Northern Weapon of Choice

If I had a choice it would be to pitch my tent in azman's back yard from Nov. to May. . . but the cows wouldn't like it.
A cabbed MF 285 with a 6 bucket does the heavy work. Since all the cows come with 4 wheel drive, they rather I spend time doing this.
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I know this should be in the other thread but I'm too lazy to find it.
Mail box got hit again today! At first thought it might have just been the wake of the wing but no, a bit of a kink in the door hinge area and a small chunk of wood out of the support.

Swapped in the spare rebuilt one and took this one to the shop for body work. Not too bad maybe 15 minutes and it is ready for next time. Put a spare jar of screws on the shelf next to it so it I drop one in the snow I don't have to go digging for it!

Oh! an update on the repower motor for the failed one, should be here Tuesday so I guess I'd better move the blower over to the shop in the morning!
 
Mailman - who appears to be a refugee from some other competition - has just bumbled out into the snow. He doesn’t seem to realize that it’s cold - he is wearing shorts ....oh oh, the other drivers are throwing snowballs at him!!

....meanwhile, KSHansen’s pit crew seems to be frantically looking around for the keys to the tool box - oh geeezzz, that driver is getting pretty annoyed with them!


(Bob - you made me snort out loud).
 
Did not get any work done on XS650 this last week because I was busy doing a couple repowers on these machines.

One had a Tecumseh HM80 and the other had a Tecumseh H70, both were origianl engines and more or less died during the last bad snow we had.

After looking into parts to rebuild the original engines I stumbled on to a guy on E-bay that was selling new old stock Briggs 1150 Snow engines for about $180.00 shipped to my door.

I probably would have close to that (or more) in parts and gaskets to fix the old engines and still have some tired parts like starters and carbs so I elected to do the repower route.

One was a pretty straight forward job, less than two hours from opening the box till it was trowing snow. The other needed some more involved modifications and I spent about a days time.

I can now predict that we will probably not have any major snow fall the rest of the winter here in Central NY! That's the way it seems to work!
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Hot damn....the KSHanson pit crew finally got their sh!t together and found the keys to the dad-burned tool box!

They've now got not one but TWO, count' em - TWO units runnin' in the Unlimited Class.

....now, they just need to get those Big Reds pointed in the same direction so that they don't simply chew each other to smithereens!

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kshansen there is a special place in hell for those that would destroy the original fine engineering balance found in classics like these.

Hmmmmm...I have a 20hp Briggs Twin out of a lawn tractor. I'm bored out of my skull, have a fully-equipped shop, and a back-up blowsnower that's not being used. This is a potentially dangerous situation.

I wonder how far 20hp would throw snow out of a 24 inch blower?:devil:
 
When too much is simply not enough!!! (that was a line from the first test in Cycle magazine of the Yamaha XS11 when it was first introduced in - I think - 1979...)

Git that engine in there DE....its all in the gearing!! Gear that impellor up to absorb the increased ponies - and have at it!

Then, watch out Dude - that nutty Downeaster fella might fill in your driveway all the way from Maine!!!
 
Vertical shaft on the 20 horse unfortunately. Of course, some sort of mule drive would work...

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Alternatively, I have this little beastie. Pasquali 986. 20hp one-lunger diesel, fully articulated, true 4WD with differential locks, 9 forward speeds. I've given more than passing thought to jury-rigging a front mount blower on it for clearing paths to the barn, chicken coop and compost pile. I think the best starting point for that would be a 36" or 48" unit off a garden tractor tho, if for no other reason that getting outside the tread width.
 
Dang! Downeaster how many tractors do you have anyways? Are you running a little farm you're not telling us about?
 
Um...actually, yeah, I do have a small farm. http://www.eastovershoe.com/subsistence/subsistence.html. Used to raise sheep but have retired from that and am down to just a flock of laying hens now.

If you count the John Deere I mow the lawn with, I have three now. Used to have 4, I sold an old antique Farmall I had as i never used it after I got the Pasquali. Guido will start. The Red Menace might, or it might not. Usually not.

I was raised on a small farm in central Michigan, cash crops and beef critters. Lot of truth in the old saying "You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy."
 
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