You couldn't operate a very big snow blower with the output of an A or C gear pump. Just not enough flow and then the loss that Jim mentioned would leave even less. A pto driven pump or even a crankshaft driven one might help, but with only about 22 to 25 HP, it still would not be much of a blower. We changed the internal 12gpm pump out of a 460U to a 17gpm when I worked in the engineering lab at Cessna and drove a Cessna 8 cu/in high torque piston motor on a brush hog and it did a good job. Something along those lines would handle a good sized blower. We also added 1" (-16) lines and disconnects to handle the flow to the mower. The valve had a "float' position so it would stay engaged. I actually ran it in a pasture with sand hill plum thickets and it was pretty amazing how it would go through them. Sure did throw some of the pieces a long ways!
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Today's Featured Article - The Day Mom Drove the 8N - by Brian Browning. My Dad was wanting to put in a garden but couldn't operate the 8N and handle the old horse drawn plow he had found and rigged up to use with the tractor. Well, he decided to go get Mom out of the house and have her drive the tractor while he walked behind the plow. You got to understand that while my Mom is a hard worker who will always help whenever she can... she had never operated farm machinery before that day. Dad got her out there, explained how the clutch was the same as in our o
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