Sno-Zilla's first trial run since finishing fabrication. She handled it like a champ. The belt tensioner needed tweaking, it's all fixed now and she's a BEAST!
ive been wanting to do something similar on my skid steer too modify it with the 22hp vtwin and increase the pto pulley size make them spin faster . nice job on the build
Modified one for my Ariens zero turn. 27Hp snow throwing monster ! Love it. Oh yea, one auger shear pin is broken (Left inner auger) She wasn't spinning. And don't use a bolt in it's place. Ask me how I know ;)
This is a super good idea. I really like it. However, I can tell that your snowblower is greatly underpowered, so I say this urgently, gear down the snow blower unit itself. What do I mean? I don't know how the drive system is arranged on your unit, but this is exactly what it needs. Either put larger pulleys on the impellers (the fans that throw the snow thru the chute) or put a smaller pulley on the engine. Most likely, each impeller can use a pulley twice as large than what they have. I had this problem with a unit that I modified. It greatly lacked power because the fan was geared up too fast. I promise, when you gear down the impellers, you will gain more power. I like your unit.
Thanks for the insight! I later realized that I had the belt tensioner on the wrong side of the pulley. Once I moved the tensioner to the non-load side, it throws as much snow as I can give it! In part 2 it easily handled 17" of snow!
I've read all the power commentary down below and they may be right but I just love your choice of name for this rascal. You'll sort out everything else but you can't improve on the name!
I would love something like that for my 45hp Quik-Tach Tractor. Something that doesn't need an auxiliary hydrolic pump or the need to drive in reverse using the rear pto.
Cool design, looks nasty! Does your skid steer have a high flow/high pressure hydraulic pump? If it does, you may want to do some calculations to see if you can get more HP by using a hydraulic motor to power the blower as the gas engine looks a little under powered for the wide clearing width.
my JD x 300 would have thrown that snow 20 ft easily , also get rid of that dum background music, I would have enjoyed it much better hearing you....good build though.....perhaps a bigger engine and bigger shoots...also spray lots of wd -40 on the shoots before use....
Seth Watson 12 hours ago, "Motor looks under sized. Seems like you'd need something around 25+hp Cool build, though!" I was thinking like a 22 hp "Predator" two cylinder. But with that much torque, You'd need be careful. Lot's-a-fun though. Fun to watch too. Thanks.
So everyone who is complaining that it isan’t powerful enough probably didn’t hear you call it a “she” at the end of the video and didn’t notice the graphic of a typical looking woman blowing a bunch of hot air as she talks.
Nice but underpowered if you get any real snow where you’re at. If cost is a factor engine wise maybe install a small 4cyl car engine. You could use heat exchanger tubes above the augers for cooling and keep all the fuel injection and use a PID controller and actuator for a governor.
The engine that's on it hasn't even bogged down with any load thus far, the belt drive needs some work (the belt slips under a serious load) but I'm pretty impressed with the engine so far.
So, are you thinking about a different belt ?? Chain drive ?? Do you think a quad could push that around ?? Totally get your build...would like to do something like that with an old farm snow auger....
@@MrBucknasty1313 I fixed the belt issue, I had the spring tensioner on the drive side of the pulley instead of the slack side. Now it cuts through ice snowbanks with no issues! I'm waiting for a big enough snowstorm to post an updated video. It's maybe a little too heavy for a smaller quad, I can barely lift it off the ground without help.
I was thinking that skid steer had some nylon type pads on it and that you were just pushing it around at a fixed height...I imagine it's very nose heavy....
Because it's self contained, it doesn't need hydraulic hook ups and can be pushed by anything. I didn't weld the shafts because I want shear pins to break if it hits something solid instead of totalling the whole assembly.
Motorcycle engine or v twin from a lawn tractor will give that machine some grunt. I would fab up an engine cover too to keep the blowing snow from thermal shocking the power unit.
Love it. Great machine. Love the mission impossible style music too. Very dramatic. Was this blower built under absolute secrecy for the military? Seems like it from the music anyway. But if it were, then surely the video of its construction would be highly classified, and not available for view anywhere
Maybe. For this build, I wanted it to be self powered in order to be able to be pushed by almost anything. To keep the cost down, I decided to go with an independent engine with belt driven pulleys. After a few tweaks, this setup works great. Check out the updated video. czcams.com/video/qGt6ON3eKao/video.html
Looks like you snapped a shear pin on the inboard side of the smaller thrower unit. Great build. Better to shear a pin than to bend something
Need a decent sized v-twin for that puppy.
Finally a video with tandem blowers! So many videos out there with monster engines on 30".
Totally impressed with the build, not so much with the results in the snow blowing category.
Kicks some snow, might be underpowered a bit but did very good! Very nice fabrication and end unit
ive been wanting to do something similar on my skid steer too modify it with the 22hp vtwin and increase the pto pulley size make them spin faster . nice job on the build
Couple of solid 1970's Ariens. I would've gotten them running (with Harbor Freight engines if needed) and added them to my fleet.
Great idea. Maybe for the second one install about a sixteen horse engine ( more torque).
Add a snowmobile engine, plus narrow and lengthen your chutes. You'll get 70-80' of throwing distance.
Modified one for my Ariens zero turn. 27Hp snow throwing monster ! Love it. Oh yea, one auger shear pin is broken (Left inner auger) She wasn't spinning. And don't use a bolt in it's place. Ask me how I know ;)
Great build, but I think if you used a bigger engine, like a V-twin of some kind, you would have much better throwing results.
This is a super good idea. I really like it.
However, I can tell that your snowblower is greatly underpowered, so I say this urgently, gear down the snow blower unit itself.
What do I mean?
I don't know how the drive system is arranged on your unit, but this is exactly what it needs.
Either put larger pulleys on the impellers (the fans that throw the snow thru the chute) or put a smaller pulley on the engine. Most likely, each impeller can use a pulley twice as large than what they have. I had this problem with a unit that I modified.
It greatly lacked power because the fan was geared up too fast.
I promise, when you gear down the impellers, you will gain more power.
I like your unit.
Thanks for the insight! I later realized that I had the belt tensioner on the wrong side of the pulley. Once I moved the tensioner to the non-load side, it throws as much snow as I can give it! In part 2 it easily handled 17" of snow!
That's great news.
I'm sure you're extremely excited.
I would be.
Love it! Need a bigger engine probably, cool build ✅
I like SNOW ZILLA he,s doing a pretty good job 2 !! Keep it up SNOW ZILLA get that Snow going there,s a lot it's TRUE !!
nice work, like your originality
Awesome video. You should do it with two Honda snowblowers next time. Would be insane
Cool build
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I've read all the power commentary down below and they may be right but I just love your choice of name for this rascal. You'll sort out everything else but you can't improve on the name!
That's really awesome!
You need more hp.for sure .
The snail passed ya on the shoulder
Might have a broken shear pin on L ctr augers. Excellent video, great project!
Nice edit of video!!!
Very slick lookin build man!!! Needs a few more ponys thou.
hydraulic drive the blower using the auxiliary from the bobcat
I would love something like that for my 45hp Quik-Tach Tractor. Something that doesn't need an auxiliary hydrolic pump or the need to drive in reverse using the rear pto.
Nice job
rubber flap impeller mod would help probably
Cool design, looks nasty! Does your skid steer have a high flow/high pressure hydraulic pump? If it does, you may want to do some calculations to see if you can get more HP by using a hydraulic motor to power the blower as the gas engine looks a little under powered for the wide clearing width.
more info on your build? what the auger control like from the cab?
The control box is shown in the video, it is wired into the cab.
You should make the chutes independent so one throws left and one throws right or as you have them now
Always primer steel before you paint it . Primer sticks to steel paint doesn’t paint sticks to primer and primer sticks to steel👍👍
Yup, I started with self etching primer, then sandable primer, then color.
Why not just PTO driven rather than The engine you used. PTO from the skidsteer.
Because it's self contained, it doesn't need hydraulic hook ups and can be pushed by anything.
You could still do a do hydraulics just add the pump and block setup so it could be passive or ran off its own motor. My mind thinking
Need more horses for her
Think it’s lacking power buddy. Bigger motor, or go back to twin motors….?
Actually it's not lacking power, the belt tensioner needed tweaking, it ROCKS now! Check out the follow up video.
Lol the music in this video sure is epic.
Great build, but now you can play with it some more and engineer it for a V6 / V8 to get way more throwing power!
Blades not spinning fast enough under load. Needs at least a 25 hp engine for a riding snowblower.
How come you went with an engine instead of hydraulic? Doesn't the Bobcat have hydraulics already?
It's self powered, so it can be pushed by anything.
Needs a little more power
my JD x 300 would have thrown that snow 20 ft easily , also get rid of that dum background music, I would have enjoyed it much better hearing you....good build though.....perhaps a bigger engine and bigger shoots...also spray lots of wd -40 on the shoots before use....
Motor looks under sized. Seems like you'd need something around 25+hp
Cool build, though!
Seth Watson 12 hours ago, "Motor looks under sized. Seems like you'd need something around 25+hp
Cool build, though!"
I was thinking like a 22 hp "Predator" two cylinder. But with that much torque, You'd need be careful. Lot's-a-fun though. Fun to watch too. Thanks.
So everyone who is complaining that it isan’t powerful enough probably didn’t hear you call it a “she” at the end of the video and didn’t notice the graphic of a typical looking woman blowing a bunch of hot air as she talks.
Run it off the hydros on the skid steer
Looks good. Show some cutting deeper snow please.
Haven't had a decent snowfall since, in order to be able to.
czcams.com/video/qGt6ON3eKao/video.html
Horsepower, you need more bottom end grunt.
Nice but underpowered if you get any real snow where you’re at. If cost is a factor engine wise maybe install a small 4cyl car engine. You could use heat exchanger tubes above the augers for cooling and keep all the fuel injection and use a PID controller and actuator for a governor.
Better yet, find a V4 Wisconsin. I think the OHV model was over 50 Hp with gobs of torque.
The engine that's on it hasn't even bogged down with any load thus far, the belt drive needs some work (the belt slips under a serious load) but I'm pretty impressed with the engine so far.
So, are you thinking about a different belt ?? Chain drive ?? Do you think a quad could push that around ?? Totally get your build...would like to do something like that with an old farm snow auger....
@@MrBucknasty1313 I fixed the belt issue, I had the spring tensioner on the drive side of the pulley instead of the slack side. Now it cuts through ice snowbanks with no issues! I'm waiting for a big enough snowstorm to post an updated video. It's maybe a little too heavy for a smaller quad, I can barely lift it off the ground without help.
I was thinking that skid steer had some nylon type pads on it and that you were just pushing it around at a fixed height...I imagine it's very nose heavy....
What do you need a nice V8 on that‼️‼️‼️‼️
Hell ya!🤘👍
Great build!! Needs a real motor, film the rebuild!!!
Why not use a hydraulic motar and use the high flow on the bobcat to power it... ??? And weld the shafts solid so ur not snapping sheer pins...
Because it's self contained, it doesn't need hydraulic hook ups and can be pushed by anything. I didn't weld the shafts because I want shear pins to break if it hits something solid instead of totalling the whole assembly.
Motorcycle engine or v twin from a lawn tractor will give that machine some grunt. I would fab up an engine cover too to keep the blowing snow from thermal shocking the power unit.
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Did you notice you broke one sheer pin on left inner auger??
Yep. It says that in the caption below at minute 1:07
I think it’s kool man
Love it. Great machine. Love the mission impossible style music too. Very dramatic. Was this blower built under absolute secrecy for the military? Seems like it from the music anyway. But if it were, then surely the video of its construction would be highly classified, and not available for view anywhere
Nice job on the fabrication, fail on the performance regardless of the broken shear pin...I was expecting to be amazed.
The tensioner needed tweaking... It ROCKS now... czcams.com/video/qGt6ON3eKao/video.html
You just need to cover the engine
One of your sheer pins broke
More like stronger shear pins !
Nice build would of done better with more power
Do doubling the motor isn’t enough. 25hp minimum
Need way more power ,no music
Music is life! The power is sufficient, but the belt drive could definitely use some help.
Use the hydraulic power from the skidstèer
This way it's self contained, it doesn't need hydraulic hook ups, just gasoline and it can be pushed by almost anything.
Would not a hydraulic pump driven work better
Maybe. For this build, I wanted it to be self powered in order to be able to be pushed by almost anything. To keep the cost down, I decided to go with an independent engine with belt driven pulleys. After a few tweaks, this setup works great. Check out the updated video. czcams.com/video/qGt6ON3eKao/video.html
Part out an old Harley for the motor
Shear pin
The bucket would be faster
That is a correct statement...🙄
Standard ...
Geared way too high
No, it's actually perfect. The tensioner was slipping in the video. After a few adjustments, it runs Badass now!
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Get à bercomac 🤦♂️
Then I'd miss out on all the fabrication... Anyone can go buy a Bercomac.
Good idea . poor execution.