By
Uncle Buck
I used a walk behind 2 stage Ariens sno thrower for over 30 years before deciding to switch to a rider and plow. I have watched countless videos of guys using throwers with WH tractors and virtually every single one I have ever seen the rooster tail of snow coming from the machine is thrown in a high arc say 30-40 or so it appears in the videos.
I am always curious, is it possible to adjust the trajectory of the discharge shoot lower? Or is it a case where that is not an option with the WH blowers? I ask this question because I always found with my old Ariens the lower I aimed the discharge chute the better. By that I mean I was always mindful of where I was discharging the snow but I quickly learned that while the 30-40 foot rooster tail looked mighty impressive I did not like all of the blowback of snow that I ended up wearing when I had the chute adjusted like that. I found that keeping the stream of discharged snow as low as possible kept the snow from turning me into a snowman.
So tell me what the scoop is on the huge rooster tails I always see in the videos fellas. Really just curious, not meaning to be critical I am just that curious about this.