UPDATE: Varner Equipment took it back after charging me a "restocking fee" and shipping, I lost about $1500 on this. Disappointed Berco's warranty didn't cover all the failures.

All good to know. Not waisting my time or cash. Thanks for the info

The castor wheels on my Bercomac are mounted on a plate instead of arms. Still, they are bent and ruined with regular use because the don’t have a suspension to compensate for bumps and hills.

we have 1 with our unit in the Army for out use to clear around our building, and same issue the bars bend. but we have good tools to fix it but shouldn't have too. and only a few years old. we have a enclosed compact tractor as well as snowblowers and shovels but the berco is just in the shop with our 900cc diesel side by side always requiring tensioner adjustments because they bend like yours and drags.

Was about to pull the trigger on a new one. Thank you for your info. I'm going to look elsewhere.

Interesting. I have the 54” premium berco attached to a can am 1000. With tracks I live In the Rockies with a mile long dirt road full of pot holes uphills down hills, and mine works great. I’m glad I have the premium package looks like it’s a lot stronger than the frame on yours. I did Learn to drive a bit slower when driving back after iv finished.

I would love to see a video of how you built and modified that 30yr old blower shown on your Honda UTV. Love the engine rear mounted! What did you use for the drive shaft? More details please?

That's for this video I was looking on buying one but now looking else where thumbs up on this video

Like you said, the blower and the engine are great, but unfortunately Berco dropped the ball on the back end of that unit for sure. The only way to make that usable is to cut off those arms with the wheels and modify that frame to be attached to the blower so the frame and blower lift off the ground as one unit. It would take some fabricating on your end to improve on their weak setup. Good luck with this and I hope you can get it back up and going. My 1973 44" Berco is awesome and built like a tank and is hooked to a 16 HP Garden tractor, And man can it throw snow. Cheers.

Nice work on your new blower! Do a video showing how and what you did plus it in operation. Thanks

If I can snag one of these cheap I might consider cutting it up and configuring it like your home made rig.

I had purchased one of these last year for my John Deere Gator. I had exactly the same experience. I returned it to the dealer for a loss. This is meant to be used on 1 private driveway, and should be advertised as such. This is more of a toy than a $7500 piece of equipment.

First off, your not suppose to go 15 to 20 mph with this snowblower ,they say top speed is 6 mph .that wound be one of the issues your having with the wheel bearings and assembly ,by bouncing at a high rate of speed. I have a 54" berco with a 690 Honda engine now for 5 years and it's hooked up to a 700 arctic cat atv ,I understand it takes a lot of room to maneuver but I wouldn't get rid of it .I have weights in the back ,no chains in the front but I have some in the back.Works perfect for me.Just my opinion ,I wouldn't put chains in the front ,it's hard on the front end components .

Hey Ryan. Do you have a video of the homemade blower unit? I’m thinking of doing the same thing and was curious if you had any tips.

Please do a walk around with your homemade blower. Looking to build one myself for an outlander 850 max. Thanks for the info on this one. Disappointing to say the least.

WOW! Clearly this is horrible designed and they didn't think. Thank you for posting this so others don't get scammed. I can't believe they charged restock nor shipping in what is clearly not your fault.

I own the same unit , I agree the caster wheel set up is junk . I made up a 8 inch wide ski and mounted it under frame of blower around the same area as the wheels . I works great now as it slides on the ski .I even removed the wheels .

I see you have chains on your front tires. Im guessing that gives you the best bite and traction on inclines and because of the weight of the everything?

To put more weight on the UTV front wheels when raising the blower, lower the winch attachment point on the snowblower. do not use the factory pulley. Then when lifting the blower even slightly, it pulls the UTV down applying more weight to the front wheels. I adjusted mine for no weight on my Polaris Ranger or Jeep Wrangler as it was not needed on level ground.

Isn't the Rammy snowblower better? From what I heard it is

Thank you so much. I was about to buy one, and now I won't. I agree that this design is ridiculous, and also completely fixable at factory stage.

I wonder how one of these would do in a Roxor? Would they perform better with the weight of the Roxor?

I think you could have a nice side business building custom snowblower units for UTVs. Me first!

Please make a video on your snowblower build! I am in the process right now and any help would be appreciated! Cheers!

To stop the eyebolts or turnbuckles from "unwinding" put a bungee cord through the holes between the two of them, side to side and they will stay put.

I think you need to compare the berco to the smal walk behind blower you have. Those casters are designed for maximum 10km/h so i dont think they would work for driving long distances. I agree with it having poor turning radius. Have you looked at the ramy snowblower? I think it would work better for you. If you didn't already have the one you built yourself.

I'm no electrician, but that wiring loom looped round the back of the A-frame looks wrong- would in not be better in front of the post rather than behind? It looks as though there is not much slack in the cable and that's going to put pressure on the connections . You said that it was pulled out of the connectors and you needed to fit a new loom? How exactly was the loom pulled out? That's 'dead' space there behind the auger, nothing should be getting in behind there unless you are driving into bushes or you are going so fast that snow is building up in front of the auger and spilling over the top into the space between the auger and the bumper of the ATV. As to the bent radius arms on the blower, I've seen that happen when equipment has not been raised high enough and the front end of the ATV dips and the equipment comes into contact with the road surface at speed- like say a pothole when driving fast. Shock load is magnified by speed, leading to greater force, though you are correct in saying that this could be reduced by the addition of a cross brace that's also connected to the A-frame of the winch pulley. Like others have said, your video would have benefited from a walk-around of the device fitted to the ATV you used it on, with shots of it both lowered and in the fully raised position so viewers can see the ride height and its distance from the bottom of the auger housing and jockey wheels to the surface of the road. That would tell us all how much capacity the unit has for rough ground in the raised position. You also never mentioned if you were using ballast in the back of your ATV to counteract the weight of the blower. That looks to be a fairly heavy unit and is going to make the entire system of blower and ATV 'see-saw' on the ATV's front axle. This would also make the rear axle become light when driving fast on uneven surfaces, adding to the already existing issue of 'bouncing' blows already mentioned to the blower's jockey wheels. I would say that you would need almost the blowers weight in/on the back of the ATV, above or just beyond the ATV's rear axle to counter this.

Im on my second Berco. !st went over 20 years with nothing but a bent auger. Built like a tank.

Two questions: why did you buy one when you had already built one which worked fine ?? And did you not notice any issues with the Bercomac design compared to your design ?? Show us your snowblower in action. Thank you !!

Got more info on the blower you build for the utv??

Looks strong enough to plow an indoor warehouse 🤔🤨 Should have bought the outdoor version instead

You should make a video of the one you built…..

Those are low speed castors and the mounts need bracing, 7k is nuts. It might work well for a small four wheel drive tractor with a FEL but not enough hp to run a blower. Make a quick attach to replace the front bucket.

Pretty easy to see why the Berco subframe and wheels failed. I'd like to see how you're powering the other blower.

Just a theory: If this was installed on the Honda UTV to the left of the Berco snow blower, the UTV frame and the snow blower sub frame came into contact, and this resulting in overloading the arms and the bearing in the wheel. And why the bearing on the left side? Because when you sit offset in the UTV, you are on the left side.

i had a berco vantage 66 i paid over 6 grand for it was a piece of junk too heavy for my side by side and kept shearing pins and wheels bent was a smooth gravel drive way i ended up buying a rammy it has never failed to run and nothing has bent or broke. be very waryty of berco vantage 66 as far as i am concerned it is a piece of junk factory was of no help. i had it one season. well only worked for one day before it bent and wouldnt turn over priced junk for my hard earned money i lost money wheni sold it to a machine shop who fixed it they said it still isnt all that good

What kind of sunglasses you wearing?

Just came across your video. This really sucks, I've seen how expensive they are. It's almost like they should have made them only for tractors or equipment with a bobcat quick attach.

I need a pair of those sunglasses. What are they?

A good welder can fabricate a fix for that easy.

How many freaking snowblowers do you need/ how much money do you have tied up in them?

Berco unit itself are probably the best on the market, but that setup has to be the worst designs. thanks for posting.

I wish I never bought one. It went back to the dealer TWICE and they say it's perfect. It can't remove 50% of the snow that my 8hp walk behind can! I try absolutely CREEPING down my driveway with 6 inches of snow...and it bogs down and stalls. I bought a 6 foot $9000 snowblower to IMPROVE my snow removal...not cut it in half! Factory is no help...it simply CANNOT process enough snow. I was lucky to get $4000 for it...and used it 3 times. They should be run out of business. Absolutely a product that doesn't work

Money back or sue, hate to say it that way..

Looks like a high priced boat anchor

Berco ,, Like pushing a chain

I think the reason it failed is because of the motor between the wheels it’s heavy and vibrates as you are using it

But it has a good motor on it.

Sounds like you didn’t buy the right equipment. You need commercial grade stuff

What are you using now on your side by side?

Yea those bearings are not made to run the road. You bought the wrong machine for the application.

Come on Berco, this is a $7-8000 unit. I can buy a tractor blower or skid blower for way less with a bulletproof design. Will not waste my money. Total BS on the restocking fee.

Massively under engineered.... simple really...

Poor design. Even worse customer support. Berco needs to step up or suffer the avoidance the buyer will seek after seeing this video. More engineering went into the home made unit that into the Berco unit. This Berco design is clearly a disaster.

It’s not meant or designed to go down a road at 20mph!! You bought the wrong system for your application ; simple

poor engineering

I never heard someone talk themselves up so much. Sounds like you haven't done your research. And sounds like user error and abuse

You should listen to yourself...uhm...uhm...uhm...uhm...uhm

I'm mounting 3 push behind snowblowers on my atv plow soon😁

Wow that's utter trash, what an insult to American Made...I'm looking at these units and I was extremely impressed untill I just found this video. Good on you doing the right thing for us Man, where ever you got that unit from I understand he's just a messenger per-say but he made money off you so he better be a dam warrior to make it right for you

For a guy who owns umpteen snowblowers and apparently was born operating one, he doesn’t seen to have any idea about using the proper tool for the job.

they need thicker freekin steel that looks cheesy af !!! thats just a bad design