Biting the dust in the snow

[EricD]

Well, almost made it all winter with the '63 Landlord plowing. Finished the neighbors driveway today and came home to do mine. Wouldn't go into gear (huge grinding action if pressed) pull up the seat/fender figuring I'd need to maybe adjust the idler pulley. Well, no such luck. Instead I notice the BGB shaft traveling back and forth almost an inch. Shut down the engine, sure enough lots of play and the belt is nearly broken in two spots to boot. Closed the seat pan, put it in gear, fired it up and limped back into the garage. Used the walk behind snow thrower to do my own driveway. Not as fun with the walk behind. I think the rapping into things over the course of the winter with the blade lead to the demise and wonder if the 100lbs on each rear wheel added to the failure. You might think I'd of learned my lesson from racking the rearend on my old Sears last summer with too much weight and traction; I guess it takes me a few smashed parts to get the message... So a transplant is on the to do list, Got another BGB to go into it, just gotta get the time.

[RayS]

I know how you feel I have rebuilt two of them in the last two weeks. One that I had to and the other for a spare.

[Dutch]

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Originally posted by EricD
Well, almost made it all winter with the '63 Landlord plowing. Finished the neighbors driveway today and came home to do mine. Wouldn't go into gear (huge grinding action if pressed) pull up the seat/fender figuring I'd need to maybe adjust the idler pulley. Well, no such luck. Instead I notice the BGB shaft traveling back and forth almost an inch. Shut down the engine, sure enough lots of play and the belt is nearly broken in two spots to boot. Closed the seat pan, put it in gear, fired it up and limped back into the garage. Used the walk behind snow thrower to do my own driveway. Not as fun with the walk behind. I think the rapping into things over the course of the winter with the blade lead to the demise and wonder if the 100lbs on each rear wheel added to the failure. You might think I'd of learned my lesson from racking the rearend on my old Sears last summer with too much weight and traction; I guess it takes me a few smashed parts to get the message... So a transplant is on the to do list, Got another BGB to go into it, just gotta get the time.

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Proves once again that no good deed goes unpunished. Happens to me almost every time.

[BigSix]

The neighbor's driveway is where I figured out the auger wasn't turning, last week, when I trashed my walkbehind blower. It still worked after I hit the coblerock, in my own driveway--finally gave up on the neighbor's drive. Sorry to hear about your trouble. I have BGB problems as well, myself--'tis the season? Good luck.

[RayS]

I understand what you mean there Dutch. I got a snowblower that was in excellent condition until I blew out the snow of my father-in-laws drive and hit a jack stand in about of a foot of snow.

[dav]

Been lucky on the expensive parts breakage but every storm creates some sort of headache. Think I got 3 storms out of my new Simplicity belt on the blower. But today the belt just will notstay on the pulleys. Only took 15 minutes to swap to a blade-5 to pull the blower and 10 to find the dozer blade I got from Dutch a couple of years ago and never used. Used the serrated edge to break up the ice, then flipped it to push stuff away. Only tried to do the neighbor's once. Slid off the asphalt and she had to tow me back onto the street!. Got chains the next day but she is always finished with her snow before I get out of work. I'll surprise her yet.