C-145 with Dual Ariens Snowblowers

[BuffaloD200 47]

This somebody on here?

Dude fabbed up dual 24" Ariens snowblowers and mounted to a C-145.

I'm strongly considering doing something similar and have questions.

 

DeafTruck

 

 

[ebinmaine 68,912]

That video is 15 years old so I haven't been around log enough to know if it was someone here. 

Doesn't look specifically familiar.  

 

Excellent idea.  Can't tell if the execution was a success. 

 

 

[Bar Nuthin 804]

Hard to see, but it looks like he was happy with it!  Love the wave at the end of the second video! 

 

 

 

 

Edited 13 hours ago by Bar Nuthin

[wallfish 17,117]

4 hours ago, BuffaloD200 said:

considering doing something similar and have questions

Ask them anyway! You'll need a good 90 deg gearbox. There's lots of guys on here that can provide info and ideas even though they haven't built one.

I was thinking of something like that before getting a big WH 2 stage. Still think about it once in a while as I have some blowers out there to use. Even if you use a larger 30" or 32" and add wings to the sides

[Handy Don 12,681]

41 minutes ago, wallfish said:

Ask them anyway! You'll need a good 90 deg gearbox. There's lots of guys on here that can provide info and ideas even though they haven't built one.

I was thinking of something like that before getting a big WH 2 stage. Still think about it once in a while as I have some blowers out there to use. Even if you use a larger 30" or 32" and add wings to the sides

 

I’m not sure you’d need a gearbox since something like a mower deck mule would probably also work (with a suitable idler/tensioner). Snowblowers don’t need to be lifted more than a few inches and that helps with belt routing. I can definitely see that with a lot of area to clear, 48 or 60 inches of blower would come in handy.

Edited 10 hours ago by Handy Don

[Bar Nuthin 804]

41 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

I’m not sure you’d need a gearbox since something like a mower deck mule would probably also work (with a suitable idler/tensioner).

 

In the very first video, it looks like his intentions were to add a drive pulley to the far blower and modify a mule drive to line up with it.

[wallfish 17,117]

Look at the original blower setup and size the drive to them accordingly. The engine pulley on the blower itself is pretty small so connecting it directly to the modern WH PTO bell type pulley with a belt will whip those things about 3-4 times faster than the original design. Nothing wrong with speeding things up but going that much faster could be an issue.

[8ntruck 7,191]

A couple three years back, somebody here  rigged a pair of walk behind snow blowers sort of like a plow to one of his tractors.  He left the original engines on them to get around the connection to the PTO.

[ebinmaine 68,912]

2 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

A couple three years back, somebody here  rigged a pair of walk behind snow blowers sort of like a plow to one of his tractors.  He left the original engines on them to get around the connection to the PTO.

 

Might have been @Gregor