How to make a snowplower yourself?

Our country is rich in talented people and resourceful designers. Fortunately, their quantity does not decrease today, but, on the contrary, it increases, because new information technologies and the Internet allow sharing of experience between many inventors who lay their drawings on the World Wide Web. A useful device that will be able to provide significant assistance in cleaning snow is a machine for cleaning it, and a snowplower can make almost everyone by himself. To do this, you just need to know the principle of its operation, and also to select the most suitable parts for its device.

So, usually the inventors of this useful device use as a basis a rotary snow blower of the "Vyuga" type, which was manufactured in the design office of Penza about 15 years ago. Such a snowplower with his own hands has a fairly simple device, so that it can be manufactured in almost any workshop. For this we need a lathe TV-7, a welding machine, as well as waste steel sheet thickness of 3 mm. As the main power unit here stands the engine D-6, which is attached to the muffler, throttle control cable, as well as the fuel tank. The torque is transmitted by the chain through the asterisk Z = 20, which is fixed to the rotor shaft. The rotor itself can be turned on the lathe itself, or you can order it at the factory. The rotating shaft is fixed in the housing by means of four ball bearings, which are fixed by means of a clamping ring, and also bolts M8 on the body of the rotor itself. As a result, the snow-picker with our own hands will turn out to be quite strong and resistant to mechanical influences.

It should be noted that almost all devices manufactured by themselves are much more durable than those purchased in the store. The fact is that when you design a device with your own hands, then all the fastenings are done on conscience, so it serves much longer. It is for this reason that self-made snow-sweepers have become widespread in the villages of the northern regions of our country. With the help of such a device for half an hour you can completely clean the yard area of 250-300 square meters from the snow. However, in spite of the cold season in which a snow-picker is used, it is necessary to provide for the engine of the device a cooling system. It is best to use a fan that will successfully cope with the task.

In general, the snow-picker with his own hands is a simple construction, where a welded structure is used as the frame, inside which a rotary engine is fixed . In the lower part there are special skis, on the edges of which there are small paddle wheels. Due to them, the snowplow moves in the right direction. In front there is a special paddle shaft, when working, the snow is thrown aside, and a continuous carpet path appears ahead.

Thus, we can conclude that such a device is quite possible to create almost every owner. How to make a snowplower with our own hands, we now know, so it remains only to buy all the necessary components and get to work. In conclusion, it should be said that the unit of this type weighs only 18 kg, and its performance characteristics have proven themselves exclusively on the best side. By constructing such a useful device, you can be sure that no snowfall is no longer a hindrance. A powerful snow plow will be an excellent helper in the winter, greatly facilitating your work on clearing snow in the yard.