Who Makes/Made/Where to get parts for Bradford Snowblower.

[backpack09]

I have a lead for an old snowblower, runs great Throws great, but the cluch/drive setup is toast. Does anyone know where I could hunt down the parts for one of these. I have most of a model number, and all of a serial number, but google is failing me.

And to make this THE GEAR approved, this blower will make a path to my woodpile for me. :coolhmm:

Thanks,
Dan

 

[burntime]

A lot of the old blowers were made by companies that are long gone. Gilson was a big one. If ebay has no mention of the model or the parent company then you are buying a good running engine only.

 

[savageactor7]

Backpack just put a plow on a garden tractor...you can plow snow 10x faster than you can blow it. sure it doesn't like as nice.

 

[backpack09]

Backpack just put a plow on a garden tractor...you can plow snow 10x faster than you can blow it. sure it doesn't like as nice.

Perhaps I am the only person who does not see the logic in this response... I am looking at maybe spending 75$ to get a usable snowblower to run a path to my snow pile.... not thousands of dollars for a tractor and plow...

My yard has too many fences, gardens, decks, pools, gravel, planters and gates that make a lawn tractor useless. I sold the one that the PO left when we bought the house... the 99$ mower from walmart works much better.

And I am not looking to plow/blow my driveway, half of it is gravel, and all of my vehicles are awd or 4wd.


I guess I am going to have to dig into this Bradford a bit and see if I can make it work with another blowers drive mechanism.


Thanks....

 

[Gooserider]

Everything I've heard about putting plows on a garden tractor is that it's an approach that ONLY works w/ light snow, or a serious size tractor, and only if you will have enough place to push the nth storm into after the banks from the N-1th storm have frozen... Snowblowers are much better at getting rid of LOTS of snow...

I had some luck getting advice on an old Ariens at this Gilson Snowblower page, and I think they had a link to a couple of other good snowblower sites... I suspect what you may have is a private label version of a more common machine, if you can identify it, then it may be something easy to get parts for...

Gooserider