Truck mounted snow blower clearing the end of the driveway

[oerllikon2]

Thats awesome! So youre running the 3.9 on the back of the truck and running a shaft to the front? I tried to understand from the posts but I couldnt.

[TheMrRoadstar]

Back to the drawing board.

[jmac5058]

Where he lives they get feet and feet of snow and at a certain point the snow needs to go somewhere away from the street.Plowing becomes impossible.

[PauloOp23]

ale tandeta

[Colenol13]

sounds a bit like a lawn mower

[murraycg69]

i don't get it. using 2 monster engines to move snow....nice way to burn a hole in your pocket with the fuel bill and engine maintenance bill.

[cautionfiamable]

just plow it!

[jerresservice]

It is easier to plow until the snow reaches 2-4 ft in depth. That's why this was put together.

[larboc]

Looks like it would be a lot easier and faster to just plow it.

[sneezabonk]

At least it not chugging along at under 1 mph like some of the units ive seen

[jerresservice]

That engine is a 106HP 3.9 Cummins 4cyl. pushing a 40 GPM muncie pump. Works pretty good without being turned up at all. Snow is wet and heavy with a top crust and dropping of fluff on it. Camera is a standard flip video so that's why it shows the impeller that way. Newest unit is running a 160 BHP 5.9 cummins that's being tweaked out a little. Running a dual 40 GPM Muncie custom. Videos should be up soon.

[playtimel]

Nice unit- the engine seems from the sound of it to be really working hard - would more engine tourqe be better then hp? The camera unless set for high speed filming will make the auger and fan to be going slower then they really a propeller on a plane will even apear to be running backwards or even stationary this is why they apear to be slow . Nice job blower over plow in deep snow anyday.

[sweeper096]

this is the part u tell ur self u shoudl of boguht a plow :S

[jerresservice]

Guess you'll have to wait for the next round of videos. We have been running in 18"-24" of snow. Still get 5-8 MPH out of it and the snow is gone 200-400 ft away so you don't deal with it again. J

[Ridinred02]

pretty neat how you got that thing to work, but i dont see it being efficient. its rather slow, and couldnt handle to much snow, aspecially wet snow.

[jerresservice]

Anything above a 10in fan needs 1HP per additional inch.

7'6" blower = 37.5 HP

1.5 X 5' =  7.5HP

14" fan = 10.0HP base

4HP per in 4.0HP

Total 59 HP requirement

Looking at PTO drive blowers this holds fairly close. You can get away with less but the recommended falls to this formula. Dual augers doubles the first half of the equation.

Would love to see what you're working on.

J

[jerresservice]

Hell bound, Blizzard plow mount and wiring on the unit with the Manifold on the plow. Gives lift/lower, chute rotation, deflector movement and also gives back drag when we finish putting that on. As far as the motor size we've played with ALOT of blowers over the years. I've done hansons, OLD western blowers and several others with engines on the unit. ALL were underpowered.

Simple equation to necessary HP. 5HP per ft of blower and 5 HP extra per 5 ft of blower. 5HP per 10in of Fan

[hellboundfabrication]

I like this alot. Did you use the plow set-up off of a blizarrd snowplow to give the blower its lift? Also why did you use such a large motor to power the hydraulic system? I had a blower on the front of my truck last year, i have some clips up and im currently working on a new design.

[jerresservice]

Xcentric, you showed your colors with then end of your post. X blade and a Cheve. Tell you what. Bring your tin can waiting to crush and your Car up and play. We'll see how long you last. As far as residential. When the snow is 3-4ft deep most people don't care how loud the engine is when it comes to snow they want it gone. This was not designed for residential playing it was designed to replace loaders on farm and cell tower lanes. For that purpose it works great.

[XcentricTaste]

That thing sucks, leaves snow behind and is super slow, and way too loud for ant residential use. Get an X-Blade and a Chevy, then go move snow.

[walkingfreak]

How is that snowblower driven?

[Superjumpmaster]

FRICKEN SICKK ! I WANT THAT !

[nrlnhl4545]

how much are those

[jlaudio10w07]

the wonders of hydraulics

[jerresservice]

We can actually vary the front auger as well as the impeller speed as I show in the following the blower video. Depending on the moisture content of the snow you can get some impressive forward speeds out of the unit. In colder snow you can run at 10 -15 MPH in snow up to 20-24" deep. Wet snow or hard pack and you can still get those speeds but only in 8-12" of snow. Running the auger faster increases possible ground speed but you loose Impeller RPM when you increase it too much.

[stlouissux9119]

That things a beast.

[Wallabydam]

that auger on the front looks to be goin normal slow speed, if it was goin so fast where it looks stationary, the snow between the blades would not look "together"  as it does, looks like its just a Nature of the beast speed to me, slow auger speed so it dont take away too much from the hydraulic power pack in the back. just my thoughts.

[weirdvids345]

He's talking about the impeller in the rear of the snowblower. That looks to be going very slowly because the high rpms match very closely with the frame rate of the camera.

[Wallabydam]

ooh alright got ya, yeah cameras play lots of tricks

[drewme1010]

I gota have one ..

[mawheegan]

Thanks for the info. I was wondering about the varying speed but thinking in terms of the old Rockwell and Dana transfer-cases hooked to early 4 speeds. In granny there is quite an RPM available and their low gears may be adequate under most conditions...so other than continuous motion in reverse.......

[jerresservice]

It's run from a pony motor using a hydraulic pump unit. Most PTO units will disconnect when the brakes are applied unless the customer springs for or is told about the constant drive PTO. The other issue with the PTO is the varied engine speed of the vehicle. We have done under hood hydraulics as well as PTO and found the pony motor to provide a more consistent output for the blower. We've also done units like the hansens where the engine is blower mounted but this makes it front heavy.

[mawheegan]

Is this unit operated by the pony motor or is a PTO involved. It would seem viable to engineer one run on straight PTO using single impeller..........simpler maybe ??

[steveckoep]

Thats awesome being able to control the speeds from the inside. Good Engineering!

[jerresservice]

Steve, We're adjusting the auger and the fan speeds as we run the unit in one of the videos, Fan runs between 900 and 1000 RPM and auger between 125-200 RPM currently but we can vary it greatly with the options we have on the controls.

Grumpy, Yes the pony motor provides they hydraulic power for the blower unit.

This unit is a 102 HP cummins

[steveckoep]

almost looks like the auger spins too slow, and sounds like the fan spins to fast? Have you played around with adjusting the flow to each to check what results it makes?

[grumpyswede]

so the pony engine on the back of the truck powers the blower

[jerresservice]

Thanks for the comments. We're always working on new units and improvements. Got tired of using the tractor years ago. This just needs some good tunes and a hot cup of coffee and you're off.

J