Has anyone tried applying any coatings to the bottom flat portion of the snow blower and the bottom part of the core to prevent snow from sticking? I am contemplating applying rainx or a ceramic coating to see if it helps. Otherwise if there’s any wet/slushy snow it seems to stick to the areas with the aluminum blocks at the front of the core and inhibit traction.
First I’ve heard of it, but I think a good ceramic coating could do wonders.
I’m thinking it’s partially due to our climate and just how I’ve been using it. This latest incident I had driven through untouched snow since the last thaw and I think the snow on top insulated it and it still hadn’t re-frozen yet. I wasn’t quite far enough through the area towards the driveway when I hit resume and it tried to zero turn and just sunk, then to try to get out I had to raise and lower the bucket and inch the tracks along and was only able to make it about a foot or 2, it had frozen and was bottoming out.
I’m sure that’s a factor, but I would think/hope ceramic coating would help, some at least.
Back when I had a 1000’+ driveway I used to spray Pam cooking spray on plow blade on the front of my jeep when we got sticky snow.
Just a thought
I had this happen a few weeks back. The problem with snow is that there’s literally 1000 types of snow and freezing/thawing conditions. I desperately tried to get the core to move that day, but despite nothing in the way, it just wouldn’t move. I didn’t investigate too much, but it seemed this was the issue…snow packing just right underneath. I let it melt on the charger and tried again another day.
Adam’s ceramic coating is expensive but outperforms most others. You have to put it on dry surfaces so it may not be the easiest at this point in the season. I put it everywhere, especially on the top of the unit. The other issue I’ve been having is a reduced GPS signal from piled snow on top of the unit. But since it was ceramic coated, it comes off very easily.
I have sprayed silicone spray in the chute, in the augur and in the track every time I use it in the snow beside the silicone grease I used on the track already. it does help slide the snow off. but did not try on the bottom flat portion
Added a couple more instances to the album, definitely happening with cold snow.
Happens to me if blower lets snow get by because its at 2.0 when i lower mine after seeing the clearance of the space under core you dont want that packing the snow down and causes traction issues