Trash or Treasure?

OK, this one is for all of you that know about my nose for cool finds. This 7 hp 2 stage Jacobsen snow blower was very well kept and even came with the owners manuel. It also came with electric start and tire chains. As you can see there is a little surface rust but that's all I could find wrong with it. I adjusted the govenor and it now throws snow a good 15 feet.

I guess I better tell you that it only costed me $15.00 It has cleaned many driveways and sidewalks. My plan is to freshen it up this summer and make it look the best I can. Something like the lawn tractor. More treasures to come.

Oxymoron

One of the things about winter in Logan is that sometimes cabinfever motivates me to create Frankinstins like this.

I've adapted this 2 hp Briggs and Stratton to this Nishiki 21 speed Mt bike. I had the motor mount bent up by local fab shop and I'm using a syntrifical clutch/torque converter to deliver power to the rear tire.

Pillow blocks hold the jackshaft right where the old crank use to be. I had to adapt/tig a small bicycle sprocket to a keyed colar thats on the jackshaft. (hidden behind pillow block).

A belt will be soon fitted to the torque converter.

I still need to break the chain and shorten it. A neat thing about this contraption is that its not limited to the syntrifical clutch for variable speed. It also has the seven gears on the rear sprocket. I don't plan to be scraping bugs from my teeth due to mach speeds however, I do expect this to clip along and maintain speed on the flat. Lots of work still to do. I'll keep you posted.