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Up north of here about 40 miles a guy has a huge PH 4 wheel drive dumptruck with a front and wing plow on it. I meant to stop and take pictures of it the last time I was up that way-it is a bear for sure. Mike

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I believe this one is more apropriate for this forum.

And I believe if you look around you could find some actual snowblowers powered by flat 6 industrial engines. Probably for airport duty.

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And these Bombdier snow machines were mopar flathead powered

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I grew up in a small town in Idaho. An even smaller town (900 people) manufactured these.

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Rumor has it that they sent one to Germany. They went over for finish assembly and it snowed 3 feet so everyone hopped in it and went out to throw some snow. They were plowing through some massive drifts when they heard a nasty metalic sound. By the time they shut it down and look in front of the blades they found about 1/3 of a VW bug left!!! They rest had been shot out the blower vent.

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There was one on ebay a few years ago that was from an Air Force base. I stumbled across it in a search on "flathead."

It was a big 6x6 (engine not remembered) with a flat bed on it. Mounted on the flat bed was a 230 that was used solely to power the snow blower mounted on the front. I think a small car would fit in the apparatus.

The description said it cleared Air Force runways. I'd hate to be in the path of a rock kicked out by that sucker.

As for the original post, how many gallons per driveway?

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