DIY short shoot to a tall shoot

[moe1965 749]

Anyone ever take  a short shoot snow blower and convert it over to a tall shoot. Looking for ideas or comments if anyone has ever done this

[JimSraj 446]

Haven’t done it but I has just thinking about yesterday. Great minds…….

[8ntruck 7,161]

  Great minds think in the same gutter. 

[JimSraj 446]

2 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

  Great minds think in the same gutter. 

Ouch!

[953 nut 56,091]

19 hours ago, moe1965 said:

take  a short shoot snow blower and convert it over to a tall shoot.

I don't own one but think tall shoot blowers probably have a stronger blower. If you just change out the shoot there might not be enough umph in your blower to get the snow out.                

[rmaynard 15,706]

When I had a snow blower years ago, it was a short chute. I found that in heavy snows it would clog occasionally. I can't imagine how much more a tall chute version would clog without some sort of secondary assistance. I think that Bob "Duke" Davis @HorseFixer modified his Ultimate Snow Chucker various times to get more volume and distance. I'm sure if you search Ultimate Snow Chucker you should be able to see what he did.

[squonk 41,604]

Duke had a 2 stage last I knew. I used to have a tall chute and it worked quite well. We just don't get any snow anymore.

[c-series don 9,008]

@rmaynard @squonk What happened to Duke @HorseFixer ? He’s the guy that inspired me to get a two stage and a cab! Remember all the gadgets he had in the cab? He seems to have disappeared? 

[rmaynard 15,706]

Haven't heard from him in a year. I know he had a few mini-strokes a while back, but he seemed to be okay. 

[WHX?? 49,432]

I have never done the conversion but eyeballed it up to do it. I liked a short chute. Unlike Bob I seldom plugged up with a 520 spinning it, Even in concrete stuff and when I did it was easy to clear. Issue was the concrete stuff would rip the somewhat frail short off it's mount. Powder it worked great. The coup de grace was the cable turn... what a PIA. 

Found a derelict tall in a GT boneyard  with a good chute. Measured it all up and would have bolted right on. Base plate ring was the same.  Redneck hillbilly *^%# who ran the bone yard wouldn't sell it but then found a deuce & a complete tall to stick coin into instead and forgot about it. 

On 1/2/2025 at 8:38 AM, 953 nut said:

tall shoot blowers probably have a stronger blower.

They looked the same to me and all parts were interchangeable ...  least they were when I tried blowing a dropped piece of firewood ...

 

On 1/2/2025 at 6:08 PM, squonk said:

We just don't get any snow anymore.

Same here now that I have 3 rigs with cabs ... 

Edited Saturday at 05:30 AM by WHX??

[moe1965 749]

Thanks all for replying.  I have a single stage short shoot my only issue is when it is very powdery stuff it never fails soon as I do the driveway the wind picks up a little bit and all that powder blows back in my face thought a tall shoot might eliminate this maybe not otherwise I really enjoy the single stage short shoot I have it on a c141 finally got to use it this year. I also have a 8:54 with a blade it's amazing what those small little tractors can push I do have wheel weights and chains on it that help as well

[wallfish 17,105]

The simplest way to " DIY short shoot to a tall shoot " is to remove the short chute, the chute part from the ring part.  ( I believe they're spot welded to the ring so drill out the spot welds. I forget, so maybe newer models are bolted together but the old ones are spot welded.) Then use those same holes you just drilled or removed bolts from to attach a piece of curved sheet metal from the ring piece to the chute to raise the original chute higher. Maybe about 12-14" up should do it.  Look at the pics of a 2 stage blower chute and replicate that. They are in 2 sections bolted together and bolted to the ring.

 

Or, a tall chute from a tall chute blower can be adapted to fit as well. You would need to modify the chute control as the newer tall chutes use a worm gear for turning them opposed to a wire like the short chutes have.

Both types of blowers will have the same exact snow throwing velocity so making it taller isn't an issue. Making it taller will reduce snow splatter out the sides and increase distance it throws.