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.
-jsw

With my previous macine, I broke one shear bolt in 29 years when I
forgot that I had anchored a tarp over a piece of equipment withy
bricks!