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Re: Replace Skid Shoes With Wheels?
Reply #26 Oct 25, 2010 10:56 am |
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Good points longboat, I had similar concerns. However, I'm not doubting Thomas and would give it a fair shake before coming to any conclusions.
For my application, the Honda snowblower bucket puts a lot of weight on the skids. This is as much as 2x the weight of a regular wheeled snowblower. The skids go through hell, taking abuse from side forces when turning, salt, sand, rocks, and pavement cracks. Those little stainless steel pins and rollers may or may not hold up, but my real concern was the 1/4" or less molded polymer (plastic for the weak hearted) thickness that the pins are pressed into. The videos showed the snowblower going through 1-2 inch of snow, on smooth blacktop pavement
Anyways, I hope the maker/designer have taken diligent steps to do long term test to smooth out the reliability wrinkles before putting this stuff on the market. At the present, there is not a roller skid made to fit the Honda. I'm not comfortable with drilling my bucket to fit it and become a beta tester for this product. I don't mind dropping $30 to try it out, but I do mind drilling unnecessary holes into a $3000 snowblower.
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