QA 42 Runners / Shoes

[nutzboutoldies]

What have you guys with gravel drive ways do to keep your snow thrower from throwing gravel when snow blowing? Today was our first big snow fall and as usual a lot of my drive way is now in the yard. I;m thinking of making the shoes wider and longer.

Steve

[Cub Cadet 123]

Throwing gravel or the possibility of throwing gravel is just dangerous. I would recommend that you get an IH blade. I suppose it depends on the kind of gravel you have in your driveway, you might be able to raise the skids up to about 1" on your thrower, but I still think the blade would best address your issue.

Cub Cadet 123

[Yosemite Sam]

I have the lift stops on my blades and snow thrower adjusted so they will only go down to about an inch from the ground. I don't let the shoes/skids touch the ground either.

It's not fool proof but I don't pick up much gravel. Still gotta pay close attention to where your chute is pointing.

[1811woody]

I added round shoes it makes a big difference. I found it best to set the height so it leaves about 3 quarter inch or so of snow on top of the gravel also.

[darkminion_17]

your link is no good,
Maybe some wheels on the sides.

[1811woody]

Sorry about that try a google search for this QDB-56-3642

[darkminion_17]

ok will try that.

[twoton]

Originally Posted by j knight

Just wonder if anyone ever tried to use wheels to hold the blower up a few inches

I think we just saw that;

http://www.onlycubcadets.net/forum/s...9&postcount=68

[PeterJ]

Originally Posted by nutzboutoldies

What have you guys with gravel drive ways do to keep your snow thrower from throwing gravel when snow blowing? Today was our first big snow fall and as usual a lot of my drive way is now in the yard. I;m thinking of making the shoes wider and longer.

Steve

I use the snowmobile to pull the driveway drag, (an old twin bed box spring would work great). I have a large parking area, circle drive, plus 1/4 mile to the road. This levels the snow and after a day passes we pack it down more with a vehicle (having kids that want to drive helps). After there is good compaction of the base layer of snow you can really fly with the QA-42A!

On my old QA I welded little 1" angle iron skids to the bottoms of the wear brackets. This helped but the best I've found is the above method.

PeterJ

[PeterJ]

Originally Posted by PeterJ

I use the snowmobile to pull the driveway drag, (an old twin bed box spring would work great). I have a large parking area, circle drive, plus 1/4 mile to the road. This levels the snow and after a day passes we pack it down more with a vehicle (having kids that want to drive helps). After there is good compaction of the base layer of snow you can really fly with the QA-42A!

On my old QA I welded little 1" angle iron skids to the bottoms of the wear brackets. This helped but the best I've found is the above method.

PeterJ

Sorry guys that might not have made sense.

I do that at the beginning of the winter to set down a base compaction layer. If the first snow is more that 6" of heavy wet stuff I just keep the blower up a few inches and then hop on the snowmobile and drag it all smooth.

PeterJ