Would this replace a Cub?

[LiL' Red]

Now this is a real snowblower! 454 cu in Chevy.

[George Willer]

Only for very limited things.

This might be more useful... it can pull things with all those Briggs engines all working together.

[boldpsi]

LiL'

get good gas mileage, maybe, one driveway to the gallon?! now that's a snow-blower-and-a-half!! i bet it's handy in a blizzard ;^)



dave

[SONNY]

If that blower is the one with the car axle diffy in the front, ---the snow wont feed into the augers, and the thing just bogs down! (I seen vids of it running), and YES a CUB would outdo it hands down, no contest!!--(seriously!--not jokin' here!!) thanks; sonny

[Lurker Carl]

Snowblower? Use a snow cannon:

[LiL' Red]

If that blower is the one with the car axle diffy in the front, ---the snow wont feed into the augers, and the thing just bogs down! (I seen vids of it running), and YES a CUB would outdo it hands down, no contest!!--(seriously!--not jokin' here!!) thanks; sonny

Don't know if it's the same one or not, just got it as an email, thought I would have a little fun on the board. Probably worthless as t.ts on a rainbarrel but I bet it sounds GOOD!

[SONNY]

YA!!!--the guy that made it just wanted something to go out in his driveway at 4:00 am and make noise to p o the neighbors off with!!---Don't think it did much for that either!----He put an awful lot of time and money into making the thing,--it's hydro drive like skid-loaders and has a BUNCH of fancy gear installed on it!---He just bombed out on the blower end!!--too bad, too! thanks; sonny

[BigBill]

Snowblower? Use a snow cannon:

"GRAVELY" one of the best snowblowers and garden tillers I have ever used. There's nothing light duty about a gravely. They also had the best quick change system for changing attachments too. I could go from tilling to snowblowing to plowing in minutes with one 3/4" wrench. I'm surprised no one ever copied there system. Its so easy to use. BigBill

BTW; The orginal gravely "L" engine was awesome too with its long stroke it had plenty of torque. Just the sound of the mag and the valves was awesome too.

[WKPoor]

I have a neighbor that was trying to start a company making a tractor just like the gravely only up to modern standards and safety. I saw his prototype 2 yrs ago and it was real nice. All the implements were hydraulic drive as was the wheels too. And no tools were needed to change. The implement somehow snapped into the tractor and picked up the hydraulic connections at the same time. Its was a real quick change system. Safety was built into the handles like non I've seen before. Simply touching the grips allowed pressure to run the implement. Let go and the machine would stop moving and the implement would stop turning. The mower spindles where hydraulic motors. I mean this guy really thought it out and it was made of stainless steel too!!!
My guess is it probably would cost too much to make such a quality product since it would obviously last forever and work so well.

BTW I bought a Gravely stump grinder off this guy. It is a custom attachment he makes for the Gravely.

[Baydog]

The dumbest thing I ever done was to sell the Gravely Tractor that I got from my Dad. He had 3 ea over his lifetime and we finally made him get rid of the 2nd one because he had a heart attack while using it. The 3rd was a riding one that replaced that one. It had a 48" mower, a snowblower and a push blade. When you put chains on that tractor you couldn't stop it. The biggest problem that Gravely had was that they couldn't keep dealers in business because there was so little service needed and they didn't wear out. There was only one dealer in the State of Minnesota for years. I was at the dealer one day getting parts and I was talking to a gentleman that was a Park maintance supervisor and he told me it was the only tractor he could put a kid on for the whole summer and the kid couldn't break it. Don