The good old days, when safety came last!

Hi Chris. I just wanted say that video was awesome. I loved auto pilot lol 😁😁😁 . I agree with everyone saying that they don't make stuff like that anymore, now they make throw away equipment. I like old school.

That machine sure is built like a tank! I'm beginning to regret selling my 1978 Craftsman Driftbuster after watching this video! The auger design looks very similar to that used by AMF around the same era.

Nothing beats old school American craftsmanship one pull start excellent

All I've ever used was a shovel and a baby electric snow thrower....but this thing. I respect it.

That was awesome that thing is better than any of the modern ones.

Back when they made things to last!

My father had one almost identical Craftsman back in the 1960's but his was a 2 stage with a centrifugal clutch and chain drive for the auger/impeller. Built like a tank and would do the driveway on it's own waking in front of you. But it's one weak point was the transmission, used a metal disk with pins that would engage metal disks with holes, the pins would lock into when shifted. Tended to wear out the disk with holes and prone to jump out of gear. Still running when it was sold.

Had a blower like this back in mid sixties. An AMF with six horsepower Clinton engine. Had the drift buster on top but had circular plates. Lived in Buffalo NY. My dad came home with it one day. What a blessing!

I still have my fathers 1964 3 stage snow blower. it has a clutch drive for the auger assembly, a slide lever choke, and looks very very similar to yours. it's built like the old ford 3 cylinder tractor, which is built like a hammer - nothing ever goes wrong.

I've seen one that was made in the mid 70's for sears that had a 10 horsepower and the bucket was 30 wide with that same setup. The chute was a little taller and it had two headlight on the front. It was probably the biggest, baddest, coolest design they ever had. Its too bad they don't make a real 3 stage anymore, now they make those joke of a 3 stage machines that are flimsy. I can tell you one thing. You take an old school 3 stage like that modify it with a 12 or 13 horsepower engine, build the chute taller, add lights and put tires on with better tread and chains, you'll have the best snowblower anywhere. Oh and a chute deflector cable to move it up and down from behind, you'll have the best snowblower that exists.

I agree 100% that these old machines are much better than the ones today. I bought one this summer , an old NTD snowflite 8/26. I made sure to get an old on rather than the newer ones. once again awesome machine !

Thanks for the reply. Just as a side note. I live in south Florida, so therefore I am an expert on all things snow and snow blower related.

Had one much similar back in the late 60's. had the drift buster and all. worked like a tank...never tried to send it off by itself to blow tho... lol.. great old machines...

Awesome video! Made me want to throw up from the "go pro" view but awesome! I have a 30 some odd inch 10hp drift breaker and that beast would probably take down a small oak tree!

sweet snowblowers. they just don't make em like they used to. my dad lost his fingers in one in the blizzard of 1978. here in Massachusetts. I subed. 👍 keep it chooching

DAM THE TORPEDOES FULL SPEED AHEAD !!!!!! haha had to come see her again shes as old as me lol

I've rebuilt and restored many of them over the years. Black and white were the first ones made by Homko, for Sears. Next was the black and yellow models, AMF bought out Homko and continued to build them. Then they changed the colors to red and white, and also started using a belt drive. The red and white models also use a standard rubber drive disk. The red and white models started using the larger impeller, and were available with a 700 Peerless transmission, instead of the friction drive. The red and white models were built by Murray, after they bought out AMF. The gray and black models were the last to be built. 1964 to 1983. During the production of the red and white models, they stopped using the cast iron gearbox housing. The red and black models were the last to use the metal covers. Most red and white models use special size belts, so dont exspet the belts from TSC to work right. The auger belt for the red and black model, use a raw edge belt. Some red and white models also use a raw edge for the auger. They were made in 26" to 32" If anyone has any questions about them, feel free to ask.

I have 3 of those. Two 8hp and a 10 hp. All electric start and headlight option. Tanks.

I have a 1972 craftman 3 stage, runs great, New Brunswick Canadian

That things are going angry beast. Love it.

I have always wanted to build a system like this but on a bigger scale. Cool old machine.

I have a 1978 8 hp BobCat with an impeller that is two scoops and spins 90 degrees from the usual. That thing is built like a tank, no shear pins just a clutch and a real transmission. The augur spins when the lever is thrown but the drive wheels have a safety lever you need to hold, no autopilot here. I bought it last year because my new snowblower of 4 years had cracked and split the housing, the impeller and worn the connection bolts. I had replaced the impeller shaft because it sheared off. That junk cost me a fortune in repairs so seeing one with 1/8 inch thick impellers and thick metal everywhere I decided to go for it. The only weak thing on it is the B&S motor so I figure I'll put in a diesel motor and swap wheels for treads and that should make it a beast.

perfect apocalypse machine

Had a friends very similar to that. 1972 Dynamark 3 Stage. Needed a new coil and points. Fun timing.

As a hobby, I'd take that blower apart and clean and re-paint the whole thing of course re greasing the whole thing. As well as carb cleaning and all that.

Cool old snowblower. I wonder what that machine cost back in the day? The salesman probably told customers it had an auto pilot function. Start it up and go back to fireplace. Imagine that today. Enjoy seeing the old machines at work.

Sounds like some of the sound effects from Maximum Overdrive .👍🤘

Like campfire smoke, No matter which way the wind direction the snow is always be in your face

That model I believe was made by the AMF company. I have a 1972 called polar bear. Same model and a beast in the snow.

They are making a comeback

Back in the 60's my dad had 2 German -American snowblowers. My brother and myself.

I've got one too and love it. It's heavy duty for sure. Not like the stamped metal ones of today. Mine has the big tecumseh motor on it and I think back when the first Japanese cars were introduced here in the USA these snowblowers served a duel purpose. Not only getting rid of the snow but recycling Japanese cars too. Oh and kids bicycles left out and not put back where they belong hahaha.

This is about a 1967 unit. Ours had a plexiglass wind screen that cane up from the handle assembly. When Sears was king!

Had one when I was a kid with headlight good machine .

Holly craps 💩. Now there's a snow ❄️ blower NO I'm Wrong .. Ice breaker where in the wild wild world of sports are you going with that lake Superior 🤪 up in northern Canada 🇨🇦 ... Bam that thing needs to be fully restored that is the best I have ever seen.. I thought my old John Deere from 1970 was bullet proof and still working great but that is the ultimate weapon against snow ❄️ and ice... I just love it come on mother nature bring it on😜🐕 P.S. how many h.p. motor looks like 7h.p. than it my same motor bullet proof and bitch to start have to use electric starter plug in wall mist be high compression hear that rumble Even the auto pilot and chute crank look same only difference is 3 stage and gears design left hand for drive clutch? If so same and prob 7 h.p. because that motor looks exactly like mine.. Keep up the good work just love it ☺️🇨🇦

I had my father’s 60’s 6HP 3 stage, mine had a centrifugal clutch and throttle was on the carburetor. Ran it till almost 2000 when the engine seized.

even had crome moonie hubcabs!

You don’t have enough snow on the ground to make that beast work LOL! Nice!

I almost positively guarantee this guy tried starting this 50X before we saw the final product. Its called editing. No doubt that this is a quality old USA made product, but it would never start on the very 1st shot.

Should call it the war-blower. 👍

Around 1986-87 or so my father purchased a new Yardman which had a similar 2 auger design, rather than by chains the augers were belt driven by complex angle pullies enclosed in a narrow compartment on the back and side of the housing and, always a source of aggravating problems!

More then cool ! I love that top side auger! I wonder why they stopped that design? I would think even if the chain broke the lower auger would still turn........I suppose till the lower auger chewed up the chain and it ground to a halt ! The only down side I see is that lousy Shute..... too short and have to leave the handle bars to bend down and direct it............But with a better shute that thing is SNOWZILLA ! Check out the snow blower shute modivication I posted a few days ago, that might help you. !

My dad had this exact same snowthrower, bought in 1968. We had a 250' driveway and this machine was terrific. Built like a tank and loud as hell. Always woke up the neighbors. His also had a big plexiglass shield between the operator and the machine, adding to the awesomeness!. The drive system broke in the early 90s and my dad could not fix it. I had it for a number of years but I never fixed it and I junked it in the early 2000s. I have been trying to find another one for years. Could you please post the model number so i could have a better time finding one.

lmao love the cruz control haha great machine dude . have you ever heard of putting a piece of rubber or mud flap on the impeller it makes it throw farther

this machine worth rebuilding at the end of the engine life, perhaps a 8 or 10 HP engine but not much bigger

Lookin for Mr Bill saying nooooooo

Nice, I have one a couple years newer or older. They don't build them like they use to

Sweet.

Look ma no hands ! 😝 hey hold my beer ! 😁

Spray some Pam cooking oil or past wax in the Shute helps a lot as well to make it throw more...

They sure don't make 'Em like that anymore! it looks like it would eat up anything in it's path!

Not only do I remember them, I still have one (currently in restoration). When people wonder whether it could "eat through a brick wall" or other similar situations, I can personally attest to loosing one of the tire chains (unnoticed by me) which it promptly ate on the return pass. It did slow the auger down enough for me to notice *something* was wrong, but didn't stop it from completing that pass. This unit was one of my 3 favortie blasts from the past, the only things I didn't care for were the tires (without chains on them, useless for snow), chute as already mentioned, and its tendency that, once a shear pin did let loose, it seemed to continue to want to chuck the same one over and over.

I Have this exact model Snowblower. I just put a new motor on it and had to make a new Axle for it. I also put a new friction disk in it. but the Friction disc Doesn't give me much power and the wheels barely push the Snowblower, do you have any tricks to get the friction disc drive system working better? I really hope you see this comment and have any ideas for me. Id love to keep mine running too.

That was great loved how it went by itself that sure does remind me of the old days We had at Toro two-stage went by it self too the escape of the craftsman snowblower

I’d love to find 1 or 2 of them as the driveway going up to the pole barns I rent can get 3 feet tall drifts from a snow storm. I have 2 broken newer 2 stage snowblowers I could swap the engines from.

Might want to aim that snow shoot in another Direction before you start it, hard way to find out there's still a rock in there.

Hate to be a debbie downer but ive seen the same snowblower in other videos. That model is the "professional model" and the one without it is the "Homeowner" model. I have the "homeowner" its good. But the "professional" chews!!

Interesting design and also that it only throws it about 10 feet, definitely underpowered by today’s standards, I think Ariens Professional can throw snow almost 100 feet. Not a big deal when you think about it, but if you have a wide driveway you end up blowing the same snow 2 or 3x

Btw can ya blow together a 4ft deep drift to run it through on video? i got a hankering to see snowblowers performance in 4ft or deeper

Cool. Don't ever get rid of that! I think it may be a 1965 with that round exhaust. Wonder if that Tecumseh has an iron sleeve too? Those lasted forever. Gear oil need a change ever?

Would be neat to see you put a Predator 420 cc when that old Tecumseh goes. They used to be pretty reliable back then so it'll go for a while.

Another "536" model prefix made for Sears by AMF/Western Tool, circa late 1960s. I have its' slightly younger AMF branded twin with a 7 hp newer Tecumseh Snow King on it.

Those were some crude machines. Look at where they put the chain! Is that made to fail or what. Right in the auger housing where it will be engulfed in snow. I'm sure it lasted the season but what an engineers screw up. You'd think even back then they would have enclosed the chain on the outside of the auger inside some kind of housing to keep it lubricated.

Guy in town had one!

Bismarck (the ship) only lasted 8 months. :-)

I like how somebody decided that 6 hp would be designated as 6:00 hp? Is that a new kind of decimal place? Or is it 6:00 (6 o'clock) hp? My 1969 Ariens runs up the driveway by itself as well!

From the year 2021, I gotta wonder if in the year 2071, will someone make a video of a functional snow blower that was manufactured in the year 2021.....not likely

do you still have your Ariens as well?

Let it go and light either a cigar or a smoke and then continue on.

OK, I'm no gearhead by any means but I do know the value of maintenance. I was told years ago the best thing you can do for a vehicle is regular service and oil changes...So having said that, I'm not criticizing but asking, did you change or dump and purge old gas, change the engine oil, change the differential oil, lube chains and other moving parts before starting? I'd hate to run skunky, gelled gas thru and oil with water, rust and other contaminants thru what otherwise may be a perfectly good machine. Also an observation the differential on the snowblowers became much smaller over 10 years ago when I lived in Calgary. Have you noticed the same?? 2nd point, I'm a Medic, re safety features. The addition of the shut off on lawnmowers has saved a lot of fingers according to Dr's I know. Similar with chainsaws. Nowadays the Stihl is easier to sart with the compression release and the chainstop helps reduce kickback injuries. There are some dandy ones on UTube. Stay safe everyone.

600hp!!!!

Baby moon hubcaps.

I don't know at what point they started making snowblowers flimsier but , if you use them as Meant to be { as a Power tool } on / Off Pavement , Hard snow , sticky snow ..etc ... and not just Powder snow ... they don't last Too many years .... What sucks with them , is that the body IS the frame ...and the running -gear { in particular , the cog that spins the front impeller } won't track the drive -chain properly , due to sidewall Flex once the metal gets weak from much use ...The cog picks up a little " slop " {end-play } .......and the drive- chain will climb right Off the cog .... and / or bunch up ............ bring everything to a halt ... until you tilt the machine on end and remove the cover-plate { or leave it Off } ...and thread the drive -chain back on ......... This is a mid to late - 90's Murray I'm talking about { from Home Depot } that I was forced to buy mid -winter or later , when an older Ariens I had been given must've had a piston wrist -pin throw it's clip or something ...... and slammed the piston -rod right out through the side of the cylinder-wall ...

My neighbor had one of those when I was a child. That was 30+ years ago and it was a piece of shit then. Can’t believe this one even works. His would bog down in any small amount of snow and be lucky to through snow halfway across the driveway when it did work. Sure looks cool though.

My dad used to have one very similar to this. I believe it was a Jacobsen brand, it was red and white but I don't recall seeing the name on it anywhere. Worked like a champ though.

You say scary i say super cool 6hp blower

That thing looks like it could eat a tree and ask for seconds! They don't make them like they used to.

Go to the hobbies shop get some remote controls for an airplane and stay out of the cold

That thing looks like it would chew through a brick wall and just keep going.

So you're saying that it hasn't been started in ages and it started and ran on first pull? Would have been nice to see what preparations you made to get it to this point and anything you found wrong and how you corrected it.3 inches isn't worth the demonstration. Impressive machine but not an impressive video.

awesome machine made to last not in China lol

Snow, Heavy Machinery, Alcohol and Guns, because 'Murica

safety ? we dont need no stining safety ! LOL

1 shot 1 pull and bam off to work lol they dont make em like that anymore no they fall apart in 7 years lol

A brand 2021 Toro 26" wide has a mere 2 hp more then this 50+ yr old

thing prob only throws it like 2 feet lol

Put a DIESEL on it !!! ☠️👻💀

Scare the kids? No Safety features? Runs when you let it go? This is a joke right? This is Cool? My little brother got his hand caught in the auger while trying to clean it out when we were kids, luckily just painfully broke it. Wait till a kid uses it and loses an appendage... When you're sued, as it should be for being cutsy stupid we can say you got what you deserve. There is a reason they don't "make em like they use to"... SAFETY! What a waste of time... Crush it.

People who use starting fluid on small engines need their asses kicked. It shortens the life of the engine. Use WD-40. It works just as well and doesn't wash the oil off the cylinder

Needs a taller chute, too much blowback in your face....

No… not three stage 🤦‍♂️