New Guy
Hi there.
Just picked up a snow blower the other day and I'm wondering how much scrap I should see coming my way.
What kind of materials are in one? I'm guess a great deal of steel (it was really heavy), some aluminum and I don't know what else...
It's gas by the way....
Anyone break one down and find different materials? What are they? Just curious...gonnna break this one down my self.....
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Some motors have aluminum, but sorting the aluminum from the steel is a pain. If the tires are still good I remove them and the axle for other carts that I build. I usually discard the entire thing as either unprepared or aluminum breakage.
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Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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It should be quite similar to a lawn mover.
There's a tiny amount of copper wire, usually some cast aluminum and mostly steel. I second Patriot's suggestion to sell as is. You can also have a quick look using ebay Sold Items filter and see if that model has parts that sell for a good price that you can remove and just sell the rest as shred.
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Many times the gears in the transfer case or the drive gears break. If that's the case then you have a good small engine that you should be able to sell. Like Patriot said, also keep/sell the wheels .
Merry Christmas.
If it wasn't for the $ in $crap, it would just be.....
Thornton Scrapper
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I pull off the plastic cover and bottom and remove the gas tank (garbage). then remove the alum blade spinner pieces( if not a tiller style blade), cover for the pullys and belt, and the alum handle and shred the rest. The engine is alum breakage but at current prices i wouldnt bother removing that, its like half a cent difference in price comparied to shred. Dont waist too much time on them. I personally cant stand them. Theres always something else better to break down / clean. But theres only 1 way to find out if its worth your time or not
Last edited by greytruck; 12-25-2021 at 09:56 AM.
New Guy
So I'm seconding most people's posts in that snowblowers are a pain to take apart. Its been like 4 days, and I'm still hacking at this thing....mostly at the steel so I can have smaller pieces to put in my SUV so I can fit other stuff....don't know if I'll pick one up again lol
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