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My bother runs a maple syrup business. This year, with all the snow here in NW PA, the woods are under an unusual amount of the pesky white stuff. We struggled through the tapping by wearing snow shoes and post-holeing our way around the 3000+ taps. That nasty task is finished and it's time to collect the sap and make syrup. There's only one problem. The road where this sap is collected has no winter maintenance. Normally it's not that big a deal; you can get a 4WD pickup back there to ferry sap from the collection tank to a milk truck for hauling back to the sugar house. After a week or so it has always melted off and allowed the milk truck to pull up right along side the 2000 gallon sap tank. But this year that's not happening. The snow is too deep for a 4WD and waiting for it to melt off could take weeks. My question is could my 520 with a single stage blower (which I don't yet own) move the snow a few feet to the side? It's wet, a little packed down, but mostly deep. Temperature has been in the 40s so things are melting, heavy, and wet. I'm not looking to get it cleared to the gravel surface, just enough so that we could get the pickups down this 1/4 lane- maybe 6-8". And I don't care about throwing it 40'. 6' to either side would be great. Would this kill the tractor/blower? Is it fool-hardy, or is it a chance to show just what a WH can do? I have no experience with a blower and only got my WH a month ago. How do they perform with this left-over snow? Ultimate destination is the far end of the photo. One can just make out the poly collection tank. Anyone what to show off just how tough/capable their rig is?
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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.
