"No Weight" Rolling ATV Snowblower

"No Weight" Rolling ATV Snowblower ATV'S ATV'S 34-1-25 Andrew Scibona, Brockport, N.Y., couldn't justify the cost of a new ATV-mounted snowblower. So he built his own using a 1970's Ford snowblower powered by an 11 hp Honda engine that's bolted to a caster-wheeled steel frame between the ATV and the snowblower. "It works better and faster than I had hoped," says Scibona. "It's very heavy, but there's no weight on front of the ATV which makes the ATV easy to steer at all times. Driving it is like pushing around a shopping cart full of bricks." The 42-in. wide snowblower was originally designed to mount on front of a Ford LGT lawn tractor. Scibona cut the gearbox off the blower and welded it to the frame that supports the Honda engine. The engine belt-drives the gearbox, which chain-drives the snowblower. The snowblower came equipped with a long steel bar that went all the way back under the garden tractor and hooked up to the tractor's rear hitch. The bar needed reinforcement so Scibona cut off part of it and welded on a length of 1-in. dia. steel pipe. He also welded a homemade metal frame onto the snowblower and made a motor mounting plate. The snowblower is activated by pulling on a lever. An electric winch is used to lift it. A power window motor off an old car is used to swivel the snowblower chute from side to side. The window motor is hooked up to the ATV's battery and is operated by pushing a handlebar-mounted button. "It's easy to hook up. I just drive the ATV in over the drawbar and hook it up to the hitch on back of the ATV, then hook up two chains on front," says Scibona. "I paid less than $100 for the engine and spent about $50 on steel. My total cost was less than $300." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Andrew Scibona, 897 Sweden Rd., Brockport, N.Y. 14420 (amsaaaa@yahoo.com; YouTube video search: "drewme1010").

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