Took about an hour, not counting the time spent figuring out how to do it.
Rich
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I just changed the impeller on a Husqvarna ST224 snow blower
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I shall go take a picture.
Rich
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Old impeller.
New Impeller.
Rich
New Impeller.
Rich
It has the same number of blades, but one of the welds is cracked and the backing plate is bent. It throws the whole machine out of balance.
I was going to fix it, but a new one was only about $25.00. I may still bang it back into shape and re-weld it, though, just to have a spare in a pinch. The frigging rocks around here are murder. They just pop up out of nowhere, and you can't see them under the snow.
It's one of those days when I'm happy I went to a vocational high school (and a good one at that).
Rich
I was going to fix it, but a new one was only about $25.00. I may still bang it back into shape and re-weld it, though, just to have a spare in a pinch. The frigging rocks around here are murder. They just pop up out of nowhere, and you can't see them under the snow.
It's one of those days when I'm happy I went to a vocational high school (and a good one at that).
Rich
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That impeller looks a lot thinner than the one on my 80s vintage John Deere. And I find rocks with it, too. I'm amazed I haven't snapped the shear pin honestly.
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You are not a hero until you fixed _____ .
...ie replaced the battery in an iphone5.
As. I. Did. Recently.
scary. very scary.
I'll be off looking for the self-congratulation icon.
Good job, btw Rich.
...ie replaced the battery in an iphone5.
As. I. Did. Recently.
scary. very scary.
I'll be off looking for the self-congratulation icon.
Good job, btw Rich.
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Stop running stuff that isn't snow through it. In the 40+ years I have been snow blowing, I've never wrecked an impeller. Of course that is almost exclusively with Ariens.
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Kinda hard when the driveway is rocks and gravel, all 800'+ of it plus parking area near the garage. You can have the skids all the way down, with a couple of inches between level ground and the bottom of the snowblower and still a rock or two will manage to be high enough to get pulled up with the snow.
The three point snowblower on the tractor rides about three inches to four inches up off the ground to avoid that and it still catches a rock once in a while, too.
PaulS
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800 feet???? Get off that fat wallet, open it up and buy a pickup with a plow, lol.
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LOL. What fat wallet? I flew twins all summer. Haha.
Been thinking about putting a plow on the Yukon. Seems stupid, but like the other vehicles we own it outright and I don't want the plow stuff on the dually, since it's job is towing.
And I don't think the Subaru would make a good plow truck. Ha. If it had the six cylinder engine maybe. ROFL.
And I KNOW Karen won't let me hang a plow on her "bling truck".
It's not so much the plow. It's needing ANOTHER pickup truck to hang it on. Even an old beater, is still something I don't want to buy right now.
PaulS
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Actually the plow on the Yukon is not as dumb as it sounds. I had a buddy, a long time ago, who would use a scout to plow lots. He maintained that it actually had more pushing power than a 3/4 ton pick up because it was smaller, I think he had a 6 foot plow on it, and it had more weight per sq inch on the wheels than the pick up. It was also much easier to maneuver in tight spaces. Sounded reasonable to me.
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I'm sure it did well. Just expensive for something we only deal with about once a year. I can sit inside on my butt drinking coffee and work from here for a couple of days and by then the county has made it back here with the graders and I just snowblow the driveway with the tractor.
Plus the plows that match up to the yukon's bolt pattern -- it has a different bumper than the pickup trucks -- so you have to cut nasty big holes in the bumper. It's my last "city" truck that looks halfway decent when it's washed, for carting people around, so I'm not in any hurry to chop it up too much.
Do need to look and see if have a set of chains that'll fit it, though. That would have fixed the getting stuck problem. Chains and a plow and it'd do fine but if I watch long enough I'll catch a private seller selling an old beater plow truck in summer that runs and can just be parked. Won't even bother licensing it.
With a plow truck on a storm like that I'd have to keep up with the drifting. The last one the snow was up to the top of the wheel wells of the Yukon in one night and it got stuck trying to stupidly bash through it in the morning. Took hours to get it out by digging, snow blowing, and then used the Dually to yank it out.
Same storm after I had the driveway partially cleared, slid the dually into the ditch alongside the driveway while I was using the dually to pack it all down, which is where it sat overnight until the neighbor and I yanked it out with the tractors the next morning. LOL.
Then went over with the tractors and we got two other neighbors out.
'Bout the only thing that would make the big storms a little more comfortable would be a whole house generator instead of having to dig out the Honda and patch stuff we want operating to it.
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Don't ever use the word bling again please. That is all.
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PaulS
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A snow man's best friend?
Many years ago when I was living in a big apartment building in Syracuse, the husband of the Property Manager passed away. He'd also been the on-call snow plow operator for the building's parking lot. He used a little 4WD Toyota pickup provided by the management company for the PM's use. In the winter they just mounted the plow, put some cinder blocks wrapped in blankets in the bed for ballast, and put studded snow tires on it.
When winter came, the Property Manager asked me if I wanted the contract. I accepted, and I was amazed at how well that little Toyota moved snow. And mind you, they measure snowfall in feet in Syracuse. They get the lake effect off Lake Ontario. No worries. No matter how much it snowed, it never stopped that little truck from clearing it away. I was impressed.
Rich
I have a 120-foot gravel driveway in the Catskills, where rocks just randomly pop out of the ground for the sheer thrill of it. I'm talking big, football-sized rocks, not little wimpy ones.
It's pretty amazing, actually. I wish I could figure out how to sell them.
Rich
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LOL. Well it's a Lincoln LT, so it's essentially an F-150 with chrome bling.
She's over it now, but it was the only path to getting her to try driving a pickup truck.
Now I hear phrases like, "I don't know if I can ever go back to driving anything smaller than a V8."
Hehehehe. Lincoln LT, Ford's gateway drug.
PaulS
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LOL. Well it's a Lincoln LT, so it's essentially an F-150 with chrome bling.
She's over it now, but it was the only path to getting her to try driving a pickup truck.
Now I hear phrases like, "I don't know if I can ever go back to driving anything smaller than a V8."
Hehehehe. Lincoln LT, Ford's gateway drug.
Too bad V8s are being regulated into oblivion.
PaulS
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Yeah, I used to do about 40 feet on one side of a dirt road in Massachusetts, pretty much the same thing, but never worse than a broken shear pin. Used to buy a half dozen a season. I'm spoiled now, about 75 feet of paved driveway.
One of these should make the ta
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They're easy to rebuild. Cheap too.
denverpilot
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One of these should make the ta
That'd make quick work of my driveway. LOL.
Your happiness may end tonight. I think Niko is going to pound both of us, but probably you more so than me based on the current track.
I'll have to walk the driveway tonight and remove any new rocks that will have sprouted. The OAT is actually 45 F right now at 5:20 a.m., which is good for me because I gave a breeder in Florida the thumbs-up to ship me a turtle by UPS Next-Day Air yesterday. It looks like I timed the weather window pretty well this time. But the temperature is supposed to drop precipitously later today. Drastic temperature changes are always good for the rock harvest, but not so much for the snow blower.
It looks like I-87 may take a pounding. I suspect that New York's illustrious governor Andy Cuomo is already hard at work trying to figure out how to most effectively gridlock the Northeast. Every time a snowflake is rumored to be making its way toward any Interstate highway passing through New York State, Andy dons his mask and cape and takes command of snow removal throughout the state. The only problem is that he sucks at it. If he just left NYSDOT and NYSTA alone and let them do their jobs, we'd be okay. Once he gets involved, fuhgeddaboudit.
On the plus side, Andy is only vaguely aware that civilized life exists between the big cities, so he generally leaves the rest of us alone. Our local crews will have the snow gone and the roads open before Andy finishes his first photo op.
Rich
Yep, we go from about 60F today to 4-8 inches of wet snow overnight (supposedly, and depending on which forecast to believe.)
Andy is definitely his father's son, minus the smarmy Don charm. Guy creeps me out.
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I have nothing in particular to add to this thread, being somewhere it doesn't snow. But...there are sentences I expect to see on a pilot forum and then there's stuff I couldn't have guessed at in a million years. This...this is one of those...
PaulS
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55 out here today, melting yesterday's mess, then another 10 to 14 inches tomorrow. I wish this had happened in January a few times.
Lived in Syracuse for about 10 years. In the winter (Halloween until after April Fool's Day) it snowed, I swear, every day, at least several inches.
When I first moved there, I learned that the city's nickname is the "Salt City." I honestly thought it got that moniker from the heavily brined roads in the winter. I kid you not.