Had a lot of fun hauling firewood with the snowmobile (2015 Polaris Indy Voyageur 155 track). Snowmobile, sled, and trailer have all been sold now.
My wife has never been on a sled, she’s not a fan of the cold. Pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to get her into the hobby. My first RMK 800 155” we got no snow that winter, had to drive 4-5 hours north to ride. Didn’t put many miles on it that winter as even up North didn’t have great riding. By the time I got my next RMK built, we had good snow, but people were crazy with riding style. Someone offered me a stupid amount of cash for my sled and I took it, last time I saw it, it was heading to MA. Since the thread is about snowblowers, I use one to clean the front yard, 800’ woods road, and wood yard. It’s a 54” blower on the front of our JD 2025R tractor.
You can blow snow with sleds. Lol Wife used to ride her own sled when she moved here from out West. She preferred the flat slide carb equipped sleds, or the EFI ones due to the lower thumb tension on the throttle. She hated the triple round slide xcr600 we had her ride because the think pressure was a lot. She liked my xc600sp with the flat slides, but I hated her riding "my" sled. The indy500 EFI she liked, but it didn't ride as nice as my xcsp or the xcr. So I got a venture with the king/ queen 2 up seat. That was it. She loved that. I got her gauntlets for the factory heated grips the tunnel and running board heat exchangers heated her feet and the entire seat. She was all in. Then snow became a thing, or lack of it even up north 3.5 hours at the cabin. Oh yeah, we derail the hell out of threads here, so at least we're talking snow related equipment.
I've never seen one used. A good friend of ours moved here from Chi Town...he had a Chevy Avalanche with snow blade mounted on it...he used it a little...to spread some sand around his yard......it later became some interesting yard art... And the Chevy was about to fall apart from the rust...
Up here it's sleds, blowers, tonic for pop/ soda. I don't get the grinder for sub but isn't a grinder mean they toasted it up in the pizza oven? It took me a bit to assimilate to this part of the world after growing up in SE Ohio and spending 4 years in the Army in KY. Never saw a snow blower until we moved here, but I became a quick believer!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/LSSt4vd9r2V9usqM8 Little 16" 2 stroke toro getting it done in 4" of heavy wet snow this morning.
That reminds me that I have a toro I should get going. They're almost fun to run being so light. Mines a 2 stroke single stage. Yours?
Yes they are fun to operate. Easy to use with one arm. Mine is a 3 hp, 2 stroke, 16"single stage. I bought it used for $90 from my local online auction over 20 years ago. All its ever needed, besides paddles and wear edge, is a spark plug and new carb. I used it so much the throttle shaft wobbled out the holes in the carb body. Lol
Eggshooterist I came across that snowblower today and thought, what the heck, I'll try and start it. Mind you it hasn't been started for 2 winters so probably almost 3 years. So I topped off the fuel tank with what was already in there. Pushed and pushed on the primer. Could hear it sucking air. I probably pulled it less than 10 times and it popped off. Pushed it outside, primed and pulled several more times but couldn't keep it running, then I remembered it had a choke. . Fired right up and with half choke and continued running. Once warm could shut off the choke completely. Used it for probably 20 min or more until the belt broke. Now to refurbish it I suppose. New belt, cutting edge and paddle rubber. I found some poly ones before that didn't leave black marks on concrete. Fingers crossed I can still find em.
Impeller mods. Do one. They work. My old roper went from barely tossing snow to throwing it on the barn roof. I accidentally blasted the neighbor’s house in town when doing someone’s driveway and broke a window.
if there is clearance between the thrower belting and the housing on a single stage, it needs new belting. My old toro single stage would really throw the snow when it was tight.
I had to do the mod on my 48" snow caster for my case 446. Huge difference. These rubber paddled toros would see little to no benefit from my experience. They throw snow like crazy through the life of the paddles and wear edge then drop off tremendously. At least mine alway has. The key is you need to replace them together as they wear together.
