I own this machine. My Step Son took the video for me the first trip out. I'm sending this note to answer some of the questions my viewers have had. I built this blower 2 years ago, it's on a 1993 Ford F250 7.3L diesel 5 spd trans 4x4. everything was touched during this build. I added 2 leaf springs to the front to carry the 1000 lb blower, the blower and the drive engine balance the truck well and it will over the road 65 mph with no problems, as you can see in the first and last photos the blower lifts 11" at the cutter edge for outstanding ground clearance. The engine on the rear runs the blower only, it's a 1956 Chrysler Industrial flat head 6 cylinder completely rebuilt. This is the second time this unit has been set up, it was originally built in 1979 on a 1977 Chevy C 30 4x4 and ran nearly as well as it does now. The addition of a 3 speed transmission between the rear motor and the blower (which can be seen between the fuel tank and engine house on the back) improved the power performance of the blower a lot. What sets this unit aside from all the rest is the "Drop Box Chain Case" on the motor which reversed the rotation and reduced the out put speed 2.75 to1 giving us the 540 PTO speed it needed for the blower shaft drive in the power band of the engine driving it. The Drop Box was custom made by George Stetson in 1979 and has never required ANY repairs of any kind and is still in perfect working order. the drop box has countless thousands of hours, that's right thousands of hours. George repaired runway blowers at a local Air Force Base for over 25 years and he dreamed this up based on those blowers. that chain case is a true tribute to George and that's why I dedicated this video to him. No other method of drive dives you the control of having the blower driven independently. All the hydraulics are under the hood running off the truck quite like most snow plows. it has greater that 220 degrees rotation the tip tilts and of coarse the lift. The blower is engaged with a cylinder also and that one operates the blower throttle as well. Thank you for all the great comments, I use it every several hours every storm and to me it;s just fun,
Being and this is an educated guess on my part a Dodge 6/230 cubic inch flathead engine I'd say the power and might be 1600-1900 rpm. I seem to remember that from driving a 1947 dodge ex US Army Power Wagen Nice to see the old girl reborn.
I couldn't believe my good luck thinking how I was going to find out what this excellent tune was that I was searching for was right here and by happenstance I was on RUclips looking at Ford plow trucks! THANK YOU SO MUCH, YOU MADE MY DAY!!
Brings me back to when I was younger, an the 24 inch snow spout on those Schram state an county highway snow blowers. The fronts chewed snow up to eight feet high, ten feet wide. An blew it 30 to 50 foot from the road. SUCH POWER BEHIND THOSE BEASTS. Gone they are now no longer legal to use. Now we push it, an keep wearing blades out to be replaced, An tearing up the roads. Makes a lot of since to me.
I know this is an old video, but This one inspired me to put a 7 foot Frontier blower on a 1987 Chevy Astro van with a 1967 Chevy 250 inline 6 in the back. Gear drive off the i6 will run PTO shafts in the van then down through the floor and out under the front to the blower. Belt driven governor will keep the blower at optimum PTO speed which should be around 550 ish and I can control that by backing off the hand throttle when I need to. Awesome video. It will be ready to go by the end of this month. Cheers from Canada.
99 out of a hundred individuals on earth could not build a prototype, working snow blower for a truck, ever in their present condition. I see a lot of jealousy here. I hear this guys triumphs and temporary setbacks in that music. Great job, the music, video and mechanical ingenuity. Sincerely, William McCormick .
I thought a African would be driving it because the music is not fit for Maine but I guess I was wrong/ nice build that’s the true way of removing snow .. 👍🏻
I was gonna say something about the music but I seen the in memory of at the end and now realize there is something else to it. Awesome build. Prayers to you and the family and friends of George Steson. May he rest on peace. Thanks for the video buddy and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Awesome build ....and your choice of music for YOUR RUclips video I'm sure suits you just fine ....excellent job....you have what we call around here " great Yankee ingenuity "
They make 'SNOW TIRES' for larger trucks, just like they do for small cars, and it really does make a HUGE difference in traction when the temps get below freezing.
Finally a snowplow /snowblower pickup that's properly balanced. Too many snow plow truck with no weight or weight in the wrong place. One needs a counterweight behind the rear axle like this
That is an awesome set-up. If it were mine and I lived where it snowed like that I'd point it south and step on the gas until I hit a warm climate then I'd leave the snow blower by the side of the road and never look back and all the while I'd be playing any damn music I wanted to. Cheers.
Nice double auger. I take it you made that , which is impressive. Snovac makes single auger models with their own engines (monoblock style), but they are single auger outfits.
Great work building this. Very few people have the equipment, electrical and mechanical knowledge to create things like this. I don't have any comments about the music as I know what and engine sounds like and I have volume controls on my laptop if I don't like what I'm hearing. Man versus Winter - Man wins this time
Love this rig. I like that it's a dedicated blower and not a stupid plow. Never understood peoples fetish for plows. All they do is gouge stuff up and don't really get rid of the snow like a blower does.
Can't always use a snow blower and plows are wayyyyy quicker. Blowers throw stuff and wouldn't work very well in some places throwing snow with stones and everything else in it.
So there's a place in Maine called Stockholm? Kinda neat, i live in Stockholm, Sweden where i'm pretty sure the Maine one took the name from =) Nice video, had to mute the music .. would have been fun to hear the original sound.
This is an amazing machine. The fact that it is PTO driven is fantastic! I have seen others hydraulicly driven that are ok, but this is great. What is the HP of the aux. engine? I feel that a 8 ft blower such as this is underpowered though, a blower this size likely needed at least 90 hp up to max of 200 hp. A diesel aux engine with lots of extra torque and 175 hp would be spectacular. The extra torque/HP would allow a greater throwing distance and faster travel speed.
I like the build, well thought out. If I had one of those 55 years ago I bet I'd feel a lot younger now. A 200 yd driveway in central Alberta using shovels sucks.
That is awesome !! I've been thinking of building my own ! can you help out any ? like where did ya find a blower that size or did ya make it ? How big is the rear power unit ? is it hydraulic or looks like a drive shaft ? If you can help me that would be great
awesome looking setup! Greater specifications of the different parts lists i.e. the attachment, fuel type, engine size and hydraulic set up? Did you do the work?
My Step dad built this truck so i cant really answer any questions all i did was create the video its a nice truck works and runs awesome, its shaft driven from the back and the motor that runs the truck is an F-250 i think
Oh I like the truck too as I also happen to have 4 of them! 1) 95 F350 RC 4x4 7,5L, 2) 95 F350 RC 4x4 7.5L, 3) 96 F350 RC 4x4 5.8L,4) 01 F350 RC 4x4 6.8L BEST TRUCKS EVER!
personally I would prefer to hear the engine and blower to music. shessh
That was the first thing I thought; kill the music and let us hear the engine noise.
That would be music to my ears!
Thanks for the tip. You saved me over 4 minutes.
Yeah
Yeah really. I want to hear that engine sing, not music.
Guess you’ll have to take your ass to Burger King
I own this machine. My Step Son took the video for me the first trip out. I'm sending this note to answer some of the questions my viewers have had. I built this blower 2 years ago, it's on a 1993 Ford F250 7.3L diesel 5 spd trans 4x4. everything was touched during this build.
I added 2 leaf springs to the front to carry the 1000 lb blower, the blower and the drive engine balance the truck well and it will over the road 65 mph with no problems, as you can see in the first and last photos the blower lifts 11" at the cutter edge for outstanding ground clearance. The engine on the rear runs the blower only, it's a 1956 Chrysler Industrial flat head 6 cylinder completely rebuilt. This is the second time this unit has been set up, it was originally built in 1979 on a 1977 Chevy C 30 4x4 and ran nearly as well as it does now. The addition of a 3 speed transmission between the rear motor and the blower (which can be seen between the fuel tank and engine house on the back) improved the power performance of the blower a lot. What sets this unit aside from all the rest is the "Drop Box Chain Case" on the motor which reversed the rotation and reduced the out put speed 2.75 to1 giving us the 540 PTO speed it needed for the blower shaft drive in the power band of the engine driving it. The Drop Box was custom made by George Stetson in 1979 and has never required ANY repairs of any kind and is still in perfect working order. the drop box has countless thousands of hours, that's right thousands of hours. George repaired runway blowers at a local Air Force Base for over 25 years and he dreamed this up based on those blowers. that chain case is a true tribute to George and that's why I dedicated this video to him. No other method of drive dives you the control of having the blower driven independently. All the hydraulics are under the hood running off the truck quite like most snow plows. it has greater that 220 degrees rotation the tip tilts and of coarse the lift. The blower is engaged with a cylinder also and that one operates the blower throttle as well. Thank you for all the great comments, I use it every several hours every storm and to me it;s just fun,
Bryan Forbes what rpm are you running the I6 at ?
Bryan Forbes well put together and thought out, I'm quite envious!!
Being and this is an educated guess on my part a Dodge 6/230 cubic inch flathead engine I'd say the power and might be 1600-1900 rpm. I seem to remember that from driving a 1947 dodge ex US Army Power Wagen
Nice to see the old girl reborn.
Awesome job
I'm jealous , that thing is a brute , now that engineering , I'd have fun clearing the snow and just laugh when it stormed out , thanks for sharing
As a Mechanical Engineer/Design i applaud you and George. I have no need for something like that but given my background it would be fun to build.
Thanks for volume control I’d rather hear the Diesel snow blower do it’s blowing !
I couldn't believe my good luck thinking how I was going to find out what this excellent tune was that I was searching for was right here and by happenstance I was on RUclips looking at Ford plow trucks! THANK YOU SO MUCH, YOU MADE MY DAY!!
It's about time somebody around here gets something awsome!! Happy holidays!
Really nice machine. I'm jealous. The music is aweful!
Hey my fellow Maine'a , that's a wicked good blowa!
That thing's a real pissah.
It'll shoot the snow out into the yaaaahhd.
@@PatrickWagz Thats not Maine. You're thinking NYC or Jersey...
Brings me back to when I was younger, an the 24 inch snow spout on those Schram state an county highway snow blowers. The fronts chewed snow up to eight feet high, ten feet wide. An blew it 30 to 50 foot from the road. SUCH POWER BEHIND THOSE BEASTS. Gone they are now no longer legal to use. Now we push it, an keep wearing blades out to be replaced, An tearing up the roads. Makes a lot of since to me.
I know this is an old video, but This one inspired me to put a 7 foot Frontier blower on a 1987 Chevy Astro van with a 1967 Chevy 250 inline 6 in the back. Gear drive off the i6 will run PTO shafts in the van then down through the floor and out under the front to the blower. Belt driven governor will keep the blower at optimum PTO speed which should be around 550 ish and I can control that by backing off the hand throttle when I need to. Awesome video. It will be ready to go by the end of this month. Cheers from Canada.
99 out of a hundred individuals on earth could not build a prototype, working snow blower for a truck, ever in their present condition. I see a lot of jealousy here. I hear this guys triumphs and temporary setbacks in that music. Great job, the music, video and mechanical ingenuity.
Sincerely,
William McCormick .
I agree. You're right.
The music sucks.
I thought I was going to hear a skilled tradesmen explain his build, but got a music video instead. Blower looks very professional.
If your choice of music was based on causing maximum annoyance, then you get an A+.
Yup
Hahahahahahahahahah right? Who let thier gay son edit this video?
Would rather hear the sound of the blower.
FUCK YOU
I thought a African would be driving it because the music is not fit for Maine but I guess I was wrong/ nice build that’s the true way of removing snow .. 👍🏻
The radio will quit quickly when the ford breaks down
@@vermontjeff2535 Right? The guy with the comment above you must be one of them. He seems awfully upset.
@@jimmychanbers2424
My '74 F-350 dually would disagree.
This is one of the coolest custom builds on the internet.
Nope. Look up the guy with the detroit diesel snow blower. Way cooler.
I know this was 4 yrs ago,but I have to say the fabrication is very clean.great work.
I was gonna say something about the music but I seen the in memory of at the end and now realize there is something else to it. Awesome build. Prayers to you and the family and friends of George Steson. May he rest on peace. Thanks for the video buddy and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Your setup is very clean. If you made yourself then you are a craftsmen.
Awesome.
Awesome build ....and your choice of music for YOUR RUclips video I'm sure suits you just fine ....excellent job....you have what we call around here " great Yankee ingenuity "
Nice setup man. See that beast on the rear chuggin away wen it got deep, seemed to compinsate for the load no problem. Never struggled.
It also doubles as firewood processor,cement mixer and lawnmower!Great value for the money.
They make 'SNOW TIRES' for larger trucks, just like they do for small cars, and it really does make a HUGE difference in traction when the temps get below freezing.
Fantastic!
Great rig and a great bonus with the music.
Cheers!
That's some pretty cool Yankee ingenuity right there! Love that setup.
Great music! Wonderful! Love the dual users and vertical exhaust. Would have enjoyed hearing the Powerstroke sound
Finally a snowplow /snowblower pickup that's properly balanced. Too many snow plow truck with no weight or weight in the wrong place. One needs a counterweight behind the rear axle like this
That is an awesome set-up. If it were mine and I lived where it snowed like that I'd point it south and step on the gas until I hit a warm climate then I'd leave the snow blower by the side of the road and never look back and all the while I'd be playing any damn music I wanted to. Cheers.
Nice double auger. I take it you made that , which is impressive. Snovac makes single auger models with their own engines (monoblock style), but they are single auger outfits.
Boy I bet it was fun figuring out the PTO shaft angles for that!
Beautiful fabrication work. Nice machine!
Can’t beat right tool for the job. The height of the cutters gives us an idea what the potential is for such a rig.
Great work building this.
Very few people have the equipment, electrical and mechanical knowledge to create things like this. I don't have any comments about the music as I know what and engine sounds like and I have volume controls on my laptop if I don't like what I'm hearing.
Man versus Winter - Man wins this time
Love this rig. I like that it's a dedicated blower and not a stupid plow. Never understood peoples fetish for plows. All they do is gouge stuff up and don't really get rid of the snow like a blower does.
Can't always use a snow blower and plows are wayyyyy quicker. Blowers throw stuff and wouldn't work very well in some places throwing snow with stones and everything else in it.
Awesome video! I love the old ford! Great job
well this is a whole lot if interesting .... nice set up
So there's a place in Maine called Stockholm? Kinda neat, i live in Stockholm, Sweden where i'm pretty sure the Maine one took the name from =)
Nice video, had to mute the music .. would have been fun to hear the original sound.
This is an amazing machine. The fact that it is PTO driven is fantastic! I have seen others hydraulicly driven that are ok, but this is great. What is the HP of the aux. engine? I feel that a 8 ft blower such as this is underpowered though, a blower this size likely needed at least 90 hp up to max of 200 hp. A diesel aux engine with lots of extra torque and 175 hp would be spectacular. The extra torque/HP would allow a greater throwing distance and faster travel speed.
Awesome!!!! I used to live in Maine & they know how to build shit right. Good one... A+ job
Bad ass! Would love one of these! I’m jealous
AWESOME tribute men!!
Good video nice truck and nice job! Looks great! Congrats!
Love the music by Fun !
awesome video. great looking truck
Awesome Setup!
Awesome snow blower.
That's so beautiful truck and blower good job
great truck but wtf is this music
@Flasher Trasher Getty isn't gay, tho.
@Flasher Trasher FUN and they r gay oriented.
@Flasher Trasher RUSH is my favorite group.
New kids on the block.
I like the skinny tires. Much better in snow than those big balloon tires.
I like the build, well thought out. If I had one of those 55 years ago I bet I'd feel a lot younger now. A 200 yd driveway in central Alberta using shovels sucks.
Up hill , both ways
@@flyingled3176 I don't take comments from your mom's basement seriously. Isn't it time to get back to your role playing video game?
Great job on the truck and all the blower set up. Very neatly crafted. I like the music alot, sounds Irish.
narrow tires on your truck ,great idea...sweet blower...thanks.
I would love one of these! But self contained like my plow.
What runs the auger? Crank or bed mntd hydraulic w hoses?
2:26 you can see a drive shaft that runs the blower. Motor on the bed has a drop box.
ill see if i still have the video with the motor running so the people that want to here it can ill try to post it this week
That's a pretty sweet setup!!! Is that the pump/reservoir on the back of your truck?
TheBrad1026
It looks like the fuel tank and its a shaft driven blower, you can see the shaft underneath, lots of shafting!
fastst1 Gotcha, I see it now. I wonder how big that motor is back there???
I think the word was that it was a ford 300 inline six, it sure is pretty.
fastst1 That's a good motor. Last forever if taken care of... :)
Pretty awesome 😎
Excellent work putting this together. thumbs up!!!!!
Very impressed how well it works
Show the real video with the sound of the machine. Not some wtf music, please.
Nice job, clean and functional
Wow very nice set up
Awesome set up!!!
best ive seen for yard work thanx len
nice truck I love it man
He needs to update this vid for the recent snow we have had. Some of us have had around 6 feet in the last two weeks here in downeast Maine.
Very nice outfit, congrats.
John
that's amazing, great job
That is how Mainers roll. Nice song too.
Hey there, it looks like a good working setup. What brand is the blower, and what are you using for power?
Dam good design,small but not to small.
that's just sick, love it
Backyard engineering done right...
Awesome. Wish I had your talent
Awesome idea and job well done
Wehen I think snow blower, I think of snow my v plow can't get rid of.
I love it.
I'm in Berwick and am interested in your project. How are you driving the blower? How did it work with the storms this past week?
Nice machine! Cleans snow realiy good.
That is one crazy but cool setup. Three feet of powder just to get it to sweat.
hahahaha, that is some SERIOUS SHIT and I WANT ONE !!! All I can say is AWESOME !!!!
Can’t handle music
Very nice work
Cool, I've never seen a snow blower on a vehicle before! Does it work better than your tradition plows?
That is badass
That is awesome !! I've been thinking of building my own ! can you help out any ? like where did ya find a blower that size or did ya make it ? How big is the rear power unit ? is it hydraulic or looks like a drive shaft ? If you can help me that would be great
Oh my , I want one! It is a honey.
Nice double screw. Good throw. Keep safe. God bless!
Nice build , I’m gonna do something similar with a Chev 3500 but prob have a rear steering axle
This is goals
UNCLEDOUG SAY'S LETS SEE IT GO THROUGH 3 TO 4 Ft !!!!!!!!!
Did you create this? What was the investment! This is so awesome!! Are all the things on the back of the truck necessary for use?
very neat idea
awesome looking setup! Greater specifications of the different parts lists i.e. the attachment, fuel type, engine size and hydraulic set up? Did you do the work?
My Step dad built this truck so i cant really answer any questions all i did was create the video its a nice truck works and runs awesome, its shaft driven from the back and the motor that runs the truck is an F-250 i think
This is neat great idea and nice workmanship
Oh I like the truck too as I also happen to have 4 of them! 1) 95 F350 RC 4x4 7,5L, 2) 95 F350 RC 4x4 7.5L, 3) 96 F350 RC 4x4 5.8L,4) 01 F350 RC 4x4 6.8L
BEST TRUCKS EVER!
Sweet set up! How does it handle on the road, any differently than a plow?
Nice unit.
thats really slick..........
nice build.
Was that George Steson in the truck? BTW, that's an awesome snow thrower.
Very Nice !
I bought one at home depot just like it.