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Best drive belts?
Jim Wilkins wrote:
"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:36:52 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:
"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:25:57 -0500, wrote:
On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:35:19 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:11:09 -0500, wrote:
I blew the belt on my 6HP YammerHammer blower, meaning I had to
push/pull the darn thing home into the garage.
It has (previously) eaten 2 goodsized chunks of newspaper/ads
burried
in the snow - but it wasn't the auger belt that let go - it was
the
drive belt to the Hydro unit. (But I will replace them both
while
itr
is apart!!!)
Whuffo you do dat, clare? Ouch!
The paper thrower threw the paper either just before the snow
fell,
or
in the middle of the dump. It was totally invisible and unexpected
in
both cases.
Wow, all that trouble from a single newspaper? I thought perhaps
you
had set out a stack for recycling and forgotten it.
They are small enough to pass through the auger and jam against the
impeller. Tree branches and chunks of frozen snowbank dislodged by
the
plow can be as bad, and all are invisible in the jumble the plow
leaves, or if the wind levels the surface.
Bummer. I'm glad I have a total of 23 minutes of snow shoveling
experience. I think I remember 15 minutes of it somewhere a couple
dozen years ago, but the latest was a month or two ago when I got
the
icy stuff off my driveway so I could bring in the mail. The trusty
HF
grain shovel, bought for distributing bark dust and mulch, worked a
treat.
I've been shoveling until my back tells me to stop, then finishing
with a snowblower. It helps keep me from getting old.
-jsw
I fire up Rusty the Tractor and just blade the little bit we get off to
the side of the driveway - and sometimes tha road up to the top of the hill
.. Usually it's not the snow but the underlying layer of ice that's the
problem . So I put the chains on before first snowfall .
--
Snag
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