Snowblower Built From Old Riding Lawn Mower

Snowblower Built From Old Riding Lawn Mower SNOWBLOWERS Snowblowers 22-1-11 Roger Fisher, Spirit Lake, Iowa, used the drive train and rear wheels off an old riding mower together with the auger and spout off an old snowblower and the handlebars off a push lawn mower to build a 17-in. wide snowblower. The blower is powered by a Kohler 2-cyl., 16 hp gas engine. The 3-speed transmission, rear end, and rear wheels and axles are off a Ride King riding mower and were originally manufactured as one unit. Fisher mounted the drive unit backward so the control levers face the operator. He used 1/4-in. thick flat steel to make a box frame over the axle and bolted the engine on top of it. He mounted two pulleys on the engine crankshaft - one to belt-drive a gearbox on the blower and the other to belt-drive the transmission. Lawn mower handlebars also bolt to the frame. The snowblower auger welds to brackets on front of the frame. "I mounted a centrifugal clutch on the engine so it operates like an automatic trans-mission. I replaced the transmission's original pulley with a bigger one so it runs very slow in first gear. I bolted a length of 1-in. wide, 1/2-in. thick rubber belt on the bottom of the blower to prevent damage to sidewalks. A 12-volt battery on back is used to start the engine. The gas tank is off an old Wisconsin engine and the muffler is from an old snowmobile," says Fisher. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Roger Fisher, Box 9048, Spirit Lake, Iowa 51360 (ph 507 856-5182).

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