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Newbie could use help....
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the city ofanchorage had some sw bombies with snow blowers for side walks than changed to trackless and holder municipal tractors like the one pictured i would love to have one here for my driveway
....that is newer and the one I saw had rubber tracks ??....no metal....okay now I'm really going to show how new I am....sw48 
You use to be abe to buy just the Trackless blower and attach it to your tractor or what ever . Mine was custom built in Sacramento to be used as a 3 ph set up on a tractor . I debated buying it for 6 months . Boy !!!! Am I glad I did !!!!Now they come with the tractor at about $100,000 .
Best investment I ever made
Best investment I ever made
if trracks arn't necessary i have driven the holder municipal tractors and they are a nice ride compaired to the bobcat skid steers but also very specialized the trackless rigs are more spartin
..sw48....???
Bombardier SideWalk plow, 48 inches wide
Thanks for all the info......we are trying to buy a home on 56 acres....driveway is at least 3000 ft long and black top.....10 acres cleared and 46 hardwood.....plan on getting a "snowcat" for snow removal and draging wood out on a sled, D3 dozer for tree removal and landscaping....and my old ford tractor for the rest of the farm work.....right now the terrain is pretty rough....
I've seen the SW-* sidewalk plows mounted with snowblowers driven by an auxilliary engine that hangs off the back like this one:
The one pictured may be for sale here:http://www.militaryconvoy.com/1bombardierweb.htm
This would give you a large snow moving capacity in a very small footprint. Pretty slick. A blower would not be difficult to fab for a SW-* or similar carrier, especially if you had access to a plasma cutting table to cut the ribbons and various parts of the blower fan. The other key pieces are the aux. engine, variable displacement piston pump (as shown), heavy duty right angle gearbox to apportion power between the ribbon and the fan, and various hoses, valves, filters plus a hyd. reservoir. I bet you could build one for less than $1500 if you scrounged on eBay. I built my 84" blower for under $1000, not including my time of course.
Whatever carrier you mounted it on will want to be able to travel very slow at times. Hydrostatic drive is the preferred transmission but other similarly low-geared mechanical transmission would do.
The one pictured may be for sale here:http://www.militaryconvoy.com/1bombardierweb.htm
This would give you a large snow moving capacity in a very small footprint. Pretty slick. A blower would not be difficult to fab for a SW-* or similar carrier, especially if you had access to a plasma cutting table to cut the ribbons and various parts of the blower fan. The other key pieces are the aux. engine, variable displacement piston pump (as shown), heavy duty right angle gearbox to apportion power between the ribbon and the fan, and various hoses, valves, filters plus a hyd. reservoir. I bet you could build one for less than $1500 if you scrounged on eBay. I built my 84" blower for under $1000, not including my time of course.
Whatever carrier you mounted it on will want to be able to travel very slow at times. Hydrostatic drive is the preferred transmission but other similarly low-geared mechanical transmission would do.
that is a nice looking blower i could blow Big Al out of his drive way with that one