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Sorry, Biker, but welding and grinding is one thing...videos and such a completely different matter. Guess which one I'm more comfortable with, and have the equipment for? Besides, I have already rethought the current setup. Either I modify the 'blower's mounting setup (the quick attach) and it...

So what you should be looking for is a good cat. As far as that No Chew Deterrent in your photo goes, it obviously lives up to its name. Had its intended purpose actually been to deter chewing, it wouldn't say "No" in front of it.

Surely you are talking about the meticulously chosen color combinations, not function.

It's alive! Thanks largely to Ahab, who made me ditch some other chores and hook things up for a test run of the snowblower. Getting to the quick disconnects wasn't all that easy, and with the spare in place would've been harder yet. Still, the 50/50 chance worked out, and the blower is turning...

Now, that is a good idea, FOD. I'm picturing cutting it just a bit to the left of center, leaving the factory hold-downs intact. Then making tabs for the left (and probably most often removed) part that would go underneath the right half. With the center portions secured that way, either a tab...

Hmm, mine (not the 'glass one) requires quite a bit of fiddling to get the latches to catch and it's by no means loose. Maybe I should check for bent hardware? The other solution to getting easier hood removal and reinstallation is to have a forklift rather than a loader on the front. It is so...

FOD, hood fitment and securing one is on my list, too. I'm fitting a 'glass hood to a SEE, and the primary issue is that since it's a 2-layer design it doesn't seem to want to fit over the brake and clutch reservoirs. Alright, that's fairly easy to fix by cutting out enough material on the...

All the hose connections are made, so I could plug the snow blower in tomorrow. Which may not be an all bad idea, before I spend time on making mounts for the quick disconnects and route the hoses. It'll be a dry run (assuming the connections don't leak) since there's no snow on the ground...

After having made it to page 96 in the re-reading of this thread, I must apologize to all of you. There are a number of things that I promised to look into, and share the findings of, but never did. Of course, it also reminded me of a number of things that should've been done to my FLUs, which...

Good point, Mr. Hood. But please remember that I already bought two of those fancy laminated things. And now that Ahab alerted the enemy (in a roundabout way) to my plan, I may have to get moleskin seat covers. If that even helps. Might have to install a stereo in the SEE so I can play the...

Please put me on that (e)mailing list. My plan is to print the dash portion of the schematic out and put a sheet in the passenger side foot well. If the plan works, the rodents will start chewing on that piece of paper instead of the real thing.

Good question, General. Haven't measured/checked, but two might fit. I moved the posts in from the corners, mostly to be kind to the concrete, but that limits the available access. Sure was nice to be able to tinker with the snowblower hydraulics a bit today, staying dry while it snowed. Stuck...

Mark, there's a reason I always use 2WD until it'll go no more. It's nice to have a backup. It also forces me to be a better driver. Then again, I have wore out a fairlead or two, winching myself out of (and even into) trouble. I really like the idea of having a fenced platform, as suggested by...

It was the low tech part that made me chicken out, Mark. I absolutely hate being on ladders, so when getting to the part where it was 14 feet to the concrete below, on a wobbly ladder, I gave up. Last night a new plan was hatched, and the next attempt will involve two tractors with pallet forks...

What could possibly go wrong?

Another thought just emerged from my brain cell. It would be very easy to make those front jacks hydraulic. Maybe you could get that done quicker than fixing the existing, or making a front lockout system?

Since my lockout doesn't lower, just locks, I hadn't considered using that feature to plant the front jacks firmly. And I've only used the front jacks once, and that was when using the forklift for a straight lift. Fearing that I'd put way too much force on the front axle with that very heavy...

Alright, fair enough. I can definitely relate to frustrating experiences. For whatever reason, that has become the norm rather than the exception recently. However, while I failed miserably when writing what I wrote above, I try to do my best to keep my frustrations to myself. Also, I find it...

Hey, might as well get it off my chest: I wasn't even aware that I (or anybody else here, for that matter) owed you any explanations or solutions to your problems with your HMMH. Perhaps wrongfully, I thought that this forum was meant for its members to share information (on a voluntary basis)...

So Bison, I'm guessing that the above means that you're not interested in trying to use hydraulic cylinders as a lockout, as discussed earlier? And from what I can tell from the few photos I've seen, the HME's rear lockout would be easy to duplicate. I'd probably use trailer balls and couplers...