On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 17:17:03 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2020-12-02 4:30 p.m., Sheldon Martin wrote:
>> On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 11:02:47 -0500, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>
>>>> There are electric and diesel snow blowers. The electric snowblowers
>>>> I've seen are small and use an extention cord. I can mount a huge
>>>> snow blower on my tractor and it would be diesel... there are lots of
>>>> diesel snow blowers, that's what many cities use, mounted on diesel
>>>> trucks. But I'd rather my snow plow.
>>>
>>> I have never seen a diesel powered residential snow blower. They would
>>> likely be way too costly and too much a pain in the ass starting on cold
>>> weather. Tractor mounted blowers aren't really diesel powered because
>>> they are mounted on a diesel powered tractor. They are run by the PTO,
>>> and could be mounted on any tractor with a PTO.
>>
>> Are you pretending to be a commedian... any snow blower mounted on a
>> diesel powered vehical is automatically a diesel powered snowblower...
>> or are you normally so dense?
>
> I am not the one with an obtuse argument. Tractor mounted snowblowers
> are mounted on the rear end of the unit and are mechanically powered by
> means of the PTO. By your argument, a snowblower on a diesel powered
> tractor is diesel powered. It takes about 10 minutes to detach it from
> the diesel powered tractor and then attach it to a gas powered tractor.
> It could also be attached to a propane powered tractor, a LNG powered
> tractor or an electric powered tractor. It remains mechanically powered
> because it has no power plant of its own.

I agree with Dave. All NOT in favor, say "Nay".

-sw