Wheelhorse snowblower

[Stormin 4,458]

We'll make an engineer/machinist of you yet.

[Alan 1,273]

Looks good Chris.

[the showman 4,074]

Got some more done and the first thing to do was change the fixing bracket, as the blower is pre 1973 it had a long 3/8" nut and bolt to bolt it to the frame of the tractor.

I drilled out the hole to 5/8" and used a solid bar so that I can use the quick hitch, also cleaned and primered a few more parts.

The parts box is almost empty but I'm missing a rod that fits on the chute to adjust the aim so that will be the next job.

[the showman 4,074]

There seems to be a difference on length on the mounting bracket between the bolt on and the quick hitch of 4 inches so I had to mod the bracket, luckily it's shorter and I hadn't painted it.

I drilled a couple of more holes and welded another 5/8" bar on, I will cut off the excess tomorrow.

[the showman 4,074]

Didn't get as much done as I hoped today.

First job was to cut down the mounting bracket and clean up then I noticed the chute aim adjuster was missing so more fabricating needed.

By the time I finished that it was too late to paint as the temperature was dropping.

[the showman 4,074]

Today's plans went out the window so I spent some time in the shed, now I've got a load of red bits hanging up.

[the showman 4,074]

The paint has dried enough to get a few more bits bolted on, the driveshaft and chain sprocket with the new bearings fitted.

i can now fit the new chain and align the other sprockets, hope to get the mounting bracket and drive belt pulleys on today

[the showman 4,074]

Fitted a few more bits on,  after fitting the chain and aligning the sprockets I found the bracket to hold the chain guard on missing and as it's now painted I didn't want to weld something on so I just made one and bolted it on.

I don't really want to do much more now until I get it off the bench and fitted to a tractor as its quite heavy.

[the showman 4,074]

Made some good progress today after getting it off the bench,  i put it on a sack trolley and got it from the workshop to under the carport.

It was quite easy to fit it into the quick hitch on the front of the Raider 12, the flag was easy to fit on the lift lever and all I had to do was put a 1/2" spacer on the lift rod to get a bit more height.

The next hour was spent looking through all my belts and was lucky to find one that fitted.

Bolted some more bits on so the parts box is almost empty and as darkness fell I fired the tractor up and ran the blower, spinning well and fast and the best bit the right way.

[Stormin 4,458]

  Looks good, Chris. Now all you need is snow.

[Alan 1,273]

1 hour ago, Stormin said:

  Looks good, Chris. Now all you need is snow.

Or take it down to the beach and see how far the sand, or the pebbles go.

[the showman 4,074]

19 hours ago, Alan said:

Or take it down to the beach and see how far the sand, or the pebbles go.

Bit late for sand blasting now I’ve painted it.