2 stage snowblower impeller question

[Handy Don 12,561]

1 hour ago, WHX?? said:

I have never replaced shear bolts ... yet ...  Just running regular bolts but a guy could take some regular mild steel ones and grind down a groove in them in the right spot. 

Seriously? You’d risk a gearbox by using regular bolts or homemade shear bolts? Less than $1.50 each at lots of places.

I’ve probably replaced four or five. Mostly to branches hidden under the snow, but once to the plastic bag-wrapped newspaper.

 

[WHX?? 49,328]

19 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

Seriously?

Absolutely ... I'm cheap and hardware heavy... 

[RJC1965 163]

I used bailer belt a 12in piece from Fleet Farm was $8.00 and I did my WH 44 in and my walk behind blower. I feel it shows it stuff on the wetter snowfalls never had either one clog up. On the 44in it may over blow on real light snow but it’s not a big deal.

[WHX?? 49,328]

21 minutes ago, RJC1965 said:

I used bailer belt a 12in piece from Fleet Farm

Thanks RJ I'll have to look for it there. In the farm isle??? 

 

22 minutes ago, RJC1965 said:

shows it stuff on the wetter snowfalls

Yeah that too ... I have nothing but plug ups in the slush stuff. 

[AHS 1,472]

@Handy Don a guy at the old Wheelhorse place said use grade 5 bolts for shear pins! Um nope!!

[Handy Don 12,561]

Just now, AHS said:

@Handy Don a guy at the old Wheelhorse place said use grade 5 bolts for shear pins! Um nope!!

That guy shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a snowblower! My neighbor, who is far from mechanical, was so pleased with himself, too!

A little knowledge can be a problem, right?