pfrederi 18,225 #1 Posted February 21 My principal snow horse is an Electro 16 with a 56" D series blade. It does great work but after only 2 seasons the domed skids were wearing through. My neighbor took the skids to his welding class and just brought me the repaired units built up and ground to shape. Being over a half inch of weld on the wear surface I think these should outlast me (I know you can buy skids but most all are 5/8" shaft. WH used 3/4. besides the stuff you by is not exactly long wearing. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ri702bill 8,822 #2 Posted February 21 I do something along that idea with the 24" Walk behind SnoThro skids. The modern metal replacements are just pressed tin, the older ones were heavy gauge. I add a 3/16 x 1 hot rolled wear strip to the bottoms, snag away the 3 welds to replace. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squonk 42,058 #3 Posted February 21 1 hour ago, ri702bill said: I do something along that idea with the 24" Walk behind SnoThro skids. The modern metal replacements are just pressed tin, the older ones were heavy gauge. I add a 3/16 x 1 hot rolled wear strip to the bottoms, snag away the 3 welds to replace. A lot of the walk bee hind snow blower owners are going to the plastic skids and they get great reviews Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peter lena 9,023 #4 Posted February 21 @pfrederi are they going to float on a spring recoil ? that would help on ground drag force , giving them a lighter fotprint . pete Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
