Truck mounted Snowblower - "Project Frankenstein" 

Very very nice. Just need to see it in action when you get some snow.

I'm impressed. A guy can tell that a lot of time, thought and effort went into this project. Great job! 👍

We all want to see this in action. Very innovative work. You must be expecting some deep snow.

You're nuts! You know that right? BUT you're the "KIND" of 'nuts' we ALL love & enjoy watching. Things we daydream about and here you are making them happen. Hats off to you not only for the snow blower but the ABILITY TO THINK & ACT! OK, so I 'liked' and "SUBSCRIBED" and thank you! Sonny (CT)

You’re a handy dandy guy. Nice job figuring out every problem you encountered along the build.

Beautiful truck. Ugly as sin, but beauty as they say is in the eye of the beholder. I wish I had that kind of talent to cobble something like that together. Great job.

Nice job, Darren! Your design and attention to detail are exceptional. Keep up the great work!

You have built a wonderful snow fighter. I can appreciate everything you have done. Great, great job!

Super job there dude. I wish more people would have this mentality that you can mount a blower on the front of what ever your driving and make the whole job more enjoyable, less fatigue and so on.

What talent. What a great vision you had to put this together. Awesome job. Now I want to build one

A veritable masterpiece! A marvel of American ingenuity that would be a welcome sight her in Montreal. Spring is here now, but this warms my heart more.

That is probably one of the coolest most modified things I have ever seen! Bravo my good man, bravo!!

Thank you for sharing, thats a pretty Frankenstein, good information, clean set up. Seeing this sparks the flame, one that is in need of encouragement. Bravo Maestro. I'm in. From Tucson Arizona Merry Christmas.

Holy geez buddy , I love the ole Truck. built to last. love the video.

WOW. I am impressed. That looks like genuine Backwoods Engineering at it's finest.

Darren you are a very smart man, and my hat is off to you with 2 thumbs up! This is a great idea, and a snowblower does a better job than a plow blade, and would be much easier on the u-joints ! All I can really say is excellent job my friend!

This thing is awesome! 👍👍

The closer the higher actuator bolt is to the chute itself the faster the chute will move. It will lose strength proportionately but if the issue is speed I would move the bolt as close to the chute as possible without losing range of motion. Awesome project glad you made a video for us. 👍

Cool. A backyard scientist. Great job on Frankenstein.

Very very cool! Nice work man. Awesome Fabrication and creativity

What a frigging BEAST!!

I did that 20 years ago. Took two snowblowers welded them together. Kept the engines on both. Ran for 3 hours depending on depth of snow. I live in Colorado. Now back to just using a plow.

Nice! Love to see it in action!

Fantastic build! I wish we could see it in action.

Awesome set up!

Very neat! Great job on the build too! Nice and clean and complete. Doesn't look like you cheated out kn anything either. Full build from conception to final operating product are the best, boy what a feeling it is too eh? Well done buddy! Have a wonderful Merry Christmas to you and yours and stay well! In WNY we have a storm a brewing tonight and tomorrow! Just in time for a white Christmas too! Been a while since we had a good snow for Christmas! Thanks again bud!

Nice prototype. You could make a fortune.

Nice!! I would love to see the truck in action!!!

I really like what you have done and hope it's totally successful. Mine was made from scrap on the farm including a 1980 1 ton 2 wheel drive with a 250 6 cyl and powerglide trans. I powered the blower with an olds 455 and turbo 400 trans mounted backwards where the box would have been, made a chain case to drop below the the chassis and drive it with an old corn chopper shaft under the cab. That way I could swap it from the truck to the tractor. Your low range 4x4 might not have to work so hard to move it thru deeper snow keeping it cooler. I boiled the 2sp 3 times blowing out the front seal. I should have installed a trans temp guage! Good luck!

Well that’s just badass, we need an action video now bud!

Very nicely done

Nicely done!

That's a well thought out setup. Be interesting to see it work

Project Frankenstein, hell no ! That's a great rig......you did it yourself.....it works great.....you're ahead of the game my friend, and it's awesome..........well done !

That is badass!! Love it!

SOLID build man! Good job!

That's super awesome you're a genius

Here's hoping for another year of Heavy Snow. Great setup.

Wow. This is impressive. Amazing job, that's a sweet rig you've built there. 100% deserved a "like". You clearly have a lot of creativity and mechanical skill. You may already be aware, but the guy behind the "Tech Ingredients" channel built a turbojet from a turbocharger and did a lot of explaining about the technical aspects of things like pipe diameter and gas flow which may be helpful if you haven't already built it. Would love to see that beast you've built in action.. could probably clear a typical driveway in all of 2 minutes 😂

I have dreamed of having a front snowblower on my 2500Hd extended cab years ago. I don't like when the motor is mounted on the front too much weight. Beautiful job obviously needs to be cleaned up but its a process. I always imagined a very small diesel engine in corner of bed (with stack) for hydraulic pack or even drive of pto or belt on engine. I had to click to check this out.

Awesome unit!!!

So awesome, great work!!!

Great ideal no snow Banks yep get the bugs out then do the final finish great job

Nicely done

That's cool. Well done dude.

Well done. Now a coat of paint and cha-ching!

OUTSTANDING!

Beautiful job. I am trying to do a project like this with one of my own trucks.

That is GREAT. nice job.

That’s tight man!!!

Solenoid parts as well. Thanks Darren!

Way to go Darren!

Great job -

Sweet, turned a 3 thousand dollar truck into a 30 thousand dollar truck.

Nice job !!

Hi i would like ti see that move some snow i thank you have a good start on a good way to move snow like you send your not all dune with it all so id like to see more videos on this . an have a grate holidays.

Great job fitting that truck that blower😁😁😁

Good job man

Would love to see it in action with snow

That is seriously awesome. If you had the leftover weight capacity you could add a back blade to the rear for parking lots if you do them. Spent many many hours on a no cab farm tractor in a skidoo suit blowing snow. Would have given a lot for that lovely snow rig.

awesome

nice ridge brother

Frankstien gets my approval. Put a roof over engine if you move snow during a storm. You never know when snow will stop and moving during heavy snow helps. Instead of waiting you have a pileup

I have seen some ham-fisted projects, and I have seen some next-level projects. This? This is out of the park on to N. Clark Street.... Very, very cool project!! Love the control console - well thought out! Speed sensor will eventually be for the main auger? My only $.02 would be to be careful using plain-old galvanized sch 40 Home Depot pipe on a hydraulic system - they were never intended to be used on the high-side of a 3000 psi hydraulic system... Love the project!!! Would love to see it in action when the snow gets stacked up.

Planning on building something similar for my cj5. Going to use a 18 horse kawasaki for my power source

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Need to beef up those front springs it looks. Cool setup

nice....only extra thing i could think of adding it heated wiper blades ...i imagine they collect a lot of ice when the machine is doing its job

Get some green rustoleum and just roll it on. It will look great. 👍👍 Awesome truck dude.

i had one of those once and when i turned sixty i started going south and the first time i stopped for gas and the fuel jockey asked""whats that""? i said WHATS THE PRICE OF HOMES AROUND HERE?

I like it.

Them 300 i6's run forever.

nice

Love your setup I'm doing the same thing for my 01chev 2500hd I have a 350 small block chev engine planning to use hiniker plow frame so I can use my plow blade when I don't need the blower not going to be ready this season my question is what electric solenoid did you use to run the blower thank you. Glenn

nice !!!

You da man!

This was a project done by now I consider a friend of mines father 5 years ago

Those lp conversion Ford 4.9s are used by many farm irrigators.

bad ass!!

I tried a project about like this, how do you keep the auto transmission from boiling when blowing heavy and deep snow? That was the only thing that stopped me from continuing to use it!

Nice project. I wonder what the specs are on the hydraulic system, pump flow, engine output etc. A similar idea occurred to me, but to design it as a universal power unit that could be loaded into the bed for this application but used elsewhere in summer months.

Dude, your project is great. I was merely answering a question. Chill out

Need a 1 ton to handle that much wgt in the front. Must be hard on the steering box.

I’ll bet that whole setup burns some serious fuel

Nice setup my friend! I want to do this with my truck. I have a PTO port on my transmission and I can buy a pto pump for it. I wanted to ask how powerful of a pump do you have? I can go as much as 300ftb of torque. Is that enough?

That is sweet thank you where did you get the blower again who makes it

@DarrenReid Are you willing to share hydro specs and or model numbers? I know from working in the Agronomy field hydraulic power gets eaten up fast. I'm trying to decide between engine drive and hydro drive. I'm looking at going 92"+ on width and was chain/pto drive, until seeing your video. Thanks

sweet brother ..... you could be making 10grand making these with new parts. and calling yourself a businessman,. real nice freecycle

Are you going to make More videos Of it. I would like to see more about that machine on working duty

That's a big hydraulic tank.

Enuff talk man lets see it work

That's what I'm talking about

FYI, to anyone watching this... the older Versatile 400 swathers have an I6 ford with a hydraulic pump bolted right to it. They are very cheap to buy.

very nice. a lot of work. where you located?

What is the horsepower rating of the hydraulic motor? How did you go about figuring out power needs and pump needs and engine horsepower requirements?

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Holy shit that is a monster snowblower! Did you have to upgrade any suspension components with the engine/pump in back and all that weight hanging off the front? I'd guess it would be much heavier than a standard snowplow.

great job - how does it work?

I could see this thing in a movie...

How does the little straight 6 do running the hydraulic pump? Does it have enough torque or would you go bigger? I'm planning on using a 350 Chevy for mine.