Deutz powered JD Snow Blower from Hell 2009

Chaleurs-Bay area home-made lightweight snow blower for a Cat-426 loader backhoe hacked from an antique JohnDeere-270 blower ($500 & 1000lbs), the legendary 70hp Deutz-F4L912 4-jug air cooled diesel ($1,400 & 700lbs) cannibalized from a poclain shovel and some steel structurals. The impeller was increased to 36" and transmission is a 4" Gates belt 2.5:1 driving the modified original gearbox. Total weight about 2000 lbs. Controls are all electrical, initially radio or lanyard with the radio system since removed while looking for a reliable and safe 12 channel transceiver with triple redundancy costing no more than $25. The design objective of throwing 4-6 inches of new snow about 100 feet laterally fed at 10-15 mph was fully met, blower is now doing its 3rd season without major maintenance! I the inventor am looking to scrounge "free & new" stuff for a 400hp model at the same weight throwing a 12" fall 100 feet vertically. Let's set up snow-blower racing in ambient depth aiming for maximum vertical throw.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• snowblower
• snow-removal
• deutz
• john-deere
• caterpillar-426
• defence winter

[TheRolandSparling]

Great bit of film, showing high level of ingenuity. As a matter of interest Deutz Air Cooled engines are still available in 3,4,5,6 inline and 6,8,10 and 12 vee configurations.

Cheers Roland

[clipmagician]

> Air Cooled engines are still available in 3,4,5,6 inline and 6,8,10 and 12 vee

I thought the V family was no longer being made. Would LOVE a 10 or a 12 for a somewhat less mail-box friendly prototype but I'm not in that price bracket at all based on what I've seen on the net :-)

[snowjoker1]

Very nice ! Is that blower convereted to a combine type belt drive ? I have been wanting to make something for my skidsteer and not sure to use a belt or go with a 90 degree gear box

[clipmagician]

snowjoker1

Part-1

I modded the original gearbox with a lengthened through shaft that is supported on a bearing between the impeller and the gearbox and on another bearing behind everything that you can also see in the clip. This is a floating gearbox with its own bearings and as such it must NOT be attached or supported in any way! It is however prevented from

rolling.

[clipmagician]

@snowjoker1

Part-2

The big sprocket wheel you see in front of the rear shaft bearing is driven directly by the engine without a clutch. To make up for this there is a safety kill switch that instantly decouples the power actuating cylinder from the injection pump lever for a right-now shutdown. If you want to do belts I recommend the gates site where they have a simulator that you can input variables into and it will give answers.

HTH

[meier259]

simply intelligent

[clipmagician]

@meier259

Thanks, I'd like a v8 or the air cooled V-10 but they're not light in weight either :-(

[clipmagician]

@fasteddy350

Like the blurb says it's a Deutz-F4L912 4-jug air cooled diesel with legendary cold weather starting (no ether, no glowplugs). Also, what I think is one of the highest time engines in the world is one just like it on a generator somewhere in a Quebec national park with 55k hours on it (according to rumor in 2009). The air cooled 3 to 6 cylinder models are still in production but I think the really nice 8,10,12 cylinders are not. HTH.

[fasteddy350]

that looks like a 400 belarus engine air cooled . correct me if i am wrong!

[hammerdwn20]

NICE!