their own engines (monoblock style), but they are single auger outfits.
Finally a snowplow /snowblower pickup that's properly balanced. Too many snow plow truck with no weight or weight in the wrong place. One needs a counterweight behind the rear axle like this
So there's a place in Maine called Stockholm? Kinda neat, i live in Stockholm, Sweden where i'm pretty sure the Maine one took the name from =) Nice video, had to mute the music .. would have been fun to hear the original sound.
Love this rig. I like that it's a dedicated blower and not a stupid plow. Never understood peoples fetish for plows. All they do is gouge stuff up and don't really get rid of the snow like a blower does.
Can't always use a snow blower and plows are wayyyyy quicker. Blowers throw stuff and wouldn't work very well in some places throwing snow with stones and everything else in it.
That is an awesome set-up. If it were mine and I lived where it snowed like that I'd point it south and step on the gas until I hit a warm climate then I'd leave the snow blower by the side of the road and never look back and all the while I'd be playing any damn music I wanted to. Cheers.
Great work building this. Very few people have the equipment, electrical and mechanical knowledge to create things like this. I don't have any comments about the music as I know what and engine sounds like and I have volume controls on my laptop if I don't like what I'm hearing. Man versus Winter - Man wins this time
This is an amazing machine. The fact that it is PTO driven is fantastic! I have seen others hydraulicly driven that are ok, but this is great. What is the HP of the aux. engine? I feel that a 8 ft blower such as this is underpowered though, a blower this size likely needed at least 90 hp up to max of 200 hp. A diesel aux engine with lots of extra torque and 175 hp would be spectacular. The extra torque/HP would allow a greater throwing distance and faster travel speed.
I like the build, well thought out. If I had one of those 55 years ago I bet I'd feel a lot younger now. A 200 yd driveway in central Alberta using shovels sucks.
awesome looking setup! Greater specifications of the different parts lists i.e. the attachment, fuel type, engine size and hydraulic set up? Did you do the work?
