Yup, there it is! That thing is so big if id see the neighbor using one id think a blizzard was coming!
If you stop the video you can see shafts and u-joints in front of the bumper and below the back of the cab. Paged down and found this in the comments. I guess it's similar to Butcher 's blower Bryan Forbes 9 months ago 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,
Great! Now everyone will be showing their stockpiles of road salt and the DOT will wonder why there is yet another road salt shortage!!
Heard a couple snow blower stories about the runway up there years ago... one, where the giant blower ate half a VW bug that was parked where it shouldn't have been. The other was when a guy went AWOL and they had no idea where he'd gone. Turned out, he'd gotten drunk and was out along the runway in a blinding snow storm while the plow teams were clearing the runway. They found him the next spring... well, pieces of him anyway.
The town I grew up in has one of the old blowers from base. One year they sucked in a whole exhaust system that fell off a car and was in the snow. It send parts flying!
Hmmmmm... all I could think of watching this was... it prolly would have been impressive enough to see that thing inhaling frozen snow banks. Sure was making expensive sounds tho... Crazy...
If that don't make a guys day I don't know what will. Actually I know a guy who farms in S.W. Iowa that has that same blower an He says it is an awesome unit. (As we can plainly see from the vid.)
