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Old 26 Dec 2003, 10:49 pm
Scott MacLean
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Default Re: Mother of all snowblowers.

You want to see a REAL man's snowblower, take a look at the massive
snowblowers used to clear runways at major airports. Chicago has some great
ones. Run down the runway at 50 mph, two of them run staggered to do the
entire width of a 100 foot wide runway.

"Tegger®" <teggeratistopdotcom@changetheobvious.invalid> wrote in message
news:Xns945DDC7A4EEFCteggeratistop@207.14.113.17.. .
> sandrop@canada.com (SandroF1) spake unto the masses in
> news:7f25a872.0312251525.5a635e1e@posting.google.c om:
>
> > Once again, Honda becomes the technology leader in class leading
> > snowblowers. Check this one out....
> >
> > http://www.honda.ca/PowerEng/Snowblo...36/HS1336i.htm

>
>
> What's remarkable about this? Pretty small.
>
> You've obviously never seen the snowblowers used to clear Northern roads
> where very heavy snow is encountered. They replace the double-plow blades
> used on dump trucks down here. They are six feet tall (not including the
> chute), at least ten feet wide, and mount to the front of dump trucks.
>
> --
> TeGGeR®



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