This will clear the way and shake off some cabin fever, monster snow blowers what else is going to throw some snow 50 to 100 yards to clear mountain passes on the railroads, airports and rural highways but a powerful diesel engine with HP up to 2200, man that's some power and torque. The biggest of this class of snow blowers is the rotary snow plow, a piece of railroad snow fighting equipment. It is characterized by the large circular set of blades some 11 ft in length on its front end that rotate as a unit to cut through the deep snow on the track ahead. The precursor to the rotary snowplow was the wedge snowplow.
Fr Wikipedia:
The rotary was invented by Toronto, Ontario, Canada dentist J.W. Elliot in 1869. He never built a working model or prototype, although he wanted to. Orange Jull of Orangeville, Ontario, expanded on Elliot's design, building working models he tested with sand. During the winter of 1883–1884, Jull contracted with the Leslie Brothers of Toronto to build a full-size prototype that proved successful. Jull later sold his design rights to Leslie Brothers, who formed the Rotary Steam Shovel Manufacturing Company in Paterson, New Jersey. Leslie Brothers contracted with Cooke Locomotive & Machine Works in Paterson to do the actual construction. Another inventor is said to be Col. Lewis P. Campbell. He is listed in US patent 1848554.
Today we have this beast, 1750 hp and that's just for the rotor!
Rotary Snowplow Survivors
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Snow Wall!
On this particular mission, the snowblower's progress is hindered due to the considerable height of the snow wall. The snow-blower actually derailed a couple of times on this strip, which meant a heavy crane had to be brought in so that the train could be put back on tracks - a very difficult and costly operation. Filmed on the Romanian railways, during winter '12.
Video uploaded by U Tube user HuseinMP
Monster Blower!
TV 2200 is the world's largest self-propelled snow blower. The machine has two engines with a total power output of more than 2200 Hp. Made in Norway this massive snow blower is made by Overaasen and it's like the Optimus Prime of snow blowers. These hard winters in the states keep up we'll see this monster on the East coast maybe next year, thanks for the blow Norway!
Overaasen
Video uploaded by U Tube user goanor
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