Well after getting my 1025R I've been looking to get a snowblower. I made the decision to just get the bare minimums when I financed (tractor, mmm, FEL) and purchased a box blade after. I've been scanning Craigslist and found Lucknow snowblower for sale for what I thought was an incredible price; even if it needed work. Here is the actual ad text "3 point 2 stage snow blower PTO hook up. Tractor snow blower needs work. Come get it before it gets scrapped." and they were asking $250. So I set up to go look at it; and found the blower housing to be pretty well rusted out and it appeared that the whole unit was locked up. Talked to the guy for a few and he tossed out a price that I couldn't refuse. So now I've got another new project.
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So I started working on it tonight and started documenting the process; so far I've gotten the chute off, cleaned out a lot of excess debris and started looking into what was locked up. I took the drive chain off the auger and everything is turning freely and remarkably smoothly. I'll get more pictures uploaded here soon.
Has anyone heard of and/or used Lucknow products before? Also as a general question any advice or gottcha's I need to watch out for in the restoration of this snow blower? It has a shearpin on the PTO shaft, but would it be worth while to use a slipclutch; I'm halfway tempted to use one at least for the initial testing. As much as I trust the quality of my tractor, I don't want to hedge that against the rebuilt snowblower.
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So I started working on it tonight and started documenting the process; so far I've gotten the chute off, cleaned out a lot of excess debris and started looking into what was locked up. I took the drive chain off the auger and everything is turning freely and remarkably smoothly. I'll get more pictures uploaded here soon.
Has anyone heard of and/or used Lucknow products before? Also as a general question any advice or gottcha's I need to watch out for in the restoration of this snow blower? It has a shearpin on the PTO shaft, but would it be worth while to use a slipclutch; I'm halfway tempted to use one at least for the initial testing. As much as I trust the quality of my tractor, I don't want to hedge that against the rebuilt snowblower.