[Sawdust]

My driveway is not overly big, but with the house, garage, trees and shrubs, I have always in the past changed the deflector angle trough out the job. (even more so when the wind starts to blow back in your face.)

The agro trends blower has a manual rotation handle for the chute, but the deflector was fixed into place. So I decided to use the curl function of the FEL and added a cylinder to the deflector.


before.

I needed to either cut the shaft of the cylinder, or make a bracket to adjust the distance of the mounting points. Since i don't weld, i decided to make the bracket out of 1/4" aluminum plate. (made a sample out of 1/4" oak ply first. :lol: but it did work)

The 4" stroke cylinder was a perfect match to the original adjustment of 4". So it was just a case of getting the mounting points right. Then used 2 13' length of 1/4" hose with quick connects on the tractor end and ran it up over the fender beside the grab handle and connected to the FEL control. Test run and it works perfectly. :thumbup1gif:

Boring Video

 

[dieselshadow]

Nice professional looking job Sawdust!:thumbup1gif:

 

[Sawdust]

Nice professional looking job Sawdust!:thumbup1gif:

Thank you.

Oh and I should add that yes come a little warmer weather I will be adding a nice coat of green. Just wanted to work out any bugs first.

 

[Kennyd]

Superb! Are you going to add hydraulics to the chute rotation now since you are a expert:good2:

 

[GUS FINK]

when I installed my chute control fortunately I had a threaded rod on my cylinder for adjustment
installed a new joy stick linked to power beyond for cute and rotation control

 

[RandyM]

Pretty Slick Sawdust!

I really like those mods that make our chores easier. And, not to mention the satisifaction of a completed project by your own hand. Well Done. :good2:

 

[Sawdust]

Superb! Are you going to add hydraulics to the chute rotation now since you are a expert:good2:

Not this year. but definitely a possibility for next. Of course I would then want to add a power beyond and separate control for it. but time will tell.

only real problem is deere design the 1026r with the tool box on the right, same side the chute handle goes to. So i might run into trouble in turning the handle. but only time and snow will tell.

 

[mjncad]

Nice job of making use of existing brackets and holes.

 

[Sawdust]

Updated the small pins to stronger bolts and beefed up the bottom pin.

Pic of the hoses. Not the best solution I know but it works. Dam end cap covers cost $10 each. but wanted to keep track of the connection and keep the lose caps covered.

 

[mjncad]

You can always tweak the hoses during the warm season.