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Chief
09-12-2003, 10:04 AM
8435 cfm! You would need some serious leaves to justify this impliment. You could blow walnuts, apples, pears, golf balls, small children & animals as well. ;)
GLAN
09-12-2003, 10:16 AM
So? What is it?
Chief
09-12-2003, 10:48 AM
Doh!!!!!!!!!!!!! Got distracted and forgot to post the link. CRS can be a very cruel disease! ;)

Model 360 Blower (http://www.agrimetal.com/framed_turf.htm)
BSDeality
09-12-2003, 11:11 AM
I used to work at a golf course and they had a 3 pt hitch model similar to the 360 on that site link. It would push leaves 100-150' across the fairways. it was unreal.
Grassmechanic
09-12-2003, 01:57 PM
yep, I had one back when i was on the golf course. In addition to blowing leaves, we used it to remove the left-overs from aerating. It would damn near stall a 42 HP tractor when it was first being engaged.
GLAN
09-12-2003, 02:10 PM
I'd be trying to lauch tennis balls out of that thing...........:D
BSDeality
09-12-2003, 02:21 PM
GLAN, you mean you've never launched an empty soda can out of the tube of a BP blower? they go about 30 feet :)
Doc Pete
09-12-2003, 03:59 PM
Originally posted by GLAN
I'd be trying to lauch tennis balls out of that thing...........:D

Yup, from you John, I can see that:D :D
GLAN
09-12-2003, 04:10 PM
LOL


Now the soda can.............:D
Oh man, I am gonna try that tomorrow
BSDeality
09-12-2003, 04:21 PM
GLAN, the trick is to hold it at the end of the tube and rev it full throttle, then release it :)
rodfather
09-12-2003, 04:36 PM
Originally posted by Chief
CRS can be a very cruel disease! ;)


Kinda like CSS...LOL
GLAN
09-12-2003, 05:28 PM
Originally posted by BSDeality
GLAN, the trick is to hold it at the end of the tube and rev it full throttle, then release it :)


OK thanks


Have you ever made a cannon from soda cans?
BSDeality
09-12-2003, 06:04 PM
no, but i've got a compressed air powered potatoe gun. I've got a basketball hoop backboard with a nice hole in it to prove it too. it shoots a potatoe about 200 yards
GLAN
09-12-2003, 06:34 PM
Originally posted by BSDeality
no, but i've got a compressed air powered potatoe gun. I've got a basketball hoop backboard with a nice hole in it to prove it too. it shoots a potatoe about 200 yards

Cool............:D
Edgewater
09-12-2003, 06:40 PM
how did the air powered potato gun work.

I have seen propane fired ones, but never air.
yardman1
09-12-2003, 06:43 PM
Originally posted by BSDeality
no, but i've got a compressed air powered potatoe gun. I've got a basketball hoop backboard with a nice hole in it to prove it too. it shoots a potatoe about 200 yards

Got one of those two, they are fun.:D
DennisF
09-12-2003, 08:07 PM
I can see the headlines in the local newspaper.

" Area woman killed by high speed spud. Police arrest lawn care worker on runaway ZTR mower "
noclevername
09-12-2003, 08:49 PM
We've got one that we mount on a B-2400 Kubota tractor. It sure saves a lot of time on spring and fall cleanups !! If you stand close to the discharge and the ground is a bit damp
(ie slippery)I've literally blown guys off their feet. lol !!
SLC1234
09-12-2003, 08:52 PM
We have the agri-metal that goes on the front of our Hustler 3200 the thing works awsome, so good we rarely use the push blowers anymore, well worth the money. Just my two cents.

www.schmidtlawncare.com
Runner
09-13-2003, 11:50 AM
This reminds me of a very funny story. A friend of mine attended Michigan State while obtaining his Bachelor Degree in Turf Management. He told me that as they used to work with facility management, all the time, they would get into some rather so-so tasks. One day, while blowing leaves on campus, using one of these machines, there would be students who would be too stupid to avoid the work area, and chooseto walk right through - being covered by dust and debris. Well, one day, while he was doing this, a kid comes riding by on his bike, with the rack all loaded down with strapped down books and such. Rather than holding up just a little bit, and waiting for this blower, (now, mind you, you can easily see the power and force this thing has as it's moving a 4 ft. pile of leaves and debris several feet at a time), he decides he's just going to keep going. Well, my friend John just caught him out of the corner of his eye to see this kid getting blown right off of his bike, and he said you just saw books and papers flying in the wind like they were hit by a tornado. As John looked back, he saw the kid picking himself back up, and scurrying to grab his books and things. Shows the mentality of some of these students.
BSDeality
09-13-2003, 12:02 PM
EdgeWater, I'll start a thread in Off-Topic about the spud gun.
colonel landscaping
09-13-2003, 06:38 PM
Originally posted by BSDeality
GLAN, you mean you've never launched an empty soda can out of the tube of a BP blower? they go about 30 feet :)




yup..... they sure do!! hehe
BSDeality
09-13-2003, 06:53 PM
http://www.agro-tec.com/agricultural.shtml

anyone every used on of these "debris" blowers? they're at teh very bottom of that link. They mount on the front of a Z or (possibly with some modding, a WB). I'm in the market for a push blower, but i figured maybe i'd get something i could slap on my WB since my deck is removeable or on a Z when i get one.