Looking good. You should see if you can find a nameplate for the handles, I forget if it had a piece of flat steel on the 63 that said Sno-Thro or if 63 was the first year it had the aluminum one that says Ariens like the newer ones, I think its the ladder. I have to look at my master service manual on that machine. I saw 3 go for 20 bucks on ebay one time, went fast. I noticed that one has those big white round hubs behind the rims on that one. I know their ratcheting hubs, but I don't know much else about them, because I never had one in person. Do those things work like auto turn? Meaning does it lock the thing straight when going forward and than unlock to allow it to turn easier, when you turn it, or is that just the way they made those machines and its always locked? I know they had big problems with those things and got rid of them after a few short years, in place for the style on your 73 that you pull to lock or unlock. People often rip the guts out of them when they stop working and than the machine is stuck with 1 wheel drive because parts are non existent. Is yours still operational and please tell me how that operates, I'm interested. Thanks.
Those machines are super dangerous, especially with people today using them, because once those augers are on, its a done deal, the thing can move and do it on its own and with the bucket halfway exposed those things could literally chop up an arm, plus its got a pin to lock it into a gear and if it rattled loose, the thing was off to the races on its own lol. I actually like the concept of that locking pin, I wish ours had that, added convenience, although considering how much a predator makes those old machines rattle, I don't know if I would trust it. Its funny to see how they made these machines with no idiot proof safety features. You either worked smart or got hurt, no two ways about it. I'm fairly certain enough people got hurt to require them to eventually re-think safety about 10 years later. As far as those augers sticking out like that, they say its eats into snow bank's better than any modern machine, because theirs no resistance from the bucket, which is very cool, although you gotta watch it around steps and such.
@@Nicky_Pin_It Me too. Let me know about that hub question I had on these. Interested to see if they were attempting auto turn that early, which failed and took nearly 50 more years before they finally figured it out.
Does this design with the protruding auger make it easier to cut into the hard packed snow at the end of the driveway from the snowplow? Or is it really no different to any other ariens at the end of the driveway? Thank you
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Looking good. You should see if you can find a nameplate for the handles, I forget if it had a piece of flat steel on the 63 that said Sno-Thro or if 63 was the first year it had the aluminum one that says Ariens like the newer ones, I think its the ladder. I have to look at my master service manual on that machine. I saw 3 go for 20 bucks on ebay one time, went fast.
I noticed that one has those big white round hubs behind the rims on that one. I know their ratcheting hubs, but I don't know much else about them, because I never had one in person.
Do those things work like auto turn? Meaning does it lock the thing straight when going forward and than unlock to allow it to turn easier, when you turn it, or is that just the way they made those machines and its always locked?
I know they had big problems with those things and got rid of them after a few short years, in place for the style on your 73 that you pull to lock or unlock.
People often rip the guts out of them when they stop working and than the machine is stuck with 1 wheel drive because parts are non existent. Is yours still operational and please tell me how that operates, I'm interested. Thanks.
Those machines are super dangerous, especially with people today using them, because once those augers are on, its a done deal, the thing can move and do it on its own and with the bucket halfway exposed those things could literally chop up an arm, plus its got a pin to lock it into a gear and if it rattled loose, the thing was off to the races on its own lol.
I actually like the concept of that locking pin, I wish ours had that, added convenience, although considering how much a predator makes those old machines rattle, I don't know if I would trust it.
Its funny to see how they made these machines with no idiot proof safety features. You either worked smart or got hurt, no two ways about it. I'm fairly certain enough people got hurt to require them to eventually re-think safety about 10 years later.
As far as those augers sticking out like that, they say its eats into snow bank's better than any modern machine, because theirs no resistance from the bucket, which is very cool, although you gotta watch it around steps and such.
Yes this thing is not for the inexperienced or the faint of heart! I kinda like it like that though, lol.
@@Nicky_Pin_It Me too. Let me know about that hub question I had on these. Interested to see if they were attempting auto turn that early, which failed and took nearly 50 more years before they finally figured it out.
Does this design with the protruding auger make it easier to cut into the hard packed snow at the end of the driveway from the snowplow? Or is it really no different to any other ariens at the end of the driveway? Thank you
No not really, they ran the open design for a couple years then quickly enclosed it, in fact i can actually buy guards for the side if i so desire.
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