I recently purchased a 3 point snowblower that has a manually rotated chute. The chute has cable wrapped around it that in turn wraps around a rod with an offset handle - crank the handle one way or the other and the cable winds up rotating the chute. Really a nice cheap setup that has a lot of allowance for misalignment.
To convert this to hydraulic rotate my thought was to remove the extension with the offset handle, build a bracket, and attach some type of low speed hydraulic motor to the end of the shaft via a flexible coupler. This would only require one bracket, one motor, and two hoses.
Has anyone attempted this before? Anywhere good to look for low speed hydraulic motors? Northern has new ones for around $200 - didn't know if certain implements that I could find in junkyards might have something that I could get cheaper. Any ideas greatly appreciated. Thanks.
To convert this to hydraulic rotate my thought was to remove the extension with the offset handle, build a bracket, and attach some type of low speed hydraulic motor to the end of the shaft via a flexible coupler. This would only require one bracket, one motor, and two hoses.
Has anyone attempted this before? Anywhere good to look for low speed hydraulic motors? Northern has new ones for around $200 - didn't know if certain implements that I could find in junkyards might have something that I could get cheaper. Any ideas greatly appreciated. Thanks.
